For just the briefest of moments
That elections are somewhat rigged
Not by bad actors or voting machines
But rather, misperceptions, deceptions
Beliefs, party platforms, and false hope
Name recognition, lopsided advertising
Generational habits, selfishness, greed
Indoctrinations and flat out Ignorance
That whoever they pull the lever for
Will improve their life immediately
It makes one wonder if
Some of these legislators
Or other elected officials
In school had the cojones
To say that their dog had
Eaten their homework and the
Charm to make it believable
To whomever would listen
OK, Don, just bring it in tomorrow
Like your non-existent concept
Invisible ink writing of a health care plan
Since people have a short memory
What will get me elected today ??
That will seemingly solve a problem
Perceived, manufactured, or otherwise
To whichever audience is being addressed
In getting to hear what they want to hear
Why else would both sides attend “rallies”
We are not tailgating for a football game
Democracy is not going to end, at our own peril
It works too well for wealthy puppeteers
“I have this feeling, man, ’cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a fucking conspiracy nut, it’s provable.
A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media.”
– Bill Hicks
Fortunately or unfortunately
People are wired with a bias
According to Malcolm Gladwell
With a TDT Truth Default Theory
To accept what may or not be true
As truthful, because it is easier
Than to question, doubt, investigate
Another thing to consider on the next ballot
Is the amount of people you have to select
To “win” their office or title to (cough) lead you
When most are just following “their” leader
“If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes”
― Lewis Grizzard
Depending on where you are at, I suspect
There are at least a dozen jobs up for grabs
Plus some local initiatives and levy requests
President
Senator
Representative
Sheriff
Clerk and Recorder
Judges, local and state
District Attorneys
Insurance commissioner
Council persons
Auditors
Dog catcher (just kidding)
And my favorite…..
Coroner
Someone, you get to decide who
Looks at and autopsies dead people
Because you saw their name on a sign
Most are people you do not actually know
But have learned about through redundant ads
TV, mail flyers, radio, print, yard signs
Narcissists selling themself on what they believe
Will get them elected to the office they want
Not so much on what they can do, but trying
To scare the bejezus out of you by announcing
What they “project” their opponent is going to do
Using misleading language on the thinnest
Stretches of alleged truth and outright lies…
If you elect so and so, you are doomed forever
To listen to disco music over and over while
“They” might take away your non-existent freedoms
Coming up with dehumanizing name calling
Framing simple soundbites to nail their narrative
Walls turn into domes, inflation to home “owner” ship
Oh wait, the bank will own the property long enough
To keep the masses churning out and buying widgets
To keep the masses churning out and buying widgets
Keeping the masses churning out and buying widgets
While complaining that prices keep going up? Hmm?
As both sides forecast fear instead of announcing
Detailed plans with specific tested and proven
Expert driven, fact based, quantifiable outcomes
That might actually benefit many, if implemented
Nah, why do that, when emotional triggers are
Much easier to set off, with words that scare people
Here’s one
How are you going to select a judge to judge people
When you have absolutely no idea how you judged
That you thought they would be a good judge
Because you remember how many yard signs
You saw and clever slick TV ads that stuck
Which alone is a case of …….. bad judgment
Or which representative you decide you do not want
Since their opponent “informed” you, how bad they are
Besides family members, think of 12 + people you know
You think you know, fairly well, then consider if they
Were to run for a particular office, would you
Vote for them, would you because you know them
Or you think they could do a decent job, hmmm?
One’s self twisting perception becomes the guide
Creating a solipsistic narrative to make you feel good
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
― Mark Twain
A combination of technocracy and meritocracy
Would be infinitely better than what we have now
Instead of the dog and pony show we participate in
But that would require everyone not voting at all and
Just doing what you and they enjoy, and are good at
While mentoring those who are inspired to do similar
Be better at it and then mentor the mentors. Ooopsie.
Consider, problem solved.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Of a “One-World Government”
Yet, they do not know
What that entails or
Anything that looks like it
Hint:
It is a Global Conglomeration
Of Multinational Corporations
“All day long beating you over the head
With their media telling you what to believe,
What to think and what to buy.”
– George Carlin
The same goes for
A “Cashless” society
Which
It is mostly that now…..
Boo!
