“I’m tired of this back-slapping
“Isn’t humanity neat?” bullshit.
We’re a virus with shoes, okay?
That’s all we are.”
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– Bill Hicks
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At a time when we should
Be shining like diamonds
Many are crumbling to
Dust like chunks of coal
Under invisible pressure
Of faux survivorship
Hoarding for hoarding’s sake
Give it to me, it’s mine
Though it was on the shelf
For anyone to purchase
Leaving on a lonely ride
Driving up to “Devil’s Tower”
Hearing of, yet never seeing
Actual dead livestock
Or tell tale caged canaries
It is only the conspiracy
Theories that take flight
When all you have to do
Is follow the smelly money
And realize the tp mfgs
Were buried under overstock
A ruse to empty warehouses
At the expense of incivility and
Contempt for fellow citizens
“What, me worry?”
– Alfred E. Newman
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Is it just me, or am I the only one who wants to fly to China to eat bats?
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“The more bad news there is, the faster this system collapses.”
– George Carlin
GOOD
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It is a shitty system anyway
Built on mystical maniacs
Greed power and corruption
Deceit distraction and consumption
Predatory lending and unjust wars
Starvation in a world of plenty
Borders where no borders exist
Plighted to pick political parties
Categorized by surface skin when
Underneath everyone bleeds red
Deciphering and decoding truth
By those paid not to administer it
But it is what we’ve grown to know
So we were / are comfortable with it
Like a hole in the wall by a door knob
That if it is not fixed immediately
Soon you won’t even notice it is there
As long as we could make some
Sense of it assuming our place
Amongst the chaos and disorder
We have somehow made it work
Up until now. Thank you Covid-19
However like collective kidnapees with
Stockholm syndrome abducted by
Religion governments and banks
That have kidnapped humans from
Their divine nature and true selves
Forcing them to be pawns in a game
Of consume, destroy, hate and kill
Once released from voluntary captivity
Will need time to adjust to normalcy
You know, looking out for one another
Might not include shaking hands
Still you can lift someone up
Without touching them using a
Metaphorical hand to give a boost
Seeing as how your enemy is yourself
The ways of yesterday no longer apply
The allegedly elected leadership ruse
Has run its course failing every time
Natural leaders prove their salt w/o
The “need” to win popularity contests
The logic of meritocracy prevails
The best perceived analogy is that
A ship captain is not selected
From the passengers or crew
That can song and dance the best
(Which is what we have now)
Rather from all the planetary participants
Most qualified to navigate
Smooth and rough waters
With years of experience and
Skilled powers of necessary
Communication and delegation
To likewise be the best in their
Subsequent and desired positions
The best doing what they’d rather be doing
The best in
Charge of the engine room
The kitchen making sure ALL are fed
The sick bay making sure ALL passengers
Are well regardless the cabin or ticket price
All we have to do is sit back relax
Do what we’d rather be doing
Then watch the cream rise to the top
In each field in every endeavor
Seems to be the biggest plan
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Planning : the act or process of making or carrying out plans
Plan: a method for achieving an end
– m-w.com
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I have a plan
You have a plan
Steve has a plan
Robin has a plan
Even God has a plan
Though is not planning
On sharing that specific plan
More fun to mix it up
In a Rubik’s cube with
Altered or missing stickers
Politicians know plans change
So they plan not to plan
Save a few of the bigger ones
They have big big plans
Those big plans
Are based on theory
Their theory of big plans
Tethered to cryptic flow charts
If stimulus package plan A = B
Then outcome C
Will render reelection
Minus no plan for disaster
Go back to start
Try another plan
Discovering their only plan
Is to convey a different plan
That was just planned
So the public doesn’t know
No plan was planned
Wouldn’t it be better if
We had a do
No theory just do
If it doesn’t work
Do something else
At least something
Will get done
Starting with a single do
As all the above plans
Leave us with nothing but
Doo-doo
Which is not a very good plan
Deciphering images and sounds
Delivered from the same telescreen
How can we possibly know reality
Of the world around us or in us
Through devices that deliver
Fantasy drama laughter information
“Free” games ads medical advice
Escape sports war violence and fear
While its not so covert intention is to
Keep you consuming its buy products
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“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”
– George Orwell “1984”
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I’m so scared i need anxiety meds
I’m so sad i need depression meds
I’m so thirsty i need a corporate soda
I can’t smile i need a new toothbrush
I’m so focused I need a distraction
I’m so unsocial i need a beer
I’m hungry I need some quick MSG’s
I’m overweight i need diet pills
Or an exercise bike and treadmill
Those didn’t work I need a lawyer
I hate myself i need a wall and
Opinions i never would think of
I can’t sleep I need a new bed or
Outrageously expensive bed sheets
I’m so alone I need fake “friends”
Who will like and comment on
My dog, cat, kid and vacation pics
Or thumb up my political stupidity
That is sponsored by shit I googled
On a whim just two days ago
Someone might be at my front door
I need a door camera…..oh wait
It’s the stuff I ordered yesterday
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“They don’t want the voice of reason spoken, folks, ‘cause otherwise we’d be free.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t believe their fucking horseshit lies, nor the fucking propaganda machine of the mainstream media and buy their horseshit products that we don’t fucking need and become a third world consumer fucking plantation which is what we’re becoming.”
– Bill Hicks
If it was called by its technical name, nobody would give it a second thought.
Covid-19
But since it has that marketing feature of a name being widely known, but not commonly used.
Its fear was attached then spread.
Corona + Virus = a frightened populace
“Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country?
Have you noticed this?
The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections – salmonella, e-coli, hanta virus, bird flu – and Americans, they panic easily so now everybody’s running around, scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs.”
