© 2018 Steve Cook
Best way to keep an entire planet
Of vibrant beings as your minions
Or slaves
Is to drug entire populations into
A compliant stupor
That renders millions oblivious
Until the end if their days.
Best way to persuade them
To take their mind-rot medicine
Is to call it entertainment
And make it very cool
Or fool them into thinking
It's a cure or panacea
For whatever it is that ails them
Even when what ails them
Is probably you.