Both are euphemisms for
Inanimate bogeymen
Lurking beyond the
Shadows of mind
To satiate searching for security
In the form of
Constant consumption
While waiting for
Jesus, to return
To save them in the form
Of a non-existent rapture
Or heavenly transport
Near alleged end times
That has been foretold forever
For ever fomenting fretting
Meaning, there is no “end”
Since there was no “beginning”
“OH NO! IT NEVER ENDS,
NO IT NEVER ENDS”
– Sam Kinison
While lightly treading
Around Armageddon *
When no battle is “Final,”
As “Good” would not
Participate in any war
Civil, Third, or Last
For if “Good” were
To “fight” “Evil” it would
No longer be “Good”
But rather, “Evil” itself
Ironically, everyone
Would consider their “fight”
To be on the side of “Good”
And still, that perception is
Lost in cognitive dissonance
“Let’s just think about this for a minute.”
– Bill Hicks
Time spent making projections
Over forecasts of fear
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
– Franklin D Roosevelt
Nothing of which can
Be accurately described
Consistently or clearly
Why it scares them, other than
Pursuing red herrings
Imagined as radically real
Whilst acquiring and hoarding
Things they think they need
Extra of……….. just in case
Guns, safes, dehydrated food
Survival kits, generators, bullets
Locks, surveillance cameras, and
Recorders, water, batteries, etc.
And lots and lots of toilet paper
Don’t wanna get caught
……..brown handed, yuck, poo
Racing against, made-up time
(Take away, clocks and calendars,
You only have this……moment)
Banking on non-existent money
(You do not have cash, now, barely…
You have numbers, stored in machines)
“Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It’s alright, we know where you’ve been
//
Welcome, my son
Welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It’s alright, we told you what to dream”
Pink Floyd
“Welcome To The Machine”
Boosting inflation that
They say they don’t want
By creating it themselves
Through a scarcity mindset
Not trusting in their own
Omniscient creator provider
Why?
Because it is easier to live in fear to
Hate and mistrust the same people
They believe were precious as fetuses
That at some point turned, and
Joined forces with the dark side
Somewhere between teens and adults
More notably, if “their” skin is brown
By following
“Another Prophet of Disaster
Who says the ship is lost,
Another Prophet of Disaster
Leaving you to count the cost.
Taunting us with Visions,
Afflicting us with fear,
Predicting War for millions,
In the hope that one appears.”
No point asking when it is
No point asking who’s to go
No point asking what’s the game
No point asking who’s to blame”
“Die With Your Boots On”
– Iron Maiden
* Armageddon
(Based on Biblical BS, about as clear as mud….
“He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead.”
—Revelation 13:16
Where? Could it also be the left foot or buttocks?
Is the “mark” of the bogeyman “beast” 666 or 616?
Inquiring minds, want to know.
Was it poor handwriting or a typo?
Or simply lost in vague translations?
Writings, to make people live in fear.)
Which are a lot alike
Nostradamus predictions
That are accurate to a tee
If, and only if, vaguely interpretated
With back facts, metaphors
While denouncing previous
Prognostication picks as
Preposterous premonitions
Perhaps, just made up shit, in a book
To sell more books, like the grifter guru
“Former President Donald Trump-backed “God Bless the USA” Bibles were printed in China, according to the Associated Press, even as the Republican nominee has continuously criticized trade between the U.S. and China.”
– usatoday.com
“You go to church and light a candle
And then you’re blinded by the light
From all the golden pews
The devil’s snapping at your toes now
Because the angels can’t be
Bothered to live up to you
They’re selling Jesus again
They’re selling Jesus again
They want your soul and your
Money, blood, and your bones
They’re selling Jesus again
Selling love to you – selling love
You’re buying this
you’re buying that now
You’re wishing all the money
In the world belonged to you
You’re crucified
Upon your own cross now
You’re givin’ money
To the white men in the white limo
That kind of god
Is always man-made
They made him up then wrote
A Book to keep you on your kness
They get their theories
From the same place
Then build a church
If there’s some money left
From lying on the beach
They’re selling Jesus again
They’re selling Jesus again
They want your soul and your money
Blood and your bones
They’re selling Jesus again
Selling love to you – selling love
They’re selling Jesus again
They’re selling Jesus again
They want your soul and your money
Blood and your bones
They’re selling Jesus again
Selling love to you – selling love
“Selling Jesus”
– Skunk Anansie
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Humanity” is not very pretty
When it sees itself
In a collective mirror.”
