Friday, April 22, 2022

remember our heritage

  

 
Digital participation in local government,
especially when local newspapers are no
longer keeping folks in touch with meetings
and such, can be a useful tool for greater
participation, better self-rule.
 
 
 
All the horrible conditions, dreadful happenings
anywhere, everywhere, even hyperboles
and terrorized imaginings set upon us
via our ubiquitous media, hallmark of this
modern day.  To approach knowing who
we are, how we choose to invest or squander
our days, we need to break, to find each
our own voice and its best expression, each
our intersections with what is real.
This side of that social netting veil.
 
 
 
All politicians, all governments, all bosses,
all men, all Jews, all cops, all people of power
-- if they are all the same, all evil, no way
around their control and abuse, then all we
can do is complain into hatred, share
camaraderie of futile outrage – no blame
for inaction because THEY are all the same,
all evil.
 
 
 
Mask as veil metaphor of division.
Tribute to differing experience, vast
spectrum of concerns reduced to
politics of the extreme based on celebrating
hatred, not finding common means and ends.
Such a tragic life, unforced travesty.
Stop!  Think!  Feel!  What are you wasting,
denying yourself in your little time, little energy?
We get this precious opportunity to make our
story – take perspective and watch what you
choose to say.
 
 
 
Women, especially good-looking women, but
apparently any human with a vaginal hole,
born to burn
scapegoat, sacrifice
eternal servant yet sacred womb.
Human cruelty ubiquitously inflicted.
Atavistic need to eat, to amalgamate,
to become ever more.  Or less.
 
 
 
let's be honest:  life is not easy anywhere
for people who have to leave their homes
and everything they know, travel over difficult
terrain filled with dangers to a foreign place
where there are many who hate you
just because you are not them
 
 
 
 
don't know that clear bs is clear bs? 
time to take a break from media
and learn how to think clearly
 
 
 
I invest in a nonbinary view -- there are
always more than two sides to any story;
and looking for the nonobvious opens perspectives.
 
 
 
people without lives of their own
revel in the sins of celebrities
 
 
 
is it only a battle if we insist on a
war metaphor?  Can it, as many say,
be a journey or an education  or a ride
or an assemblage of experience? 
Instead of seeing a dichotomy of good/bad,
maybe it is stumbling and flying?
 
 
 
 
people have gotten so mean
 
how do we reverse this?
 
 
 
no, really think about it:  you are POTUS
with only those powers and all of the drilling
opposition -- What (exactly and how) would
you do?  How can you make that more likely?
 
 
 
 
It always depends on your definition of “good”
 
 
 
 
 
 
4/10-20/22

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