Ever get the impression
We are failing as
Human beings
Caught up in
An endless moment
Of consume
Distract and repeat
Consume
Distract and repeat
Satiating insanity
With no room left
For heart or soul
Only connected to
Disconnected connections
Overdosing on want
Plastic intervention
Rehab online
This must not be
Why we are here
Even as an aside
It becomes our
Distracted focus
‘Stead of being
Our intended being
“Being”
c : conscious existence
– m-w.com
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From
“Presto” – Rush
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If I could wave my magic wand…
I am made from the dust of the stars
And the oceans flow in my veins
Here I hide in the heart of the city
Like a stranger coming out of the rain
The evening plane rises up from the runway
Over constellations of light
I look down into a million houses
And wonder what you’re doing tonight
If I could wave my magic wand
I’d make everything all right
//
I’m not one to believe in magic
Though my memory has a second sight
I’m not one to go pointing my finger
When I radiate more heat than light
Don’t ask me
I’m just improvising
My illusion of careless flight
Can’t you see
My temperature’s rising
I radiate more heat than light
Playing a mind role
That doesn’t match our heart script
Time for a rewrite
A microscopic voice
With nothing to say
Whispering platitudes
No one wants to hear
Sustaining psuedo sanity
Closing Pandora’s box
Beating horse skeletons
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One whom can not seem to
Articulate his way out
From underneath a
Wet paper towel
To save himself
Or humanity
No ego there
(Yeah, right)
From such a
Pip-Squeak
Are coursing / coarsen
Through our veins
Like heroin
To a heroin addict
Addicted to dichotomies
That black is white
Up is down
Right is wong
“War is peace
Ignorance is strength
Freedom is slavery”
– George Orwell
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Why else would society
Accept the notion that
No one is above the law
Till “their” guy “breaks”
The law
Where as in any humble
Projection of the past
There is no way
As the sun will be here today
That the last
Oval office occupier
Would have gotten away
With a fraction of
The treasonously immoral
Impeachable offenses
.
I once heard of morality
Only to discover
It was herd morality
Pushed by an economy
The hamster wheel economy
As long as everyone is running
No one serms to notice
The cage is getting smaller
The screens are getting bigger
Sadistically satiating
‘Their ego empire
The ethnic rich
Their cruelty of class
Imitation opulence
Crumbs to look like
Cake to the masses
Cake to the masses”
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– John Trudell
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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”
Of our collective projection
Beamed onto a
Two dimensional humanoid
Who has no depth
Only columns and ledgers
Seen in black and white
Against a shadowy background
The only other color is red
Blood dripping / gushing
From greedy hands
Dried while lining pockets
At least 41 and 43
Had the audacity to
Conceal their crimes
Under the guise of wars
With most of the “media”
In lockstep with the deception
Now each outlet’s only goal
Is distraction
As it is all fake news
Nary a broadcast
Is intended
To elevate consciousness
Information is for
Information’s sake
Is not news it is
Merely gobbledygook
To keep you suspicious
Of your neighbor
Coworkers
Ideologies
Races
Facts etc.
Latching onto words
With duplicitous meanings
Holding on to the half
That serves one’s own purpose
If it satiates the ego
To believe “one” is right
Or one they wish
To align themselves with
Because the faith
In their internal compass
Has been left in
A sad state
Remove the hat
Remove the celebrity
Remove the money
Remove the bravado
Remove the ostentatiousness
Maintain the obstruction
Maintain the emoluments
Maintain the quid pro quo
Maintain the assults
Maintain the collusion
What would remain
Would be one very guilty
Individual one
That under the rule of law
Where no one is above the law
You would simply find
Someone that society
Needs to remove
We have the raw materials
We have the engineers
We have the machines
Just not the capacity
To make a butter dish
That doesn’t completely
Disarray and schemer the
Butter it intends
To cover and protect
An Abyss
A Cave
Consciousness
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What else
Were you
Thinking?
It is amazing to see and hear
What people are willing to put
Out of their minds
Ones that weren’t very full
In the first place
Those starstruck over stardumb
Ignoring the calamity
Stirred by a “d” class celebrity
Because every one knows
Who’d be in Gitmo
If predecessor 44 did the same
The investigations would be over
The key would be thrown away
Forget crowd size, collusion
Crumpling the constitution
Quid pro quo or numerous blatant
Violations of the emollients clause
He “should” be indicted for
Destroying the English language
Massacring the vocabulary
Speaking like a seven year old
Instead of a seventy year old
So horrific, it makes my ears weep
Contradicting his contradictions
In the blink of an eye
Or is his base just
Out of their minds
The basic tenets of power
Lie
In the premise of
Do as I say
Not as I do
That the masses swallow
Without even a teaspoon of sugar
Programmed like robots
Performing their function
Ignoring the corruption
Mired deep in consumption
The easiest distraction
The word freedom
Disguises the slavery
Debts owed to banks every
Digitally anesthetized
Spiritually compromised
Inflated ego aggrandized
Collective morality capsized
All because no one
Realizes their own
Power
Looking at the world through a windshield. 