– Angelo Devlin
How is it that those
Who are converted
From what they
Believed before
Want to cram
Down your throat
What they question
No more
Does not matter
What it is
Like something as
Simple as cigarettes
Now that they have quit
You have to, too
Or if they accept a
Religious dogma
That you must
Convert soon
When whatever
Was your story
It was just dandy
And hunky-dory
Add into that mix
A little drink
Soon, you will hear
What they do think
When they drank more
Then you ever could
Will now say abstinence
Is for your own good
Or now, one believes
That the earth is flat
Can only warily prove
It is a fact that it is that
Though all evidence
Is to the contrary
They’ll dig in deep
Which is really scary
One more to finish this
When “their” politician
Speaks the truth as it is
When in reality
It is only his
Whereas if he had
A Pinocchio nose
It could not be measured
As it grows and grows
It reminds me of that
Richard Bach quote
Who at one point
So cleverly wrote
And that some of the
Converted ought to delve
“We teach best what we
Need to learn most ourselves”
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality, “
– Angelo Devlin
The border is a made-up problem
People know it will never get fixed
People know it is just a distraction
It is an unstoppable addiction
People know they have a side to pick
People know they can’t win for lose
For they know which direction they’d
Be traveling, if they were in “their” shoes
People know it’s better here than there
People pretending to be angry while
Others are just pretending not to care
If people were to consider immigrants
As they do what they do for fetuses
They’d be helping them to get here
So they could introduce them to Jesus
A Rabbi, Muhammed, or a Buddhist
Inspired by Leanord Cohen’s
“Everybody Knows.”
Which is stuff we all know…
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows”
Using words over and again to desensitize
Like criminal and rapist that dehumanize
Rather than look directly into their eyes
They get more and more bitter as they age
That feeds into an empty state of rage
Instead of learning a different language
Pointing fingers and blaming them when
They themselves have too many children
Somehow, coming in from within the border
Is okay, it seems like a strange mental disorder
Knowing their ancestors were immigrants former
Welcomed by resident indigenous cultures
To this new land, who then were pushed away
From Plymouth Rock to the San Francisco Bay
“We really gave the Indians a fast trip across the continent. Did you notice that? They were having a little cookout in Massachusetts- buncha boats came up, man…”Hey, ya mind moving over, guys?
Bring in the stuff. Would you move it over, man. Bring in the stuff. Would you move it over, man. Bring in the stuff. Would you move it over, man.
Over three mountain ranges…four mountain ranges. Got ’em onto an offshore island, Alcatraz, right? Off the continent completely!
They had to take the island to get it! Then we kicked them off there.”
– George Carlin
As if one had on a pair
Of virtual reality goggles
The clarity is incredible
It is like testing
A new pair of eyes
Go ahead and try it
First, by closing them
Never mind (Ooops)
Then you can not read this
It’s kind of like a reboot
Maybe after reading further
Without moving your head
Look up then down
As far as you can
Left then to the right
Is not what you see
Incredibly incredible
No external power is required
No hard plastic contraption
Pressed against your head
It is just reality as far
As the eyes can see
Paired quite uniquely with
Audio captured by ears
In sync with the vision
Add sensory touch with
Real hands with nerve endings
To feel heat or cold
Firmness or softness
Smooth or rough surfaces
Smells going through
Corresponding odors
Of a meal being cooked
Or a fresh cut tree that you
Can see, smell, and feel
Something gloves and a
Headset can not duplicate
“I have the most fun
Looking at the world
Through a windshield.”
– Angelo Devlin
Ought to at least occasionally
Be paired with one another
Otherwise one without the other
Does not really have a leg to stand on
Starting out with talking heads
Broadcast, cable, and podcasts
So one could understand why
They are opining the way they are
Usually, on the take to their focused
Perspective driving their dialog
Rachel Maddow supports the LGBTQ +
Because she identifies with that group
Tucker Carlson is in opposition of them
Probably due to some latent tendency
He is afraid to recognize therefore wants
To quell it in others to suppress it in himself
(I don’t know. I am merely editorializing)
Although, in fairness, I am not sure
If I could explain my growing belief
Which, for a while now, is always
All ways, being uncovered and discovered
(Years, actually, if one digs deep in this blog)
Like a divine archeologist searching
Questioning, digging, categorizing
Labeling, comparing, researching, testing
First, with shovels and pickaxes, then
Trowels, spoons, knives, brooms & brushes
Finer and finer so as not to disturb the sacred
For a constant, consistent universal truth
That not only works for me, but maybe
May be understood universally by others
Given enough linear time to sink in
As I, too, have not just accepted it
Overnight because I was told it is so
If a belief can be easily explained
It is not a belief, per se
It is a shared indoctrination
For example, if a person says: “I believe in God,”
It may be somewhat universal but completely vague
Especially when that gets questioned
Such as
“The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question.
