If you believe
Someone is lying
About their truth
But have no proof
Then that belief
May or may not be
A lie to one’s self
And no one besides
Who is believing
What their mind
Wants to believe
Or does not want to
Yet, in fact
When or since
There is no
Proof of a lie
Then belief usually
Overrides truth
Regardless if it is
Truth, or is not
Making a belief
An unintended
Hierarchy or authority
Over objective reality
Perhaps then
Make believe it is true
Is more of
A command
Than an idiom
“Now, believe is a word that I have a serious problem with, right, because it has a “Lie” in the middle.
“DNA” Descendant Now Ancestor
– John Trudell
“I never wish to be right,
Only to be understood,
If you have questioned
Your beliefs. Then maybe
I have done some good. “
– Angelo Devlin
If the alleged left
Wants to truly win
(First, what people
Fail to realize is that
The left and right wing
Belong to the same bird)
The first thing they need to do
Is stop mentioning
What’s his name’s name
Like it disappeared
From their vocabulary
Some temporary profits
Will be at stake, briefly
But the incursion of
An elevated humanity
Methinks would be
Worth the cost
Along with a revisit
To a calmer sanity
Where we can all regroup
Catch our collective breath
Make peace with our self’s, then
Make peace with our other selves
Which is us anyway
Set up as reflective mirrors
So we can understand us better
By seeing who we really are
In how we behave and react
To someone who doesn’t look like us
Believe the same things we do
Who is in a different economic situation
But still is inseparable from who we are
That would also like to win by
Participating in the calculated gamble
“Reality can not be
Properly checked
In an echo chamber.”
– Angelo Devlin
At cherry picking
Morally acceptable
Forms of death
War? Always
All ways, except with
Nuclear weapons
Way too much
Collateral damage
Bordering on
Instantaneous genocide
Plus, it ruins the real estate
When trying to steal resources
What is perfectly acceptable
Are bombs, drones
Missiles, guns
Bullets, gas chambers
Hanging and drowning
(Which is God’s favorite)
Automatic weapons
Incendiary devices
(AKA Flamethrower)
“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves,”
“You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
– George Carlin
As long as * “we” ourselves don’t “kill” anyone
* (we, though, it is US, paid for by US tax dollars)
Stubbornly and Ignorantly hypocritical
By celebrating those willing to do the dirty work
Like post natal out of the womb abortion doctors
On “foreign” soil, even though all “soil” is connected
Throughout the little blue dot floating through the cosmos
Extracting fully formed fetuses in fatigues
Conveniently clothed in camouflage covers
(Typically men, dressing up as cos-play toy soldiers
Living out their combat fantasies of being heroes)
(That, or just doing their job, so they get special parking
Since they are now veterans with participation trophies
Near home improvement centers, restaurants
Grocery stores, or handicapped parking……..everywhere)
Save the exception of a flag patch on the arm
As an identifier of who not to shoot or not to……abort
Because “those” fruition fetuses are on “our” side
Even though some come from the places we attack
“Who am I performing for? Who are these Americans?
“I started reading the last names and I saw black and I saw Svenson and I saw Doyle and I saw McKelly and I saw Schwartzeir and I saw Ronaldo and I saw Belini, I saw Popadopolis, I saw Chaka, I saw Westhoffer, I saw Whakinsky, I saw Bean, I saw Lee, I saw Chang, I saw Yomato, I saw Makombo, I saw Ahmed, I saw Hernandez and I looked up, at these Americans of every race, color, religion imaginable and it hit me at that very moment.”
“Do you people realize that America is the only country in the world, that when we go to war, our troops, literally have to wear uniforms, cause no matter who we are fighting, (AKA killing) we have people on our team, that look like them.”
– Carlos Mencia
Justification seems to be the key factor
In the arbitration of who ends up on
The unlikely snake eyes roll of the dice
For an early grave or… medical incinerator
Ooopsie!
Forming fetuses in a fetus factory get an
Automatic stay of execution after 6 weeks
Or as Stanhope so eloquently puts it
“I’m against abortion, except like in cases of rape.”
That’s like saying, “Yes, a fetus is a human being,
….. unless his dad is an asshole.”
– Doug Stanhope
If that were the case, some abortions would be mandatory.
“So, at best, the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which forms of life we feel are sacred, and we get to kill the rest.
Pretty neat deal, huh? You know how we got it? We made the whole fucking thing up!
Made it up, the same way we made up the death penalty. We made them both up, the sanctity of life and the death penalty.
Aren’t we versatile?!”
– George Carlin
There is another arbitrary vague selection….
