To any question
Is
(Drum Roll)
I don’t know
Not saying
I don’t know
As if I’m
Unaware
(Although I am)
Rather
That
“I don’t know”
Like
Abbot and Costello’s
Third baseman is
“I don’t know”
Is the answer
For example
Someone may ask you
How old is the earth
Usually a child
And
Because you heard
Or read it somewhere
You reply
4.5 billion years old
And at that
For a moment
Moment
You both accept that
Because
Why not
After all
It is out there
As a “fact”
But then,
Thank
The cosmos
The child “thinks”
Thank
The cosmos
And asks
How you
Got
That answer
Now you’re
Stymied
To
Cover the
Bullshit
Because
In truth
You know
You
Do not
Know
You fumper
Uhh
I read it
Umm
Somewhere
Ok great
But what is that
Based on
…….. Genius
It just is
Now stop
Asking so many
Questions
(Erruggh)
Bad answer
You authoritarian
Parent you
Just try it
Though your first inclination may be prepared to do battle with the inner dialogue, going on inside your head to resist not having a “factual” answer
If you delve into the ramifications of “I don’t know” as an answer the relief you’ll find, is that at the least, it is the most honest answer
Ready
Deep breath
Pregnant pause……
I don’t know
Ahhh
Freedom
Don’t stop there
Dig deeper and you’ll discover the arrogance and conceit in the answer of 4.5 billion years. Which somehow will give credence to Einstein’s theory that everything is happening all at once.
We just perceive it linearly and figuratively.
4.5 billion years at best, is a guesstimate.
Besides if you became aware of the age of the earth information seventeen years ago. Your answer should have been 4 billion 5 hundred million and 17 years old.
It is based on a quasi combination of a Julian and Gregorian calendar. That has only been in general use for about 436 years and was made up by our predecessors as an arbitrary marking of “time”.
There “used” to be only 10 months, go figure that out when your looking for accuracy in how old something is. Hmm? Seeing as that is how December got its name. Deca- = 10 Tenth month.
On a planet that was once considered flat and egotistically geocentric later realized it was spherical in a heliocentric system.
Still basing the “years” measurement solely on earth’s rotational speed and distance from the nearest star. Calculated in Mars years or Pluto years would net still a different answer.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
– Freidrich Nietzsche
However, if you look deep inside and meditate, breath in slowly, exhale slower and from the very essence of your being ness you should get the same answer I got.
It is 3.67 Quarkatoons old.
Nevermind
I don’t know.
“Welcome to the jungle we’ve got fun and games.”
– Guns & Roses
The elephant is in the room with the turd in the punch bowl. You would have to be blind as a bat, not to see it.
It is the same room where someone just opened a can of worms and is trying to get them all into Pandora’s box.
Was it the monkey in the corner, who went a little bananas? I don’t want to be like the giraffe and stick my neck out, but that is what a little bird told me.
Certainly do not want to rat out my feathered friend. Even though I could weasel out of it. That would seem awfully cutthroat as toucan play that game.
Unfortunately there is no one to badger that gives a hoot and it is looking like they are going to make me the scapegoat.
Will have to ferret this out before my goose is cooked and I start shedding crocodile tears. If that happens, there will be no strutting around like a proud peacock.
Must move quick like a bunny so they don’t get me in the cross hares for a turkey shoot. This is not something I should get hounded for.
There will be no more horsing around just because the cat is out of the bag. Of course, we could deal with this at a snail’s pace. However, that seems kinda fishy.
This is no bull, I herd the cattle were in on it, for when asked about it, they behaved rather sheepishly.
If you still are unsure, give that fat cat a call. If he starts laughing like a hyena you’ll know he knows. Or perhaps that will be a red herring to throw off the wise old owl who thinks he can solve whodunit.
Probably shouldn’t worry so much about getting pigeonholed as a mother hen brooding over spring chickens.
Just don’t want them to go extinct like dinosaurs and not getting a chance to soar like eagles.
This whole thing has turned into a dog and pony show so it is time to bug out and head south with the snowbirds in Phoenix before I chicken out.
I would make an audio recording of this, but there is a frog in my throat. Actually my voice has always sounded like Kermit and that has been dogging me everyday.
