Music
Commoditized
Like any commodity
It is worth less
Rather
Worthless
The more you hear
Of let us say a
Certain type of music
Seasonally
Whatever message
It has or had is lost
In the sheer
Repetition
Regurgitation and
Rearranging
Along with a constant
Jingle jangle jingle
Tying most together
In a sensory strangle
Don’t get me wrong
I love music
Most all kinds and
Lots of it
From Gershwin to
Guns n Roses
Irish to Iron Maiden
Eagles to Eminem
John Williams to
John Trudell
However if my surroundings
Were saturated with
A catalog of covers
Overused and overrun
I might get overloaded
The nuances and impact
Of lyrics like
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“Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man
Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins
Is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man”
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“If Eternity Should Fail”
– Iron Maiden
Or
“What you see is not real,
Those who know will not tell
All is lost sold, your souls
To this brave new world”
“Brave New World”
– Iron Maiden
Or
“My heart doesn’t hurt anymore.
Maybe, that’s what souls are for, to take the hurt the heart can’t take.”
John Trudell
And
“Now, believe is a word that I have a serious problem with, right, because it has a “Lie” in the middle.
“DNA” Descendant Now Ancestor
– John Trudell
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Would all but
Render them rubbish
If listened to
With a fetish
Conveyed in country
Or pulverized in pop
Become bland
Background beats
To senseless senses
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Is made up
It is make believe
Bwaha haha hehe
Chuckle snort guffaw
Started by religions (in Stone)
Implemented by governments (on Paper)
Maintained by corporations (for Profit)
Yet………..still
People will cling to it
Like a deflated
Life raft
To save
Not themselves
Rather
All of the other
Drown-ese (ease)
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THE LAW
Which sounds even
More ominous
When combined with
The ………..”RULE”
OHHHHHHH NOOO
“THE RULE OF LAW”
If we could just edge that out
As long as we’re making
Shit up
We could come up with
THE EVOLUTION OF
COMPASSION UNDERSTANDING
NURTURING AND GUIDANCE
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Nope………. too long
Too many syllables
Making it unmarketable
T h e r e f o r e …unsellable
As there is ……
No money
In that…….
Make believe
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No fines to impose
No prisons to build
No jail birds to feed
No judges to decide
No blind eyes to turn
No lies to tell
No records to keep
No weapons to build
Less graves to dig
No pardons to trade
No scales to tip
No profits to reap
No “authority” to pay
Honor & Fear
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Just human artists
Looking the #uck out for
One another as if
Each other
Was themselves
Because
They kinda are…….
And mattered
Because
They kinda do…….
If only that was
The LAW
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
I know I am going
To beat this theory
Like a dead horse
If for only my
Self satisfaction
Stemming from
What is becoming
My favorite Bible verse
The correlation that
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Which puts into context
A commandment
“Thou shall have no
Other gods before me”
“Me” being words
Therefore impossible
Word(s) God(s)
Already existed
Proving simply
Everything is was and
Has always been here
Which is really hard
To wrap one’s mind around
Since it competes with
The same source’s notion
That some invisible dude
Living in the ether
“Created” the infinite cosmos
In just six days and got sleepy
Then quit almost entirely **
Save telling people what
To do and not to do mostly
Through agents and messengers
After quite sadistically making
A tree of knowledge
That was not supposed
To be eaten from
But was enticed by
A different creation
Quite the dick move
If you ask me
Omniscience would
Have seen that coming
Not exactly a loving act
To be modeled and replicated
But a turning point
At the onset to introduce
Shame guilt deceit and
The inability to envision
One’s own divinity by
Always trying to live
Up to a false ideal
Of a father figure
That is there
In theory only
.
Holding on to impossible beliefs
Impede our collective evolution
Stop that let it go and move on
**
If you can create worlds
Stars planets humans etc.
Wouldn’t you help a
600 year old drunk
Make a boat?
At least throw
The Unicorns on board
Something………..
