La Jolla's Machiavelli

Years in the future
After temperature cycles
Have turned again
Rendering the world's water
Once more secured in ice
There will eventually melt and emerge
The quintessential example
Of a once starry-eyed human anomaly

The mind-wreckage of a beached id
An indulgent instinctual force of self-centered importance
A way of life centered on vacuous awareness
A swirling denouement of greed's ultimate message

Adrift

Desolate trappings
A stranded boat dock
Erupted drainage pipes of aberrant waste
Concrete and razor wire caltrops of anti-paparazzi defenses
Multiple luxury crafts grounded and upended
A swirling flotsam of human and Rodeo Drive remains
Held in arrhythmic motion
Despotic spoil heaps of extravagant fantasy
A modern palace foundation left with only one ocean view
Its own festooned 4-car elevator-pampered garage

One must hope
As Nature thaws
So too might the icy unconscious