Both
The subjective
And
The collective
Are
Miraculous
.
Interwoven
And
Interstellar
Being
The observer
And
The observed
.
Whilst
.
Participating
And
Chilling
Acting
And
Overreacting
Or as docile
As the dead
.
Which is never
Really dead
Merely
Changing shape
Regrouping atoms
For the next
Big adventure
.
Still
.
There is the mind
Hardly ever
Still
Just universal
In scope
Either the
Telescope
Or
Microscope
.
Or simultaneously
As both
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
Out of all the dead people
And there are billions and
Billions of dead people
.
“Most people are dead.
Did you know that?
It’s true, out of all the people
that ever were,
almost all of them are dead.”
.
Louis C. K.
.
The two I wish were
Still animated are
My mom and my uncle
.
My mom
.
So that as perceptions go
Satiate the notion that she
Would have gotten along
Swimmingly with my wife
.
Assumedly free from ego
To share cooking nuances
Recipes and raviolis
Likewise enjoy the children
Grandchildren and travel
.
My uncle
.
Just because I miss him
He was the one who taught
Me any plumbing carpentey
Electrical skills which are
.
All being used at once to
Construct an indulgence he
Would have been amused by
Helped with and enjoyed a
Nice cold beer with afterwards
.
Regardless of all of the
Intense thoughts
And fervent prayers
They fall flat against
Disintegration and ashes
.
The best I can do
To conjure them up at all
Is to pool as liquid out of
The corner of my eyes
Which seems to strain
The back of my throat
.
What a light / dark way to
Highlight the effectiveness
Of prayer. Must be God’s will
.
“Here’s something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren’t answered. What do you say?
“Well, it’s God’s will.” “Thy Will Be Done.” Fine, but if it’s God’s will, and He’s going to do what He wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place?
Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn’t you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It’s all very confusing.
– George Carlin
Rolling through subjective minds
Based on absolutely nothing except
Overheard concepts of the herd
Feeding on itself ouroborosly like
A never-ending nutritionless meal
.
Just fantasy given form through
Repetition recitation & regurgitation
To the point where real campaigns
Get started by forming groups
Of people conjuring similar images
Steeped in fear and ignorance of the
Actual benign banality of reality
.
Materializing into slogans and chants
Demonizing fellow space travelers
With words nuanced with (ist) & (ans)
Malignant monikers projecting hate
As ways to justify harm and disdain
Based on…you guessed it……nothing
.
Except differing indoctrinated beliefs
Shades of epidermis pigmentation
Height weight gender orientation $
Invisible borders drawn on paper
Creating separation where none exist
Who “owns” what and how much
.
Pick a fear then behave accordingly
Powered by group think devoid of power
.
“People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a ‘common purpose’.
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‘Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they’re going to visit at 3am.
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So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals.
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Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.”
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George Carlin
By those left alive to testify
What it is like to be attacked
Unprovoked by terrorists
Oh wait ……”tourists” carrying
Caches of crude weapons
.
Attempting to implement
Their will of ignorance
Because they are sore losers
Chasing a different form of power
Since they don’t recognize their own
.
When on the other hand
If we were to open our eyes
Real wide I mean really wide
We would see a glimpse of
What it might be like to be
A Sovereign citizen on / in a
Sovereign country with energy
Resources under their feet
.
That imperialistic countries
Due to their perceived weakness
Feel righteous and compelled
To steal at the indiscriminate
Death of fellow space travelers
Under the glorious guise of
Democracy and capitalism
.
As long as I’m getting sidetracked
Not really a betting person
Yet would be willing to bet
Dollars to donuts
To test a theory that if
Instead of missiles and bombs
We sent over sandwiches
Technology to clean water
(You know, things humans need)
They would probably share
The resources any way
.
“It was pretty amazing, you’ve got to admit, watching a missile fly down an air vent. Pretty unbelievable. But couldn’t we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?
.
You know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, there’s a guy that needs a banana….
Stealth Banana. ……… Smart Fruit…..”
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– Bill Hicks
– “The War” (first gulf war)
– “Flying Saucer Tour”
Had a medical / health purpose
Everything except for Jesus
Depicted hanging on the cross
.
The only other decor was a clock
Even that served a purpose if say
You were waiting for medication
.
