On newer cars
Adding glorified technology
When old “technology” worked
Lulling the operator to trust
The well placed but
Sensory depriving ability to
Pay attention to the road
By putting
Cute little lights in the
Side rear view mirrors
To “alert” the driver that
Vehicles approaching from
The rear and sides are
Getting too close when
For a mere 50 cents of
Reflecting mirrored plastic
The same could have
Been accomplished
With small
Convex mirrors
I’d watch or
Listen to more
Faux News
If I wasn’t afraid
That I’d swallow
The audio / visual
Kool-aid
That appears to have
Affected / effected
It’s target audience
Getting in to a
Zombie like trance
Of blindly and
Unconsciously
Following their
Blue suit
White shirt
Red tied / tyed
Alleged leader
Who more and more
Continues to look like
A
Tangled up
Putin Puppet
Who, even with
“Big” hands
Can’t grasp
Either the
Approval he seeks
Nor
The admiration
Or adoration
He appears to
So desperately need
Nary
A shot was fired
Meanwhile an
Out of touch
Uneducated
Myself included
Populace
Has succumbed
To
Losing its dignity
Not to a
Foreign power
Or an
Oppressive regime
Merely
Greed and consumption
Deceit and distraction
Patriotism and subjugation
Nihilism and nationalism
Almost collectively
In lock step
With the
Party
And the
Party’s slogans
* WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
And finally
A whimpering cry
down with big brother
down with big brother
down wit……awe #uck it
As the masses
Stare blankly
At the telescreens
Getting
Reality rations
Of
Regurgitated rhetoric
From a
Republican racist
Claiming no collusion
Which may
Or not be the case
However
He is definitely
Playing deep
From a
Propaganda playbook
Otherwise
Why would you care
Save the
At will
Personal sadism
To manifest
Destructive agita
When
If you simply
Turned off
The radio and TV
Hugged a family member
Asked them
About
Their day
Checked to see
If they’re okay
Cherish them
Also
Be kinder
To someone that
Doesn’t look like you
Or speaks differently
That believes in a
Different invisible
Bogeyman
Than you
Learn to
Appreciate
Their point of view
Despite all the
Hifalutin egotistical
Narcissistic thoughts
Of your/our/my
Self aggrandized
Importance
*
WAR IS PEACE
Attacking Syria for attacking their people
WTF?
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
“You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn’t be playing. You shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country,”
– Donald Trump
Having taken a dangerous and circuitous route to essentially and nearly irrevocably outlaw flag burning. As a similar use of a nonviolent protest such as the * “taking of a knee”
To bring attention to the indiscriminate brutality and unpunished murder by a few members in a group of government paid (your tax dollars at work “to protect and serve” ?) employees.
By another group that has an albeit public yet distractive forum to highlight how some of our fellow space travelers are systematically being injured and killed by state power simply because they can. **
It is as if, that pathetic police protocol of pistol popping gets a pre-pardon from punishment while perturbed and perplexed pallbearers perpetually plant their people.
Whose only offense is having an epidermis pigmentation that reflects less light.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
***
Proven by who is in the white house
Who should probably realize……..
.”More people watch football, then vote for President.”
– Joe Rogan
*
In youth sports, players take a knee when another player is hurt. It is an acknowledgment of the vulnerable humanity that, for the moment, has been obscured by the intense competition of the game. Taking a knee in that context is, like a religious genuflection, a gesture of self-surrender before the greater reality of human suffering.
//
Likewise, when black players take a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against African-Americans, they are making a gesture of pain and distress.
They are putting America in a more honest context — our “Star-Spangled Banner” dimly seen through the mists of deep injury. It is like flying an American flag upside down in a moment of emergency.
– NY Times
By LEE SIEGEL
September 25, 2017
**
(my alterations)
“First they came for the Socialists, (Blacks) and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist (Black).
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, (Immigrants) and I did not speak out. Because I was not a Trade Unionists. An (Immigrant).
Then they came for the Jews, (Muslims) and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew. (Muslim).
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
– Martin Niemöller
.
“Hello…..
Is anybody
#ucking
Home???”
.
– Lewis Black
.
*** “Stopping Trump is a short-term solution.
The long-term solution, and it will be more difficult, is fixing the educational system that has created so many people ignorant enough to vote for Trump.”
