Of my sandbox
I get to play with words
Not made up of sand
Rather fluid thoughts
That manifest quickly
Seemingly out of
Nowhere now here
Triggered sometimes
By an errant comment
Inherently contradictory
From its intention
Of its stated purpose
Pro-lifers for the death penalty
(If they don’t live now, can’t kill them later)
Pro-Choice people against the death penalty
(If they make it out of the womb
Then we’ll try and save them)
“Patriots” hating their government
(I’ll let that sink in…….people who love
Their government, want to change it)
Gun owners against nuclear weapons
(We can have our toys, but they can’t have theirs)
Animal Rights Advocates
Marching in leather shoes
(Because they are comfortable and stylish)
People for religious freedom
Wishing to eradicate other religions
So they are not encumbered
By questioning their own beliefs
(Where is the freedom in that? )
Then, with all those grains of sand (words)
I try to sculpt castles of thoughts to present
My most ardent supporters or passersby
Thought sculptures, only to re-arrange them
Later or surely again in a different form
Mostly for myself tweaking a grain placement
Here and there, or content in the right context
So that I might understand the world better
Outside of the safety and sanity of my sanctuary
Inevitably recalling a lyric or a comedian’s bit to help the post
“Do you have your own words? Hey, I’m using the ones everyone else has been using!
Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say “Niq fluk bwarney quando floo!”
– George Carlin
Then, close it out with an (hopefully) appropriate closer
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood. “
– Angelo Devlin
: a wrong or inaccurate idea or conception
– M-W.com
One may think
That a dictionary
Defines words
Which is nary the case
It is not until the reader
Reads the definition
Interprets its brief
Worded description
To put it in a context
In their individual mind
Which is so
“Subjective”
“3a: characteristic of or belonging
to reality as perceived rather
than as independent of mind”
– M-W.com
For example,
Not an objective reality
To be solely satisfied
That it means what best
Suits their context to
Apply to their content
Only to be read or heard
By anyone else and mean
Something completely
Different than intended
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.…”
-Bill Clinton
“Bill Clinton really is a guy who’s willing to think carefully about “what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” This is way beyond slick. Perhaps we should start calling him, “Existential Willie.”
—Timothy Noah of “Slate”
Meanwhile, returning to our current chaos
Many, if not most, “gun” owners, or is that
Owners of guns, which, if you think about it
The “owners” are actually “possessed” by the gun
By a way of genitalia extension perception
Ignoring that their would be dictator (I mean president)
Said, “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
Ooopsie
Donald Trump has indicated his support for confiscating firearms from certain dangerous people even if it violates their legal rights, in comments guaranteed to enrage a large section of his support.
In remarks almost unthinkable for a modern Republican president, he told senators at the White House to discuss general school safety: “Take the firearms first and then go to court.
“I like taking the guns early, like in the crazy man’s case… take the guns first, go through due process second.”
– the-independent.com
That is not even a verbal slight of hand
Like wiggling around with what the definition of “is” is
It is his opinion of how to solve a problem
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
I am guessing then that the Donald would
Get to decide who is “dangerous” and who is “crazy”
“And I’m not against guns. I’m not one of those mindless Hollywood c*cksuckers. I’m not against guns, I’m not against bullets. I’m not even against people shooting each other. sh*t, shooting somebody is part of the American dream.
I don’t care who it is; parents, teachers, kids. f*ck ’em. Let ’em get shot. Doesn’t bother me.
– George Carlin
My problem is that I am infinitely amazed
That people want, what they say they
They do not want, or is that just my
Misconception
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Like Iron Maiden’s “Eddie”
According to Bruce Dickinson
In his book
“What Does This Button Do?”
