“You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct?
Instead — just play with this — if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world — and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded — we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.”
– Bill Hicks
The Vision
Nobody else
Seems to see
Extricated
From words
Written
By now
Dead men
Just more
Life affirming
Than words
Written by
Less recent
Dead men
Proving the point
May be pointless
Just * “Imagine”
If there was
Actually
No religion
How much better
We’d all get along
Still
Trapped from
Implementing
By the
Hamster wheel of
Consumption
Corruption
Assumption
Entertainment
And greed
Oral ideologies
Transferred to and
From books
To brains
Generation
After generation
No where near
Ending the
Psychotic cycle
Of insanity
.
*Imagine
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
– John Lennon
.
Would that really be so difficult
Nothing from that song
Is impossibly achievable
Just need to stop buying
Into differing ideologies
Geography and epidermis’s
Because
Underneath it all
It boils down to
Blood and bones
Brains and biology
Riding on a rock
Hurling through the cosmos
At an incalculable speed
Protected only by a thin
Layer of ozone & atmosphere
Plus we are all being timed
Under the same watchful clock
Observed under the camera’s eye
.
“Our DNA hasn’t changed substantially in 100,000 years. We’re still operating out of the lower brain. The reptilian brain. Fight or flight. Kill or be killed.
Now, we like to think we’ve evolved and advanced because we can build a computer, fly an airplane, travel underwater. We can write a sonnet, paint a painting, compose an opera.
But you know something? We’re barely out of the jungle on this planet. Barely out of the fucking jungle.
What we are is semi-civilized beasts with baseball caps and automatic weapons.
And this civilization of ours that we’re so proud of, this civilization with its so-called civilized behavior, you ever stop and realize how fragile all this is?”
.
– George Carlin
.
Playing pawns as proletariat puppets
In our own misguided game of thrones
Convinced an or any individual can lead
When it is a just a money & power grab
Exercising will of hubris and henchmen
Doing dastardly deeds no divine deity
Would have in their enlightened masters
Playbook, preserving & protecting people
So why not behave like them that we
May too become enlightened masters
Know “One”
Is living above
The “Rule Of Law”
Therefore
It needs be
Dismantled
Replaced
With
Oh #uck
Anything
Just kidding
Let me think
How about
“Karmic Guidance”
Umm
“Enlightening Humanity”
Hmmm
“Enhancing Intuition”
Just because
The “Rule Of Law”
Is here and in place
By those it serves
Doesn’t make it
Right or best
When it is
Malleable and
Malignant in its
Application
As it is man made
And extremely
Vague
So would be
The presented options
However
Would
In the wording alone
Express benevolent
Intention
‘Stead of “electing”
A singular person
To “allegedly” “lead”
We could all
Help each other
Make sure everyone is
Housed
Fed and clothed
And until the system
Corrects itself
To those who bring
Harm to others
Forge forgiveness
Help healing begin
Remind of
Recurring reciprocity
As am quite sure
Will be getting on
The next ride
When this one is over
.
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey — don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…”
And we… kill those people.
“Shut him up.”
“We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.”
Just a ride…… But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because:
“It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”
.
– Bill Hicks
Flash by rapidly
Colorful and bright
Hues and shadows
Yet the scene only
Slowly changes
Decisions to make
Confront immediately
Not every action
Needs a reaction
Or indecision
Rules each
Passing moment
Left with
No devices
To choose
Right or wrong
Good or right
Bad or worse
Thoughts reoccur
In what my mind
Tells me is my brain
Projected as a
Sensory collector
Of sights and sounds
Taste and touch
Smells and the sublime
For what
No one knows
Memories are veiled
By curtains of
Differing dimensions
Flapping in a
Bemused breeze
Leaving us
Only experiencing
Each moment
Trying desperately
To drop off
Befuddled baggage
In a futile effort
To right
The world
Or perhaps
Write the world
Compartmentalized
In a crammed cranium
As it would like
It experienced
‘Stead of
Understanding and
Accepting it all
As a speck of dust
Did you ever fall asleep on a late afternoon, you wake up after dark, and you don’t know what goddamn day it is?
– George Carlin
I want one of those.
@ Fast food joints
Is becoming the norm
As soon as
The tires trigger
The sensor
You are bombarded
Excuse me ……….
“Greeted”
With a peppy
Looped recording
Welcoming you to
Fat, Salt and Sugar
Deadly dispensary
“Inviting” you
Because you’re
Special
To partake in
Today’s deal
Of the profit push
Calorie counting killer
Wallet emptier
In the only form
Available outside
Audio enticement
Pleasant and quick
Unlike the death
Being digested
After all you are
Already there
Because you’re hungry
And “driving” thru
So you can get it fast
Tag lined
Order when you’re ready
As what follows
The script
Is now
A “live” person
Who couldn’t
Possibly have
Sustained that
Insincerity insanity
Driver after driver
Feeding the bottom line
Even though “money”
Isn’t actually
Being exchanged
Just plastic
For preservatives
Because you know
Inside you are
Spared that
Pesky pitch
As the
Silent screens
Do that for them
Flashing food
In impossible to
Eat portions
Each looking
Better than the last
Replacing indecision
With buy it all…..now
You have to figure
When they are
Processing for profit
Just based on
Crass consumption
That can’t possibly
Be what humans
Are here for
Eat
Reproduce
Repeat
Eat
Reproduce
Repeat
Everything is
Geared
For the
Target audience
To consume
Nothing else
Think not
Ask yourself
Why is only
The last part shown
Before consumption
Instead of
The whole process
Of the process
From greedy breeding
To inanimal conditions
To filthy
Bloodletting
Slaughterhouses
Pumped up
With hormones
Squeezing
Every last drop
Into the
Bottom line
When upon reflection
There are probably
More nutrients
In the
Happy meal box
Than
The contents
To a slow rolling boil
Cozy in our comfort
Of constant chaos
Ditto dire distraction and
Malignant manipulations
Satiating sadness
For fearful foreboding
Frequently forgotten
With a serotonin spike
Just not quite enough
To jump out and
Turn off the gas
.
