It is hard to think
Outside the box
Knowing
There is no box
To think of
Lest one is
Thinking of a box
To be boxed in
In the first place
Looking at an old photograph
(All photographs are old,
Even by a second or two)
“Can anyone explain to me the need for one-hour photo finishing? You just saw the fuckin’ thing!”
George Carlin
My times have changed.
“My friend showed me a photo and said “Here’s a picture of me when I was younger”.
Every picture is of you, when you were younger.”
Mitch Hedberg
Unable to identify someone
Then I tried to do the
Forefinger and thumb
“Pinch and spread”
Like on a touch screen
So I could see it better
Nothing happened
I thought the magic
Was in my fingers
Apparently not
Hopefully I am not
The only one that tried that…..
Anyone……..
Nope…….
Just me
Fine
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.
Or a magnifying glass”
– Angelo Devlin
Pay attention to the symbolism
The same flag fluttering in the breeze
Is the one that has been torn down
To be cut down into red and white strips
Tied together to bind our sisters, daughters
Mothers and they’s with reproductive organs
From having autonomy over their bodies
With the starry section used to gag their
Mouth closed as to their own bodies
Because the powerful patriarchy said so
Which, egotistically, would like to say
I saw it coming, but did not, rather thought
Abortion was going to remain in the cycle
Of hot button social topics of distraction
To keep us fighting amongst ourselves
Like flag burning aka first amendment rights
Or gun ownership aka 2nd amendment rights
Figured the fourteenth was way down the list
To actually be overturned by religious zealots
So corporations can keep going to the bank
A simpler more effective solution would have been to reallocate the $ 750,000,000,000.00 or 750 Billion dollars (annually) away from the military industrial complex hint… (money spent towards the intended goal of killing people).
Somehow “right to lifers” are okay with that??
For whoever the corporate patriarchal imperialistic hegemony decides to eliminate that might be standing in its way of cheap gross profits.
To pay graciously for the health, nurturing and care for the now born and people ready and capable, with loving patience wanting to do that. So society would evolve into the realization that every spark of the divine is precious, not just when it is in a womb.
Putting our money where our mouths are…proving it actually wants to take care of the unborn, once they are actually born.
Oh wait…..
That is something Christ would do….
Ooopsie.
At least until the seed planters and fertile gardens figure out where those intended*, yet unplanned crops start growing from.
*rolling the dice, of initiating the gamble, can be prevented by not betting in the first place.
That is a right and freeing freedom too.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Supreme:
1 highest rank or authority
3 ultimate, final
M-W.com
If at one point a decision was man made
Ultimately final…lets say……..Roe v. Wade
To (get this) “give” women sovereignty
Over their own body (ooopsie) then
Theoretically that should have stuck
Permanently……. right????? Right ????
Authority doling out a “final” decision
Made up once by mostly old white men
Sentenced (appointed) by a larger group
Of once again, still mostly old white men
To carry out their lifetime decisions
Not to do anything Christ like… say
Feeding the hungry, helping the poor
Or housing the homeless, but deciding
On behalf of half the population to have
To produce more poor starving homeless
That is what is called job security
Making sure there are always more people
To make the rules for what they can’t do
“Can you calm down on your rutting just for a couple of seconds, until we figure out this FOOD/AIR DEAL?”
– Bill Hicks
Haven’t we out evolved the need
For a “supreme” court anyway to
Realize we are all individual
Autonomous beings experiencing
Life subjectively to live, laugh and love
To be practicing students of each
Masters of wisdom, this time around
Regardless which master you choose
Or none if you decide, you realize you
Are a combination of all Masters anyway
Nope just cogs in a consumptive wheel
Churning out Matrix type fuel cells (babies)
To keep the illusionary machine alive
Buy, buy, buy, so we can go bye bye bye
Perhaps as a thoughtful thought experiment
Picture in your mind’s eye a name change
Of a “Supreme Court” with the notion of
A building that holds people inclined to guide
With balance, compassion and reason to
Say the “Human Evolution Guidance Hall”
Creating outlets for fellow human beings
In an archaic indoctrinated social situation
Of social economic depravity due to gender,
Skin color, with guidance to elevate the whole
Which is how we get out of this Supreme
Mess we have long turned a blind eye to
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Plus a reminder
“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you.
No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”
– George Carlin
My communication skills
May be all for naught
However
If there is a dead horse
To be beaten
I can beat that dead horse
So dead
You won’t know it was a horse
Which, besides driving, is about
The only thing I am good at
The protection afforded / legislated
To a microscopic dot inside a body
Like a cancer cell feeding of its host
Gets way more unabashed attention
Then it deserves compared to the outside
Of the body where freewill still resides
Where one can cut, curl, color, not wash, tease, lengthen and straighten their hair.