That everybody is playing
Meaning everybody
All 7B players plus
Making up the rules
As we all go along
On a spherical game board
As a quasi-combination of
Monopoly, Clue, Life
Sorry, Scrabble, War
Chess, Checkers
And Trivial Pursuit
Mostly
Trivial
Pursuit
What seemed like guidelines
Became rules, which of course
Then grew into commandments
Before turning in to articles
Transforming into laws
Which then set precedents
To forever punish
Never reward
THOU SHALL NOT
Could have
Just as easily
Been established
As
Those willing to do
And do good will
Be rewarded and praised
Honored and encouraged
To do more good
But noooo
“That was one of the things that bothered me about my religion. That conflict between pain and pleasure.
They were always PUSHING for pain. You were always PULLING for PLEASURE!”
– George Carlin
Just imagine
If that were the
Evolutionary fork
In the road
That had we taken it
Then
Whenever that “then” was
Where “we” would be today
Banishing the
Rule of law
As creations
Of a Gaia
Consciousness
There is only
Natural law
“You’re born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that’s a law, if you get old you die, that’s a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you’re born with.
These are the only laws they that you’re born with. And any kind of government just #ucks you out that type of freedom”
– Doug Stanhope
Engaging in
Reciprocity and kindness
Which like any
Path chosen
There is always time
To switch paths
Now is the time
An example of
Changing rules
Would be
Basketball
Originally started with
13 rules
What was once a game
To keep athletes in shape
Through the winter
By putting a
Soccer type ball
Into a closed
Peach basket
And of course
Anything that starts with
A noble purpose
Business eventually
Swoops in to
Take advantage
Making allegedly
Grown men, into
Corporate pawns
In a garish game of greed
During a cacophony of chaos
Where a referee is supposed
To keep his eye on the ball
And still make sure
Someone’s feet
Didn’t “travel”
Now there are
A plethora
Of rules for
Different divisions
Too numerous to count
Even to the degree
That a player can be
“Fined” for his behavior
Moving past that
Think you are a “land” owner
And have property “rights” ?
Along comes
Eminent domain
Should “progress”
In your area
Dictate
You need to move
You will
Move
Merely because
It is not me
So it is okay
Group think
Deems that
Acceptable
On to our current
Dilemma
According to
Rudy
Plus others
You can’t indict a
Sitting president
Oh shit, let’s write
Another “law”
Hitherthereforetoo
A “sitting” president
Shan’t not be indicted
Wait, what is the
Legal precedent?
Ummm, ummmm…
Cause we just passed
A law
In case
One day
We are president, then
We too will want to be
Above reproach
Let’s create a bunch
Of mumbo jumbo
Surrounding the new law
To make it official
Article bleen
Section nya nya nya
It is unlawful to also
Indict a standing president
Or a golfing president
Or a kakistocratic president
This could all stop today
If a small but well intentioned
Group of bipedal earthling artists
Picked up their ball and went home
Opting not to play anymore
By circumstance
Peacefully encouraging
The rest of the
Players to
Play a new game
One that is not
Biblically sadistic
Where it is okay for
Moses
To kill an
Unnamed unarmed
Egyptian
Running away
As a fugitive
Then
When it us
It is a different story
“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
Giving the successive powers that be unlimited authority over how they wish to attempt to control people who they perceive are beneath them.
Implementing herd morality, like thou shall not murder. Which obviously does not apply to them.
Whether it be God or governments, that rule of the game, simply does not apply.
Think not, consider for a moment that much ballyhooed incident where an entire planet of people and children were murderously drowned because the authority did not like the way “his” children were behaving.
The first mass corporal punishment via globalcide. That ought to be a deterrent for thousands of years till as long as you can perpetuate the bullshit claiming * “an invisible man living in the sky” can implement a similar fate / justice anytime he wants.
* -George Carlin
As for the murder is illegal “rule, when it comes to the government, simply does not apply. All they have to do is rename the deceased, or about to be deceased.
Freedom fighters, insurgents, rebels, enemy, enemy of the state, soldiers, troops, terrorists, etc.
Collateral damage even works, when they miss their mark/target.
Bipedal earthling artists. Dead. And no justice is being served. Hmmm. Why, because it falls under the guise of “National Security” rather “Corporate Security” as for just a few thousand or hundred thousand deaths, the bottom line can continue to stay oily black.