‘You believe in God?’
‘No.’
*BANG* Dead.
‘You believe in God?’
‘Yes.’
‘You believe in “MY” God?’
‘No.’
*Bang* Dead.
‘My God has a bigger dick than your God!’
That’s how it is, isn’t it?
Thousands of years, and all the best wars too, the bloodiest, most brutal wars fought all based on religious hatred, which is fine with me.
Anytime a bunch of holy people want to kill each other, I’m a happy guy.”
– George Carlin
Hopefully the following makes sense and is understandable
Knowing no one has to accept it as their own *
Plus, this belief, ought not get anyone killed
Here goes, after exhaustive research and discovery
God is the Word, all words
This even has Biblical backing
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
The Word already existed. Like water, always existing
No beginning, it was always there, right from
Before the “beginning” which could easily be
The “Higgs” ocean known as the God Particle
“In the beginning God (/Word) created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God (/Word) was hovering over the waters.”
Genesis 1 1-2
All words, every word, every thought, moment, space, time
Spacetime, molecules, truths, lies, religion, evil, love, war
Peace, gender, sex, mountain, valley, temperature, cold, hot
Sun, earth, galaxies, oceans, black holes, worm holes
Science, proof, hate, abundance, starvation, pain, silence
Chaos, politics, politicians, parties, football, distractions
Spirit, spirit of God, water, beginning, end, middle, stop, go
Prequel, sequel, music, lyrics, movies, Hollywood, actors
Extras, cut, karma, justice, Justices, court, TV, radio, waves
Medicine, health care, smoking, food, animals, pets, wild
Domesticated, edible, inedible, intelligent, loyal, on display
Drugs, rehabilitation, addiction, help, recovery, wagons
Caravans, immigrants, borders, natural, drawn, moved, walls
Penetrated, impenetrable, illegal, acceptable, foreign
Language, dialects, accents, regional, translation
Supreme, doubt, convincing, conniving, and questioning
Methinks, even an atheist could believe in the “Word(s)”
After all, an atheist’s existence and anti-belief depend on it
There are thoughtless words but no wordless thoughts
Therefore, the God/Word always all ways exist always
If you do find a thought less word, know then,
You are divinely connected to the source of all Words
Where all words are happening all at once
Word/s are like atoms. They make up everything, yet
Always changing sharing and sacrificing electrons
Protons, neutrons, quarks, while always existing
My holy book to back up this bizarre belief is the dictionary
(Even, meaningless, which should be blank, has a definition)
Yet any dictionary will do, and depending on the
Lexicographer or group who last edited the new version
To include new words, modify existing ones to
Ever shifting social usages, contractions, hyphens
Not to mention, if there were no printed editions
The word would continue on infinitely as it already has
For deep inside each individual, God/Words are understood
After all, God’s words are malleable and fluid as water
Freezing, boiling, steaming, evaporating, falling, flooding
All used to make stories and make up stories
(Like that one about the Ark with two of each species
On board to be saved from the flood, as the reader forgets
That “animals like to eat other animals” – Joe Rogan)
(There would be a few left, after forty days, let alone Noah)
To enhance each subjective perspective for each individual’s Experience in this and subsequent lifetimes**, challenging each Incarnate to live, love, laugh, accept, understand themselves
Therefore, our selves as we all continue to know “God” / “Word”
* If it becomes acceptable, then we will
Inevitably, form a group, then eventually a religion
Start to wear similar hats, find people who
Have no hats or different ones, then try and
Force them to wear our hats so we’ll accept them
“You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they’re wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that. It might be important.”
