There Is A War Going On For Your Mind by Cruxician, literature
Literature
There Is A War Going On For Your Mind
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw ups pop-up ads infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers, now it's raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in NASCAR chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into the holy water supplies
There is a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crack heads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say "Stop Snitching"
Conscious rappers and whistle-blow
War. War never changes.
Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation.
But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.
In the early day