All the way down to the local level, where under the guise of to “Protect and Serve”, murder is justified by the “state” because someone just “looked” guilty. Usually based on the degree of epidermis, light reflectivity.
As long as it is apparent the criterion is malleable for how we behave. Let us at least, change the internal rules so as not to follow the hate and discrimination guidelines set forth by the illusionary powers that be into playing the game they want us to play.
You’re Fired
Yet
Having all the charm of
Herman Munster and
Ferris Bueller mixed with
The thievery of Al Capone
And racism of Adolf Hitler
Plus above the law wishful
Richard Nixon like thinking
And having visions of WWII
Unconstitutional Internment
Camps all along the borders
The observation through the
Microscope is interesting
The view through the telescope
Looking at the future is
Murky and dismal at best
Save for the whole system
Collapsing and imploding
In on itself like a dead star
Turning in to the black hole
Where light and life can’t escape
Oops that took a dark turn
What I meant to say is that
Like the goofball at work
Who obviously doesn’t want
To be there, starts breaking stuff
Taunting both the boss (voters)
And coworkers (congress & DOJ)
With amazing BS stories and lies
First day on job was the giveaway
See am better than everyone. Tada
Could it not be any clearer for him
Not wanting to be there at all, but
Because his fragile ego will not
Let him quit, bigger and bigger
Stuff is going to get broken BAD
Laws, international relationships
Innate codes of human decency
A constitution shredded beyond
Recognition which may be good
Since it was intended for WLHSO
(White (pink) Land Holding Slave Owners)
So let’s all just sit back and relax
Throw some extra artery clogging
Butter on our vat of salty popcorn
Fill up the bottomless sugary soda
Settle in and watch the last show
Of the petulant apprentice president
Dictating democracy’s dank demise
By Putin’s petty perturbed puppet
Tumultuously tweeting terror to
Biggoted babies & protectionist pinks
“We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then….. It was over
We oohed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data in their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry
No feelings left
This species has amused itself to death”
“Amused To Death”
– Roger Waters
These lyrics alone only fractionally convey the impact of the message as performed by Roger with all the pained beauty, grabbing you from the depths of your soul, imploring you to turn off the TV
For whatever reason, and whence ever it occurred to me, to reference the allegedly most powerful man/office in the world down to a 2 digit number amuses me.
Kind of like picking a random card out of a magician’s deck. If you pick a two of clubs or a king of diamonds, the hierarchy has no value to the trick being played out before your eyes.
Merely an image to behold while the slight of hand goes unnoticed. And it is going unnoticed.
The story
Of breaking
Hearts and minds
5 / 4
Upholding
Systemic and
Systematic Racism
Not seen since
WW 2
All at the whim
Of one man
One
Petulant president
Who, perhaps is
Not even playing
To his own fears
Opted to
Instigate and
Implement
Religious hatred
Going against
The one document
He allegedly
Promised to
Protect and defend
On the point of
Not even playing
To his own fears
The miniscule
Spark of hope
That arises within
Is attached to a
Poorly recalled
Vague campaign promise
That he would get to
The bottom of
What happened on
9 11
And that the
Travel ban
Is merely a
Grand hoax
To get Dubya and his
Cronies
To confess
That what occurred then
Was an inside job
Having nothing to do
With the
Blamed perpetrators
Barring that
Though
It is not only
Mean spirited
Unconstitutional and
Irreversible
Unless
Congress acts (scoff)
It will be a
Law of the land
Making the first people’s
Indigenous cultures
Jealous and saddened
They didn’t have
The same
Law of the land
Set up 500 tears
Oops, Freudian finger slip
500 years ago
To keep those
Pesky murderous
Land stealing
Slave owning
Europeans out
Whose offspring are
Still wreaking havoc
Steve Martin “bit” from the 70’s
“I believe the united states should allow all foreigners in this country, .. Providing they speak our native language. ……..
Apache “
Or Sioux, or Cherokee, or Shoshone, etc..
As this streams out of
My fingertips I pause
To look in to the
Proverbial mirror
To ask, where does
This come from?
I have no religion
No God
Except
Accepting a
God force and
Rather
Holding on to
The John Lennon
Belief of a
Could be reality
“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…”
The reflection shows
An internal perception
Like Bill Hicks once said
“I don’t fit in anywhere, man, I really don’t. I don’t agree with anything either, not even what I just said so, think you see the problem here. Stranded without a clue.”
