Brain Drain

By Roberto Lavidez

never a gain

never a gain

never a gain

a brain drain

of quixotic grain

mapping scenarios of dystopia

dragging headless corpses of Goya

back into the vault of memory

so as not to shame philistines

dumping sugary masterpieces

into silent auction of entropy

eyes melting in psychedelic incubus

black rain leaking from sheltered history

tracking diabolical miscalculation

Rwandan skulls

Darfurian bones

intersecting in skeletal universalism

unbridgeable internationalism

never a gain

never a gain

never a gain

a brain drain

of quixotic grain

desensitized by dissecting

cubist Guernica

in cold precision knife slashes

belly of totalitarian bull after

gorging mankind at the heart

of pictorial counter reality

by horns of statism

and socialist exoticism

degenerate art condemned

for its vulgarity of disposing entrails

on red carpet at regime pageantries

echoing cries at concentration camps

gatekeeper lashes out at intellectual

whose aim is to scandalize tyrannies

and declare moral bankruptcy for

catatonic society

never a gain

never a gain

never a gain

a brain drain

of quixotic grain

hegemonic institutions mutilate art

protestations to cover up its

modus of brainocide

decapitating truth from the

body of evidence

a way of manufacturing consensus

on behalf of all the living dead

local anesthesia spreading global amnesia

washing away historicity of civilizing missions

justifying injustices thru oral revisions and

blitz commissioned by monster corporations

never a gain

never a gain

never a gain

a brain drain

of quixotic grain

devouring nation states of mind

humpty dumpty linguistic humanism

staging Dionysian pacification

thru slavery, terror and genocide

attacking hemispheres of sovereignty

colonizing spineless craniums into

mutating subservience

in the onslaught of ideologies

thoughts could either shatter the shell

of pseudo reality or it could disintegrate

into pastiche mindscape of surreality

a brain drain of quixotic grain

©robertolavidez2012