Ink, tan, bleach, scar their skin wherever the needle, sun, chlorine or knife can go.
Pierce, their ear, nose, mouth, bellybutton, cooch, junk.
Inject silicone or saline in the front or back. Force enough collagen in the lips to look like two inner tubes.
All because one is “free” to do so.
The protection ends when the born being leaves the cave, having been forced to stay, till it has to leave. Then it is basically one’s property to do with, whatever you want or can.
You can spank it, strike it, leave it in a hot car, give it too much food, or not enough, throw it in a dumpster. Deceive it, indoctrinate with local customs and beliefs. Drug it, shake it, mutilate it. It is yours to do what you will.
Whether or not you have the means to do so.
Help, is not on its way. You can even risk sending it to an institution where it can get shot and bleed out.
Because the “law” basically enforces the right that every grown fetus has access to weapons. Regardless of mental stability or reason for purchase.
The projected potentials are way loftier than the realistic realities of limited options.
Every fetus has the potential to become President*, a famous actor, star athlete or a doctor who cures cancer. Which may or may not be true, however……
Could also become a widget maker in a hot factory, a road kill collector, drug addicted criminal or serial killer. All potentials. Just not the ones used to entice the mother to be to keep carrying.
* Not even sure why President, makes such a short list, with all its trappings of abuses of power, riddled with inherent corruption.
If Lady Justice’s eyes weren’t blinded and the scales tipped, am quite sure the last ten or so, (or all 46) would be charged, convicted and sentenced for war crimes, or crimes against humanity.
Where and when, if circumstances are manipulated (not selecting the previous administration’s justice, through childish delays) he (so far) can stack the court to reflect the president’s hatred for women and homosexuals.
For generations to come, not outright legalization to muder and remove, but enough of a wink and a nod, that harassment, disrespect and violence are encouraged.
“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.”
– George Carlin
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Fe-males, Wo-men, Of-men’s bodies
Have become property of the state
Couldn’t they have figured out some
Joseph Mengele experimentation to
Be able to “arm” the fetus with a tiny gun
So that if an abortion physician tried
To perform, what was a legal operation
It could solve two problems at once
Doing what conservatives most cherish
In their alleged right to life expression
Of saving the unborn to kill the already born
“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?”
– George Carlin
Or a student, or a Ukrainian, or Russian, Afghani, Iraqi, Somalian, Japanese, Vietnamese, German or some random black person, minding their own business.
All dead because of the proliferation of weapons and or the state authorization to kill because they said it was okay to do so.
Millions of post natal abortions performed that the public freely pays for under the umbrella of “freedumb”.
Good thing I know how to type and the position of all the letters, for it is difficult to see the keyboard with all the blood dripping from my American tax paying hands.
From all of the wars fought in the alleged name of freedom and democracy. When in reality it was all for corporations bottom line.
All by using a tool that has been indoctrinated into societies mind that weapons are a problem solver.
Which may become the “Handmaid’s Tale” dystopian nightmare turned into reality. With armed state brood mare guards protecting the fetus carrier fulfilling her “purpose”.
Replenishing targets, keeping casket makers and grave diggers busy.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Schroederinger’s cat
Trapped in a box
Not knowing whether
Or not we are alive
Or dead
Until someone
Opens the box
Then it depends
On who that is and
Mutual observations
Friday June 24th 2022
Problem solved
Regarding mass, massses
And school shootings
Apparently it is easier
To legislate
Restrictions on liberty
To half the population
Then provide necessary
Means to health care
For out of the womb fetuses
Or limit the availability
Via mental health care
Pairing down purchases
Of accessible weapons of
Mass/es destruction
By making sure
The replenishment
Of targets has an
Ever ready supply
Let’s see………
Mass out of the womb post natal abortions
Perform cruelly & crudely by unprofessionals
Children dead and bleeding or scarred for life
Tiny caskets sold, burial holes dug, society
Weeps, protests, Congress does nothing
OKAY
Versus
A private operation requested by individuals
With much spiritual deliberation and research
Consequences weighed of ramifications as
Ultimately a better option for the fetus that
May or may not have a decent chance to live
NOT OKAY
Congress expeditiously kills a freedom
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade
Soon to follow….outlawing contraception
Head north now ladies before you get
Your red cloaked handmaid garment and habit
Where you can be easily spotted fleeing to
A country still respecting reproductive rights
“Pro-life… pro-life… These people aren’t 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.”
