scifi nightmare

 

 

We knew it was coming, did nothing

And now it’s here

We’re caught in this science fiction nightmare

 

 

 

It’s not the power that corrupts

But the weaknesses it covers over

 

 

 

It’s not all economics

Even what is about economics is

Not really about these theories and arguments

We categorize as economics.  It’s about

People’s lives, and how we perceive them.

 

 

 

We are so proud of hiding,

of denying our true reality

to be safe within our

communities.

Our communities, that deny

our true realities -- where can

we truly be?

 

 

 

You imagine these people

"fascists", or any dehumanizing

"ist", when they are just people

trying to figure out this being

human, like you.

 

 

 

Fight mentality won't lead us

to Peaceful prosperity.

 

 

 

I don't believe in anything

while I believe in everything

Let the Truth fall where it may.

 

 

 

I have no say,

no authority.

I  fall in place,

I soar to space.

Crazy whore for that trace

of credibility, of something

I can trust.

 

 

 

The Death Penalty

War

Fatal Police Encounters

not Destiny

Escalated beyond supposed

parameters

so fast, as if this stopgap

ultimatum were our best and

only defensive remedy.

Who makes this disgusting

paradigm reality?

To what end?

 

 

 

 

it almost seems like tptb are happy

to make use of these dreadful conditions

to lower the population of the possibly

dangerous masses while they live well

in their climate controlled palaces

 

 

 

why fight?  Fighting just glorifies violence

and discord.  Why not find out what

these grievances really are, why these

people think they want authoritative rule

against their proclaimed love of freedom,

why they embrace violence against people

who otherwise would mean them no harm? 

Why not rebel against dichotomy and find

common ground in our common vulnerable

humanity and work (not fight) for better

relationships, communication, cooperation

for common goals? 

 

I see so many stories of hate and violent

temperament being turned by loving notice. 

People want to be seen, want attention and

approbation and as with the children we all

still are, if we don't get good attention we'll

opt for the bad.  Fascism is just another ism,

another deadening of humanity which is

better approached  with good  work than

more fighting and destruction.

 

 

7/20-28/23

the true human condition

 

 

You treat people badly because you can,

because it gives you a thrill, because it

never occurred to you that you could

as easily treat people well, and end up

with a much better feeling about yourself.

 

 

 

Why are these moments memorable?

Because you are being seen

by another living being.

 

 

 

Help me to understand,

Humanity -- why you seem

compelled to horror,

loud blasts that destroy

in an instant

lives, long built projects, what

has been bled for, cried for,

denied untold suffering to attain.

I see youu claim to love with

passionate generosity, to

lionize kind sagacity, to yearn

for the beatific freedoms of

peace and charitable sanity.

You clearly want me to believe

in your greater good.

Yet you blatantly express malice,

greed, unrestricted indecencies --

Why?  Why are you killing me,

every "me" as if you are not

in control?

 

 

 

Not the distance of kindness

but of kind of intimacy.

Bringing in.  Breathing in

musky memory, close

cloistered reverie,

when we were us,

a coalition  of love, of life.

 

 

 

Why go back in time

when every choice was

what made sense in the moment?

Even knowing what I do today

I have to better way to choose,

no clearer vision to scry

from this river of life.

 

 

 

Perhaps we believe how

other people treat us is

about us, how we present

to the world, our shortcomings

coming home to roost,

traits we can't control,

expectations we can't meet.

Perhaps we don't understand

the true human condition,

encased in separate realities,

not reacting rationally as one

might suppose from subjective

objectivity.

 

 

 

When I was training to aid

people trying to escape domestic

abuse, we were told men abuse

women because of their

internalized and socially

reinforced belief that violence is

an acceptable, even expected,

means of self-expression.

 

 

 

Understand that I will never

NEVER, give you any money.

This is a firm commitment I

have made.  I could support you

in other ways, such as spreading

your messages.  That is if you give

me actual information rather than

this bait and switch of suggesting

there is actual information that you

email, when in fact it is only fundraising.

This kind of tactic only results in me

thinking you are not worth my

attention.

 

 

 

It's not a democracy because

we vote.  It is a democracy if we

do the work to rule ourselves.

 

 

 

I don't belong in the world

but neither, apparently, do

most of us

Somehow we're made to believe

those angry bigots get to be

normality.

 

 

 

7/2-18/23

unsung multitudes

 

We NEED to let go of

Moral Superiority.

Admit, Celebrate, Embrace

We are each a mire of

ambiguities trying to wend

a way from here to where we

find some sense, some meaning,

tradition, ambition, clarity

-- some divine design or simple

formula.  Open eyes, heart, mind

to exploration of communication,

of community, of loving unity,

of familial warmth, of kind regard,

respect for all we've been through

and yet to suffer or smother from

-- the reality we try to deny in

cruel play that would so much

more happily, usefully, endearingly

be assuaged with humility of

true morality --

the consciousness to live

successfully in society.

 

 

 

You call this whining, tantrum

throwing toddler a man (to be

admired, emulated)?

You have your definitions askew.

A man is a mature male human.

This is an immature mess.

 

 

 

Innocence

is not what we want or need.

Healing from trauma and

so knowing how

is what we need.

 

 

 

Art does not require commercial

success, but necessitates creative

success -- the fruition of the vision.