The “Death” “Penalty”, giving the go ahead
Of who dies based on their behavior or
Confession or coerced confession
Circumstantial or manufactured “evidence”
Usually chosen by a group of people
Flipping coins on the muddled moral
Malleability deciding guilt, sanity or
Mental acuity aka retardation
Some don’t have to wait to administer the death penalty
Some judge and jury hangman have qualified immunity
State employed James Bond 007 license to kill jurisdiction
By police simply stating they “saw a gun” discarding the
Alleged right “to bear arms”
“If cops, can execute you because they “saw a gun”
You do not have the right to bear arms”
– Meta meme
The other forms of death
That get special selection
Is deciding… what to eat
Dogs and cats, no way
Cows and pigs, okay
Fish and chicken touché
Horse is fine and dandy
Depending on what
Country is hungry
Frogs and lambs
But only their legs
Crabs and lobsters
Because they are ugly
Pheasant and quail
Because they are yummy
Fox, rabbits and goats
Are on the plate too
Unless they are kept in a zoo
“Ever wonder why we’re fucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
Even though……
Humans are good
At cherry picking
Morally acceptable
Forms of death
“I have special glasses
To see the contradiction
In everything.”
– Angelo Devlin
Hate over love
They only chose
One illusion over
A different illusion
To satiate their
Perception of what
Will benefit them self
The most for themselves
In a low stake gamble
That anything in their
Life will change one iota
Because that is how
Illusions work
Illusion:
1 a (2) : something that deceives or misleads intellectually
1 b (1) : perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature
– m-w.com
Since either had taken on
The characteristics of
Dumbo’s magic feather
The followers wanted to
Believe they could only fly
If they held on to the feather
The trick is to understand
One does not need the
“Magic feather” to fly
It is one’s belief
In themselves
Misprojected onto an
Anthropomorphic screen
Mouthing falsehoods and
Improbable outcomes
It is only clear to discerning ears
To realize, neither stated any
Provable outcomes of
Intended promises with
Anything but vague innuendoes
Guiding, easily led sheep
On both or either side
To fall into emotional
Traps of fear and projections
Of what may happen
Based on essentially nothing
Which ought to give rise
To choose to learn to
Love one’s self so as to
Share that and spread it around
From a place of knowing
Instead of being told / sold
How you are supposed to feel
And how your life will be
Affected by an official
Sitting in an oval office
“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”
– Angelo Devlin
The puppeteer is
Just as amused with
The pulling of strings
Directing the outcome of
Lifelike limber puppets
Putting words in the mouths
Like an invisible ventriloquist
As the audiences are
Mindlessly entertained
With the distractions of
Daring and devious dialog
To enrapture the crowds
In theater-in-the-rectangle
Engrossed in pixelated screens
In gross and grotesque scenarios
Of lying, name calling, and baiting
Rooting for their side as
The heroes and villains
Are interchangeable
Depending on how each
Division defines their deity
Unfortunately, even on
The most base level we
Understand what is
Going on in the show……
“I’ll show you politics in America.
Here it is, right here.
“I think the puppet on the right
Shares my beliefs.”
“I think the puppet on the left
Is more to my liking.”
“Hey, wait a minute,
There’s one guy…………
Holding out both puppets!”
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
It always works as long as
Disbelief is suspended that
There’s one guy…………
Holding out both puppets.
Because that is how
Powerful minds are
Imagine what could happen
If we collectively
Shattered that illusion
We could stop being gears
In the well-oiled machine
“I just want to be
The antidote for the
Poisonous Kool-aid
People have ingested.”
– Angelo Devlin
Vying to be filled
By narcissists who
Are lacking in such
Personal power
They seek approval
From everyone but
Their own divinity
Telling provable lies
Making false promises
Raising money from
Broke & broken sources
For the paltry salary of
$ 400,000.⁰⁰ a year
(Achooo. Oops, they both sneezed)
As the side hustle to
Their more lucrative gigs
While and once they
Get out of the office
As either nudnik will
Inevitably, have blood
On their hands and ours
Can you say Ukraine and Gaza
Can you also say proxy wars or
Eurasia, East Asia and Oceania
“It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day, a new toll”
– Iron Maiden
“Blood On The World’s Hands”
Whether or not they are
The targeted figurehead
Of an illusionary economy
While the “we the people”
Work at war widgets and
Crap for consumables
As schools become prisons
To keep children “safe”
When not distracted by sports
Gender fluidity in bathrooms
Gender fluidity in sports
So the masses have
Scapegoats and heroes to
Their manufactured liking
Feeding the ego
With flavored polls
Having hopes or plans
Of outright “winning”
To do what…..control
An uncontrollable “wall”
Prop up a fake economy
Elude to the illusion of
Taking away your guns
Give one “rights” that
Everyone already has
Protect “freedoms” that
Everyone already has
As the product sponsors
Cash in on the cash cow
Built around the daily
Distraction of the dumb job
That you can have
Whiter teeth and a pretty smile
More manageable hair and style
A faster car that goes no faster
Than the rest of clogged traffic
Burning fuels and resources
One way or another to barely move
On a patchwork of patched roads
Make sure you always have enough
Life, car, health, cellphones, etc. Insurance
Auto warranties, debt consolidation
Tax relief and injury compensation
(Were you dumb and made a mistake?