– Andy Borowitz
There it was
In blue and black and white
On some half monster
Half small penis truck
A blue lives matters flag
Artfully replicated on the
Cab rear window with
Stars in the LH corner
The stripes formed by
The pledge of allegiance
* * * * * * * * * * * “I pledge allegiance
* * * * * * * * * * * to the Flag of the
* * * * * * * * * * * United States of
* * * * * * * * * * * America, and to the
* * * * * * * * * * * Republic for which it
stands. One Nation Under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
As I wrote, artfully done. But that is about it, since like the flag and its pledge, it is all symbolism over substance.
Me, I’m for all lives matter. What gets forgotten in the Blue (which seems to be a strange temporary euphemism for “white”) lives matter movement, is that there are black-blues, brown-blues, yellow-blues, etc.
The irony, or lack thereof of using the pledge within the image, is that at the end, even before it was ever altered, through all versions, states.
“With liberty and justice for all.”
Doesn’t always happen. My guess is that Steve Caucasian would have had more liberty, if caught with a cell phone in his grandma’s back yard than Stephon Clark did.
And probably a longer process before determining if a crime was committed. Regardless, would not have been served justice by six shots in the back.
“Stephon Clark was shot and killed on the evening of March 18, 2018, by two officers of the Sacramento Police Department in Sacramento, California, United States.
The officers were looking for a suspect who was breaking windows in the Meadowview neighborhood, and confronted Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man whom they found in the yard of his grandmother’s house, where he resided.”
– Wikipedia
Not exactly liberty or justice. Hmmm.
As for the pledge, curious if people would be so eager to recite it, if they knew it was written by a “socialist”. Oh the humanity! !
“Freedom’s just another word
For nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’ don’t mean nothin’ hon
If it ain’t free, no, no”
– Janis Joplin
“Me & Bobby McGee”
The parameters of freedom
Are constricting like a Boa
First by immobilizing the prey
With the false security of a hug
The guise, “for your protection”
While wearing a flag bearing
T shirt made by slave labor in
A country that has little freedom
Bought in a patriotic fervor to
Represent empty pride stored inside
As the slow… cold… squeeze… limits
One’s breathing first with a cough
Then gasping out a wheezing plea
Stop! Cough I had championed you
With stars, stripes and a trite slogan
On a piece of cloth worth 50 cents
That was purchased for $19.99 plus tax
Not even knowing the true meaning
But, it sounds cool and I fit in, grunt ugh
As the compaction continues while
Ribs and skeletal structure sing
Out a high pitched crackling tune
As the red blood & white corpuscles
Slowly Ooze out of the blue veins
Disintegrating into a devoured dinner
Just before releasing the spirit into
The ether, instantaneously and
Finally understanding
The real meaning of
Freedom
Free at last, free at last……
Only to watch and wait from the
Celestial green room as the next
Cast of characters slowly gather
Anxiously waiting to start and star
In their next show, going over lines
Double checking cues, to rehearse
Blocking and timing with proper
Lighting, shadows, emotions
Ambience and soundtracks
Even deciding which vehicle (parents)
Are bringing you to the stage (earth)
“Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
//
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage”
– Rush
“Limelight”
Methinks I wish I knew where this
shit stuff comes from so that
I could leave it where I found it
Since for all I know, it only makes
Sense to me, which is fine as that
Is who this blog is written for.
“Sure could use,
A little good news today”
– Anne Murray
Today’s Headlines
Brush a broad stroke
To paint a large picture
Over small details
Making a big deal
Over little to do
Hyperbole becomes
The standard norm
To quench the
Addled
Mind
Thirstily
Drinking in
New information
Like
Grasping at straws
To save
A parched
Sanity
Reading column
Inches
Either on modern
Papyrus
Forever stained
By oily black ink
That oozes from
Drying crimson blood
“Watching television
Is like taking
Black spray paint
To your
Third eye.”
– Bill Hicks
Or light emitting
Screens
Blinding the soul
Eviscerating
The spirit
That could
In a blink of an eye
Or turn of the head
Change instantly
With all the
Verifiable proof
Whisked away
Down the electronic
Orwellian
Memory hole
“Attention,
Your attention, please
A newsflash has this moment
Arrived from the Malabar front
Our forces in South India
Have won a glorious victory
I am authorized to say
That the action
We are now reporting
May, well bring the war
Within measurable
Distance of its end
Here is the newsflash
Plusgood
Doubleplusgood
Times 17.3.84
bb speech mal reported
Africa rectify
Times 19.12.83
Forecasts 3 YP 4th quarter
83 misprints, verify current issue
Times 14.12.84
Mini plenty mal quoted,
Chocolate rectify
Times 3.12.83
Reporting bb day order
Doubleplusungood”
“Doubleplusgood”
– Eurythmics “1984” Soundtrack
The headline
Could also
Be in
A rumor
Overheard
With all the
Accuracy
Vague as the
Wind
It is written on
Supplanted in the
Mind and
Over the top
Of
All the other
Useless Information
Stored in
The soft
Infinitely absorbing
Sponge like
Gray matter
“I love bad news.
