Overhead someone say
They needed
To add that
(Whatever “that” was)
To their “bucket list”
Which has only been around
For about 12 years
And it is time to bury it
In the shallow grave
It deserves
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Must just be my contrarian nature
To question nearly everything
Maybe I’d be embarrassed to share
Some superficial project or task
That might somehow complete me
As a person before I “kicked” the bucket
Thinking instead of what I really need is
Is a “moment” list
One that can’t be printed
Added to or be crossed off
Just cherished
From moment to moment
Every breath
Each laugh
All smiles
Kind gestures
Loving remarks
The moments on a path
That there is absolutely
No clue how
Long or short it is
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“There is only this moment”
– Bill Hicks
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“Live each day as if it were your last”
“One day you’ll be right’
– Hal Roach
The reflecting pool
Is as shallow
As my narcissism
It knows
No depth
Hannity is probably the world’s greatest broadcaster simply for being able to speak so clearly while his lips are firmly planted between 45’s ass cheeks.
Tongue deep in the con artist’s colon, so far up, he can whisper to the inside of his ear. Talented, like one of those ventriloquist who can drink a glass of water and still “talk” through the dummy.
Which is relatively accurate as there is no context to his content other than slathering sweet nothings to 45 while still decrying over Hillary’s emails, yet not Eve Anka’s.
Maybe his show should be called the dizzy zone since there is so much spin, one gets woozy, within seconds the channel has to be changed or falling out of your chair is inevitable.
Rumpelstiltskin couldn’t spin that much manure thick straw into gold.
Carlson and Ingraham are not far behind as propagandists and sensationalists for their blatant baby billionaire bias.
Like a tennis ball
In a pre-game warmup
Making contact yet
Sent hitherto,
Pointless as it were
A simple word
As an adjective
Vague
As a noun
Always negative
With bogeyman
Repercussions
Never found on
A tax return
Under occupation
Or resume
For position sought
It is not something
Anyone would call
Themselves
Or “their” behavior
Here it is
.
Criminal
.
A label between
Temporary and permanent
A momentary
Malevolent moniker
Oddly enough
Finding its way
Upon the lawmakers
Themselves
How ironic
Being charged with
Penalties
Perjury
Violations
Ethic violations
Fraud
Tax fraud
Corruption
Bribery
Collusion
Conspiracy
The ones deciding
What laws to pass
To keep society in line
How’s about
Leading by example
Not
Do as I legislate
Not as I do
Forget about that
It is all for show
For what might land
You or I in jail
They get a slap
on the wrist or “fined”
Paid for with
Other people’s money
Can you say
Dipping into
Campaign funds
No wonder
The weak seek
Power
How may I best serve
Must be something I can do
That is the question
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
Philip K. Dick
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Religious conjecture
Is not a compelling argument
Towards proof
Of beliefs
.
Touting ones faith
As a reason to believe
Just because you do
Is like suggesting that
.
An invisible lucky charm
In your pocket is
What makes the
Sun come out everyday
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The only reason that words
Have a perceived meaning
Is that somehow in the
Aeons of evolution
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Grunts became groans
Groans manifested syllables
Syllables turned consonants
Consonants needed vowels
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“For millions of years
Mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend
Which unleashed the power
Of our imagination
We learned to talk”
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– Stephen Hawking
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Cave walls were canvases
Canvases displayed art
Art spreads communication
Communication requires thought
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Thought necessitates transference
Transference utilizes sight
Sight moves at the speed of light
Light makes no sound
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Sound wanted to be special
Special hath meaning
Meaning is open to interpretation
Interpretation grants definition
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Definition defines words
Words build sentences
Sentences grow paragraphs
Paragraphs establish chapters
.
Chapters divide stories
Stories tell tales
Tales entertain or instruct
Instruct leads to control
.
Control manipulates reader
Reader reads book
Book written by many
Many collaborate message
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“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.”
