Alliteration's Allegory: A Reflection in Hindsight of a Great and Terrible Year

It feels like we’re all in a blockbuster movie directed by Nolan, but written by an 8-year old dork and edited by AI - A western sci-fi war dramedy that’s so bad it’s kinda good.

I wrote “Alliteration’s Allegory” back in November of 2020 as an ode to that “great and terrible year”.

It seems that 2025 may have topped 2020 in terms of batshit craziness. And 2026? I mean, what the hell are we doing out here?

Anyway, this piece is even more relevant now than back when I wrote it, so thought I’d share it here. This started as a writing challenge I made for myself to write a poem using every letter in the alphabet, in order. I didn’t know it would result in a meta commentary on human nature and the decaying state of western civilization.

The Allegory reference was then applied, as this reflection means to serve as a return to the Cave, telling the others with shadow puppets and code what’s really going on outside.

Enjoy and let me know how these words make you feel!

Angel’s advocate -

Amidst best bets, crediting

Cool, calm, collected debts

Devil’s deal -

Digging dirty ditches

Entering exodus... emptiness

Embellishment-etched,

Embezzlement-esque

Fine fonts flaunting fairness,

Fronting for fostered,

Forceful face-fuck fests

Façade freedom gatherings

God’s gift -

Growing generational governance,

Garnering half-hating, half-hailing

Impressionistic Incessancy

In in-cre-ments,

Insisting it invites

Independence, isn’t its

Inside joblessness

Jesus’ jobe -

Jabbing, “just-joshing” jokes

Kinda kidding, kinda killing laughter

Listening less, lapsing life’s lessons

Letting love lose,

Leveraging loathsome laments

Mocking moments,

Missing memories

Making more

Mortal’s mission -

Noble’s Nemeses -

Necromancing "new normals",

Neglecting old obligations, often

Offering opportunistic options -

Positions, power, protection, pardons... politics.

Prophecy's pressure -

Pro quids, questioning quos

Queued quests quoting qi - quitting quips

Queen's quarrel -

Remedies? Rest, reality, reflection, reset, retur...

Recess! Silly. Same swan song, shaking/still

Searching such selfish souls

Slaves shoveling shit superiors stole

Saint’s secret -

Some say, "So?", sometimes sans "sorry", so...

Time's tenet -

Truth trying to tell tall tales,

This then that,

Tit/tat, tisk tisk table-top taps,

"Touch This" traps, touchless

Tongue-tipped, though usually

Uttering undone “ummms” under voiceless

Vader-y ventilations, vibing via vindicated violence

Virgin's view -

Washed, wavelengths wishing without

Wondering, “Why?” Well, why would we?

Whatever.

Warrior’s womb -

Xenic xebecs xeriscaping

Xenophobic xenodiagnoses

Yielding, yet yearning, your yesterdays - yikes!

Yelling (yelping) your yesses - yawn

Zealous zen zones/zombie zoos - Zzz...

Zigzag zeitgesits zeroing zodiacs (zillions) - zing!

Zion’s zenith -

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Thanks and we’ll talk again soon -

Drew