– George Carlin
** lifetimes are like words. Their usage expires only to be
Remanifested later in a better version for clearer understanding
“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
“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
On most beliefs, you can not get
A believer to disbelieve, nor can
You get an unbeliever to believe
That is because beliefs are
Made up from whole cloth
Regardless of proving fabrications
Most are merely indoctrinated
Repetitions of false information
Like an original big lie told over
Over and over again till the latest
Recipient of the long-term BS
Doesn’t even have the resistance
To ask obvious easy questions
Being too ingrained in the culture
Most apparent are religions with
Their own unprovable doctrines
Hint: Declaring the proof is in
Their holy book only means it
Was printed as “Kings” demanded
To serve their wealth and power
(If it served all of humanity, it would
Condemn slavery, subjugation, & war
Plus accepting different ideologies)
Not to mention, most have been
Translated, edited, and revised to
Newer and unquestioning readers
Followed by thumpers with their
Own contrived agenda and spin
To sell their verbal version
Filling modern empty seats and plates
Where each week some weak people
“Gather to compare clothing” – G. Carlin
Forming sub groups while there
Connecting to larger groups
That may or may not exist in a
Perceived safety in numbers whole
“Religion – religion, at best – at BEST – is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better – fine.
But you don’t need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled.
Religion is like a lift in the shoe, and I say, just don’t ask me to wear your shoes. And let’s not go down, and nail lifts onto the natives’ feet.” (Or new arrival’s feet)
George Carlin
Belief buyer beware, consider if a
Salesperson sells you a car
You do not return to the dealership
Each week to get a refresher of
How great the car is, why would you
It gets you where you need to go
If you do not know of the seat heater
That is your own fault, know your car
Lest you go back to hear the salesperson
Tell you if you sit long enough
The seat will eventually warm up
Convincing you, you have a seat heater
Because beliefs are tricky
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Check out tomorrow’s follow-up
“Beliefs And Opinions”
In his indecision
To make a decision
“I have a concept of a plan.”
– “45”
Pssst. 24 years since he first ran
Still no plan, Ooopsie
Which is barely a vision
He does not want
To be President
Nor does he want
To go to prison
But that is the
Perceived stipulation
Damned decisions
Yet, grifting is his
Standard position
Because he is
Afraid of derision
So he will continue
With truth revision
While spewing more
Chaos and corrosion
Allegedly because
He wants to be
A dictator, so he
Can make his own
Decisionless decisions
Pointing fingers of blame
Is his claim to fame (shame)
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
I hypothesize, editorialize, and digress
With all of the medical
Joseph Mengle miracles
Occurring in gender fluidity
Exchanging and replacing parts
I am almost sure males
With the right surgery, can
Carry a baby to fruition
So, for those who re-deciphered
Roe v. Wade back to the States
Now, have the perfect opportunity to
Put their bodies where their words are
By forcing themselves to take a fetus
That was conceived in a 13 year old
By an incestuous rapist violent assaulter
Carry it to term after being stripped of
Their quarter of a million dollar salary
Down to public assistance trying to
Afford rent, diapers, and baby food
While still being expected to carry out
Their duties as Supreme Court Justices
Without all their republican benefactors
Supplying nod, nod, wink, wink, benefits
Starting with finally controlling male bodies
By making it perfectly legal for castrations
To occur on the violent rapist assaulters
That might just clean up the other side of
Not putting females in that predicament
Knowing a fetus prevented is a fetus saved
Plus, a little something to balance the scales
Is that not what the “Justices” are for ?
After all, what is good for the goose is
Certainly, good for the gander
“Balancing on a ledge on…
Living on a razor’s edge.
Balancing on a ledge you know … you know !!
The evil that men do lives on and on !….”
(WHY? because the current patriarchal
Indoctrinated system not only allows it
But through apathy, encourages behaviors)
– Iron Maiden
“The Evil That Men Do”
An oldie, but a goody, just ahead of its time
“Now, speaking of consistency,
Catholics, which I was until I reached the age of reason, Catholics and other Christians are against abortions, and they’re against homosexuals. Well, who has less abortions than homosexuals?!
Leave these fucking people alone, for Christ sakes! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed never to have an abortion! And the Catholics and Christians are just tossing them aside! You’d think they’d make natural allies. Go look for consistency in religion.
And speaking of my friends the Catholics, when John Cardinal O’Connor of New York and some of these other Cardinals and Bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they’ve raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I’ll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion. I’m sure it’ll be interesting. Enlightening, too.”