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– George Carlin
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Now that we see through that
The new mystical deity is still
The “Rule of Law” waaaay beyond the 10
As our “saviour” yet, like God is invisible
.
We only keep hearing about it
From the new preachers
That we allegedly elect
Telling us how good it will work
.
If we go with their interpretation
Hoping for quick implementation
Bringing supposed salvation
Hiding typical regurgitation
.
Seems only a repetition
Of a permanent distraction
Merely a continuation
Of sped up procrastination
.
Apparently the rule of law
Does not apply to the
Makers and breakers of law
Seems quite an obvious flaw
.
Yet like Lucy, Charlie and the football
We trust each time it will not move
With a woomph and on our back we fall
Are you not just puke sick of it all
.
Not like me to end on a sour note
Looking up, can hardly believe I wrote
You would think I’m at the end of my rope
Always a little room for some hope
.
The splattered egg is on our face
Look in the mirror to see what’s up
No more negativity from me, am
Trying to see things, sunny side up
.
Every word he utters
Every tweet he tweets
Not only lacks
Anything presidential
It takes the most
Expeditious route
To a new moral
Low ground
Forget Mueller’s
Investigation
The evidence is
On full display
His perpetual portrayal
Is our psychic betrayal
Having visions of any kind
Of enlightenment
Elevating humanity
Descends into darkness
Shadowed in shadows
Dire dank derision doing
Donald’s deception daily
You can not praise
The military whilst speaking
Heaps of laudations
In the same breath while
Wiping your ass with
Casket draped flags
With one hand as the
Other hand keeps every
Hair in place over your
Narcissistic empty head
Fearful it might get wet
Including sliced hypocrisy
Chopped up reality
Diced dichotomy
Shredded humanity
With broken bread
Toasted
Combined together and
Jammed up in the
Eagle’s carcass
As “Thanksgiving” approaches
Along with the “Caravan”
Homeless, country less
Weaponless, partly shoeless
“What” an invasion?
What “timing”
Even with a distant
Not so distanced reminder
“Give me your tired,
your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
– “Statue of “”Liberty”” poem.
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Will it be served warm
To the new guests
Or like unwarranted
Revenge
Served cold, or
Discarded out of spite
By an uncompassionate
Angry racisct narcissistic
Xenophobic
Head chef
You know what I wonder?
I wonder W T F W J D?
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Thanksgiving :
Celebrating the day, Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe
– Facebook meme
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This land is not your land
This land is not my land
It was stolen from
The Mexican and Indian
.
From the burnt down forest
To the oil slick water
This land was decimated
By you and me
.
White people, when you landed on Plymouth Rock……….
You did not have a visa.”
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– Carlos Mencia
Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter in which he disapproves of the country adopting the bald eagle as our national symbol. He claims that the drawing that had been produced looked like a turkey anyway and that such a bird would actually be preferable to the eagle.
Franklin explained that the bald eagle had a “bad moral character” and was a “rank coward” that merely steals from other birds.
About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is “a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America…He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”
So although Benjamin Franklin defended the honor of the turkey against the bald eagle, he did not propose its becoming one of America’s most important symbols.
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Oh yeah.
Happy Thanksgiving
Or perhaps acrimony?
MEDIA
.
Or what is technically known as
Fourth branch of the government
.
Make
Everything
Divisive
In
America
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“I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule, I don’t believe anything that government tells me, nothing, zero, none.
And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country.
Who in the case of the Persian Gulf war were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense and who, most of the time, most of the time, functions as kind of an unofficial Public Relations Agency for the United States government.”
– George Carlin
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Not much has changed in 30 + years. All seem to be in lock step with the party.
Albeit from different vantage points.
Time and time again regardless of their initial reporting of obvious interpretation of evidence.
Umm, free fall collapse, characteristics of a controlled demolition. Nevermind, shuffle those “facts” off to the conspiracy theorists. Dismissing the plausibility the buildings could have been “worked” both inside and outside by the same group.
What group? Hmm, what “group” gained?
