Shadow People

Either light or dark Pick a side and park Scurry to and fro Back and forth

Black and white This duality plight Step left step right In blazing sunlight

Shadow attachment ratcheted laughs Shapes form in concrete contrasts Manifested thought forms en masse Unnoticed they walk on having a blast Of the herd being cattle without grass

Surreal landscape seas that seize Hidden hands plan scam these Self-blinded morphing mammals All caught up in nonsense rabble

Confused bemused can’t refuse Inner blues hues they recuse Rhetoric on repeat constant double speak Spouting touting railroad routing to bleak

Behind the eyes to be spied Clearly countless self-told lies Whisper wonder reasons why Taught trained ignore the real “I”

Haunted hunted stunted Human growth blunted Unseeing their shadow forms Constantly creating inner storms Manifesting creepy crawly dark things Twisting mutating mass assembling

Hear you shout for freedom then Why you refuse to look in? Keep the distraction flowing going Side show entertainment on pavement Cult rave you better behave forgoing A questioning mind based firmament

Does it hurt to think? Smell all that stink You don’t even blink Have this pinprick drink Infiltrated numbered marked hijacked Lost are thoughts of talking back Look at that jaw gone slack Vacant eyes emptied into black Thousand mile stare There’s no one there

Division incision with derision Complicit in reduction All of them their decision Suctioned into unholy induction

Fear frazzled fractured folks Unaware stares Pacing pounding pokes Regulating affairs Still point observation Red rusted nations Of shadow people Stuttering stagnation.

_{All photos taken by Nine with a Pentax digital 35mm camera.}