The media of modern living

That so predicts our schedules

And rations our happiness

In units of pleasure and punishment

Our attitudes so imposed upon

With the temporary and the peripheral

Left without time to reflect upon

The relevance of timeless meaning of human nature

The case of a modern life of luxury

Entrapping our souls into cages

Living like muted zombies

Immunized against the vissiccitudes of nature

Receiving daily our synthesized doses

Giving silent prayer

Paying private homage

To mindless progress

Making of the news

A secularized creed of faith

Determining our new realities

Creation upon the front pages

Black and white writing on the wall

Dispelling into oblivion

Those things of wanning popularity

Our modern ego

Made of plastic

Molded into any form desired

By the super media

Our new god of modern living

Inundating our lives

With imported triviality

And superfluous hypocrisy

Deciding our ultimate fate

In our day-to-day groping

Unable to distinguish

The merit from the senseless

An internal dysfunction

That leaves us queasy

In our gut-most being

Ambivalent moods of anguish

Struggling from day-to-day

In hopeless despair

Of personal worth

A vague uneasiness

Of utter hopelessness

Insensible dissatisfaction

so well reinforced

By our own valiant efforts