Too many people
Have the
Misguided perception
That
Some how
Some way
An individual
Can work
The system
To their advantage
Ignoring
The
Starvation
Pollution
Manipulation
Overpopulation
Consumption
Destruction
Separation
Corruption
All which add
Up to
Systematization
For one
Not wanting
To tax the rich
Cause someday
They too
“Might”
Be “rich”
Accepting
Unfavorable behavior
Case someday
They too will need
Plenty leniency
For theirs
Because deep down
Inside
The world
Would be “perfect”
If everyone else
Could cater to their
Malignant narcissism
Why hang on to it
That happened moments ago
Or as Bill Hicks said
We only have this moment
Or something to that effect
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
Philip K. Dick
.
Blood red
Bloodshed
First painting
Monsters
Then painting
Targets
On monster’s backs
Without abstraction
What must needs
Be considered is that
Instead of a bunker
Office hotel or airport
If the now deceased
General
or any other
Sovereign citizen
Of any * country
Was in utero
The color of
Righteous indignation
Quickly fades
After putting
Brown skin
Under brown dirt
By black holes
From even
Darker souls
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,”
– 45
(Not exactly 5th Avenue
But he did pull the trigger)
.
US drone strike ordered by Trump kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad
.
– CNN
.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. …
– George Orwell “1984”
.
Yet somewhere
Melting clocks are
As much of reality as
The ignorance not to
Recognize that all
The effort
To save fetuses
Is so they
Can be used
For target practice **
At taxpayer’s expense
By rich people
Against poor people
Causing even
Mona Lisa to frown
.
* (You know, countries
Those drawn lines
Of division
On a map that
Magically separate
Earthling artists from
Other earthling artists
Because either their
Wavy cloth is prettier
Language is different or
Their god
Has a bigger
Dick
Then your god)
.
** “Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
That may or may not
Steal the package
From your house
Isn’t nearly
As criminal as
The you inside of you
Who feels compelled
With the need to posses
Material goods
To fleetingly feel better
About one’s self
Robbed of divinity
Assuming a stolen identity
Incarcerated in a shell
Unable to escape
The security fraud
Shackling the mind
That says
It is this item
That will
Complete me
No wait
These items
Hey, I’m guilty too
Just putting it here
To remind myself
Of my criminal behavior
The only reason
There is perceived
Order in the universe
It is because
Ancestors said so
(In part by putting
An invisible man
In the sky)
After that
All else fails
When in truth
It is as chaotic
As it comes
Time we
Recognize that
Relax and enjoy
The chaos
Think outside the box
Rather the box of boxes
As if there’s no box
Illusion of a democracy
The best that $ can buy
Turning would be
Individual
Spiritual masters
Into unwitting
Slaves of consumption
Lead by “competing”
Manufactured ideologies
Disperate religions
Hierarchical epidermises
With every tool
At everyone’s disposal
Words, pictures
Lights, sounds
Flashing lights
With sounds
Strung along like junkies
With no place to crash
Stimulated by
Sensational dullness
Mixed into a
Dizzying array
Of discombobulation
Only sorted out
In the end
After each
One’s purpose
Is served
Clearly marked
By gravestones
Here lies
Humanity
Voted # 1
Destructionists
Of themselves
The only thing
Hard & fast
About society’s rules
Is how
Hard they are to follow
And how
Fast they are to change
Or is it how
Hard they are to change
And how
Fast they are to follow
The only thing
I have heard
As to why humans
Consume so much
Is that we are here
To spiritualize matter
At the pace
We are going
We should
Achieve it at
Break soul speed
I only know
What I’ve been told
Or perhaps read
Maybe even seen
Still doesn’t add up
To a reality befitting
An “intelligent” species
Looking at the world through a windshield. 