Therefore 45’s ban
Would only compound
The problem if I were wearing
Those shoes
As it might anyone else
If it was “their” group
Not allowed
Who not only feel
Like they don’t
Belong
Are told so
Via a vile
Rancid racist
Who likes
Lining his pockets
And lining himself
Up with
Dictators and despots
Before this
Story of breaking
Hearts and minds
Never ends
Will close this out with a
John Trudell quote
“My heart doesn’t hurt anymore.
Maybe, that’s what souls are for, to take the hurt, the heart can’t take.”
One more thing
It is our own fault
For accepting
The linguistic notion
Of being okay with having
A “Supreme” Court
In the first place
And not a
“Loving, Enlightening, Compassionate” Guiding Learning Center.
Where we can evolve more expeditiously and stop fighting with each other over some goofy words / definitions that keep power in power for the sake of power.
For the NFL
Yet
Here is what I would like you see, if I had any more self loathing to watch such a mindless distraction in the first place.
To whatever the first game of the NFL “season” is, have all the players stand for the national anthem, then get off the field and go the #uck home.
Then see a whole stadium take to two knees, praying their distractions get back on the field. So they won’t have to wake up from dreamland and actually pay attention to their government or family or planet and the like……
Or…..Or…..That children are being held in cages in Texas, separated from their parents due to 45’s immigration policy.
Who, even though “his” attorney general stated what the White House policy is, still has the audacity to blame the dems,
Oops.
Just editorializing on stuff heard on the radio, could be wrong.
Want to stop the protests?
1. Stop playing the national anthem. (Duh)
2. Stop watching football. In its Roman coliseum blood thirst arena as allegedly grown adults bludgeon each other for a buck and your entertainment.
3. The best option, evolve the culture that arbitrary guilt is not based on skin color causing some to be trigger happy. Leaving nothing left to protest over.
The Star Spangled Banner is nothing more than a series of notes in a broad octave range with corresponding lyrics set to trigger an emotional response to make the collective rise and set, having as many people as possible behave Iike Pavlov’s dog in a mass setting.
Ooooho say can you….. (ring) 100% up and at ’em. Manchurian automatons unconsciously getting out of their seat.
Hypnotized en masse like a giant Queen of Diamonds showed up on the Jumbotron. Good followers, good followers, generationally programmed.
Besides, it only reinforces our global proclivity for violence.
“We’ve got the only national anthem that mentions #ucking rockets and bombs in the #ucking thing. You know what I mean?”
– George Carlin
That, and it is a difficult song to sing and most people do not know the words and its incessant play has stripped it of its impact. Save how it is described above.
Yeah yeah yeah, land of the free (sure) and the hoooome (speed it up) of the (start the game) *brave. Woo hoo!!!!
*”Every dog is brave on his own doorstep.”
– Irish Proverb
There is money riding on this. Not gambling on the quarterly or final score. Rather gambling by the corporations to see how long they can keep a large group of people sedentary drinking, eating and staring zombie like at a flashing light box.
While brightly colored shiny images of products they need to push are shown more often than the game. Having mass hypnotized the consumer into thinking that their beer or soda or pizza or car or truck or pharmaceutical fix all or ed drug will immediately transform them into the person that everybody likes and wants to be around.
So that after they have emptied their wallet and purse, can transfix their glossy eyed stare to decide once again what headache medicine to buy or consolidation loan to get so they can start the whole process over again.
For all the chaos at the border.
It is going to be at least three months before some bullied or abused kid with too much access to wmd’s can divert the attention momentarily of children being separated from their family and held in cages. Maybe never to be reunited.
“You see it in their faces
The saddness in their tears
The desperation and the anger
Madness and the fear
No hope, no life, just pain and fear
No food, no love, just greed is here
Starvation and the hunger
The suffering and the pain
The agonies of all-out war
When will it come again?
The struggle for the power
A tyrant tries again
Just what the hell is going on?
When will it ever end? //”
– Iron Maiden “Childhood’s End”
Or the head chef stirs the NFL pot to focus on trivialities and divide people, over symbolism vs. symbolism.
(Taking a knee, to indicate fellow planetary players are being hurt and killed)
vs.