Doesn’t bother me.
The more bad news there is,
The faster this system collapses.”
– George Carlin
Meanwhile
The attention grabber
HEADLINE
Makes the
Problem reported
Too big to fix
Therefore
Nothing gets done
Perpetuating
Sensationalism
Instead of
Humanism
So the story goes
Catastrophe
Somewhere
Such as
TERROR IN TEXAS
Hmmm
TERROR
A term used so
Often
It only stirs a
Vague emotional
Paltry perception
TEXAS
Spread out over
A large area
Creates a cryptic
Catchphrase to confuse
“I watch television news for one thing and one thing only: entertainment. That’s all I want from the news; entertainment.
You know my favorite thing on television? Bad news. Bad news and disasters and accidents and catastrophes.”
– George Carlin
Maybe instead of
TERROR IN TEXAS
Regarding
The last
School shooting
As of the writing
Of this post
The headline could read
A BULLIED STUDENT
Who’s paranoid parent
Left weapons
Easily accessible
Used them today
On fellow classmates since he felt that he had no other option and no one to talk to.
Gets to the point and may put it in a context that a reader might recognize themselves as the parent and either lock up their guns or seek help for paranoia. Which is indoctrinated in to the child.
Instead of turning it into an endless argument over an intentionally vague 2nd amendment that only prolongs the symptom leading nowhere to a cure.
“It’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”
– Dennis Miller
That the English language
Is so easily obfuscated
To then have the head
Muckety-muck further
Eradicate purposeful
Archaic maxims like
Saying a justifiable
Investigation of him
Is a WITCH HUNT
Which
Tears asunder
The meaning
As he has
No special
Magical powers
Save an uncanny
Ability to play a
Victim
While closely
Resembling
Pulling a
Rabbit out of a hat
At will
While victimizing and
Distracting
His yaysayers
Albeit
Like a good magician
Making
Human kindness
And decency
Disappear
In a fog of
Smoke and mirrors
Sawing an already
Divided population
Into quarters
“That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money!
Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different–that’s what they’re gonna talk about–race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank!”
– George Carlin
Which through
Hocus Pocus
The money appears
From behind
Your ear
That had already
Come out of your
Into the magician’s
As Don, Jar, Ivan and Jr
The four horses asses
Pull off a “Now You See Me”
Type “Ocean’s Eleven” heist
To attempt to satiate
Their gargantuan greed
And have enough left over
To repaint the facade
Of success over the
Termites in the woodwork
Quietly consuming as
A chaotic congress
Concedes control
Of the rule of law to
A bumbling billionaire
Desperately in debt
That his blind base
Can not see
The Kushy corruption
In Qatar
In a pay for play
Presidential pillage
Or the
Quid Pro Quo
In *JChina
Saving jobs there
And helping Carrier
None at all here
Why would he
He is not
Served by it
“One of the true tragedies in this whole thing, with Donald Trump is that he is so clearly, so obviously, nakedly playing these people for suckers. Right, he does not give a shit about any of those people, any of the people that support him.
He doesn’t give a #uck. He’s openly contemptuous of those kind people, he has been his entire life.”
– David Cross
*”Then there is a darker imputed motive, based on the fact that a Chinese state-controlled company loaned US$500-million to an Indonesian theme park that will feature hotels, a golf course and a residence branded with the Trump name. The news came just days before the President’s tweet.
Coincidence or not, it looks bad because Mr. Trump refuses to divest himself of his business interests.”
– www-theglobeandmail-com.
The upside down abysmal level
Of hypocrisy is frighteningly staggering
Had any other previous president
Democratic Republican or Independent
Blatantly shit on the constitution
With such diarrhea splattering then
Wiped their ass with the American flag
A whole new system of government
Would have been initiated immediately
Disposing of this vile kakistocracy
Kleptocracy, autocracy, idiocracy
Replaced with a workable meritocracy
