Let me get this straight

[mnaz]

Certain people don't deserve to live
if they cross arbitrary borders illegally,
sent back to hellholes that money may or
may not have created, sent back to almost
certain death in this brave new raw beautiful
multicolored Land of Opportunity out west,
where the only thing that seems to matter is
making money or winning political wars, and I
think we can make the world great again by
just grinding that out forever and raping the
Mother for every ounce of yield. She may yet
have locked in her crust million-billions but
She hasnt yet called it rape because that
doesn't get rapists reelected, politically.

[mtmynd]

It's so fucking disappointing
to realize our humanity is poisoned
and not willing to face up to reality
because reality may infringe upon
our ability to continue corrupting
our very being because we're "free".



good write, amigo... well said.

[mnaz]

do more with less, I'm thinkin'... Oh bullshit. Moremoremoremore, and then more more MORE!! What has less ever given us? What has MORE given us? One hell of a lot of stuff, that's what, and a seven hundred horsepower engine in a car-- Jesus, I'd like to feel that rocket rumble between my legs at least just one more time, sprinting down a ribbon to everywhere and nowhere, and goddammit you commies, you have no imagination, you could have mined all this wholesome excess years ago but you didn't, so don't you come around at this late hour trying to take our STUFF, or we'll send armies, I swear, and, and ...

(Thanks Cec.)

[mtmynd]

"... you have no imagination, you could have mined all this wholesome excess years ago but you didn't, so don't you come around at this late hour trying to take our STUFF, or we'll send armies, I swear, and, and ..."


We must buy and sell, trade and barter... without this game what would we become...??? Is there more to that?

[mnaz]

Sorry, I think maybe I channeled Dad there for a minute or two. He used to talk like that-- sometimes. The next revolution (already in progress) is how to deal with fallout from the Industrial Revolution. The mounting mountain of STUFF, insatiable drive for making and amassing more of it, how to dispose of it, and how to keep from stripping the place bare in its quest. (Of course I'm not telling anyone anything they don't already know here...)

[still.trucking]

sometimes I notice my thoughts
sometimes certain thoughts are associated with people''
for an example sometimes when wI think of Mark's dad I think about classic sixties Mustangs™
sometimes when I am frying bacon I think about my Last Duches
but mostly I notice my awareness these days

When I think about President Pence it is hard for me t get it straight
My thoughts slide towards the darkness
below the event horizon of my words.

These days I think about Mike Pence the next cog in the Republican wheel of karma

these days I can only stand in wonder at the wondrous workings of the objective fact space-time world around us.


Times like these I take Kurt's advice and listen to the music

[mtmynd]

We, the human species, may well be the living in our end times. We, the human species is now near 7.7 BILLION people and, think about this : we are all looking to achieve what our fathers and forefathers, our ancestors ... our past has given us this desire to conquer the Earth in any way possible, to use a false economic system to buy, buy, buy for the sake of our fellow consumers. That is how we have survived and got to this point in our evolution. It ain't too pretty... the see-saw balance of duality is quickly going on the down side... we've been "up" far too long...

[still.trucking]

let me get this straight brother of mine
going down again in a big bang or a whimper
the clockwork mechanism in human beans
that urges us to leave hostages to the future
and I am doing my best at the tender age of eighty
to see the world as a child

and it is all turtles from here down

thinking about why so many of my favorite writers were suicides
don't it make you want to rockandroll all night long

listening to hardcore rock and roll electric guitar and thinking about Mohamed's radio,
and thinking about going down
rocking
if I can't go down rocking I aint going to go down at all

mark please pardon another idiosyncratic ramble of mine

a pirate looks at eighty and
tries to remember the things he will be missing next September
till then I am going to celebrate another day of living
lets just party like it is 1940 again
I think I will vote for Wilson cause he kept us out of the war

[mnaz]

Yes, see the world as a child, and don't leave too many hostages to the future. Or past. I think that's pretty much it, Jack.
Cec, not only is a pursuit of MORE STUFF found spiritually lacking, but it's financed by houses of cards, mounting mountains of debt... But of course ya gotta have hobbies in freedom. If I wanta drive some fuel-inefficient (though humble and paid for) 4 wheel drive pickup truck into the hills then that's my business, even if a bike (or two feet) would be better...

[mtmynd]

mnaz, as you know everybody has, does, will do something that spoils the environment. Nobody is immune from doing *something" that screws up the environment. We can't help it as the whole damn human race continues 'racing' to win the illusive prize at any cost... afterall we have been brainwashed into the belief "wealth will but your freedom'... but you know better. Who as that Microsoft billionaire who recently died in his early 6o's..? A perfect example wealth can fuck up you health! Look at the psuedo-president who lives of KFC and diet coke... the man's mind is poisoned to the point that he is unable to remember what he promised America tomorrow... who only today made the claim "the caravan has mid-east terrorists and MS13 gang members... how sick can these fear messages continue making America more sick than before?

Take care, amigo...

[creativesoul]

The people walking towards us right now
Will save us later on
The truth is
The same people you need on the way up
Are the same ones you need when you are down
I think the actual physical impact that all these political people - persuasion- perspectives
Colors
Money
Medicine
Food
WAter
Kind human beings
Emotional roller coaster
Watch the news
Disparaging
Intrigue turns to revulsion
The war machine
Is tricky
All these guys claiming God gave them prosperity
Sign on the dotted line

[short timer]

Have you noticed how fat Trump is getting? Going to look like president Taft before he leaves office in 2025.

I can't hide it from myself, I loathe humans
except for the children but you know the problem with kittens

self-loathing
something I do well
a most insidious form of hatred

[creativesoul]

Fat is hiding
From yourself
As soon as I had to stop eating ice cream -
I started to see
The real me
Sometimes I think it’s because we are all not having enough sex
Intimacy
I guess after the 70s and 80s sex was dangerous
So then- what if we all send mr dump truck a bunch of healing energy
But maybe he is just an insane actor
I dunno
I have known drug addicts with stronger morality than the president
I still think impeachment is a real thing
Now all the freaks come out and run for office
A last minute tax cut for the middle class before elections
Whatever
If I lived somewhere it was possible to scream
I would