precious human life

 

 

 

What if the purpose of our rare and 

precious human lives

is to make others happy

No, not that wimpy terror of upsetting, 

not fitting in, hiding ourselves inside, 

denying true connection

But using our time to develop and expand 

our gifts, to become ever more aware of our 

power to uplift, to delight -- 

what a wonderful world we would share.

 

 

 

 

Let's admit childhood

is no idyllic state

Bullied, abused, so much

more than loved and safe.

Give up your fantasies

of irresponsibilities,

that time to be young, free, alive.

"Wouldn't that be nice?"

spake each traumatized child.

 

 

 

As long as you vilify people

you are inviting violence.

 

 

 

Teenchild begging coins

for a slice from the corner

pizza stand.  People watching

to use that sparkle magic of

imagination -- better than cinema

or pricey stage.  Serious days,

nights captured in enchanted

awareness.  I know you couldn't

care less.  That's why I don't deign

to say, to try to share,

what would thrill me to ecstasy,

to immerse in freedom, being,

reliving, having meaning beyond my

mere memory.

 

 

 

Isn't the essential point of democracy

-- rule by the people --

to create and maintain a social structure

that provides for all citizens' needs?

 

 

 

I may not be clever,

but I am intelligent and persistent.

Over time I figure out what to do --

if I get the pertinent information.

 

 

 

Randomly firing scenes

my past -- stories like cinema

5D -- every sense re-assembled.

Quick and gone to another or

modern time for a brief return,

interim, clarity, distraction,

stochastic dance, ecstatic ride.

 

 

 

That's people for you -- caught up

in their little games

where nothing real matters.

 

 

 

If only it could be enough that it is

clearly the right thing to do without

needing fiscal approbation.

 

 

 

We keep hearing that rage makes us

engaged -- thus invigorated by algorithms

trying to maintain addicted participants

for profit.  I considered this common trope

and noticed -- rage does not engage me.

It exhausts me.  Yeah, a dopamine charge

for a bit, but then I NEED to disengage,

to rest.

What actually engages me is new ideas

or ways of understanding, and, of course,

being liked, feeling good with friends.

This can't be just me, having these natural

reactions.  Rather, rage only seems to engage

us when we've been so conditioned.

 

 

 

I know these things because I was there --

direct experience, along with the kind of

intellectual nature that studies and has

awareness of what I am experiencing.

 

 

 

3/17-24/23

sink swim float dream

 

 

 

scared people retreat into mobs

tear apart scapegoats to appease angry gods

 

 

 

 

it's not the medium -- it's the savage messages

 

we could, if we were so constructed, use social media,

society, social interaction generally, to make us all feel

better about ourselves, each other, and our power

to make a better world.

 

 

 

 

so we can't (won't) house and feed our people

-- what kind of an economy is that?

 

 

 

 

Critique?  Criticism? 

Are you being critical to

enhance, or deflate?

 

 

 

Thrown through silent tantrum

over denied specific reward

Calm! Find desired reward

in self-kindness

 

 

 

Why do so-called neuronormals

get to make the rules?

Clearly not because they're better suited.

 

 

 

We so want to believe

"I'm a good person!"

What does that mean?

To do what is needed

in each moment

to survive

to stay alive "to fight

another day"?

Learn each painful lesson,

and prevail.

 

 

 

Pallid Aquarius

bearing waterr along the great

North plains

from sea to sea

moistenin mouths parched

by icy winds.

There again, softly singing

these barren evenings

imagining

sparkle of twilight.

 

 

 

Not carousels and colored lights

softer, quieter, shining beauty

twilight from dark Winter

sifting into early sprays of Spring.

 

 

 

Tucker Carlson, playing his little joke

on the world

How he must chortle and guffaw

behind his pallid eyes.

 

 

 

We come up with schemes

to separate people

from their money.

Why is it theirs?  What is this

money we pretend to need?

Only what we collectively

agree to agree to.

Magical thinking on the Grand Scale.

(How dare you tell me the world's

not run on magic?)

We sacrifice our lives on butcher's knives

striking from some mage's spell

while mislabeling reality.

Open your senses.  Don't depend

on the spin taking you

anywhere you want to be.

 

 

 

If we all were in this together

we could keep everyone afloat

and find our ways to better days.

But none of us are together,

we sink or swim to exhaustion

or find our private islands to

parch and starve

believing the myth of independence.

 

 

 

Earth is not a never emptying cup

Ever demanding more, faster

expecting supply to meet

manufactured demand.

 

 

 

3/5-15/23

days of haze

 

everyone loves to hate our Congress

and they prove deserve it by refusing to enact

 one law that would be loved by all -- do away 

with these insane yearly time changes

;

it just occurred to me that anti-government 

types like to say people are like sheep

but we are much more like dogs -- pack animals 

eager to please our leader. clinging to our 

pack for security and purpose

;

It seems to me that the issue of student loan 

forgiveness is more complicated than yes or no

It doesn't matter ultimately (except to those

directly affected) if the debt is forgiven,

if such debts continue to arise. What is

needed are real and abundant opportunities

for education for free or reasonable cost.

Yes, people who are currently overburdened

by debts need relief. Perhaps allowing bankruptcy

would help, as well as forgiveness programs

for certain kinds of desired employment and for

those in or near poverty. Contracts entered in

good faith ought to be honored, but there are

different ways to do so with good sense and compassion.

and something like a corollary:

I have been advocating forever

for no financial blockage to

medical education. We need as

many MDs and nurses as we can

encourage from low income

backgrounds who understand those

challenges to health.

;

understand:  "capitalism" is merely an

 economic theory, used and abused (weaponized) 

over time

it is human beings who do these things

;

why rather give a finger than a hand?

is it because you think yourself too grand

to care

or is it that you fear a biting pain if you try again

to be a friend?

;

Those people don't believe in right

like decent folk.

They flaunt their sinful lives,

not hiding shamefully abased in guilt

for even thinking of condoning.

We can't have them near our children,

influencing through common media,

having say to make demands in our

common rule.

They must be made to suffer for

not denying such disgusting ways, 

as we do.

2/26-3/4/23