ending '21

 

 

Whose reality

What fantasy

Which community decides

and applies psychology

to authorize?

 

 

 

Even after all these years

and subsequent experience

certain moments shine.

 

 

 

Meaningful, and in that sense

valuable

 

 

 

Been caught up in the Holidays' wave

of creative bliss

 

 

 

Dare say it's evil -- the GOP plot to destroy

our economy and public health for

propaganda against the Democrats.

 

 

 

 

 

apparently people are unaware and happily so

of all the actual work done so far by this

administration despite almost overwhelming

oppositional tricks and ugliness – complaining

without knowledge makes it so much more

tantrumy and sad

 

 

 

apparently to be a responsible leader these days

you have to learn to go blind to racist/terrorist

messages in print, voice, and person

 

 

 

a real issue with a "free market" is that those

who have gotten to the top tend to want to stay

there and use dirty tricks, corrupt politics

and other unsavory methods to trample

competition thus rendering the market theirs,

not free

 

 

 

 

we used to have public education that

emphasized civic knowledge -- the point of public

education was to have an educated citizenry to

participate in a well reasoned democracy.  Now

our political reality is a Reality TV game show,

much more like football than Jeopardy.  It has

become the major tactic of a highly competitive

either/or to keep the public ignorant of how

our system is meant to work and

heap on the propaganda.

 

 

 

 

so you think the moment the bill is signed

the money will be distributed?  It is to fund programs

over time, more or less slowly spent.  Meanwhile, as

programs benefit people's lives, the economy will

be growing and people will need fewer services.

Besides, I thought it was paid for

through a billionaire's tax.

 

 

 

Of course some child credits would go for drugs --

people can't afford their medications or their kids'. 

That is addressed in BBB with a severe lowering of

drug prices.

 

 

 

freedom other than the freedom to barely survive

until you don't, is dependent on a well-working

social system that upholds that value and defends

it by acting responsibly.

 

 

 

 

The thing is that the costs are not the costs

but rather investments to improve the lives of

so many millions of Americans while making

it easier for them to work productively and

expand the US economy leading to greater

and greater tax revenues and much less

output for social services.  Then, there

are the environmental benefits to hopefully

keep a working planet without which

no economy is possible.

 

 

 

12/21-30/21

falling autumn exhalations

 

 

Our democracy is hampered by management

through a two-party system and their tactic

of keeping the general public politically naive

so it is all made to seem like a sporting event

rather than the hard work of self governance.

 

 

 

I'm not going to waste my time

on people who insist on being

oppositionally ill-informed.

 

 

 

If I want to live in an alternate reality,

as a fiction writer I have plenty of my own.

 

 

 

I am so frustrated by all you very

normal people who refuse to

act rationally.

 

 

 

Is this our worth,

what salary we command

no matter the calamity

attractiveness to basest desires --

viewing humanity as if we could be

better, moving toward health, calm,

acceptance of life's surprises.

Stop the despondency of angry

suicide/genocide expediency.

 

 

 

 

 

That unyielding need to protect

make wonderful, bursting my heart

so intensely loud -- yet nobody hears. 

How can that happen, this lack of connection?

 

 

 

You lionize people happy to sacrifice

your lives if they believe their dangerous

lies give them an advantage.

 

 

 

When I was a child

I believed the story I told myself,

that I was from a different planet,

sent to Earth to learn about humanity.

I would look up into the night sky,

trying to imagine my home,

where I belong.

 

 

 

 

 

12/13-20/21

weekend round-up

  

increase your critical thinking and be

suspicious as you read -- ask questions

and actually do your own critical research

review for any topic that holds your interest

 

 

 

we need a 21st Century Voting Rights

campaign, evolved from the '60s, to fit

our current threat to all of our rights.

 

 

 

who keeps voting for these useless politicians? 

who is doing the work to get out the vote, and

convince the electorate that we can have our

democratic power if we insist on using it?

 

 

 

 

I don't categorize people

according to erroneous color metaphors, but

by who they are to me.

 

 

 

Scream out your ignorance

on social media so we all know to stay away.

 

 

 

Completely merged with calm --

find how that feels, and feel that.

 

 

 

Beautiful music is a blessing.

 

 

 

an art project to merge my self into

and carry me through my pain.

 

 

 

I marched for Civil Rights, against the Vietnam War,

with the Yippies in the '60s.  I have continued great interest

in socio-political issues all through my life, including deep

reading, intense conversations, serious thought as well

as various activist activities. 

Instead of arrogant advice to educate myself,

how about you ask how I can educate you?

 

 

 

 

12/10-12/21

 

 

 

 

 

wild and overwhelmed

 

 

Bathing in the cultural milieu to inform

what art I may have left.

 

 

 

It's not about abortion -- not really. 

It's about the personhood

of the American woman.

 

 

 

Spread better information.  More solution

oriented, future looking.

How can we?, not Why aren’t they?

 

 

 

lack of civility, lack of recognition of the needs

and rights and responsibilities of civic life,

are the problem

Yes, people carry guns and harm none and

feel self-protected and that's fine. It's the

arrogant assholes who have to make their big

threats and statements about how people who are

concerned about their own and public safety ought

to be horribly murdered or otherwise destroyed.

It's those people marching, taking over the streets,

to spread their general disdain for their neighbors,

or their right to spread fear to make it clear

they are in charge

 

 

 

Unintended consequences

-- how our world is run

 

 

 

enough of this anything to get unwilling

Americans vaccinated -- get the vaccines

to all of the people in the world who want

them and those left will die off or find they

have natural immunity,

but the disease will get conquered

 

 

 

 

 

I have been seeing current events and attitudes

unfold in a kind of apocalyptic scape, diminishing

energies for a brave future when the very Earth

is becoming less and less reliable, along with

the political and social and economic traditions

we have come to depend on for consistency

and security.  The result is desperately suicidal.

 

 

 

 

Cynical scammers and the

pitiably ignorant they prey on.

 

 

 

Why is so much of our public discourse

taken over by middle school mean kids

who never grew up?

 

 

 

Winter nights can exude that sacred beauty,

so poignant and wild and overwhelming. 

Cold breath waking primal life. 

Gazing into the stars to welcome

the clear, icy surrounding of spirit. 

Winter blessed.

 

 

 

12/3-9/21

mutating inspirations

 

 

 

It's not (just) that it says:  You must submit

to our rule.  It's that it says:  You are nothing

more than what we allow.

 

;

 

Tuning in to the cultural circus

to find relevant response.

 

;

 

Timothy and James and Robin and me

dancing on the magic meadow to

The Dark Side of the Moon.

 

;

 

I gave you a precious, costly gift

of love, and you replied that I, a lesser

being, had no bargaining, no worth to bring,

a poverty project for your mastery.

 

;

 

I am becoming aware of the desirability

of calmness, of developing a state of calm

within from which to operate

 

;

 

why ought women have "abortion rights"

any different from a general right to medical

care with the issue being payment, not some

patriarchal need to beg the lord's permission

to tend to one's health?

 

;

 

 

Mutating attitudes, ideas, inspirations --

Which kill us?  Which help us

survive?

 

;

 

We need a significant legal response

to dangerous lies.

 

;

 

 

how about we don't stupidly confine

ourselves to these theories and look directly

at how we could best manage and distribute

resources for best social outcomes?

 

 

;

 

Encouraging anarchy, understand: 

wealth is dependent on consensus reality.

 

 

11/28-12/21