Suicidal leaves
Think of leaping to their death
But to no avail
For they are already dead
Hanging around for the fall
Do you ever get a chance to have a
Completely philosophical conversation
Utilizing rational thought experiments
Based on perceived aspects of reality
Where restraints of beliefs are lifted
With a stated premise that outcomes
Do not need to have a rapt conclusion
Such as suggesting it is not really
Human’s nature to be brutal and violent
That that is leftover residue from our
Reptilian brain of excruciatingly slow
Evolution fight or flight kill or be killed
Passing the instinctual surviving into
Aeon length generational indoctrination
Through word of mouth then later books
With the other person not forgetting
The premise to suspend “known” info
Before falling back into the trap of
No, it is this way………..because……….
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Ever have one of those conversations?
Yeah, me neither.
Heck, it is hard enough to have that
Conversation with myself.
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
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– Angelo Devlin
Winning or Losing
It is about leadership
Awareness and evolution
And as soon as the
Collective realizes that
The sooner
We will start winning
Because the previous
Definition of winning
Meant making
The rich richer
The poor poorer
The guests unwelcomed
The families separated
The walls higher
The morality lower
Specific peoples banned
Specific people with
Specific beliefs banned
Loyalty to one not to all
Wishing away disaster
(Just around the corner)
Ignoring emoluments clause
Riling racism
Burgeoning bigotry
Cheating at golf
Apparently enough
Were sick of that
Kind of “winning”
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Nothing of judgment ego or deceit
Only life death recycle and repeat
If we could only have that clarity
Instead conjuring new disparities
We are not separate from nature
All we have to do now is mature
Learn and grow in the available light
Do right even in the shadows of night
Instead we rely on the systems of men
Making the same mistakes over and again
Trying to evolve based on what “he” knows
Impossible, that changes as the wind blows
Given nature always has the power to decide
We should just sit back and enjoy the ride
“It is just a ride”
– Bill Hicks
I do not always
Comb my hair
But when I do
I use a towel
Around in my concentric bubble
Padded with narcissism and ego
Occasionally opening a curtain
To glimpse the outside world
Which ultimately looks safer
Then the locked cell I occupy
How does that saying go
Better the devil you know
Than the devil you don’t know
Still, like the definition of insanity
I am expecting different results
If I can just tweak my perceptions
Enough to better understand people
Why they believe what they believe
While behaving so discordantly
Against what they convey in dialog
Memes and regurgitated rhetoric
Perhaps they too are doing what
I am doing in my concentric bubble
Blissfully floating around in theirs
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Are much easier to remember
As most all of society participates
In perpetuating said untruths
E.g. a book written and rewritten
Translated from ancient languages
Revised and regurgitated
Describing an impossible past
Of how your ancestors appeared
Before being maliciously drowned
Having been left to their own de-vices
Fought battled and died horribly
For no particular reason save
Acquisition of land and power
Though land “ownership” is impossible
(Can’t take it with you when you die)
And no one has a “right” to it
Anymore than anyone else does
Save by printed pieces of paper
That say so and who owes who for it
To the tune of trillions of Dollars
Euro’s Francs Pounds Lira Yen Rupi
Dinar Pesos Shekels Kohns Rubles
Likewise a “Constitution”
Written then altered in such
Vague language it needs
Nine rotating alleged experts
Adorned with “Supreme” monikers
(Not fair compassionate or reasonable)
To constantly and continuously
Decipher and reinterpret
Through debate and denial
Extended into government
Systems of rules and laws
Who can kill who or what
With impunity or incarceration
Under a deceptive and supposed
Inclusive notion of “We the people”
Though right off the bat it didn’t
Even include 1/2 the population
Plus dismissed anything less than
Caucasian as being less than people
Of course one could say it has been
Modified to correct inequities but
Not so you would really notice it
Any more than painting an old car
That runs poorly but looks ok
Hiding its truth to everyone
Refusing to look under the hood
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“And That’s the Truth”
“Pblblthhhh”
– Lily Tomlin
Albeit, a cautious sigh of relief
Besides all of the voting bs
Doesn’t it feel like we are simply
A school of fish synchronously
Swimming away from danger
Not because of a new leader
Rather a collective awareness that the
Direction we were heading was wrong
That we are accepting our humanness
That under all of the surface layers
When the ghost has left the machine
All that remains is a similar skeleton
Without lungs to let out a sigh of relief
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
You can convince
Someone to change
Their beliefs
Give it a test run
Start with your own
See how willing you
Are to change yours
Any belief will do
Religion creation
Evolution race
Kennedy assassination
September 11, 2001
Election meddling etc.
What belief do you
Hold so strongly that
With overall resounding
Fact based evidence in
Forms that you trust
Would it take to alter
Any one belief that still
You cling to. Hmmm?
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That should be quite easy depending on how tight or loose you decide to set the parameters of whether or not you’ve changed your beliefs.
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My guess is you haven’t.
Supposition is just as
Absurd as circumstantial
“Credible” sources
Heresay rumor and print
Are as equally valid
As they are invalid
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
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Believe what you want to believe
Because that is how beliefs work
Even though there may be plenty of
Insurmountable evidence to prove
Any one person’s beliefs are ludicrous
Unsubstantiated or 1000% correct
Nobody or verifiable proof can change
What rolls around in your cranium
If in fact that is where they come from
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For me beliefs come from my big left toe
Because that is how beliefs work
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
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………..and just for a split second
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You wondered if I actually believe that…..
Of course not….everyone knows beliefs
Come from behind their right knee
Or so I’ve been told or read somewhere
Thank you for reading these words
And hopefully questioning your beliefs
“All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ‘em real.”
Bill Hicks