 

 

 

It is not as easy for autists to mask

as the neurotypicals.  That may be

the real difference -- that the

neurotypical more easily falls into

social roles.

 

 

 

I am not

    good

   or bad

I am a complex interplay

of experience and consciousness.

I am a vagabond wanderer

    thru (within) time.

I gain social roles, a mansion of

windows, views to inform variegate

realities -- keyholes to worlds.

Too much, too many, to categorize,

to capture on binary code --

and yet but a human among

unsung multitudes.

 

 

 

 

why do we seem to accept and encourage

the "right" attitudes about who

we are supposed to be?

 

 

 

6/26-7/1/23

Litha muse

 

 

 

Litha

 

   Lifted from responsibility

slow fade into the Sun

and shade

Wither to go, flowing like water,

like wind a'sail

remembering bees and swift

furry beings that pepper the

wild of perfume and petals,

willowy beach along light

scattered pond endeared in

sweet smoke, sweet dreams

spiraling.

Penny + Peter + Gary + Liz

named faces smiling, raging,

emerging to wander, wend through

-- does it matter?

now that they vaguely remain like

tattered threads of volumes long ended.

Today may well depend on those dusty

pages, remnants rendered, dramas

past.

Today, instead of those or

possible tomorrows, laze, enjoy,

the Sun and shade.

 

 

 

 

Find some interest, then express it.

 

 

 

What are the responsibilities of

journalism?

 

 

 

Where we confine our understanding

of humanity, of rights to dignity,

liberty, equality, acceptability --

when we say "Me!" not seeing

these worlds of sections, of acceptable

exceptions to "we" -- such division

undermines us,

the underpinning, scaffolding of

every misery we create, enforce

for no sane reason.

If we would but include every

stakeholder in our reckoning,

a united approach to

our common delight.

 

 

6/22-23/23

when nothing matters

 

 

 

Work back from a clear

and consistent desired outcome

to find a path from here to there.

 

 

 

Focus on what pleases,

feels good, the pleasantries

of everyday, the shining beams

resplendent on each moment.

 

 

 

Politics comes and goes.

Background drama to distract

the masses.

What matters is business -- whatever

is necessary for the masters to profit,

to own and control the wealth of

the world.

 

 

Just another colorful character

in the vast parade

 

 

 

How dare such outsiders callously

intrude on our personal lives.

They would not stand for such

abrogation from us.

 

 

 

It's not the people in your life

who did this to you.  It was people

who know what they did and neither

know or care about you.

They were not motivated by malice,

but by greed, the worship of profit

above all.

 

 

 

Can't read/watch all this escalating

rhetoric all day long without losing it,

exploding?  Stop!  Just stop.  Go out,

enjoy the day, have some harmless fun.

 

 

 

Trauma, ghostly twin in birth

underlaid through blood over ages

The mother may be unaware of

this painful legacy

her child can not escape

 

 

 

realize we all have tribulations and

issues; no one here gets out alive or

unscathed, so do what works to keep

you sane within the chaos

 

 

 

 

lonely? feeling inadequate, outside?

have you tried reaching out to the lonely,

imperfect, yearning souls all around?

 have you found a way to say:     

"I'm another.  We ought to get together

and have some fun!"

 

 

 

 

we can always look to our own

shared imaginations of the world

we yearn for to decipher a route for

the path from here to there

Too much pain

Nothing left to gain

No blame

May as well get out

and dance in the rain

 

 

 

6/4-16/23

promote progress

 

 

 

Everyone says we need to

have serious conversations

about this issues.

Where are these conversations?

Who is promoting them?

 

 

 

You say the rights of the potential

child need to be weighed against

the rights of the potential mother.

But the right of the child is to be

born into a world that wants it,

a mother that is happy and ready

to care for it, to provide the love

and care and resources it needs.

 

 

 

there are people who actually believe and

act on the belief in human dignity and respect

unfortunately, there are people who believe in

what advantages them, while seeing a huge

advantage in trickster-like creating divisive antagonisms

it's not about the marginalized groups but about

the marginalizers who are happy to marginalize

and harm any of us

 

 

 

Promote Progress (not Perfection)

 

 

 

What do I want?

Occurrences that move me

toward feeling good.

 

 

 

At this age what matters is

home and family, to feel wrapped

in that cozy blanket of simple love.

 

 

 

Me

Within Eternity

 

 

Do what gets you through.

 

 

527-6/1/23

4/20/23

 

 

Wouldn't it be better

to accept our falterings, learn to

become who we might best be

than drugging into submission

in pretense of normality?

How do we find ourselves

in a world based on lies

on never being good enough

to survive by being real?

 

 

bits of molded clay

reaching to connect

with no valence

 All running together

bumping and bouncing in the

foolish fray

None of these really knows

what we're heading toward,,

yelling out memes as if that

were leading or even making

a usable sense.

To find that true guiding,

stand at an elegant apex

of balance, grace, upward, forward,

escape from those running fools.

Take a stance, hold a pose,

that of thinker, of artist

distinguishing prose and landscape

from hysteria, hype, catchwords,

emotional ploys.

Bliss, joy, outside the banners

and crowds -- unlock, expand,

run, jump, play, unbound.

 

Connection

Awe

Ineffable ephemera

Direct Experience beyond

the physical, beyond

defining, outside of

and yet the only

reality