“It’s hard to take the heat
It’s hard to lay blame
To fight the fire
While we’re
Feeding the flames”
.
“Second Nature”
– Rush
.
Approaching apathy of
Apocalyptical proportion
Lamenting loose language
Incoherently communicating
Ubiquitous misunderstanding
Forsaking personal power
To political pornography
Corporate coercion and
Mesmerizing medias
Radios satellites and screens
Big screens little screens
Flat screens curved screens
Edgeless and portable
Broadcasting blatant BS
With so many head scratchers
Being perpetually presented
We may never know if
The frog is dead or
Our goose is cooked
Feels like déjà vu
All over again
In an infinite loop
Redundantly repeated
With no end in sight
Before falling
To the wayside
Then hung up on
The wall like
A melting clock
Dripping
Duplicitously
Into adjacent
Dichotomous
Dimensions
Once again
For the
Last time
Repetitively
Replaying
Till we
Get it right
Rather a “Soap Opera” narrative
Absorbed ocularly and audibly
Dulling senses so senselessly
Matters not the abysmal outcome
Distraction is the purpose it serves
Look around it is working too well
Are we dismantling nuclear weapons
Are we feeding the undernourished
Are we housing the homeless
Are we awakening the unconscious
No, we are allegedly building walls
Heatedly fighting over global warming
Pointing fingers to everyone but self
Taking impossible sides on a sphere
Finding new ways to extract oil
Manipulating currencies satiating greed
Convincing everyone needs a gun
To defend against tyrannical government
Bwaha hahaha hoohoo hehe hahaha
.
“The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of the wealth from the poor to the rich.
The poor have been systematically looted in this country, the rich have been made richer.
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in black and brown shirts, it will not be with jack boots.
It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts.”
– George Carlin
There is no apt justice
In a world meant for us
.
It is simply a made up word
Implementation quite absurd
.
Like all of the others
Strange we even bother
.
For it does not exist in nature
Look around, you can be sure
.
‘Twas created by varieties of religion
Over your mind & body dominion
.
Controlling how people behave
Deciphering else would be naive
.
There is such an obvious flaw
For man to interpret God’s law
.
Written by man in the first place
Divinity decimated in disgrace
.
Thou shall not, begins most commandments
Instead of desired outcomes to implement
.
Perpetuating vague forms of penance
Perhaps could have offered guidance
.
Thou shalt be kind and peaceful
Thou shalt make sure every belly is full
.
If a fellow earthlings are in need
Do what you can and curb your greed
.
It is said that justice is blind
Look to the white house for a remind
.
Or churches for that matter
Molested children lives shattered
.
That’s why it is called criminal justice
Favors those with pink epidermis
.
Cutting 45 a big huge amount of slack
44 would be jailed just because he’s black
.
So often the Constitution’s been breached
Had Obama done it, he’d been impeached
.
Dodging the law by being braggadocios
Anyone else’s punishment would be atrocious
.
Blindly distracted by celebrity
Wake up to a better reality
.
This is just an opinion don’t you know
What else is there for us to unknow
.
“Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line.
They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God—
God personally—had given one of them a list of Ten Commandments that he wanted everyone to follow.
They claimed the whole thing took place on a mountaintop, when no one else was around.”
– George Carlin
“There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying…
…and reborn again??”
“The Clairvoyant”
– Iron Maiden
.
Without proof
I’m convinced
We reincarnate
.
Clever lyrics
Or well written books
Are not proof
.
Even if you thought
You found “proof”
It would just be a
Material manifestation
Of one’s own perception
.
An illusionary
Coagulation of
Waves and or
Particles
.
That is
Even if
You think
You can…….
Knock on wood
.
Seems odd
To find
One’s self
In the middle
Of building an
Infinite resume
While remaining
Unemployable
Before taking
The
First step
Up a
Spiritual
Ladder
.
You are not
Your tattoo
Or the latest
Modern hairstyle
Your age
Or your skin
Money
Or lack thereof
For that
All goes away
Still
One must take
Something
When you go
What it is
I do not know
Different for sure
Then with what
You came here
.
Whoever dies with
The most toys
…………dies
.
“There’s got to be just more to it than this
Or tell me why do we exist
I’d like to think that when I die
I’d get a chance another time
And to return and live again
Reincarnate, play the game
Again and again and again.”
“Infinite Dreams”
– Iron Maiden
Looking at the world through a windshield. 