I do not understand why
There are school shootings
When twice a year for
Extra long weekends
Society celebrates with
Cooking weenies and burgers
Drinking beer and waving flags
To honor older children for
Killing more children who just
Happened to be wearing a
Different school (country) uniform
Not to mention all the daily discounts
Given to veterans for being
Involved in killing children
(Not all of them, but no discernment
Over which ones did or did not)
Hey, since this happened in Texas
Shouldn’t the shooter be in trouble for
Performing so many abortions at once
Where are the right to lifers now? Hmmm?
Probably at the gun store…stockpiling
Semiautomatic scalpels & firing forceps
Maybe, as a gesture of compassion
The NRA could give the victims families
The same pillows given to congress
That helps them sleep better at night
Regardless of how much blood
They have on their hands
Minus the stash of cash it comes with
……..Will need that for the reelect-ease
Jeez…..for such a “Christian” nation
Can not find in any book where
Jesus fed or healed people with
An automatic assault rifle
“And the Lord saw the mass of people
Gathering to hear his message but
There was not enough food so Jesus
Whipped out his AK 47 and mowed
Most of them down, so the remaining few
Could have a nice lunch and hear him”
Hypocrisy 5: 2-4
“I didn’t come here to be
Jesus the Miracle Caterer”
– Sam Kinison
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“… It’s all about soul
It’s all about faith and a deeper devotion
It’s all about soul
‘Cause under the love is a stronger emotion”
– Billy Joel
If anyone can decipher
The following communique
Give yourself the Sherlock Holmes award
Am fairly certain try as I might
With my communication skills
Will not convey what was perceived
Or what purpose it serves
Here goes….
Recently went to a Japanese restaurant
That had just opened for lunch, sat to eat
So the atmosphere started nice and quiet
Before the clanking of dishes
The exhaust of fans
Knashing of knives and
Chaos of conversation
In a moment of perceived clarity
As throngs of people sat to eat
It occurred to me to see them as
Invisible “shells” for individual souls
Seeing a fine mist in clear containers
Stripped of their skin and skeleton
No race, wealth, religion or politics
Gender, beauty or appearance deficits
Just souls in soul cages
Nourishing their vehicles
To get to their unknown destination
There seemed to be no tortured souls
For there were no mirrors……???
Just separation by silhouettes
In anthropomorphic form
Dividing up the Oversoul
That it may experience human life
On this planet at this “time”
“… It’s all about soul
It’s all about joy that comes out of sorrow
It’s all about soul
Who’s standing now,
Who’s standing tomorrow”
– Billy Joel
Not knowing what to do
With this information
Will leave it here
For you and me to ponder
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
From this indoctrinated
Patriarchal prison built by
Greed, power and control
Division and distraction
Destruction and consumption
Being derelict in our duties
To develop our divinity to
Heal and free ourselves
From this seemingly
Infinite incarceration
Where the only respite is in
The infirmary of slumber
In making a better world
Others participate
I found some hope
In some recent encounters
Usually my deliveries are made
Like a factory worker
Kicking out a widget
Open door, point at freight
Get next delivery ready
Close door, sign here, print here
“Thanks for the quick help”
(Regardless how long it took
So they will be quicker….next time)
“Have a nice day……….bye”
Start engine, release brakes…..boogie
Every once in a while, will deliver
Something peculiar or to a peculiar place
Must pause and ask questions
So “what is “this” for ?” To which
Will either hear, they have no clue
And are just doing their “factory” work
Or will get a hearty, let me tell you….
After picking up 50,000 pounds of
Palletized big bags of some grain
Shipping out to be converted to fuel
Inquiring in between 24 pallets
On two trailers with a pallet jack
The loader / entrepreneur showed
Me how their small set up was
Being adapted to process hemp
Finally a natural resource used wisely
“No other natural resource offers the potential of hemp. Cannabis Hemp is capable of producing significant quantities of paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel.”
– hempbasics.com
What came out of the dually prompted
Conversation of quick questioning was
The fibres in hemp will be able to make
Lighter windmill blades turning turbines
Also, since old broken carbon fiber ones
Up to 170′ feet long get buried in land fills
Their process will be able to stop that and
Incorporate it in to the new blades win win
At a different stop at a larger operation
The converted warehouse was bustling
With activity around flaxen colored bales
That looked uniquely strange so I had to ask
What is this stuff used for, for I am curious
Received the same stored excited response
It can make concrete lighter and stronger
Eliminating plastics and toxic resins…cool
All this time during the alleged “drug war”
Rather the attack on personal freedoms war
Society could have been using this hemp
To build more homes quicker and cheaper
With tons and tons less environment damage
Ooopsie
The following “bit” is slightly dated, however…
“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive.