Let’s blame somebody and get some money.)
Ooops, I am distracting myself.
Will close out the dumbest job with this.
“I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most.
The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”
– Bill Hicks
And I thought I had the dumbest job
Driving up and down the highway
Getting paid to sit on my butt while
Listening to everything or nothing
To think of this goofy stuff when
The only requirement to do a good job
Is to make sure I get enough sleep
“I have the most fun
Looking at the world
Through a windshield.”
– Angelo Devlin
Absolutely NOTHING
Is at stake in
The next election
Not freedom
Or rights, nor
Alleged personal
“Medical” decisions
Or mass murder
Toy confiscation
How you dress
Who or what
You want to
Pretend to be
The car you drive
What “powers”
Your vehicle
(Greed, powers your vehicle)
The appliances
In your home
Who you pray to
Who you prey upon
Weather or not
It keeps getting
Warmer or colder
Whether or not you
Can say
Merry Christmas or
Happy Hanukkah or
Happy Kwanzza or
Encourage Eid al-Fitr or
Delight in Dharma day
Why? Because
“It’s never going to get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that.
I’m talking about the real owners now.
The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don’t.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.
They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They’ve got you by the balls.”
– George Carlin
The system is
Set up perfectly
Filled with not only
Every distraction
Imaginable but
New ones as they
Are manufactured
Bogeymen to be born
First, as trial balloons
Triggering even mild
Emotional triggers
Set to go viral at the
Speed of ignorance
Never questioning
Unverified sources
International bots
Misinformation memes
Lavishes lies
An excerpt from John Trudell’s
“Rich Man’s War”
“With machines for ancestors
New unborn generations
Chemical umbilical cords
Are only wiring
In your electrical progress
Human lives burnt offerings
To the God Greed
With lies for ancestors
There is no truth in some futures
Rulers of minds feeding next
Generation souls to the
Control machine
Sacrifice ritual for the
Prophet technology
With isolation for ancestors
There’s only the present
Bought by the credit material uses
Forging chains binding you to destruction
Compliments of your deities
The industrial priests”
Everything to keep
Your mind glued to
Major and malevolent
Manipulated media
Cycling fear between
Glimpses of hope
Though mostly fear
As the tether
Of one’s soul
Gets thinner
Taut and tangled
Intertwined with the
Strangling noose
Cord of consumption
( HF, that got dark quick)
Delaying delving into the
Divinity of being deity
(Theology of being God)
Understanding utopia
With the clear usefulness of
Realizing there is no separation
Between individuals
Experiencing existence in
Each moment of eternity
(Which never “started” and…
Will never never “end”
That’s why it is called e-t-e-r-n-i-t-y)
Subjectively towards evolution
Of the entirety of consciousness
What will we do
“If Eternity Should Fail” ?
– Iron Maiden
The external vote
Is cast for show
The internal vote of
How one casts
Their kindness
Treats others as
They want to
Be treated
Shares selfishly *
Of themselves
Is the vote
That counts
Towards something
Since the external vote
Seems to do…….
Nothing
*
Whilst this may seem a contradiction
Methinks (at least as a contemplation)
That it would be more beneficial in this regard
To do good for one’s self “selfishly”
Knowing it better benefits the whole
Both in the immediate and the infinite
How easier would it be to serve the whole
Knowing that one is doing it selfishly
Besides, selfless / self-less leaves
One out of the entire picture and
Your self is just as important as
All of the other collective selves
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
“Everybody talks about the weather,
But nobody does anything about it.”
– Charles Dudley Warner
Me:
I am going to do something about it……..
“The Weather”
Gives us strange permission
To alter our own perspective
After given factual information
Of the temperature outside
Stating it is 20⁰ Fahrenheit
Which is fairly cold……
Then, as if out of nowhere
Presents the mind altering
Statement or digitized display
Saying (get this, it) “feels like”
It is 5⁰ Fahrenheit
Well shit, adding something
Such as, with the “wind-chill” factor
It is all of a sudden cooler
Who is making this up?