(Am paraphrasing since I
Listened to the audio book)
What keeps the band together
Through petty squabbles and
Major riffs (guitar pun, mine)
What carries them forward
Through tough times is “Eddie”
Their macabre metal mascot
Being a greater purpose to
In the end, always getting along
As a combined unit of unity
With slight variations and a few deaths
“Eddie” is greater than the sum of their parts
Same could work for humanity
Not the invisible one that already
Has eight billion interpretations
Which causes so much death because
Everyone has a different perspective
That their version is the best and if
Only all, could be guided “their’s”
Everything would be hunky dory
For the briefest moment
“A moment is coming. Almost here. Its getting closer… any moment now, almost here aaaaaaand now its gone.”
– George Carlin
Literally, for the briefest moment
The photograph of the earth itself
Dawned a realization, this is our home
That we ought to care of it and
Each other born of its Gaia consciousness
But unlike “Eddie,” that image did not adapt
To new evolving phases (albums)
Seventeen in nearly fifty years
Each member, either side of 70 years old
The image stayed the same
So the inhabitants got bored quickly
Discarded the image through apathy
Although now, when viewed again
The overpopulated metro areas
Look like a cancer growth on its host
“Southwick in his Chapter 15 excerpt Human Populations introduces a very interesting analogy between the human population and cancer cells.”
“Other scientists consider human population growth ‘an ecopathological process’ that is out of control and injuring the earth. In this sense, such population growth in some parts of the world is carcinogenic, a ‘cancer-like growth’ with the potential of destroying the global ecosystem.”
http://fubini.swarthmore.edu/~ENVS2/S2010/mahn1/overpopulation.html
Where can we find that “Eddie” like mascot to help us evolve and grow whilst still getting along without fighting over the mascot?
“Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light
Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light
We slip into the night”
“The Speed Of Light”
– Iron Maiden
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Both make my brain
Come to a screeching halt
When they refer to
Their go to justification
For mere existence
Religion with the invisible guy
Living in the sky notion
Or science with their
Useless Big Bang theory
When to my best perception
Both could be right if they dropped
The invisible man and BB theory
That a God energy and the cosmos
Simply always, all ways exist
Nothing to fight over or have
Anything to prove which is like
Chasing rainbows to a pot of gold
A ceaseless chasing of the tail
For no reason other than it’s there
Besides, it is in the buy bull
The contradiction is right up front
Genesis 1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the…….”
“Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”
If God created everything
Where did the water come from?
Just asking for 8 billion friends
Science is even worse
From a different direction
Always referring to the big bang
Like it is a verbal tic
They can not control
To decently explain or quantify
Humanity’s need for a starting point*
Leaving out that if a
Microscopic dot exploded to
Get this….”create” the universe
That goes on and on and on and on and on………
What did it expand into
That wasn’t already there
Again
Just asking for 8 billion friends
If I am good at anything
It is beating a dead horse
But come on, how hard could it be
To accept that everything that is, just is
It changes energy from kinetic
To stored and back again
Interchanging waves and particles
Ceaselessly always all ways
In an endless infinity of infinity
(That’s how Infinity works)
As for a God energy always existing
Obi-Wan Kenobi said it best
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
I understand that Obi-Wan Kenobi
Is a fictionalized character, however
He is made up of words that “created” him
Which is the back and forth
Between words and God
“In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Wherever there are words and / or actions
Or things to describe using words
There is the “God” force always existing
Not some humanoid caricature of some invisible dude
Pulling malevolent and benevolent strings to determine
For anyone to prove their faith so that they are lovable
When they already are a part of that energy of existence
Not the whimsical puppeteer that determines the outcome of
Sporting events, elections, car crashes, and health concerns
Because “he” is sitting on a throne entertaining himself on
The concerns of one planet, out of trillions of other ones
In a Google-zillion of other galaxies and more universes
* Even “Star Wars” “began” with episode 4
This means there are always prequels to stories
Sequels, sidetracks, spin-offs, and everything else
The imagination can conjure up with words
Think not. Try and think of something without using words
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood. “
– Angelo Devlin
The Biggest Grift Is On
As an alleged billionaire
Through fraud
Tax and insurance
Along with sexual assault
Has poor people
Paying his bills
Through a voluntary
Idiot Tax, better known as
A go fund me page
To pay his legal obligations
Plus, selling fake gold sneakers
To the same people who think
It is perfectly okay to give
Tax breaks to the wealthy
I can’t make this shit up, I’m not that good.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Attributed – P.T. Barnum
“It seems that everyone believes things a little too eagerly, especially if they want to believe it.”