Monitors glove boxes sanitizer
Oxygen supply emergency outlets
Communication boards and charts
Needle and biohazard disposal
IV holders and pump regulators
Heart and vital organ monitors
Privacy curtain and safety bed
.
“Even your religious friends do not wanna hear about God during a medical diagnosis. It’s the last word you ever wanna hear from a doctor.
“You know, doc, my fucking lymph nodes are swollen out of my neck. I look like a bullfrog. I’m shitting blood with clumps in it. I can’t keep food down.”
.
“Ooh, sounds like someone needs a higher power.”
.
“Can’t we do some blood work first, series of antibiotics, get a cat scan?” “No, get on your knees and pray.”
– Doug Stanhope
.
So why then in a room built and supplied
On science and technology would there
Be a caricature of a deity from a book
That has been rewritten and revised
For millennia steeped in fear and control
.
Not to mention out of all the stories
Why use the dead Jesus why not one
Where he is laying on healing hands
Perhaps the open arm come to Jesus
Depiction would be a too dark of one
Suggesting not surviving what they are
In the hospital in the first place for
.
Not to mention it is a tad arrogant
To assume that is the patient’s belief
Indoctrination based on local customs
If you are going for made up mythologies
Where’s Buddha and Mohammad
Buddha would be laughing and
“They” say that is the best medicine
.
As long as non-medical stuff is being
Hung on the wall, why not the $$ sign
It is the belief in that which is how all
That other stuff is getting paid for anyway
..
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
Fear not the bogeyman
Not under your bed
.
Purge instead the one
Floating in your head
.
Reiterated with a phonetic flair
Tinged with enough verbal twang
Saturated with stifling stink
And voila you have your bogeyman
.
Pick any word ending with ist
To create a bogeyman
.
Faux news consumers have
Locked on to Socialists as
Their phantom of choice
Something to be feared
Psyching up the courage
To battle an unseen specter
Conjured up from ignorance
.
Socialist- one who advocates
.
Socialism
.
2b: a system or condition of society. in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.
– M-W.com
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Just because their name isn’t on it
Doesn’t mean they don’t control it
Or that they are not “socialist” programs
.
Uninsured Motorist
Workman’s compensation
Social “Security”
Military Industrial Complex
.
There in LIE the discrepancies
.
People believing they are free
While being enslaved by banks
Pharmaceuticals, tax bills and…
.
Corporations making the same
Products slightly faster and
Just a little bit shinier chaining
The consumer on the endless
Keep up with the “Joneses” treadmill
.
Which from a different angle
.
“Capitalistⁿ can be a bogeyman also
.
Pronounced with a hard K
Delivered with an upturned nose
Surrounded by words like greedy
Stingy filthy rich money bags fat cat
.
Where as if we evolved
In to a Meritocracy
All the best people
Would rise into the
Most necessary positions
Without a power grab
Rooted in fear or control
.
One.
There are no meritocratists to fear
.
Two.
It would be too hard to pronounce
To scare anybody anyway
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
One’s presence in this world
Or absence from it is about
As distinguishable as the
Differentiation between
Waves and particles
Depending on the observer
.
The observed observing
Plus coincidence of being
In synchronicity of orbits
Energy transfered & absorbed
Ebbing and flowing with
Cosmic tides & solar flares
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
.
I think I wish I knew where
This stuff comes from
From whence I do not know
I just know it lands here
.
Thanks for stopping by
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“There are a hundred possible causes for every effect and a hundred possible effects from every cause.”
.
“Taleswapper”
.
” Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
– Orson Scott Card
Anything
Could mean
Everything or
Nothing at all
.
For it is not what we know
Rather what we perceive
Through eons of indoctrinations
Establishing archetypes where
None actually exist save the
Constructs of a universal mind
As a vast playground with
Every toy imaginable
.
Better yet
.
Every or any word possible
In hundreds of languages with
Thousands of meanings and
Millions of ways to be used
In context and content on
Interconnected continents
.
Subject to
Billions of interpretations
Think not
Step back
From a benign or
“Important” conversation
.
Or while struggling with
A contemplation
.
Float above the scene
Notice the surroundings
.
“Out” side of your “self”
.
Is the room / area well lit
You continue to rise above it
With an one eye on yourself
The other on all you see
.
