“When the music’s over
Turn out the lights”
– “The Doors”
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Everyone is moving
To the beat
Of their own drum
We can not
Hear or feel
Our collective
Heart
Beat
It is drowned out by
Power and corruption
Greed and distraction
Death and destruction
Media and manipulation
Still we have
The tools to
Change the above
Using our
Minds and connection
Sharing and distribution
Life and construction
Spirit and communication
It is not up to the “them’s”
It is up to the “us’s”
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“And if the music stops
There’s only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory
All the sacrifice in vain
(And) If love remains
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost”
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“Bravado”
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– Rush
Developed by restaurant patrons
Who, when asked by the wait staff
How does everything taste
After your mouth is completely full
Your only option is to
Give a “thumbs-up”
Otherwise you will
Choke to death
Or spew all of your food
In the kangaroo court
Of mass public opinion
Evidence holds no sway
It is emotions at play
Depending on which
Directions one is
Trained to look
Amongst us
There is a crook
A boy cry wolf deceiver
In the position of a leader
Many continue to believe
Hook line and sinker
Even as there is printed proof
Given by the self serving goof
45’s followers remain aloof
Denying for what reason
Supporting acts of treason
45 is like a hole in the wall
Made by a door
Opened too hard and too fast
If you don’t fix the hole
Immediately
Soon you won’t have to
Because
You’ll get used to it
And that is how it is
Supposed to look
There’s a nationwide corporate pharmacy that has the tag line that it is at the corner of Healthy and Happy. Seeing as how their business model is to locate most of its “drug” stores at intersections. And yes, they are “Drug” stores regardless the safe use of the double speak euphemism of “Pharmacy”
Any way, after making deliveries to businesses around airports, noticed the nearly obnoxious use of air and sky in the surrounding street names.
Airport Blvd leading into the airport. Fine, clear and concise, lets you know you are in the right area, or getting closer. That nearly gets lost in the surrounding street names such as Airway, Skyway, Wingsway, Jetway, Taxiway, Aviation, etc.
Wouldn’t it be more memorable and just as encompassing to use other words that associate with air travel to name the streets?
The FAA could be at the corner of Collision and Near Miss
Departing gates at the corner Delayed and Cancelled
FEMA could be at the corner of Catastrophe and Disaster.
Capitals at the corner of Greed and Power.
Schools at the corner of Rule and Obey.
Legislative offices at the corner of Tax and Spend
Suicide prevention centers at the corner of Hope and Despair
Barbers at the corner of clip and cut.
Any other suggestions?
“Here’s another platitude they jam down your throat”
“Children are our future”
“Children are not our future and I can prove it with my usual flawless logic.
Children can’t be our future because by the time the future arrives they won’t be children anymore.”
– George Carlin
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Placed in an untenable situation
To carry one’s parents baggage
Largely due to them doing nothing
To fix the world before you got here
Setting down the destructive pattern
To follow not because they said so
But in how they acted and behaved
Weighed down by society’s gravity
Mired in malignant mythmakers
Beholden to chaos and control
Unwittingly accepting the notion
That children are our future
Abdicating layers of responsibility
To the guide-less and guileless
Hypnotized by harmful hyperbole
Spread like wildfires across continents
Ramshackled by religion
Exponentiating catastrophic birth rates
Excrementing where we eat and sleep
Not recognizing the need to move
Why else is Mars becoming
A more viable option
Where if Martians see
What we have done
To this planet
We will not be welcomed
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“If you believe that God gave you the Earth, that God created Earth for you, why would you not have to look after it? Why the fuck– Why would you not think that when he came back he wouldn’t go, “What the fuck did you do?”
“I gave this to you, motherfucker. Are you crazy?” “The polar bears are brown.” “What did you do to the polar bears?” “Did you shit all over every polar bear?” “What did you–who did this? Who spilled this shit? Who spilled this?” “Come over here.
Did you fucking spill this? What is that?”
“It’s oil. It’s just some oil. I didn’t mean to spill–”
“Well why did you take it out of the fucking ground?”
“Because I wanted to go faster.” “I’m not fast enough.” “And I was cold.”
“What the fuck do you mean, ‘cold’?” “I gave you everything you needed, you piece of shit.”
– Louis CK
Outthink
Outcompassion
Outlove
Outforgive
Outkind
Outhelp
Outsmile
Outplay
Outappreciate
Outdazzle
In other words
Outdo
Yourself