– medium.com
“I loves the poorly educated, I do well with the poorly educated.”
– Donald Trump
“Of course, he loves the poorly educated, and of course, he does well with the poorly educated.
How else do you explain, how a bragging narcissistic pathological billionaire, who is constantly telling you how much money he has, just throwing it in your face, ostentatious, I’m a billionaire, I’m worth billions. I have billions of dollars.”
//
And how else do you explain how a guy, a billionaire, is able to get people who are suffering financially…to..give..him..money.
Of course, he loves the poorly educated. A smart person wouldn’t do that.”
– David Cross
For my entertainment dollar
Is usually when I hear a comedian
Who has spent their career
Either starting or a lifetime
Crafting context within content
Of throwing verbal footballs
To an audience of wide receivers
Displaying linguistic courage
Of standing alone on a stage
“If you want to tell people the truth,
make them laugh. Otherwise, they’ll kill you.”
― Oscar Wilde
Using his or her brain to effectively
Widen the recipients’ understanding
Of themselves and the world around
Drop their defenses to giggle or guffaw
At the absurdities of this existence
That upon a full thorough examination
Would have the strongest of the strong
Curled up in a withering fetal position
Begging and screaming for it to end
“Laughter is a priceless medicine that has so much power to heal and compensate. Laughter is good for the soul because it brings people together, releases tension in the environment and relaxes your nerves making it both beneficial for emotional as well as physical well-being. Laughter is the best way to improve your mood and there is no better alter than a laugh to bring balance to your life.”
– petecann.com
Laughter is such a remedy that it is even mentioned in the BIBLE in Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones
“Comics are supposed to worry about dying, you know? I don’t want to die out there, man. Jeez, I was dying. It was death out there. Like a morgue.
On the other hand, if he succeeds – if he makes you laugh – he can say, “I killed ’em! Knocked ’em dead!” Why is there so much violence mixed up with comedy, you know, which should be so much fun?
It’s all dying and bombing. He bombed. Or else he was a riot! (makes ‘riot’ noise) A real scream! AAAAUGH! I cracked up laughing! He broke me up, too. I busted a gut laughing! My friend was in stitches! He fractures me with his punch lines…and his GAGS! (makes gagging sound)
Slapstick! Knee-slapping! Side-splitting! Rib-splitting! Gut-busting! Laugh….I thought I’d die.
– George Carlin
There is no need to jump up and down screaming endlessly and mindlessly at the fourth wall, pretending to self that it is going to change the outcome one iota. No money to be lost or gained, just quenching an internal and eternal thirst for a deep and loving understanding.
“Just the idea that the expression “Making Fun” could ever be a negative.
You shouldn’t “Make Fun”………what?
I’m sorry, did I take some subjects that are ugly and dark and soul lacerating, painful, shitty, maybe unavoidable in life kinda stuff and I made it “fun”.
What a dick, I must be. I can’t believe, just for attempting that Herculean feat of making awful shit, “fun”.
It’s what you have to do, in life, is try to make fun. If you know how life works. It starts out where you’re born into being fed a hard diet of, lies and fantasies and fabrications and then that just turns into a series of disappointments.
As you start to figure out everything you know is wrong, and then you get to live in the failures one after another and tragedies that are just waiting in the bushes to jump up and bite you in the fucking thigh and then at best, it ends with you on a cold slab in a medical university with hungover teenagers throwing around your internal organs waving your fucking dead wang at each other and laughing and that is the best that can happen.
So in the meantime, you better try and make that shit fun.”