Rooftops and trees
Power lines and pavement
Buildings and bridges
Cities and metropolises
Continents and oceans
Clouds and airplanes
Satellites and space stations
Planets and stars
Black holes and galaxies
.
In the distance
You see a swirling
Of space dust
You get closer
You are witnessing
The birth of a star
.
Find yourself
Weeping and wailing
At its intense
Beauty and miracle
.
Exhausting your
Soul and your self
To a gentle slumber
.
Next thing you hear
Is a voice
Yours or someone else’s
.
Thinking you just
Made an important point
On
Immigration or
Abortion or
Socialism or
Racism or
Alleged democracy or
Freedom or
God or guns
.
Then you realize you
Just observed the beginning
Of a brand new galaxy
.
How could you possibly think
Anything else had
Any importance
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
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“We teach best what we need to learn most ourselves.”
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Richard Bach
Celebrating the birth of a nation
Who perceptual abandoned their
“Tyrannical” oppressors to start
Their own brand of tyranny
.
By forcing indigenous cultures
(Mmmmm, they were here first)
Westward through endless
Broken treaties and better weapons
.
To declare all men are created equal
If of course you were a white (pink)
Land holding slave owner and
Wanted religious freedom as long
As everybody prayed to the
Same God as you did
.
Keeping the ladies as second class
Citizens, practically property as well
Unable to vote for 143 years
Quick light the fireworks
Where oh where is my sparkler
.
Isn’t it about time we relabel it
For what it is, the mid year
Three day drink and consume fest
To distract simple proletariats
.
Who believe* they are celebrating
Freedom hoping next year they
Will still have ten fingers to
Do be free to do it all over again
.
* was going to use the word think
.
However that process need not apply
If it did, none of this nonsense
Would perpetuate ad nauseam
.
Oh wait, then the collective would
Actually be “free”……….nevermind
We have an economy to worry about
.
Where would I be without my 10 fingers
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
.
.
An out of this world
Conversation
.
With someone who mentioned
They worked for NASA
.
Hmmm, cool
.
I’ve got questions
.
Not that they were
A rocket scientist
.
Rather a logistics supervisor
Working remotely
Due to # 19 or something
.
Always looking for insight
Close to the source
.
I inquired about Mars
.
After listening to the CYA* procedures
*(Cover Your Ass) due to Challenger
“Mishap” of deep paperwork trails
All of which made sense
.
I wanted to know their thoughts
On the actual plausibility of
Getting to Mars as that sounded
Like it was in their purview
.
I are just a truck driver so in my
Peripheral perceptions and
Limited knowledge of
Space travel and exploration
.
It is my best understanding that
With the current technology it takes
About nine months to get there
Give or take planetary alignments
.
I pushed forth my thought
That there must be a plan NASA is
Working on for cryogenic hibernation to
Safely get astronauts and passengers there
.
This person was not aware of that or
How long it would take to get there
.
That is fair as I have no clue what plans
The multinational corporation that
Pays me to sit on butt and listen to
The radio, audio books or silence
Has in store, other than to point me
In a direction, do my job and return safely
.
Pressing my luck I asked
Well, how long do you think it will take
To make the one way trip to get there
Establishing a survivable camp
Setting up a base for colonization?
.
(A):…….”bout two years
.
Two….two…..2 #&%$ing years
(I kept that part to myself)
Hmmmmm interesting at that pace
How will they get there?
.
(A): Well, they’ll just “go” there
.
Allrighty then… acknowledging it is
A one way trip as there would be
No spaceship waiting with fuel
To bring them back in case they
Forgot a toothbrush or deodorant
.
The human condition
Is riddled with delusional escapism
Leaving no room at all
To attain actual blissful happiness
.
Where this should have stopped……
.
Nope
.
Mars…. the quasi-rational equivalent
Of buying a dream filled lottery ticket
To keep at bay the hum drum daily
Routine of eating pooping working
Sleeping bathing consuming while
Trying to keep up with the Joneses
.
When all that energy and money
Could be spent putting this house
(Planet) in order and healthy balance
To where we are not raping the land
Overfishing the oceans & slaughtering
Most of the quadrupeds for food
Keeping the “cute” ones for pets
.
I knew I should have stopped as
That last concept of taking care
Of our whole Gaia consciousness
Is ……….out if this world
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 