Just don’t get it

[creativesoul]

I see my mother painting
Welding doll molds into planters

Nothing was going well
The dog the leash poop bags
It’s a joke

I forgot my water

Thank God for Starbucks

She was younger and seemingly happy
Bursting with creative juices

Before the changes

I don’t fit
The world just seems like a bad example of excessive
Consumption
You could smoke cigarettes off the ground there are so many
They call them “ snipes” street warriors
Living under on-ramp and not sure
Just what to do next
After collecting change in my house
I had 900
I bought a pack of American spirit turquoise
Organic
The first person I saw was a homeless girl
I asked her if she wanted one she said yes do you want two yes
She smiled I smiled
Empty shopping centers
And no money
Enjoy capitalism
I cannot support my local restaurant
S
I have no $
Which is not uncommon
Once again
I don’t get how we have unemployment and stimulus
Checks
I don’t Get it
The homeless girl was hugging her knees in the alley this morning
We smiled at each other
Friends for life

My mother is on the 13th floor

She is a two headed fish
One of her fish is out of water

She likes to say authoritative type things
Makes her feel intelligent and important
To be interrogated is to be loved
Whatever
I just keep saying “ love you”
Because nothing else matters


I think that the moment it occurs to you that
This brave new world needs our help
I don’t get it how
The climate speaks
In a language
That everything understands

[saw]

a sobering romp right through the middle of the state of the state of things
I like the honesty.....unadorned , unvarnished

[creativesoul]

And then the blonde dick- tater began to look like yet a barbarian
A person whom lives on earth but has all the sav- wa fair as a baboon
I think that the monkeys understand that this is not our circus
Speeches words illness have and have not
Stimulating stimulus check

So you can support your local restaurant
Give it up
Game over
My hair hurts I cannot imagine another four years with that - person.
All my spiritual experience is tested and I have to pray for him so I don’t be sick
How do I go forward from here?
Do I really have to move to Mexico ?
I dunno
I just don’t get it
How did we get here and how do we change ?

[creativesoul]

No sports , I guess
Things are pretty messed up in America 2020
Every day except for 12 of 2020 police have killed a black person somewhere
12 days of no murder
That’s it
15 minutes of fame or seven bullets in the back?
Do I have a choice?
Yes I’m white
People don’t try to kill me when I run

How can we make it better?

[creativesoul]

Sleep is a real strAnge thing here- bruises and b
Ghosts are in bed
Creaking , giggling-
Moaning .. whining laughing

The refrigerator speaks multiple promises
But how is it that the little homeless girl
Is there alone

My friend always says “ they are sick “
I used to be able to help people
Now I Am afraid
Because maybe it’s a little dangerous
Ten years later ; after my marrying a convict
I don’t miss excitement
I like being alone
I wish for more comfort
But I am ok
But I still don’t get it

[saw]

it's surreal
but the earth and its people
are being challenged unlike any still living remember
for the most part, sure there were some bumps
but were there as many crazy people
were there as many people that scoffed at provable facts
were there as many conspiracy theories
were there as many hateful morons
thinking hating is just fine long as wear your MAGA hat
or maybe wrap yourself up in a flag, I don't know
maybe it was always like this, just couched differently
but I do know the earth itself never had the current threats
so maybe i should stop worrying about behavior
and just think hopeful thoughts for our one and only planet
wish I knew the best way to spend my time
'cause it's running out

[mtmynd]

My mate, she tells me over and over
Quit watching, stop listening to the news
It only gets you mad and that's not good

But I try to justify it with "it's history being made!"
History never before witnessed in our country...
But there is nothing you can do about it... only vote

She's right, of course, but this Poli-Addiction...
It's got into my blood and I can't walk away
... I want to be there watching it as if it's all good.

It's NOT! It's a danger to our Nation and we all know it,
We all know it, WE the People know it and we can only vote
VOTE! Will the votes be counted? Christ! Why bring that up?

No matter the side we take, we all are hopeless and fearful
Fearful! That's not an America that should ever be. Fearful
Like a fucking horror movie the leadership doesn't care...

_________
Thx, all for the inspiration.

[sasha]

I find it hard to believe that there are still any Undecideds in this election - we've become two nations, all too divisible, each under our own gods - one composed of ideals, the other of silver and gold. We stand on opposite shores of a river, shouting and brandishing our spears - and my fear is that the Other Side, the ones worshipping the golden man-child, the ones with all the firearms, having been emboldened by their messiah, will not go quietly into the night....

[creativesoul]

Very well said Sasha! Did you ask other ppl what they felt the danger was? Most will say” I need to go back to work” Because all this conflict and poverty and injustice
On and on- just done- don’t get it

[jackofnightmares]

Sometimes I don't get your poetry but even those times it rings true.
just a fan in texas thanks for writing

the worst of the best of times
Where were you in 1943?

[creativesoul]

The dust bowl? I think of John Steinbeck and the stories he told of love and extreme poverty
moving towards the west

The dog laps up water in the heat
I love your writing

[mnaz]

We need to get back to work.
We... really need to get back to work.
I wonder if we understand what this
work is. Sometimes I wonder.

[mtmynd]

We need to get back to work.
We... really need to get back to work.
I wonder if we understand what this
work is. Sometimes I wonder.

Problem :: "In August 2020, the national unemployment level of the United States stood at about 13.55 million unemployed persons."

What to D00?

[creativesoul]

I guess that this is a good thing that knowing what the problem is ..
they say a lot of shit. Like “ if you work real hard you will succeed in America “

Our homeless population- except for the ones that died- is almost equal to unemployment rates- and the rents are astronomical- and cost of food is ridiculous- if I could drink quietly and die I would , but the firewater always got me in to deep trouble ..
did I have to explain?
No I cannot stop smoking
Organic American spirits
A parking ticket for 50$
Yep life in the big city pay to play.

My artwork sold to a woman that has twenty million
And is trying to drink herself to death
I know how to keep her calm
I try to shine light into her dark cave
Shine up the counters and floors

Sweep up the dog hair
Clean her ashtrays
Chuck the empty bottles
She’s so fried the electric in her house has gone haywire

It took forever to straighten it up to now
That arrow seems more like a boomerang
Whacked her in the head by herself
I leave

The sun is like flames on my skin
My friend said that I should leave her to step in her own tea bag
I would hope if I were in a state like that
That someone like me wild show up
But I just don’t get it
Really
I would be bored ; laying in bed drunk on sutter home Chardonnay
Sand is easier to understand than Christine