Forget that, we have a script and an agenda to follow. Buy some shit, otherwise the terrorists “win”
“Yeah. That’s our latest mindless cliché. Go out and buy some jewelry and a new car otherwise the terrorists win. Those business assholes really know how to take advantage don’t they?”
– George Carlin
Quietly take some marching orders, and start falling in to line, regurgitating the “official” story. Or completely back off as if it never happened.
Dare I say Vegas massacre, I’m sure the LVS chamber of “commerce” doesn’t want to keep any would be tourists away.
Therefore the “news” is directed by profit. Profiting ensuring spoils of war, or profits gained by nor reporting.
If it bleeds, it leads, till every last commercial viability has been bled out, or until something bloodier comes along.
Maybe because they are broadcasting in the realm of short attention span theater and it really won’t matter if they get to the abysmal bottom of truth or facts.
Recently saw Lewis Black in a live performance point out (I’m paraphrasing) that the “news” is not news *, it is speculation and prognostication.
* : new information or a report about something that has happened recently
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Happened is so yesterday.
To keep ahead of each other, what you hear and see on the “news” is what they are trying to project on the American psyche as to what each media would like to have happen. Or what the viewer / listener / choir enjoys getting preached.
Depending on each’s perspective.
Life victims, need a scapegoat, watch Fox
Glass fuller than empty watch MSNBC
Fortunately or unfortunately it is not Fear vs. Love for love would win out.
Rather it is Fear vs. Complacency.
Uselessly swinging the pendulum when neither side has the best answer, yet combined, both would. There is no profit in that though, now is there.
Meanwhile, both are catering to their sponsors. Which if you surf the channels, find they are the same ones. Pushing unwitting consumption on a society deeply indebted to it already.
For example, bed mattresses last a really long time. Not so you’d notice, as custom bed in a box or somehow “different” than the other kind, 100 night free trial mattress. (so the actual likelihood of it getting returned is practically nil.)
Keeping you awake with “bad” “news” thinking it is what you are sleeping on.
Instead of the turmoil assembled in your cranium at the expense of you well-being for what is projected, fear, hate, blame, victim hood mentality, isolation and greed.
How many mattresses can one go through till it is realized it is not the mattress, it is the news for your inability to sleep?
Mattresses, pillow and magic sheet commercials are not played in the morning. Hmmmm?
Here is one of their divisiveness tactics.
Both sides are guilty. They have a good portion of the public believing that they monochromatically live in a “blue” or a “red” state.
Either making you feel smug and righteous that your thinking “matches” your state. Or angry and upset, no one is thinking like you.
Manipulated obediency
From all sides through
Manufactured consent
Utilizing divisiveness
That at any given point
One side ranks superior
To an opposing side as a
Means of controlling all
In a mindless tit-for-tat
Regarding the following
“Your” “Team”, “Your” “City” etc..
The “Brand” you “prefer” sometimes
Based on nothing except a
Jingle, slogan or logo
Droned on and drummed into
Your subconscious as programed
Through audio and visual repetition
Malware infecting gray matter
Race, religion, ethnicity
Gender, sexuality, orientation
Independent, democrat, republican
“Red” state “Blue” state, even “Purple”
Wealth, poverty, social status
None which exist
At anyone’s core
Just you being
A being
A spirit
A consciousness
A ghost
In the machine
A pilot within
The * microscopic dot
Navigating the world
Filtered through
Layers of masks
Either imprisoned by self
By obediently following
Their “rules” “they” change or
Self imposed castle walls
Or a state run cell block
You are your own warden
Who has the skeleton key
To open the cage
Set yourself free from
Obedience
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It is all for what?
If it is all for naught.
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“Dreaming about some kind of life
We say, it could have been different
But it wasn’t, because we weren’t
No matter what, it turns out the same”
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– John Trudell
From “Rich Man’s War”
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* microscopic dot is a Wayne Dyer reference
Looking at the world through a windshield. 