(Standing to face a piece of cloth while music plays because the government demands it.)(There, that’s free dumb.)
Rather substance over the substanceless.
Let’s see, hmm what else??
A wall, yeah a bigger wall, oops, that’s not working, since it can be gotten over or around, by airplane or boat. Darn.
No wait, a dome, a big dome the biggest best dome ever in the history of domes, no one builds domes like I build domes.
Believe me. Please believe me, please. The fantasy of illusion works better. Kinda like clapping your hands so tinker bell heals. It only works if you believe.
Plus, since we are starting our space military, we’re going to make the aliens pay for the dome, yeah yeah, the murdering Martians and vile Venusians.
Them…..Or the Canadians or Jhina
Be not afraid earthlings, the dictator of distractions will protect all of you with the new global security policy..
If, …sniff….you’ll just pay a little more attention to me…. I. ….sniff…cough….sob.
I can be loved right, so that maybe I won’t have to align myself with deadly dictators who are in the same emotional boat.
A presidential pedophile molesting the minds of migrant minors by breaking their biological bonds, traumatizing their trust, depriving dignity, assaulting their autonomy.
“Ever wonder why we’re #ucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
“We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost”
– Rush “Bravado”
Not by the 3:00 pm
Alarm bell
But the violent
Cacophony of
Shots being fired
Terrifying decibels
To identify
Each school’s
Early dismissal
System
Santa Fe Texas
Is (1)Clack clack
Poom wa
Clack clack
Poom wa
Where Parkland
Was more
Like Las Vegas
Ratatatat
Tdbtdbtdb
Ratatatat
Tdbtdbtdb
Every student
For themselves
In
A run for your life
Free for all
But wait
It’s not a
Free for all
It’s a mind #uck
Prison
Living in fear
That the
Next school
Your school
Or concert
Will be the one
For
The ensuing slaughter
Taking place
Senselessly
Unless it is worked
Into the
Math curriculum
As a word problem
500 students
Plus 20 teachers
Minus (x) amount
Of each
In the
Wrong place
At the
Right time
Bipedal
Earthling
Artists
Equals
A plethora of
On the NRA take
Administrators
Governors
Representatives
Congress persons
And
Presidents
Who
Apparently
Sit around
Between shootings
To conjure up
The improbable
And impossible
Solutions
Like
Arrrrming thuuu teeeeach errrrs
Brilliant just #ucking brilliant
Or
The latest show
Of just how stooopid
They think
The public is
By suggesting
(2)Less doors
Ta da
There’s a slogan
The “right” (wrong)
Can hide behind
Till the next massacre
Occurs
Less doors, more guns
Problem solved
Oh wait
If there is only
One door
And a shooter
Blockades the one door
With one of those
School
Targeted marketing
No pun intended
Of “safety”
(In the case of a school shooting
Rotocloser door arm
Movement impediment device
Or impenetrable
Door jambs
Or in room
(3)Safety shelters)
That would only
Increase
The body count
Since help
Could not get
Through the door
Except in the
Form of
Hopes and prayers
That there isn’t
Enough ammunition
To go around
And around
In blood red rounds
Brass casings in mounds
Students felled to the ground
Wailing weeping loud sounds
Captured by news bloodhounds
Of second amendment
Tyranny
Allegedly protecting
A freedom
That doesn’t exist
In the first place
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
The shooter was not defending himself against an overt tyrannical regime. So that argument is lost in the sauce.
Merely a subversive system keeping the population deep in weapons that can be used at any time by any one at any age.
In any caliber in any state for any reason in any modification w/out any restrictions.
Against who, oh yeah fellow citizens, basically encouraged by corporments (corporations and governments) to flail distraction at all possible costs (human life) so a reasonable solution can not be found.
With an underlying tag line to each of the recent mass shootings is that the guns were all purchased “legally”. Am sure that is comforting to the parents burying their dead loved ones. Scarring the rest with PTSD (Shell Shock) invisible wounds.
How free can you be in any true sense of the word, if even a fraction of your mind space has a compartment dedicated to sleeping with one eye open and ears tuned in 24/7 as to when whizzing bullets and gravity is going to bring you or a loved one down?
Less doors. WTF? How long before they suggest Jedi Knight training with light sabres, that will deflect the random bullets. Plus how cool as long as the sound effects can be heard.