All Powerful means
All Powerful
“Just an observation,
maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Deaf in one ear
Can’t hear
Out of the other
Or rather deaf
In neither
Just won’t
Listen with either
You would think
With all of the
Banging away by
The hammer
Anvil and stirrup
Something would
Come in louder than
The voices in my head
Twisting words
Content and context
To my own
Paltering perceptions
Emotionally
Or chemically
Either way
There is
Not enough
Teeter for
My totter
No objectivity
Only self (ish)
Reflection
In a deep pool
Of malignant
Narcissism
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
In the hands
Of carpenters
Or demolitionists
(Where this should have stopped)
(Captain Obvious wants to chime in)
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How they are used
Determines what they
Build or destroy
Crafting eloquence
To inspire and uplift
Skilfully with passion
As opposed to swinging
A wrecking ball
With precision or
Reckless abandon
While both seek new tools
To perfect their craft
As the world rides along
On its beautifully ornate path
To catastrophic annihilation
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
The after Christmas
Post orgasmic
Emotionally exhausted
Completely spent
Souls drained
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New scents
Can’t conceal
The old stench of
Crass consumption
Toys gadgets and
Electronics devices
Pulled from now
Empty boxes
With pretty packaging
Thrown into black
Body less bags
Which are then
Driven slowly
To the burgeoning
Wasteland waste land
Land full
Heads hung low
Divinity’s discarded
Because the not so
Virtual reality is
Filling the planet
With sadness
While the
Global warming
Finger of blame
Is pointed
At corporations
The other three
Point at ourselves
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Always second fiddle
Never first
Nature Nurture
Combination of both
Who’s to decide which
Matters not
Don’t know how to play
Neither by ear nor score
Lessons never learned
The case is empty
The instrument broken
Held up as a prop to make
The orchestra seem fuller
Filling a vacant seat
Till the show is over
In other words
I do not know how
To conduct myself
Around other artists
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate
His teachings and model His behavior
Instead of honoring His birth
As that happens to everyone
Over 105 billion times thus far
Like any commodity
The more you have
The less they are worth
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What little I have read and
Deduced about the fellow
The least spectacular thing
Is how he allegedly got here
Therefore Christmas
Really misses the point
Carrying on with gross (as in excessive)
Gross vile disgusting consumption
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Stop carrying on you are adults
There is no such thing as
Immaculate conception
Besides
It violates one of the
Ten commandments
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THOU SHALT NOT COVET
THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE
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By proximity Joseph was God’s neighbor
That and it was probably against her will
# Mary Too # What You Don’t Know
We never hear her side of the story
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Can we get back or forward to
Some realm of reality
That does not attach
The unqualifications of man
To an *APAKALOB that has
Eight Billion interpretations
I believe that God has a plan
I believe that God looks out for us
I believe that blah blah blah blah
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“My God has a bigger dick
Then your God” – George Carlin
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“Oh, fuck, here we go again. Here we go again. The God excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, “They came from God.” Anything we can’t describe must have come from God.
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Personally, folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would have given you the right to some food every day, and he would have given you the right to a roof over your head.
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God would have been looking out for you.
God would have been looking out for you, you know that? He wouldn’t have been worrying about making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend’s parents.”
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– George Carlin
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Freewill is a nice concept
But it is delusional thinking
Rather a clever euphemism
For herd thought and morality
How else could you explain
That not one thing Jesus taught
Is really invoked in the 6 – 8 week
Lead up to His birthday party
Save cleaning out your cupboard
Giving old food to someone
You do not know and never met
Not exactly loaves and fishes
For all the empty bellies to fill
Hardly the reason for the season
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
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– Angelo Devlin
*(All Powerful All Knowing All Loving Omniscient Being)
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“Why then is god still protecting me
Even when I don’t deserve it”
“Sign of the Cross”
Iron Maiden
Looking at the world through a windshield. 