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the world turns by the infallibility of democratic consent

premature babies born on barstools
in churches
on the couch at home watching cable news
helpless bastards conceived by idle chatter

loose lips steer the ship
and i'm crushed to death by a language barrier

if it's not hearsay it's heresy
a capital, rational crime
punishable by tar and feather

an idea too big
collapses under its own weight
without the gossip needed to support it

god only knows where these decisions are made
from the top down
from the ground up
though generally speaking there's no need to look toward the fringes

a dream outside the conversation withers

a better world is drowned beneath the flood of opinion

a muse is crucified by bored voices from the peanut gallery
Copyright 2016, Aaron Dunbar
© 2016 - 2024 Aart-ish
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My favorite parts:

"an idea too big
collapses under its own weight 
without the gossip needed to support it"

and
"
a dream outside the conversation withers
a better world is drowned beneath the flood of opinion"

Maybe I miss a beginning-end structure, but that is just personal. Your text here has some very nice features and each sentence carries a whole situation and vision with it, which I find wonderful.