In this
Instant
There is only
This
Moment
In
Sync
With
Not this
Second
Or the
Last
One
Or the next
One
Rather
All of them
Which go by
In a flash
Only because
We perceive
Linearly
Instead of
Infinitely
As it is hard to
Unwind
Perceptions
Against the
Ticking
Of information
That
Flows
Like the
Sand
Through the neck
Of the
Hourglass
That knows not
Time
Only gravity and
Still
Its
Current
Is
Measured
Against what
Flies
In the
Face
Of convention
For example this
Post
Which
Present-ed
Itself as
The title of
Timing
Instantaneously
Had to be transcribed
Letter by letter
Moment to
Moment
Though the reader
Captures
Its essence as
If it just
Happened
Whenever
They find a
Chance
To process the
Sequence of
Seeing / reading
Interpreting and
Registering
Regardless what
Day
It is or if the
Sundial
Can be viewed
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
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Thanks for taking the
Time
To read this
Ooops, this allllmost got lost
In the topical blog sauce cue
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Cryptic Catchphrases
.
Popping up everywhere
“Your City” “Strong”
Believe in “Your City”
“Your City” blah, blah blah etc…
.
“Respectfully I say
What the #uck does that mean?”
.
– George Carlin
.
Not to be completely insensitive
Since they popped up after
Stay at home orders were issued
At first I kinda got it, sorta, maybe
.
Then you read it again elsewhere
In a different but similar city
Over and over again and again
.
“Your City” “Strong”
Believe in “Your City”
.
My first inclination is to question stuff
Unlike the sign that reads
.
This lane Right Turn Only
.
A clear directive followed by
A black arrow pointing right
Boom, point made and taken
No ambivalence of meaning
.
Each and every time it is read
For everyone who reads it
Even if the only thing they see
Is a black arrow pointing right
.
However “Believe in “Your City”
Is vague without direction
Passed by often enough
One can only desperately
Try to decipher its meaning
.
If you don’t believe in it
What is going to happen
.
(If you clap your hands or do not
Tinkerbell will still be okay *)
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A city is an entity made up
Of people occupying buildings
In a set parameter for tax purposes
Distant or adjacent to other cities
.
Am I the only one questioning this
.
Here’s another one I saw
.
“Pray for our country”
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“Respectfully I say
What the #uck does that mean?”
.
– George Carlin
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# 1 Pray to who or what
# 2 Pray for how long
# 3 If someone else reads the sign but their prayer in some way contradicts my prayer do they cancel each other out?
.
How about “Pray For Our Globe”
……Nevermind…….
.
That might be something
Buddha, Allah or Jesus might suggest
.
Here’s another sign
.
Have faith in god……….
.
? Which one ????????
.
………to do ?????? What?
.
Seriously what?
.
Just faith
As a verb, a noun, an adjective
.
What other catchphrase represent
Such empty words from empty vessels
.
Besides at some point
These signs will come down
As they are now
For a variety of reasons
.
To which I wonder
Did their directives work?
Or not
.
Unfinished sentiments
Carried out to no end
.
Save someone profiting
……Off of sign making
.
I just knew if I kept writing
I would figure it out…Ta-dah
.
Wasting money on resources
Ink, plastic, trees and t-shirts
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
.
*
“The Tinkerbell effect is an American English expression describing things that are thought to exist only because people believe in them. The effect is named after Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan, who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience.”
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– Wikipedia
Words are like
Tea leaves
How they get
Interpreted
.
Is based on
What the
Perceiver
Reads into them
.
Ever changing in
Content and context
Emotions mood
Volume and tone
.
Read or heard
Source or sources
Authority or rebellion
Once or repeated
.
Whether be the “sitter”
Or be the “consultant”
Interpretations are
Left wide open to all
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
.
Or perhaps
….Hearing aides
Changes
.
When you see things
In a different light
.
Recently “had” to
Pick up a package
At the facility of
One of those
Behemoth carriers
Of small packages
.
First it was amazing
To watch the “sort”
Down a conveyor belt
Out of a large trailer
Into the many waiting
Hands of the sorters
Into the many many
Burgeoning route trucks
.
Beyond its initial
Appearance of being
What it was it looked
Like a scene out of
A Las Vegas movie
In the back room
Counting the money
.
Upon later reflection
It was more like a scene
In a drug distribution
Operation of moving
Profitable product in
Again a closed room
.
If either were true
Society’a “authority”
Would be called in
To cease both “crimes”
.