To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down,
“There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways.
Now I can rest.
Oh my Me!………
I left fuckin’ pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle.
But if I leave pot everywhere, that’s gonna give people the impression they’re supposed to … use it.
Now I have to create Republicans.”
” … and God wept”,
I believe is the next part of that story.
– Bill Hicks
The proverbial they
They say
“Everything happens for a reason”
– They
But instead
The words reduce
God to man and
Elevate man to God
In illusionary knowledge
That one deciphers
What is perceived
In a momentary moment
Having a grand purpose
In the scheme of infinity
When it is merely
An event occuring
At a time and place
(Ah ha ha haha hehe ha)
Coinciding matter*
*(AKA waves and particles)
Observed by
Subjective perception
Through eyes and ears
Made up of the same
Waves and particles
That do not exist
In the first place
Unless they are
Being observed
At the moment
Moment to moment
The only un-provable proof
Is that when one is asleep
The universe disappears
Nothing exists at all
For what is perceived as
A five to six hour moment
Probably the first “thing”
That gets tossed out
Of that existential window
Is reason
Followed by materials
Worries, concerns
Time and space
So then….
Where does reason come from
Methinks it is to end boredom
Because it is boring to accept
Things are such as they are
Conjuring up justifications
Rather that fate is determined
By circumstance and coincidence
Or better yet by an invisible hand
Satiating “His” boredom therapy
(Better let Fred survive the car crash
He just adopted a rescue animal)
Meanwhile to accept that is to
Accept that, always occuring
Just for the human species
Eight billion times at all times
Leading to very poor reasoning
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“For some reason I
Do not see things
The way other people
See things”
– Angelo Devlin
Part two, so to speak of Reasoning
For the reason being
It would have made “Reasoning”
Be waaaay too loooong
Much like the alleged
Creation of existence
Two fold
Neither provable
That that
“In the beginning” (story)
– Genesis 1 1
“Actually” occured
Or that a group of dudes
Sat around being bored
And “made” that shit up
“Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line.
They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God— “
– George Carlin
“Created” the universe
WHY?
Because he was bored.
Have no clue, am
Just a schmuck
Driving a truck
If you were / are the
Master of the universe
Infinite intelligence
Floating in the ether
With nothing to do
Surely your reasoning
For creating the universe
Was simply because
You were bored
Like a parent telling a child
They are bored
Because they are sleepy
Burdening the child with
Having to have to go to sleep
Or finding something to do
Either way, getting out of
The parents hair because
They are bored being parents
Needing to exercise control
For some strange reason
“The proverbs idle hands are the devil’s workshop, idle hands are the devil’s tools, and idle hands are the devil’s playground mean that someone who is unoccupied and bored will find mischief; someone who has nothing to do will partake in something that will get him into trouble.”
– grammarist.com
Well, well, according to that one book
Who had more idle hands than God?
For what “reason” are you
Living in this manifested mischief
Seems more likely thay we are
Playing on the Devil’s playground
Are you the byproduct of
Someone else’s boredom
Eliminating reason would
Bring one to an understanding
That everything is such that it is
Which is actually easier
(If you try)
Than pretending to point out
Pathetic purposes for
Stuff one clearly
Does not understand
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
From the opposite perspective
No body would want
A governing body
Governing their body
Regardless of the
Tyranny of the majority or
A tyrannical minority
Depending largely on
Who is participating
As to who is which
Mandatory vasectomies
To any male even
Thinking of rutting
With egg producing bipeds
Would be considered an
Infringement of their “rights”
That perspective jn
All likelihood could END
The abortion argument
Yet, neither of either
Are going to happen
WHAT
Now the government
Has no say in medical
Treatments of a body. Hmmm.