(1) Doug Stanhope inspired sound effect
From “School Shooting”
“After every school shooting, parents come on television and say: ‘Rap music is the problem. And drugs. And the lack of metal detectors.’ No.
The problem is that a lot of your kids are aggressive dicks and you won’t do shit about it. That’s the **problem.”
You never hear these parents say: ‘It’s terrible that Andy Williams shot up Santana High School, but I accept it was also our boy Ethan’s fault, because he was a sadistic prick to that kid,'”
(4)’Tell that to the cameras, Ethan. Tell them how you pulled Andy’s pants down, then pushed his head down the toilet.’
I never hear that on the news.”
– Doug Stanhope
That, and an unfettered access to wmds and you have a toxic cocktail of death waiting to be shaken, not stirred.
(4)(CNN)The father of the teenager accused of killing 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Texas says his son was a “good boy,” and he believes bullying drove him to perpetrate last week’s deadly rampage.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, an evangelical Christian and Republican former radio talk-show host who has been a strong proponent of expanding gun liberties in the state, spoke with a cadre of officials on Friday, pointing out that though Santa Fe High School had been given a safety award from the state and enjoyed the regular protection of two police officers, it still fell victim to horrific violence at the hands of an armed teenager.
(2)“We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. And what I mean by that is there are too many entrances and too many exits to our more than 8,000 campuses in Texas,” he said, citing security at office buildings and courthouses. “Had there been one single entrance possibly for every student, maybe he would have been stopped.”
As long as I’m playing
Air ride seat psychologist
Think
Maybe
In that house
Paranoia
And the only
Knowledge of the
Constitution is the
Second ammendment
That
Was passed on
With
Wmds
In an
Unsecured location
(3) In room safety shelters
Could these criminal corporations not find something more practical to make than cashing in on a collective fear to make a product that in all practical purposes is never going to be used in the first place?
Save wasting the earth’s resources to occupy an already overcrowded classroom with a bullet proof cage to lure in the already fear stricken into a ready made booby trap.
That if a crazed killer was trying real hard to several dozen “one up” the last murderer he would have his fish in each barrel in each classroom.
When the best solution is through the attritional reduction of targets in the first place.
At least until we can wash the blood off of the world’s hands. Long enough to learn how to get along with each other in what is essentially a finite space that is getting more and more crowded, warmer and terribly toxic.
“Blood On The World’s Hands”
“Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but…
When you can see it happening
The madness that’s all around you
Nobody seems to worry
The world seems so powerless to act…
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day a new toll
Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings…
One day another killing
Somewhere there’s someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there’s someone
Laughing at us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day it goes on
Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a ceasefire
They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There’s chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
It’s our epitaph
It’s out of control
Someone should know
Blood on the world’s hands
Someone Should”
– Iron Maiden
Do to schadenfreudenistic tendencies
It is that we find ourselves practically
In a perpetual state of rubber necking
At the politically derailing train wreck
Destruction & decency dismemberment
Of daily hijinks, distraction and deceit
When with just a little bit more focus
We could keep our eyes on the road
With a new destination in mind & heart
One that brings us to the realization
That we are all of one consciousness
“No tree has branches so foolish
as to fight amongst themselves.”
~ Native American Proverb
The
Removal
Or
Impeachment
Or
Incarceration
Of the
Current President
Rather the
Transformation of
The
Vile ugliness
From within
That reflects back
In those traits
That I see
In myself
That I
Do not
Like
Such as
Narcissism
Deception
Blame shifting
Arrogance
In
Varying degrees
Of
Intensity
At
Different times
Under completely
Dissimilar circumstances
Perhaps with
A little
Karma / Spiritual
Glass cleansing
That image
And
Nightmare
Will
Disappear
And
I can
Look
Into the
Mirror / Void
And
Once
And for all
See
The
Beauty
That
Resides in
Every glimpse
Of every
Spark of
The divinity
Emanating
From
Each bipedal
Earthling artist
Regardless
Whether
They are
Janitor or
Dictator
Prisoner or
Poet
Oppressor or
Oppressed
Immigrant or
Imperialist
Pauper or
Prince
Kid or
Curmudgeon
What do you
Seek?
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions.
A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
– Bill Hicks
Looking at the world through a windshield. 