Curiouser and curiouser… 🐇
I’ve been exploring the idea of ‘Inversion’—the ancient art of turning the world upside down to see it more clearly. These poems and images are a journey through a modern Wonderland where the lessons teach nothing, the trials have no truth, and the tea party never ends. Welcome to the quiet rebellion of noticing that things aren’t quite as ‘sane’ as they seem.*
I. The Classroom of the Un-Learned
The screen is bright, the facts are tall,
We store them up to lose them all.
The teacher speaks to empty eyes,
While thumb-tips harvest gilded lies.
The more we know, the less is true,
In libraries of “Me” and “You.”
We graduate with honors deep,
In subjects we have learned to sleep.
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II. The Queen of No-Consequence
A thousand thumbs begin to shout,
To cast the latest villain out.
“Off with their heads!” the comments cry,
Beneath a digital, hollow sky.
The scepter’s made of plastic glass,
To watch the trending scandals pass.
A ruler bellows, grand and vast,
But has no shadow they can cast.
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III. The Tea Party of the Disconnected
We sit at tables, miles apart,
And share the icons of a heart.
The tea is cold, the Wi-Fi’s weak,
We type the words we dare not speak.
“Move down! Move down!” the prompts command,
Across a scrollable, desert land.
A conversation, perfectly groomed,
Where everyone’s heard, but no one’s assumed.
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IV. The Trial of the Premade Verdict
The jury’s reached the final page,
Before the bird has left the cage.
The evidence is “Vibe” and “Trend,”
A story written at the end.
The judge is dressed in neon light,
Determining what’s “Wrong” or “Right.”
By counting votes of those who see,
The shadow, not the reality.
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*Yes, full disclosure. I sorted the above out after many cycles with an AI to dig into the path and flipping it over and over again. With inspiration coming from the history of festive inversion and satirical nonsense.