Such hypocrisy, shame shame
The other thing that won’t happen
Is when the planet is plum full
Of wanted or unwanted
Usually both unplanned
Pregnancies then the
Legislation of automatic
Sterilization of both sexes
At puberty will commence
While figuring out who
Might have the right to
Keep the goodies to
Keep creating such
A self destructive species
Save birthing the baby
Directly into a casket
Because the pollution
Of a scorched earth
Fresh out of fresh resources
Will have blocked the sun
Kicking everyone into
Mad Max apocalyptic
Survival mean mode of
Our own ignorant doings
Not some invisible hand
Reaching from the sky
To amuse himself in the
Hands off binge watching
Death of humanity by sheer
Replication of ignorance
Spawns of consumption
Homo-erectus geo-destructus
That I am guessing is Latin
For man destroying planet
Which methinks is not our
Intended divine birthright
Of creativity and expression
Living, loving, sharing and wonder*
Rather our followed distraction
Like a cat chasing a laser point of
Consumption production destruction
Repetition expedition and lamention
To which there is no opposition
Because someone somewhere
Can make a dollar in the process
Where this should have stopped……
Nope, just a little bit more
If a farmer planted
A crop in a fertile field
Just to spread his seed
Because he liked to
But had no plans to
Help harvest the product
Other farmers would
Cut off his ability
To plant any more seeds
As it would be their
Responsibility to do so
Otherwise they would
Continue to be burdened
With the extra expense and
Time they do not have to
Properly cultivate the crop(s)
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
*
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need
To know about how to live
And what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top
Of the graduate school mountain,
But there in the sandpile at Sunday school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life –
Learn some and think some
And draw and paint and sing and dance
And play and work everyday some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world,
Watch out for traffic,
Hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
For miles at a time
All you could see
Was ground and sky
Like floating on top
Of a land ocean
Rolling waves of brown
Traversed by truck
On patchy pavement
Gravel spitting roads
Guided by power poles
Lined up like dominoes
No billboards or signs*
An occasional buoy
Street moniker to guide
From complete disorientation
Silos and mega barns
Dot the landscape
Rising and sinking
With the roll of the tide
No shore to stop
Just heaving and breathing
Bringing to the surface
All the food that we eat in its
Purest form of nutrition
Before being processed
Preserved and packaged
To nearly inedible form
The above was my attempt at a poetic description of some recent far-out far out deliveries I made through vast ranges of farm land. Where, if it were not for GPS and an app telling how to get to my destinations, I’d still be lost.
Not the typical farmland seen from the interstate highways and byways. Rather massive patches of land squared off in grids, between the four lane concrete corridors.
Corporate and colony run farms, counting mostly on nature to water the crops.
Miles of maternal mammaries of a loving mother earth feeding her offspring, suckling every last drop as she ceaselessly gives. Though she is exhausted and abused and nary a card for mother’s day. Shame on us.
Rest and restoration is out of the equation.
“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 some day”
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
* The one sign I occasionally saw was
Election signs for Sheriff
W T F
Sheriff……..out here in this alien world
Miles from alleged civilization where if
You needed some “authority” to do????
It would be hours before the Sheriff
Could get there to do absolutely nothing
Seriously, in five hours of mostly driving
I saw three tiny patches of civilization
Covering a fifty mile square area of land
Better elect an authority for “protection”
We are so strangled
By the indoctrinated
Thought rope we hang
Around our neck
It is a wonder
We can breathe at all
Do these people honestly believe
Matt Dillon is going to ride up
On a horse and execute justice
If someone steals a potato??
At least if it were Andy of Mayberry
He could do a thorough investigation
Since Andy Taylor never carried a gun
As I write this it is still baffling
The need and or want of a Sheriff
On what seemed like another planet
Engaging in a process of “electing”
An outside “authority”, simply because
No one recognizes their own
Individual authority within the collective
When it is what they pretend to have
While saying it is something they want
FREEDOM
A lot of money, time, timber and paper
Went in to buying posters, building
Ground level half billboard size signs
To a small, scarce, ineffective audience
Ruining an otherwise pleasant drive
Having quickly realized there was
Not any distracting reading material
Nor miles to the next exit or turn-off
Or closest and approaching cities
Gas stations, hotels and restaurants
In my eighteen wheel land rover
Exploring the alien world I landed on
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
A different telescope.”
– Angelo Devlin
Dripping from the radio
Melting the mind from
Rationale reality by
Changing perceptions
Of none paying attention
Heard an ad on the radio
Of a “new” way to buy a car ?????
