
Genius guillotined.
You are a genius
You are average.
Let’s say it again
Let’s say it once.
We are all geniuses
We are all the same.
Did you hear that?
Did you utter that?
Well
Then
I hear laughter.
Roars of confidence.
I hear sorrow
You stand aloof.
New worshipers
Building tribes.
Did I say cult?
Did you call them elites.
Listen.
Do not listen.
Geniuses.
Are everywhere.
Mediocrity is viral.
In the papers
Don’t forget:
it is inside you
And the media.
It feeds on you
And among friends.
Right off your pricy talents
yet
Their brains
have to be so so.
your dollar brain.
ought to become
troglodyte
Run of the mill.
Unorthodox.
irregular
rebel
Branded.
bar‐coded.
Unbranded.
encoded
With genie’s scent.
With genie’s pest
funny huh.
not so funny though
That scent needs consensus.
That pest surrenders.
to cleansing
It seeks genius loci.
It refuses genius loci:
a dwelling: it retrieves
a guardian: it obsoletes
an entrapment: it enhances
an evil genius.
It reverses evil and genius
named: brand: named
The status quo.
Techno logical garbage.