– Doug Stanhope
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
– George Carlin
Can be changed
I’ll let that sink in
Imagine that
“Rules” made-up
Out of electrified
Spongey gray matter
Escaping a thick skull
Can be changed to
Suit the rule makers
Congress persons
Senators
Presidents (executive orders)
Communities
Businesses
Sports *
And………
Parents
Probably the biggest
Maker and breaker
Of temporary rules
* Basketball started with 13, now has over 100
Infinite rules
In infinite ways
Declarations
Constitutions
Amendments
Commandments
Absolutes
And “rules”
Why?
Because they are made-up
In the first place by those
Who feel compelled
To control or guide “others”
In ways to suit their agenda
With very few to benefit the “ruled”
“The kids have rules to live up to, but most of the rules were tough. They had some good rules, y’know, I don’t mean to put them down. Parents had some pretty good rules. No running with the scissors. That’s one I never disobeyed. Made sense to me. This big mother’ll go right through me. “What are you doing?” “I’m not running with the scissors…for one thing.” They had a couple more good rules. They had another one: No sticking your head out of the high speed railroad train window. Say, goddamn, Dad, good rule. Doesn’t want our heads chopped off. Fantastic, Dad.
But then they had some dumb rules: No running in the hall. Where ya gonna run? In the rooms? Gotta keep turning in the rooms, man, s**t! You can’t get up any speed at all, man, s**t! Hallways were made for runners. The hallway sprint – try to take that quick right before you crash into the statue of the Sacred Heart- man blow everybody… blow the whole feast day.
They had another dumb rule: No singing at the table. Why not? One guy with a bad voice fucked it up for everybody else? No singing at the table. How about humming? No, by extension, humming and whistling included. There’s no such rule as no screaming at the top of your lungs at the table. That ought to be good to try that. Show me the rule. You could stand right next to the table and sing your ass off. Just don’t sit down, man.
🎵”I’m standing near the table during dinner and I’m singing and it isn’t even covered by……….. your rules.” 🎵
“Sit down, you.” That was your middle name…you. “Come here, you.”
– George Carlin
With minimal research
All religions advise
In one form or another that
Thou shalt not kill
While clearly stated
Is vague as all get out
All depends on who
May be getting killed
Much more flexible if
The killee is of …..
A different religion
Then the one whose rule
States “Thou shalt not kill”
Perhaps, they should have a meeting???
Maybe suggest sharing their rules….
You know to make the game easier to play since
“Life is sacred”
Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told ’em it was a good idea. The sword of god, the blood of the lamb, ‘vengeance is mine’; millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to The God Question:
“Do you believe in God?” “No.” BAM! Dead.
“Do you believe in God?” “Yes.”
“…Do you believe in my God?” “No.” BAM! Dead.
“My God has a bigger dick than your God!”
– George Carlin
Likewise various governments
Federal, state and local
Have rules stating that it is illegal
To kill people…… Hey good rule
Unless, the Federal government
Needs a few of their volunteers
Who signed up to kill people
To……get this, ………go kill people
Giving them what is known as
Qualified immunity since they now have
A James Bond license to kill
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
In a recent post, “Shame”
It dawned on me that I wrote
That I, too, have done nothing
To make this a better world by
Having started or participated
In a peaceful revolution as it goes
Which is unfortunately very true
However, I realized I did do something
By not doing anything to add more
People to an already over-full planet
No one to waste her resources
Exponentially excremental
Pollute her ground or breathable air
Cut off her hair (trees) or dig deep
To (mine) every last drop of energy
“Her love rains down on me
As easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
Burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
The earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back someday
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I can not keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back someday
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday. “
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
Therefore, I did not add anyone to
Roll over, click, cut, copy, paste, and
Indoctrinate with my beliefs, which
May be completely wackadoodle or
Thoroughly reasonable and questioning
To teach one to decipher and compete
With other people’s beliefs of
Invisible men living in the sky
Causing constant consternation
No proof, only persistent perception
No one who needed to pretend
Faux ownership in sports franchises
(“My”team” won the blah, blah, blah)
So they could “have” a team to
Argue endlessly and mindlessly
Over useless status statistics
Knowing more about the players
Than teachers or principals
Librarians, health classes, or
Practice financial well-being
Dodge bullets in an enclosed
Locked up space that probably
Spends more money on security than books
Modifying socially acceptable behavior
Instead of questioning for deep understanding
To advance a peaceable living world
That in the eons of infinity
Lasts only a brief moment
……… Neither that, or have to explain
Why another invisible dude, Santa Claus
Brings more stuff to rich kids than poor kids
Or have to clarify why being born through
The accident of birth on one part of a sphere
Has more credence than others because their
Flappy cloth rectangle stands for something
Different to everyone waving it, than other cloths
I write this neither to be
Boastful or proud
“Don’t be proud. Too much pride as it is.
