my wife told me to stop watching
so many documentary movies,
but i told her i’m trying to learn something,
to which she called my bluff
by asking me what i had learned from the last
10 documentaries that i had watched,
to which i replied,
well, i dunno, i guess i would need to rewatch them
after watching 10 documentaries about cults
in the span of 48 hours,
i’ve come to realize that the modern blueprint to any cult
is to quote any wachowski sister’s movie ad nauseam
and recruit mostly attractive people to make your religion
seem more like a fun weekend party
more so than a brainwashing, life-sucking cult,
and also, i think i realize
that i might already be in a cult,
so there’s that…
Fred Aiken Writing 