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So listen! If you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you’re not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit? I’ll tell you what you’re gonna do… you’re gonna get sick, you’re gonna die, and you’re gonna deserve it cause you’re fucking weak and you got a fucking weak immune system!”
– George Carlin
Right again
Would sacrifice whatever he
Is being blackmailed with so
The country as a whole
Could heal and move on
Even if that blackmail
Is the self aggrandized
Ego
Guess 45 is not. Hmmmm.
Or the extended alternate title
“More Information About Me Than You Cared To Know About ”
Comfortably isolated
Like a veal in a box
Awaiting certain death
Regardless of Facebook
Or the rest of the internet
My modus operandi
Has always been to be
Devoid of as much
Human contact as possible
It is not that
I don’t play well with others
I do, or at least try to
(Regardless of race, gender or religion)
Just cannot conform
To (group think) of either
Clear or vague parameters
Which seem to be
One in the same
Depending on the group
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In sports have neither
A team or a sport
Politics have neither
A party or an affiliation
Just a desire for a
Paradigm shift
To meritocracy
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** No religion too
For if you believe
In one, might as well
Believe in all, as all
Have similar stories
Just different names
For benevolent characters
At least until the followers
Jump on the * my god
Has a bigger dick
Then your god
Bandwagon
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Welcome also the
Techno check out bots
At the stores saving me
From malignant musings
About the weather and or etc. etc.
Plus, am much faster
With 20 items than the guy
Trying to buy a * bag of cheese doodles
With a credit card while listening to
The clerk describing his
Third colonoscopy for the fifth time
“I Like People”
“Now, you wouldn’t know it from some of the things I’ve said over the years, but I like people. I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts.
I don’t like people for extended periods of time. I’m all right with them for a little while, but once you get up, passed around, minute, minute and a half, I’ve got to get the fuck out of there.
And my reason for this, my reason is for one that you may share possibly. I have a very low tolerance level for stupid bullshit.
That’s all. Stupid bullshit. You know? And everyone wants to tell you their stupid bullshit, and a lot of them don’t know when to stop talking.
You ever run into that guy? Doesn’t know when to stop talking, just continues running at the mouth like verbal diarrhea.
Don’t know when the conversation is over. Stupid, trivial shit you don’t care anything about, things you’re not even remotely interested in.”
– George Carlin
I have zero guns
But think you should
Own as many as you want
So long as you don’t
Use them on anyone
Noting the people I know
That have the most guns
Do not use them on people
Just store most of them
In safes to secure
Their manhood and ego
Amused in their illusion
2nd amendment theory
That they and their NRA buddies
Can band together to go against
An already tyrannical government
In posession of tanks bombs nukes
Flamethrowers & weaponized drones
“Gun Enthusiasts”
Here are some more people with missing chromosomes who oughta be thrown screaming from a helicopter:
Gun enthusiasts. Yanno? Oh yeah. “I’m a gun enthusiast.”
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And I’m not against guns. I’m not one of those mindless Hollywood c*cksuckers. I’m not against guns, I’m not against bullets. I’m not even against people shooting each other. sh*t, shooting somebody is part of the American dream.
I don’t care who it is; parents, teachers, kids. f*ck ’em. Let ’em get shot. Doesn’t bother me.
– George Carlin
I am pro life and pro choice
The “state” should not
Be the arbiter to tell men
They have to go kill people
And then in the same breath
Tell women they can’t
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The people I take
Most seriously
Are comedians
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Enjoy every kind of music
Cherish any moment of silence
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I love my chosen family
My chosen family loves me
They must, after all
Reading this I don’t
Look too good
On paper or pixel
They are the ones
I mostly want and get
To interact with
Keeping me
Comfortably isolated
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“Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact
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Living in a fish eye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend”
From “Limelight”
RIP Neil Peart
Rush
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* George Carlin “bit” references
** John Lennon “Imagine” reference
Of human behavior
Has reached the pinnacle
Of passė predictability
Patterns of repetition
Repeated ad nauseam
Of an us vs. them mentality
Abusing the power of words
To the detriment of our
Collective evolution
Opining over benign minute
Bickering over ideologies
Ritualistic savages
Verbally praying
On each other
In order to satiate
Their fragile ego
Ignoring the fact
That we are all one
Divided uselessly by
Politics and religion
Race and location
Gender and age
Education and knowledge
Haves and have naughts
“Now, to balance the scale, I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences.”
– George Carlin
To the best of my knowledge
All of the bipedal artists
Inhabiting this Gaia
Consciousness spaceship
Encroaching 8 billion
Each and all have red blood
Pumping life in each being
Lungs converting
Oxygen into carbon dioxide
Digestive systems turning
Nutrition into excrement
Brains deciphering
Information based mostly
On what it’s been taught
Instead of its divine purposes
Which is to
Love
Laugh
Think
Reason
Create
Share
Build
Dream
Guide
The seeds of human trafficking
Are planted by purchases of consumers
Distributed by the winds of greed
Blown in the direction of capitalism
For the whole world to see
In its most cherished form
That of an NFL NBA MLB “free” agent
Signing a multimillion dollar contract
Paid for by the American consumer
Of Doritos Budweiser and Pepsi
Or overly preserved salty snacks
Fermented yeast and hop water
And caramelized sugary water
Led by coaches and bean counters
Where a tribal board of CEOs get to
“Own” “trade” and “free” their humans
The acceptable version of human trafficking
Broadcast live on any given network
Varied by season and salaries as to
How much revenue can they generate
By manipulating a ball on a field
To the cheers and jeers of the crowd
Whispered the coronavirus
The general public then went
#ucking ballistic with the
Bejeezus scared out of them
Screaming for an immediate cure
Meanwhile guns and automobiles
Heart disease and cancer
Unjust wars and capital punishment
Continued on their death march
Like no one was paying attention
Looking at the world through a windshield. 