Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

America
you are a dead undead
zombie.
America your Constitution
isn't fit for toilet paper.
America you love the tyrant
of which you disapprove.
America you are the tyrant.

America you are a slave
to your own sense of pride.
You are afraid of offending
against the principle
of your own support
for the troops
so you send more of them die.
With support like that
who needs enemies?
You need enemies,
America. So you find
them here there
and everywhere. And when you don't find
them you make them.

Like you make, find / don't find
weapons of mass destruction.
America you are a weapon of mass destruction.
When will you be worthy of your own stockpiles?
America you have awoken from the dream of yourself
and now the bed sheets are soaking.

America I'm talking to myself.
I am a spilt person
ality. I am the two party
duopoly. I am the class struggle.
I am the crack-cocaine sentencing disparity.
America you are not even America
anymore
Latin America is.

America
the more bombs
you drop
the more you must reconstruct
and then the more you must bomb.
This is very good for business.
But it tarnishes the soul. Just a little
bit. Like botched hangings.
Maimed babies. melting icecaps.

America the land of limitless frontiers.
America the Empire of love.
America the capitalist playground
the liberal utopia.
America the stars and stripes
become as banal as a pin on the lapel
of a thousand brainless politicians.
Chanting in unison for war.

...

That’s funny, the other day at work we were talking about how the United States is living up to it’s national emblem – the bald eagle. Ben Franklin is the one who protested having the bald eagle as our national emblem because of it’s ‘bad moral character.’ [He sugggested the wild turkey ~ which is a really cool animal btw! Nothing like it's farmed counter part except for the 'gobble gobble' sound]

For all the bald eagles gifts; strong, quick, excellent eye-site, effective; it has negative characteristics also: it’s big, lazy, shit a lot and will steals other raptors food whenever it can.
It’s a predator; built for aggressively going after whatever it determines it wants as that day’s prey – and fits how the US is acting now.

The thing is, we are human animals; different from most other animals in that we can observe, recognize and overcome our base negative animalistic natures … if we so choose.

So far, Bush has shown he’s still very much locked into his base animalistic nature – and the negative aspects of our nation’s nation emblem. But other folks, like Obama; with his forward thinking vision and clear determination coupled with mindfulness … he’s showing the positive side of our national emblem.

Both are Americans; both representing different aspects of America.

Ummm ...
(just musing outloud)

For all the bald eagles gifts; strong, quick, excellent eye-site, effective; it has negative characteristics also: it’s big, lazy, shit a lot and will steals other raptors food whenever it can.
It’s a predator; built for aggressively going after whatever it determines it wants as that day’s prey – and fits how the US is acting now.

That's interesting. But are they really lazy?

e_dog wrote:That's interesting. But are they really lazy?

Yep; they wait and watch as another raptor catches it's own dinner and then fly out and snatch it right out of their talons.
Lazy ... cunning
(?)
Something anyway.

It was interesting - talking about the US is living up to the two sides of our nations emblem and then coming here and finding you saying essentially the same thing in your own expression.

e_dog wrote: America I'm talking to myself.
I am a spilt person
ality. I am the two party
duopoly. I am the class struggle.
I am the crack-cocaine sentencing disparity.
America you are not even America
anymore

Wow!
(for the perception in your expression)
and another
wow
(for the synch of it all)