if your not paranoid

[revolutionR]

if you are not paranoid
you are not paying attention
poetry does not exist in a vacuum

is the orange man already showing
his true colors

the oceans are crying
the forests are dying
the grass under our feet calling
each blade waits for an answer
each stone not yet overturned

the rain, the rain, has a voice
the wind, the wind wants a free course
when will justice finally be heard
the earth herself is calling your name
the flowers are not trumped up

do you listen orange man, do you
hear the cries in the trees of life
the birds, the birds hear your words

[saw]

when ego, narcissism collide with silver spooned immaturity the world could be in trouble...he sees nothing....lives entirely in his own head

[mnaz]

The answer is more pipelines!
(It almost always is.)

More more MORE MORE!

FULL EXTRACTION and plunder and greatness!

And so it goes, keeps going, ramping ramping up...

Note: Officially retired from politics (increasingly irrelevant).

[revolutionR]

Everything is so corrupt, that we can't get a real person to be president. We get a reality television person. This is not great. Reality television does not make greatness. All the bad stuff does not add up to great. Do you think?

[mnaz]

Yes I think. It's getting harder all the time to tell who or what is real, let alone great.

[revolutionR]

Ah what a life, in the late sixties I thought I knew what was real, so I took lots of LSD.And I marched on the street against the Vietnam war. Now nobody marches against war, they march for it, how the fuck did that happen.

[mnaz]

I wouldn't say that. The protests have gone on, at least where I've lived, though not nearly as large as the sixties, because there was a lot of catching up to do in the sixties; the reaction was naturally more intense because it had to be.

The last time a protest of any size amounted to anything, it was against global corporate greed in 2011, and we saw how that went. Rubber bullets and jack boots. Don't get in the machine's way and you'll be okay ...

[revolutionR]

Yeah, I'm thinking about people being funded to create chaos, not the real people who know what they are about. I understand why people don't like Trump, but whats her face was not going to make this a better world. If people are being payed to break things, then how can anyone ever have a real protest. On the other hand it was interesting to see veterans stand up to help the natives with the pipeline. I remember when all those protests were happening in Berkeley, those were real people, not payed idiots.

[mnaz]

Paid protest? Jesus, game over.

[the mingo]

I traded a pair of 'noids once for some firewood. It was good firewood too. Hard & dry. Burned hot. Whole lot of firewood vendors advertise their wood as "seasoned", well, "seasoned" can mean just about anything but dry means dry. Case closed.

I bet
every place
has some
Copperhead Road

2:14 a.m. what the hell am I doin' still up ? I got to bring in & stack bags of coal for my landlord's brother tomorrow at 10 a.m. - he's another Vietnam vet, Marine Corps, his health is all fucked up. He told me last summer,"I can't unfuck myself this time". He had to sell off his dogs too, couldn't take care of them anymore.