Am paraphrasing since I have no transcript
It sounded something like the following
Are you tired of the old way
Of buying a car, looking for a better way
Come on down to your local X dealer
Where you can select a vehicle
From our fine selection of new
And previously owned (used) cars
Where our highly trained staff
Can guide you in your choice
Then have you test drive it
To close the deal with financing
Oozing out of the throat of the
Deep voice, voice over guy, like warm
Honey infused with rose petal sprinkles
HF, that sounds like, how I bought
Every vehicle I have ever had
I should reveal what company
Approved the ad since it was such
Fucking Overly Ridiculous Drivel
But am not one to give free
Advertising good or bad
I suspect it is geared to the
Twenty somethings who are old enough
Not to have their parents negotiate a deal
Which they can no longer do anyway
“Price not negotiable but payment is
Different junk man different junk
Spend some money buy some more”
– John Trudell
I guess I just miss the days that with
A little bit of mind and financial leverage
One could broker a fair deal
For both the buyer and seller
Satiating a sale and transportation
Nope, not today, just figure out your
Monthly payment for 60, 72, 84 months
Or lifetime, whichever comes first
Turning it in to a lease agreement
Which you now know is a fleece agreement
In a propelled comfort cage of protection
Sustaining an artificial environment for
The duration of one’s short trip
Neither too hot or too cool
Built for comfort and evolving towards
Autonomous hands off driving
Oh oh, this is taking a turn
For when looking in the “rear” view mirrors
It mirrors autonomy and anonymity of being
Eliminating awareness, creativity and thought
Just another cog in the corporate wheel
With shiny safe travels for the road ahead
Having been given a coat of eloquent wax
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“The act of coinciding”
M-W.com
Am less than patiently waiting
For the perception paradigm
Shift to occur, that it dawn on
Proletariat Pavlovian people
It is just as much of an abortion
To shoot an unarmed black person
Performed with a gun and bullet
Instead of forceps and a scalpel
(Could reference the latest “incident”
But, by time this is posted, it will change)
Could the difference be in the
Different color of the lab jackets
The logic is lost on me the difference
Except, the blue coat wearers have
Qualified immunity….yes James Bond
State sanctioned pre authorization
To eliminate with extreme prejudice
Key word being prejudice
Rewarded with paid leave
During the “investigation”
So much for not wanting to spend
Public money on killing fetuses
Albeit out of the womb grown fetuses
Maybe it satisfies a God complex that
If a creature can breathe under water
It is off of the expendable kill list
But once a fetus leaves the womb and
Starts converting CO to CO2 you’re fucked
Right? During the alleged global flood
All the underwater breathers got to live
Or at least there are no printed accounts
They suffered the opposite fate once
The land became available under the
Watchful eye of a “loving” creator
Dying painfully of dehydration
Maybeeee, the records were lost in the flood
Surely that drunkard shipbuilder would
Have had to build a bigger boat
To support a mobile aquarium
……..oh yeah, he did not have to
Those floating fetuses and fish were safe
From God’s wrath and for forty days
Even gave them more room to swim
Perhaps the…..
“Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
Genesis 1 1-2
“We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I’m not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn’t matter to me.
What matters is……..
(He hem..
What matters is……..)
That if you believe in the sanctity of life
Then you believe it for life of all ages.
//
You either love all people of all ages
Or you shut the fuck up”
– Bill Hicks
Likewise
A Russian, Ukrainian or Afghan
Thousands of abortions at once
With weapons of mass destruction
While most of society is not involved
Still have plenty of blood on our hands
The following may or may not be
An illogical stretch of logic, however
If your hard earned money paid for
“Forceps” aka tanks and bombers
Via the military industrial complex
Then they were sold at pure profit
To another country and are used
To eliminate grown fetuses
One is then responsible for the abortions
Hint hint your tax dollars at work
(In other words which Eurasian or
East Asian country that Oceania
May or may not be at war with
At any given time keeping the
Docile masses easily distracted)
Where those with camouflage lab jackets
Have the same ok to kill pre authorization
Imagine that, poorly trained teenagers given
Tools of terror to crudely perform abortions
Regardless that the mothers want
Their children to live, having been born
Growing with hopes and dreams
Waving and presenting a colorful rag
Will not an abortion prevent save showing
Which fetuses they would rather save
For what little I know of child birth
I have yet to hear that newborns
Have a flag birthmark on their body
Or religious symbols or a gift receipt
Since they are a “gift from God” LOL
Just in case you want to exchange them
Speaking of coincidence, just as I was pondering posting this. Along comes a quote to wrap this up. What perfect timing.
“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn.
It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
Looking at the world through a windshield. 