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