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Joseph DeMarco was born in New York City; he lived most of his life in Buffalo, NY. He now teaches seventh grade on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He is the author of the novels Plague of the Invigilare, The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins, and At Play in the Killing Fields. He is currently working on several new projects.

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::: Invisible Prison :::

”Those who don’t know their history
are condemned to repeat themselves”.
for we are reincarnation’s red-headed step child
beaten by the wicked path
repeating ourselves occluded of our amnesia
Walking where ourselves once were
unaware that we were ever there
unaware that the mistakes of our ancestors
were OUR MISTAKES
And the delusion grows deeper
As we CONTINUE
to build the walls of our BLACK IRON PRISON

Bigger…
Taller…
More complex…

Moving further from enlightenment
further from the truth
The rabbit hole is real
And few except Buddha and Jesus
have ever been to the other side and back to tell about
the hollow hologram that holistically envelopes
like A matrix, a maze
A maze with no end
A prison with no escape
and no real reason for being
other than it was built
by its prisoners
PKD may have said it best:
“So-called ‘reality,’ is a mass delusion that we’ve all been required to believe for reasons totally obscure.”

Written by: ~ Joseph DeMarco

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