How to live in a time like this?

How to live in a time like this?
        How?
Just smile.
Lo, the world-suspicion-tiger is dead.

How to live in a time like this?
        How?
Just smile.
Lo, the world-blindness-elephant is dead.

How to live in a time like this?
        How?
Just smile.
Lo, the world-autocracy-lion is dead.


How to live in a time like this?
        You fool!
Don’t you know that you are
  The very root of the world-miseries,
        The world-calamities,
        The world-failures?