One to keep the “drug”
(Buying stuff to feel good)
Out of the “addicted’s”
Hand and head “vice”
.
The other to arrest
The gross profiteers
Profiting off of a
Scourge to community’s
Health and well being
.
If in one hour they moved
A thousand packages
Averaging $15 a package
That is $15.K an hour
Just going to the middleman
Distributor corporation
.
The “problem” is unfortunately
Not the problem it is how this
Society operates as a whole
Beyond commoditized necessities
Buying stuff from people who
Make stuff so they to have
Money to buy more stuff too
.
Meanwhile not all the people
Have rooves over their heads
Or adequate food in their bellies *
.
I would not be a very good
Observationalist if I did not
Recognize that I too
Contributed to this
Planetary crime
Being there to pick-up
A package as well
.
Only to find out
It didn’t work and
Didn’t need it
In the first place
Only to turn up missing
Unable to return it
.
Side note:
.
This was occurring at
One company in a small
City in a sparsely
Populated state
To which when I first
Arrived at 4:00 o’clock
In the morning mistook
Me as an applicant
Looking for a job
.
Whisked me immediately
To a room to fill out
An application like they
Would have hired me
On the spot to start now
.
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
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– Angelo Devlin
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When you’re stepping over a homeless guy on the sidewalk…
.
Does it ever occur to you to think
.
“Wow – maybe our system doesn’t work?!”
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– Bill Hicks
Life seems to be the
Manifesting maintaining
Marketing and manipulation
Of various archetypes
.
Created when a need arises
Structuring to control behavior
Modifying to adapt to currents
Sold as beneficial for purchase
.
One can be relatively sure that
Millions of years ago when
Life forms were forming
Out of the primordial ooze
.
There were no Kings or Queens
Doctors lawyers or politicians
Bank robbers or drug addicts
Slaves or slave owners (CEO’S)
.
Just slimy single cell amoebas
Searching for food and light
Splitting reproducing evolving
Mutating to survive elements
.
In balance with nature always .
What lives dies decays reforms
Regroups regenerates relives
Towards a higher intelligence
.
Why just because it can why not
Slithering crawling breathing air
Converting dioxide into monoxide
Trading with trees mutual benefit
.
Growing opposable thumbs standing
Inventing tools and weapons to eat
Still finding balance honoring sacrifice
Knowing all part of the chain of life
.
Archetyping tribes for survival
Growth family similar sapiens
Painting stories on caves or
Carcass coverings to convey
.
Info to subsequent generations
Stir imaginations learn remember
Understand share adapt repeat
Hunt gather eat grunt together
.
Where evolution probably took
A grinding halt was when tribes
Encountered “different” sapiens
When were first mistook as food
.
Once past that embarrassing faux pas
The alpha male primitive took hold
As an originating archetype over
What seemed to be “foreign” beings
.
Till each burgeoning surviving group
All had to move around for food
Then finding the best locations with
Abundant resources to claim as “theirs”
.
Probably first with walls that what
It didn’t keep out kept in oooops
Then with flags then with pieces
Of paper than all three together
.
Establishing territorial archetypes
That all of a sudden shared land
Was no longer to be shared rather
Divided differently by “different” tribes
.
When logic of their bullshit ran aground
Invisible archetype deities were formed
Of all powerful invisible men who could
Create judge assist manipulate and kill
.
Which still continue today all because
Clever groups with imaginations over
Gullible simpletons transcribed info
Onto papyrus re-read modify and adapt
.
As the basis of social legal precedence
To establish authority archetypes that
Decides its own rule making ability to
Control the behavior of said simpletons
.
Distracted instead of searching within
For common Gaia bond that spawned
Each individual from the same nurturing
Source that knows no separation or hate
.
Which is not an archetype at all merely
The reality of what can be viewed from
A distance warmed and illuminated by
A burning sphere nurturing all of life
.
Of which the cessation of actually living
Is compartmentalized into archetypes
Structured regiments of learning eating
Working sleeping consuming dying
.
Followed by the subset archetypes of
Race religion gender / genderless roles
Gun owners / non gun owners pitted
Against each from their safe archetypes
.
Think of all of the archetype
Regimented structures you
Fall in to or line up with
Just because they are present
.
Parent, worker, epidermis hue beliefs
Geographical birth language customs
Religion by region money by nation
Colorful rag waved songs you sing
.
Pride you take land ancestors took
Brands you buy sports you watch
Teams you claim metaphorically own
Beliefs indoctrinated into
.
