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The “Kids” Table

When you are a kid

That is where

You are put

As an adult

That is where

I wish I was put

Enjoying the

Laughter and creativity

Fun and spontaneity

Inhibition with regularity

Instead of hearing

Medical maladies

Political tragedies

Workplace woes

Can’t touch your toes

Alzheimers uhm (forgot)

Still better yet to

Get a much longer table

Remind the elders of

What they were able

Eat quietly while dining

Absorb the lights shining

From young-uns smiling

Without life deciphering

Skewed Information

To an intended audience of one

Along with 45’s cult (base)

Not only do I want

To hear both sides

I want to know

The inside and

The outside

But nooooooo

Like our

Alleged democracy

There is only

Left or right

Right or wrong

Allies or enemies

Masculine or feminine

Chaos or catastrophe

Up or down

When the sphere

We are on

Of which we are

Its spawn

Has none of that

No matter

The direction

We are headed

It follows a line

Back to ourselves

The narrow casting

Is getting more focused

Only to discover we’ve

Been hocus-pocused

Into a singularity of thought

Whether doing the dial dance

Or pressing the programmed presets

Always looking for balance

Nuanced perspectives

That hopefully enlighten and inform

But noooooo, that’s not happening

Merely opinions based on conjecture

Forecasts foisted in fear of facts

Malignancy instead of mindfulness

Shouting as opposed to searching

Noticing that one side (fox) isn’t

Any better than the other side (msnbc)

Both gearing their material for their

Audience as a way to keep them both

In concentric instead of connected circles

Meanwhile selling the same products

Between well scripted dialogue

Saturated in subtle suspense

Fooling the viewers / listeners

That what is coming up next

Absolutely can not be missed

Accomplishing the same goal

Hooking one in make purchases

Wasting the earth’s resources

Hocking (intangible) tangibles

(A better night’s sleep) aka new beds / sheets

(Safety and security)  home video surveillance

(Magic money) suing pharmaceuticals

After profiting enormously to have

Enough left over for the talking heads

At least one side got their employees

Seemingly from broadcast schools

The other from schools of shouting

Just a reminder for “shouting” Sean Hannity

Shouting will not

Propagate a truth

From a lie

No matter how loud

Or how many

Times it’s repeated

Complicit

We are all criminally complicit

Whether detractors or defenders

Kneeling at the alter of consumption

It continues because it works

Honing new skills each administration

Hunkered down in a den of iniquity

Why? Cause you can’t fight city hall

We’ve given away our power to the thems

With no clear way to take it back

Save some internal revolution

That transcends external authority

Guided by love, laughter and truth

Instead of the cruel rule of law

That adheres neither to rules or law

Merely the whims of the enforcers

Bike Riding

@ Home

On a -“brand-“ named

Stationary bike *

Under the watchful

Telescreen voice

Instructing one

To move faster

Work harder etc….

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Winston Smith

Heard the following

‘Thirty to forty group!’ yapped a piercing female voice. ‘Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!’

Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.

‘Arms bending and stretching!’ she rapped out. ‘Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! …’

– “1984”

– George Orwell

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Who knew so many people

Would unintentionally invite

Their Big Brother into their home

For a simple $2,300 down and

A $40.00 monthly “maintenance” fee

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“Orwell’s fictional society is one of absolute subservience to the will of the Party.  The Physical Jerks are but one component of the Party’s strategy for total control.”

– enotes.com

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You have no doubt, heard the ads

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* The hyperbolically

Relentlessly promoted

Exercise equipment

That at anyone’s worst guess

Has about maybe

$ 100 worth of materials

$ 200 worth of robotic manufacturing

$ 225 worth of shipping and handling

$ 75 per unit advertising expense

$ 2,300
– $ 600
= $ 1,700

Whole lotta profit

For a modern day coat rack

A Little Strange

Seeing how 45’s behavior at the

National prayer breakfast is

The metaphorical equivalent

Of him preforming an abortion

At a pro-life rally

 

Right after Arthur Brooks suggest that the audience of one or many, do what Jesus did, and “love your enemies”, even if you have to fake it. But noooo.

That is not in 45’s “Christian” playbook.

 

 

A Rolling Sophie’s Choice

Of which of the two

To save your daughter

Or send the other one

Off to certain slaughter

Like a day in the life

Occupied by stress and strife

Like the TV series “24” plot/s

Close to reality it’s not

Filled with anxiety derisions

Benign and dull decisions

Are given the life and death

Importance of life and death

Crafting concrete conclusions

From malleable opinions

Building reinforced mind prisons

Worse yet malignant moles

Churning out convincing polls

Constantly modifying your role

Focused hyperbolic intensity

Over and again leads to insanity

Only expediting soul’s depravity

Presented with useless options

With little or no corroborations

Ingested rhetoric regurgitations

Amazing what they’ll conceive

Repeated again until you believe

By those best equipped to deceive

Easily frightened again and again

By changing the face of bogeymen

Spooked either by a tion or an ism

Scared by immigration and socialism

Not by violence or destruction

Accepting deaths and corruption

Always following wrong instructions

Choices you think you have to make

By talking heads on the take

Are they real or are they fake

Best to ignore for heaven’s sake

Where as just going about your day

It’d be peaceful w/o emotional sway

Just listen to your inner voice

Realize there’s no Sophie’s choice

Attention Class

Please use literally and figuratively in two sentences, giving example meanings of both.

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Nancy Pelosi literally tore up a government document which could land her in prison for three years.

Likewise 45 has been figuratively tearing up the constitution (a government document) since he entered office, which could land him in the White House for another four years.

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Nailed it.

The Criteria

For bailing on 45’s SOTU Speech

“Should” have been any time anyone

Heard a provable lie / falsehood

They could’ve immediately got up &

Left the room in an orderly manner

It would have looked like something

Triggered a silent fire alarm

Of course the Republicans would

Have to have been hooked up to

Cattle prods and electric collars

For the person they despised in ’15/’16

Is now their de facto saviour

Because they have jobs to keep

Though their job is to perform

For an audience of one otherwise

Closeted skeletons will be revealed

Perplexed Perception

As hope springs eternal and

As words have meanings

Me keeps thinking that those

Who identity themselves as

“Christians” will behave as such

You know, more say……. like Christ

Especially those public ones

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(“I’m proud to be a Christian”

– Donald Trump)

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But hey, what do I know, I float

Between pantheism and atheism

Knowing beliefs are not real

Seems that pseudo identification

Is more like a motorcycle-less

Motorcycle gang without a leader

Merely security belonging to a group
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“If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.”

–Mark Twain

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Maybe, I’m confused because

Jesus himself doesn’t have a

Facebook page with his teachings

So everyone is left with the question

“What would Jesus do?”

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“They don’t wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!”

– George Carlin

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Yeah, Facebook is too slow

Needs to have a twitter account

To contact his worst student

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@superrealjesus

Attention Don, Please point out for the class, which chapter and verse says I separated families and caged children. Thank you. For Christ’s sake.

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@superrealjesus

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Also, please advise where I used WMD’s to kill anyone

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@superrealjesus

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Do you all have a different book that I had my previous students transcribe? Just asking for my dad.

The Results Are In

From the latest

Sleep study

Turns out

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We are asleep