August Ides

 

If we get rid of the bullies,

the rest of us can figure it out --

And there will be a lot less to figure.

 

 

 

could it be that the anti-vax crowd is

hoping/planning that the mutations

will overcome the vaccines for their

self-fulfilling prophecies?

 

 

 

seems to me most gun control issues

are stupidity issues -- the stupidity of thinking

it so much more important to have unfettered

access to firearms of any type than to put

reasonable safety policies in effect.

 

 

 

 

News in the background, I was just

randomly reminiscing and realized

when I was growing up, learning how

the world works, my knowledge of "race"

was that people designated "Negro" were

far too often horrendously and unjustly treated

because of ignorant prejudices sent down

from the Civil War.  These injustices were

obviously in need of righting.  People do not deserve

bad treatment, bullying, being murdered, being

unjustly imprisoned, because some other people

who happen to have the power feel like being

monsters.  This is the basis of my understanding,

and of the people I have been close to or worked

with politically.  How is it not the understanding

of us all?

 

 

 

 

Martyrs to Covid -- offering their

(and others') lives that the virus might thrive

 

 

 

 

I get it!  It’s that vile guilt for

bringing children into this horrid world

you have not made better, or

children you did not want, didn’t

properly care for, made suffer for your

faults.  You need a creed to dissuade

that guilt.  To make it not you who could

have prevented that suffering but didn’t.

Abortion must be such a heinous sin,

impossible to contemplate.

And if it is such a sin, we can not

countenance it in our milieu.  It must be

clearly the kind of sin we call crime.

 

 

 

Don’t bother me with your anti-vax

rationales.  I have no desire to interfere

with your suicide.

 

 

 

That normalization trance

doesn’t work on you.

And you desperately want to

know how to make it.

 

 

 

8/13-15/21