UBIK

“Wake up to a hearty, lip-smacking bowlful of nutritious, nourishing Ubik toasted flakes, the adult cereal that’s more crunchy, more tasty, more ummmish. Ubik breakfast cereal, the whole-bowl taste treat!”

                        ― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Let’s face it—we’re all getting finger-fucked

   By everything from toys to telephones

Like Life won't make us happy till we’re sucked

   Off by a junkie tailored to our jones.

It’s all distraction, like a dangling carrot

   That swears it isn’t guiding, only freeing.

Stuff we can buy, opinions we can parrot—

   What are these visions stopping us from seeing?

Reality's become a gateway drug

   To worlds where even the police are copping—

Where liberty’s the freedom to be smug

   And Life’s one true reward is one-stop shopping—

      Where Eve can buy a garden with an Apple,

      And God's a cloud download above each chapel. 

Copyright 2015 Matthew J Wells