How come in the summer
There is no description such
As the “stifling-air” factor
Oh wait, it is a “dry” heat
Really, that is what
Heat does, it dries
It is bad enough
That it is cold
The only reason I thought
That it was colder
Was, because I am
Getting so much older
More Orwellian doublespeak
Built in to constantly confuse
Not accepting reality
The way that it really is
20⁰ is 20⁰ now I’m being
Informed it is not
Next, they’ll be telling me
It is cold when it is hot
With tongue-in-cheek
Methinks it is some
Forecaster of doubts to
Infiltrate the public mind
Not to accept reality
As it has been defined
As it goes on all day long
Politicians telling you
That their side is “right” while
Everyone else is wrong
Unfortunately, this will
Go on and on forever
For how do we dare
Question the weather
Reminds me of the time
In the high school band
Marching on the football field
(Known as the distraction rectangle)
During a very cold performance
The announcer gave kudos for
Everyone braving such “inclement weather”
To which the lead saxophone player shared
Amongst everyone who could hear…..
“Inclement weather, it’s fucking freezing”
Could have used some global warming back then…..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Sometimes………
When I think I am funny
I want to be addressed as a comedian
When I am verbalizing my introspection
I want to be addressed as a philosopher
When I nail two boards together
I want to be addressed as a carpenter
When I am installing a ceiling light
I want to be addressed as an electrician
When I am spouting rhetoric and bullshit
I want to be addressed as a politician
When I count cash withdrawn from an ATM
I want to be addressed as a banker
When I am making myself a meal
I want to be addressed as a cook
If I am cooking for someone else
I want to be addressed as a chef
When I give someone a ride
I want to be addressed as a cab driver
If they are really special, sitting in the back
I want to be addressed as a chauffeur of a limo
When I solve an equation
I want to be addressed as a mathematician
When I am being haughty and arrogant
While I may not like it
I should be addressed as an asshole
When I am loading or unloading a trailer
I want to be addressed as a dock worker
And finally
When I am driving down the road
Thinking of this mindless drivel
Of how people want to be addresed as…..
I want to be addressed as a truck driver
Or more euphemisticly as a
Freight transportation highway road manager
I would just like to know your name
So that I may address you as that and
Hopefully, if I remember to use
Your name in our conversation
As bipedal earthling artists
I will be able to recall you as that name
Instead of some protracted formality
Delaying a potential conversation of the
Significance of our insignificance in an
Infinite never ending, never beginning cosmos
Whereas if we are honest with ourselves
We can be aware of one’s individual subjectivism
Knowing also, our connection with all of infinity
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
– Bill Hicks
Who can not identify with that ?
“I just want to be
The antidote for the
Poisonous Kool-aid
People have ingested.”
– Angelo Devlin
I am not sure why
But it seems as if some
People want to live in a
Post apocalyptic world
Which is not going to occur
One that makes, ’em feel
All tingly inside
Like being in the lead cart
On a roller coaster ride
At the precipice of
Gravitational forces
The briefest moment captured
In perceiving to be alive
Or……
“You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over, but at the last second, you catch yourself?
I feel like that all the time…”
Steven Wright
Besides, if, if, if, I am wrong
Out of all the blacks, whites,
Browns, reds, yellows, olives,
Hes, shes, theys, thems,
Jews, Christians, Muslims,
Buddhists and atheists
Nearly everyone will be dead
And I seriously doubt that
The leftover zombies will be
Be scouring through the
WordPress hard drives to find
Where I wrote that no
Apocalypse would occur
Just to prove I was wrong
While they can’t say anything
Clearly or directly, they give
Glimpses with innuendoes
So as not to be taken away
In a buckled straight jacket
In their version of being
On the side of good in the
Final battle over “evil” by
Doing the nothing they’ve done
Allowing “evil” to proliferate
That they think that “now”
They are going to conquer
Meanwhile, with all of
Their catastrophizing
The worst thing that happens
Is their favorite coffee shop
Is all out of carmel
For their macchiato
Because for 24 hours, 7 days
52 weeks year after year
The talking heads have been
Forecasting doom and gloom
Making the slightest hiccup as
Unbearable as all get out
Which has been absorbed with
All the caffeine in the Americano
They have been “forced” to order
Adding stimulant to the tingle
As they barricade themselves
In their homes behind the
Great cardboard wall of boxes
Arriving daily at the doorstep
Of constant consumption
Their only enemy being the
Porch pirates to steal the capstone
Of hopes and dreams
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people
They’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
Daniel Dennett
“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 