– George Carlin
On a sadder note
Just to be clear
Cancer deaths
Will rise as long
As it is illegal to
Remove living things
Growing inside a body
“Fuck the living thing. A genital wart is a living thing. If it’s gonna irritate you for life, burn it off, right?
Bladder cancer is alive and growing like a baby in you. If you try to remove that I’ll protest you and say “stop playing god.”
– Doug Stanhope
Side Rants
Having to wait eight to eighteen years
For some random school shooter
To perform a post natal abortion
Seems awfully long to wait for a legalized
Abortion
&
Good thing mostly men have secured
The right that they are free to carry guns
To ensure quite possibly that women in
A Gileadian situation are forced to carry
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
(Words will not do this justice
Or give an apt description
But it is a tad difficult
To describe anything w/o words
Let alone my balloon sharp
Ability to communicate)
So here goes……
Bordering on a vision
Corroborating a contemplation
“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
Without any hallucinogens
While driving (of course)
I thought I saw an instant
Right before my eyes
What appeared to be
The inter-exchange of
Waves and particles
Doing their dance
Not quite a glitch
In the Matrix so to speak
But the Matrix itself
That it (life) all really is
An illusion on a grand scale
Organized in chaos
Now?
What to do with this vision
I could start a religion
If I had a personality
Or charisma…however
It would be highly hypocritical
To raise funds to build a church
Knowing neither exist
Save in the mind’s eye
Welcome to the church of
Existential nothingness
Where we have gathered today
To realize
We are not really here
Recognizing our “troubles”
Are ephemeral based on
Projections of ideas and things
We think we need to learn from
So why are you here / not here
Go do the thing you perceive
You think you need to do and..
May the WORD be with you
We will close with this
Bob Dylan hymnal
A slight departure from last week’s
“Die With Your Boots On” *
From Iron Maiden
“Gotta Serve Somebody”
“You may be an ambassador to England or France
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Might be a rock’n’ roll addict prancing on the stage
Might have money and drugs at your commands, women in a cage
You may be a business man or some high degree thief
They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a state trooper, you might be an young turk
You may be the head of some big TV network
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame
You may be living in another country under another name
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a construction worker working on a home
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome
You might own guns and you might even own tanks
You might be somebody’s landlord you might even own banks
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side
You may be working in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair
You may be somebody’s mistress, may be somebody’s heir
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk
Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk
You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread
You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
You may call me Terry, you may call me Jimmy
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray
You may call me anything but no matter what you say
You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody”
– Bob Dylan
*
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
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
13 the Beast is Rising
The Frenchman did surmise
Through earthquakes and starvation
The Warlord will arise
Terror, Death, Destruction
Pour from the Eastern sands
But the truth of all predictions
Is always in your hands
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
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
You’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
You’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
They die with their boots on
Yes they die
The day, they die with their boots on
The day we die, we die, we die, we die, we die
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
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
‘Cos if you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, if you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
If you’re gonna die, die with your boots on
If you’re gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die
Die!
Someone to question everything
Is without question questionable
It leaves nothing to cling to
No side of the pool or life raft
Capable of arbitrary existence to hold
Long enough to catch one’s breath
Rest one’s mind or legs to look around
To assess the situation of life
It’s purpose, meaning of / or service
Floating in a sea of sub / un consciousness
Where everything is not as seems
Nor anything is as it is besides what it is
If one questions their belief long enough
To realize it is based on nothing but
Hearsay, rumor, innuendo and indoctrination
Print, radio, television and convoluted media
Immediately, the life raft….disappears
Then you are entirely on your own
Without drowning, then one can acknowledge
The safety of buoying in consciousness
That is what, then, is keeping you afloat
The collective consciousness of everything
Cool……..buuuuut
What can you do now with that information
Teach people they can let go of their “life” raft
In its simplest form is in a belief in a “God”
Or absence of one or having many of “Gods”
Either way boils down to perception based on
Hearsay, rumor, innuendo and indoctrination
Print, radio, television and convoluted media
Ignoring the inner knowing of being a being
Connected and interconnected to the whole
Learning quickly why that is not taught at all
No money, power and control in that lesson
Just fear, division, manipulation & distraction
Self hatred darkly disguised as hating others
For having the wrong god, gods or none at all
Political affiliations, or simply a different team
Being self taught is even worse since the
Headmaster has no master plan or guidance
Just a vague fractional awareness it’s actually
Connected and interconnected to the whole
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 