All because you’ve nestled into
Comfortable “safe” to you archetypes
Mental structures of thought
Reactions taught life consumed
.
What is the alternative
Teaching what is known
To those who know better
Adhering to unnatural archetypes
.
While it is no easy task
To break free of or dismantle
Established archetypes you can
At least question and understand
.
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
Sometimes I wish
I did not recognize
That I am but a cog
In a very very large
Gargantuan never
Ending or beginning
Infinitely existing
Spiritual wheel that
While replaceable
Will just find myself
Elsewhere in different
Gears performing an
Allegedly necessary
Integral part of the
Whole functioning
.
On two accounts it
Would be so easy to
Either latch on to a
Grandiose notion of
All that I do is good
See things clearly in
Scope that my way
Is righteous and right
And am separate
From the collective
Or on the other hand
Strive for that illusion
By verbalizing thoughts
Projected towards
Other beings as less
Than being equally
Important cogs in
Said spiritual wheel
.
With the unlikely help
From different sources
Is how I’ve recognized
That cog perspective
.
My family plus
George Carlin
Bill Hicks
Doug Stanhope
Iron Maiden
Rush
Styx
Pink Floyd
Jack Canfield
Ayn Rand
Shirley McLain
Helen Wambach
Carolyn Myss
Art Bell
Bruce Williams
Howard Stern
Robin Quivers
Fred Norris
The Matrix
Star Wars
Groundhog Day
.
I could extend the list
But one can get the idea
From the core influences
.
Either through
Wisdom nuggets
Classic bits
Clever lyrics
Poignant paragraphs
Auditory Au (gold)
Casual repetition
Of known truths
Moving images
Laid out plainly and
Bare to decipher
For myself without
Indoctrination
Judgement
Force or
Invisible forces
Group gatherings
Weakly meetings etc.
.
I guess that makes me
…….Cognizant
.
Thanks for being here
In the wheel with me
All words are the words of God
Each and every never any
First or last one of them
I being the one closest to God
Not me personally rather just I
Being the shortest with capacities
Beyond rational definitions as
Such there are eight billion
Interpretations and perceptions
With no dictionary large enough
To render a useful description
For each word is a derivative
Of all the words already existing
As the never ending never beginning
Words of God occur eternally
Merely change in range of
Context content and interpretation
Language dialect pronunciation
Intention inflection audible reception
Spelling definition misunderstanding
Clarification through repetition
Utilizing more words to refine
Or confuse narrow or widen
.
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
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John 1:1
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Good and evil
Right and wrong
Left and right
Up and down
Heal and kill
Inspire and degrade
Love and hate
Tolerate and despise
Heaven and hell
Cause and effect
Peace and war
.
All words of God
.
Do you use the ones
Written on your heart or
Programmed in your brain?
Of an overused well worn cliche
Is its constant repetition renders it
Meaningless therefore useless to say
.
Captain Joe seems to be ending
His public statements with some
Version of God bless our troops
.
As some sort of unstoppable vebal tic
Manifested by the mindless yammering
That freedom is protected by mercenaries
.
Doing corporations biddings to secure
Resources instead of liberating lives
From the grinding wheel of consumption
.
For the Trillion dollars the government
Wastes of your hard earned tax dollars
Towards the military industrial complex
.
Are you aware of any specific skirmish
War or conflict the troops are engaged in
Allegedly protecting your alleged freedom
.
Time’s up…….no.. just a vague notion that
The invisible troop putting themselves in
Harms way for corporate profit resources
.
Gets “special” seatings on airlines plus
Other random discounts for belonging to
A group whose basic job is to kill people
.
Not to maintain some living liberation
Aquired at the point of a gun rather the
Freedom to buy stuff via cheap labor
.
Which if it didn’t exist wouldn’t need anyway
So the cliché continues like a hole in the wall
Behind the doorknob so you know it is there
.
Instead of demanding that fellow humans
Are not only not harmed but fed and sheltered
Sharing a basic dignity that everyone wants
.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
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– Smedley D. Butler,
.
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
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My unhopeful guess is that Joe’s tic is a
Slow and steady drumbeat march to an
Inevitable preparation for troops usage
.
So when an alleged “need” arises
Society will be psychologically “ready”
Having been given their weakly reminder
.
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
It is easy to see
What you don’t
Want to see or
What you want
To see if you just
Close your eyes
.
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
.
– Angelo Devlin
The projection
Of your fear
Is lurking in the cave
Of your sanctuary
Looking at the world through a windshield. 