Rode the Loop this morning and musing started composing a poem to commemorate the ride. But the longer I rode and the more I saw and thought, the more my incregulity rose, giving rise to the following…

Outrageous Mendacity

Brite blue sky
Sol’s pristine long rays
Tells a story full of lies

All is well
The whole world is
Just swell

Stories to sell
Rationalize policies
To normalize insanity

Apparently
It’s normal to destroy
All that allows us to live

Hyper-catalyze an
Extinction event that
Our owners deny

As they refurbish
Missile silos as bunkers
Plan an escape to Mars

Stories, fictions all
Made up information
Tell a story for support

Not truth, but information
Perspectives that hold sway
Functions of power, not truth

Outrageous mendacity

–LE – 5/18/25