– George Carlin
How quickly do you think those six of nine
Supreme Court Justices would call
An emergency session of the Court
To clarify that the law of the land is
What it is, that everyone has the right with
The bought and paid for 2nd amendment
To murder, kill, eliminate, slaughter, off
Neutralize, execute, infanticide, wipe out
Shoot, destroy, massacre, slay, etcetera
Anyone they feel is necessary to solve
Their situations perceived or otherwise
Like how we solve international problems
With bloody bloodstained hands bloodshed
Paid for at the taxpayers bloodless expense
If we look out into the mirror that reflects us
That is what we would see, if we dared to look
Who knew a minor rant would turn into a major one
Which is what happens when blood starts to boil
But at least I found a moral medical solution
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
I’ll close with a song about a pen
“This Little Light Of Mine”
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
Every day, every day, every day, every way,
Gonna let my little light shine.
Light that shines is the light of love,
Hides the darkness from above,
Shines on me and it shines on you,
Shows you what the power of love can do.
Shine my light both bright and clear,
Shine my light both far and near,
In every dark corner that I find,
Let my little light shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
Monday gave me the gift of love,
Tuesday peace came from above,
Wednesday told me to have more faith,
Thursday gave me a little more grace,
Friday told me to watch and pray,
Saturday told me just what to say,
Sunday gave me the power divine
To let my little light shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
Shine, shine, shine, shine, shine.
– no specific lyricist found and why not?
Because the “light” belongs to everyone
Looks good on paper
But that is where
The morality stops
Using fetuses
As an illusion of
Something to protect is
A ruse of responsibility
If one was “Pro” (for) Life
They’d be for all life
All things alive
Inhaling and exhaling
Not just underwater breathers
(Like during the alleged Biblical
“Great Flood”* God’s only creatures
Saved, could breathe underwater)
* Also considered as the first mass global genocide
So much for God, being pro-life. Hmmmm
Whatever lesson “God” was trying to teach was lost
On dead people, “he” drowned, who could not apply the lesson
“We’re pro-life.” It’s like, well, what does that make me? You know what I mean? You’re so pro-life! You’re so pro-life, do me a fucking favor.
Don’t block med clinics, okay? Lock arms, and block cemeteries. Let’s see how fucking committed you are to this premise.
“She can’t come in.” “She’s ninety-six, she was hit by a bus!” “There’s options!” “What, do we got to have her stuffed? What are you talking about, she’s dead!”
“We’re pro-life, get her out of that casket! Get her out! She’s not going, we’re pro-life people. There’ll be no death on this planet.”
– Bill Hicks
It defies all logic
To be for something and
Against it at the same time
It is akin to declaring
I don’t believe I exist
Besides
If you can make that declaration
Psst, shhhh, don’t tell anyone
They will treat you as if you don’t (exist)
Unfortunately, cognitive dissonance 2 + 2 = 5
Is the dystopian fuel that feeds our futile fire
Funding a pro-life candidate while
Supporting (taxes) a government
That kills people on behalf of
Corporations that need cheap resources
To sell you even more products
In the name of democracy and freedom
That becomes the furthest thing
From being Pro-life
It is actually more Pro-death because
Nary a finger is lifted to prevent it and
Why should anyone?
It’s good for the economy. Ooopsie
Unless of course, instead of feeding
The military industrial complex used
To kill people for cheap resources
It could use the same materials for
Housing, high speed rail, food distribution etc.
But that would all fall under the umbrella
Of actually being pro-life by supporting lives
Doing the stuff, Masters of Wisdom would do
“I think in many cases,
your morality
is deeply lacking
if all you want is
a child born,
but not a child fed,
not a child educated,
not a child housed.
That’s not pro life.
That’s pro birth.”
– Sister Joan Chittister
“Pro-life… pro-life… These people aren’t pro-life, they’re killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they’ll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it’
“They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.”
Pro-life… You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do. And, you won’t see alot of these pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire.
You know, morally committed religious people in South Vietnam knew how to stage a goddamn demonstration, didn’t they?! They knew how to put on a fucking protest. Light yourself on FIRE!!
C’mon, you moral crusaders, let’s see a little smoke. To match that fire in your belly.
– George Carlin
“I combine my thoughts
With brilliant minds to make
Mine seem more intelligent”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 