Pride goeth before a fall. Never forget Proverbs.” (Proverbs 16:18)
– George Carlin
But rather, as a reflection of a
Deeply divine spiritual satisfaction
Knowing how much I accomplished
By doing absolutely nothing
To which there is no shame
“I know in Norway
You are all about the environment
You have a lot of stringent
Rules and regulations about recycling
Yeah! How many babies can you have?
As many as you want?
Then all the other shit…is pointless.”
– Doug Stanhope
Adding no one to believe
In a deceptive democracy
That their vote counts
When it is as much of a distraction
As football, the economy, or war
Race, sexuality, gender, or wealth
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
Shame, shame. (Ring, ring)
– Septa Unella
“Games Of Thrones”
The only way this ends
Is, by everyone walking away
In shame
On one end
Shame for those who
Lifted nary a finger to prevent it
(Me, I’m lifting fingers)
(Albeit to a very small audience)
What else can I do, “Fight” city hall?
We know how that turns out
“I fight authority, authority always wins
I’ve been doing it since I was a young kid
I’ve come out grinnin’
I fight authority, authority always wins”
– John Mellencamp
On the other end
The shame of regret for those
Getting so riled up in hatred
Following a narcissistic grifter
Guiding gullible groups
Into not thinking
Not thinking they are focusing
Their self hatred onto
A mirror they can not see
Hating immigrants
Their own ancestors once were
Despising women for being
The reason they are in this dimension
Not recognizing the constant miracle
Holding this fragile ecosystem together
As something that may be survivable
Disgraced nearly to death after realizing
The people they projected their hate onto
May very well be why they stay alive
And help them to heal their shame
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Beyond certain inevitable death
Manifest without substance
As invisible bogeymen that pose
At best, a temporary inconvenience
By people who will never be affected
Either directly or indirectly at all
Still feel unconsciously compelled
To reveal their unsubstantiated fears
That some shoeless migrant
Traveling in a rickety caravan
Hundreds and hundreds miles away
Seeking a better life for their family
Compels someone behind a keyboard
To regurgitate what their blind leader sees
As a scary unsubstantiated distraction
For people to coalesce into thick anger
Triggered constantly by 2 minutes of hate
By wiggling their limp finger
At something the right wing media
In an unconscious echo chamber
Uses for a dominant deception
Of scapegoating their happiness
Instead of, onto solvable profitable solutions
By using the capitalism, they swear by and
Getting the immigrants the jobs they can get
To buy the shoes they need and food to feed
With the minimal education of gross greed
Helping a family undergoing such hardships
(Which methinks, is something *Christ might do)
They are willing to leave the home they know
Guided by the light of liberty and freedom
To do what the border closers’ ancestors did
Move to the alleged “United States”, because
Where they were, was in a bad situation such as
Simply as having no potatoes to eat or who were
“Suffering” from religious persecution
The persecution they now concentrate on “others”
Ooopsie
How does that first amendment go?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
*
Their other leader they tend to forget because
Compassion, forgiveness, charity, and kindness
Are so “first” century, without internet truths
Who posed no threat, veiled, or otherwise
“I do not wish to be right
Only wish to be understood”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 