“Every word has power”
– John Trudell
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Besides beer and wine
Words are my drug
Taken in large
Or small doses
Always mind altering
Context is the key
The dictionary
Is my main supplier
Merriam Webster
Is his / her name
With backups
Just in case
I need a quick fix
In the moment
That I’m at
A loss for words
Can not spell
Let alone pronounce
Either way
I can imbibe
All I want
Guaranteed
No hangover
Or detrimental
Side effects
Save being
Guilty of
Possession
With intent
To distribute
Occasionally
Mixed in with
Comas or
Question marks
A series of
Dot dot dot dots
For pause and
Effect / affect
Enhanced with
Exclamation points
To tweak
The experience or
Add a little flavor
Tilting at windmills
F that
I’m hallucinating
At illusions
There’s no I in team
Or stagnate for that matter
One of course in think
Three in individual
That is where the eye’s fit best
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“People are wonderful. I love individuals.
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Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.”
– George Carlin
Has been thrown
It has come to my attention
That anger is my retention
Barely needed a mention
Oozing with negativity
With daily regularity
Is there any positivity
In this Grinch sized heart
So Scrooge yet not too smart
Where or where do I start
Aware that it seems like
“The only joy in my life
Is a dishwashing liquid”
– Steve Martin
Here goes
Wish me luck
Happiness Is
A gracious smile from your wife
When she’s heard the same joke
For the gazillionth time
A warm squishy hug
From said person above
The one I most love
Enjoy when we can get away
Even if just for a day
To hang out and play
Though technically not “mine”
Appreciate grandchildren
Who spend their time
Being in a financial position
To assist the kids
Help raise their children
Another thing that makes me glad
Must have had some influence
When they can all call me dad
To be continued
Who knows, maybe it will catch on.
I love cracks
Cracks in the system
That is
Just when people think
The broken societal vase
Is being put back together
To the power’s liking
Even a dimly lit bulb
Placed inside exposes
Suttle and ridiculous flaws
Normal is not normal
Abnormal is normal
Chaos is the order of the day
While it seems to be
Getting worse
Nothing could be
Further from the truth
Just another step
In our evolution
Towards enlightenment
Always darkest
Before the dawn
So we are told
In that we will
Appreciate the light
When it comes again
Then when that too
Also seems dark
It will be before
Brighter illumination
Till we ourselves find
We’ve become
Beings of light and
Spiritual masters
No vase no cracks
Just pure love
Have the fortunately unfortunate
Opportunity to listen to satellite radio
Flipping back and forth between
The *FOX and the **henhouse (MSNBC)
A significantly insignificant man
Either spoke or took to Twitter
Regardless of what 45 opined
The pundits polished up their side
Explaining for their followers
What is comfy for them to hear
Dosed with a spoonful of sugar
To help the medicine go down
Or caustically salted to taste
Either way each getting spoon fed
Keeping both coming back for more
Making both fat and happy
Smug in each their own perspective
Nary a clue it is a fishing game
Of catch and keep reeling them in
To sell the same profit products
Regardless the station or content
Clear in the chaotic context
Divide dupe distract and devolve
Formulate fear and forboding
Keep eyes glued and ears tuned
Filling up the bottom line
By emptying wallets and purses
Securing profits @ insecurity’s expense
1-800-BUY-CRAP @wastemoney.com
Meanwhile none of it is news
Barely as 80% is prognostication
Of staggering flow charts describing
If a = b – c then will z × s = win
By paid professional partisan pushers
Why else are they called news “shows”
:a public performance that is intended to entertain people
– m-w.com
* to trick or fool (someone) : to confuse (someone)
** a covered shelter for chickens or other birds
– m-w.com
I protect myself
From energy vampires
They suck my being
“If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.”
–Mark Twain
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The unobtainable could be obtained
If people practiced instead of posed
Just trying to figure out
How professed Christians
Look up to their immoral mortal leader
Who also alleges himself to be one
“I’m proud to be a Christian”
– Donald Trump
“In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
For what little I’ve read or heard
Of the fellow cannot recall ever
Ever any psalms or passages
That recommend kidnapping
Children form parents escaping
A situation so dire they are willing
To flee to lady liberty’s poorly lit torch
Only to be welcomed with broken arms
And be interned in filthy cages
WTF did they escape to come here???
“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
– Unknown (just kidding)
– The late JC (I think)
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45 A *matchstick man standing
On his moral high ground
In the abyss of Dante’s Inferno
* “Con artists are also referred to as matchstick men because they create temporary personas that are fleeting and simple.”
– Urbandictionary.com
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Peace was more lucrative
Than war
It would break out today
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
― Mark Twain
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Voting is an outward act
Masking an internal solution
Voting your conscience
Does not require a ballot
Best actions need not be counted
Decency uncompelled by majority
Ethics not determined by committee
Neanderthals didn’t vote
Surviving on nutritious food
With little information
Natural packaging
Lots of clean air and no borders
Creating myths to guide
In a search for meaning
Devolved into religions
Of bogus beginnings
Unlikely endings
Infinite interpretations
Dichotomously incongruent
Purveyors of “laws”
Established by invisible deities
Allegedly written in stone
Making them sound concrete
Transcribed by men
To serve their purpose
Not divinities or transcendence
Of malevolent mortals
Comfortable in the rut
Of trading an eye for an eye
Blindly accepting no progress
Before evolving into economic systems
Forging centers of greed and power
Mostly consume and repeat
Tax spend security and keep
So take it a step further
Be your own leader
Trade with everyone
Open your heart without borders
Create peace never war
Your constitution is more alive
Then decaying papyrus
Sealed under glass
In a nuclear proof vault
To preserve the lie / line
All men are created equal
Not so you would notice
Such as it being “illegal”
To lie to Congress, but
Not illegal for Congress
To lie to the people
The rule of law is merely
A political platform to keep
Humanity’s flock in line
Corralled by a few sheepdogs
A faux focus to follow
As the shepherds know
The rules don’t apply
To the makers of rules
“It is painful to stare openly at ourselves, but it the only way to change the future.”
– James Comey
“A Higher Loyalty”
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