The Waltzing Dead

In 2050, the <US> population aged 65 and over is projected to be 83.7 million - www.census.gov

See them shuffling slowly out of assisted living, squinting against the sun, groping for entitlements

Seeking out all sorts of doctors simply in order to have a human, anyone to just keep talking at

Fumbling continually for their reading glasses so they can call you once again, for an hour or two

Herding in limping troops towards earlybird cafeteria dinner specials, every afternoon at four

Huddled in volunteer clutches mindlessly repeating make-work civic duties, so very, very slowly

Gulping vast quantities of placebo supplements in a totally vain attempt to regain their youth

Bent over in shiny new sportscars, burning bald spots, bulky sunglasses covering dead eyes

Spiky white hairs sprouting in every direction from their ears and noses aid in locating their victims

Angrily sharing incriminating pictures from their methodical, daily dog turd inspection tours

So weakened by a long decay that they just keep telling the same tired stories over and over again

Displaying their rank in the stability-clutching pack by the size & number of their liver spots

Reaching out to hug you with arthritis-twisted fingers while first calling you by 3 other names

Pausing urgently every 20 minutes with the need to relieve themselves, yet again

White-haired, wrinkled, shriveled & pale - all ethnicities looking so very scarily, all the same

Stumbling through the mall in their giant no-lace athletic shoes, searching for conversational prey

Mumbling the names of 1800 costly Medicare-financed drugs they need to Ask Their Doctor About

Viciously attacking small children who accidentally take a step on their far-too-perfect lawns

Hypnotized by 24x7 televiewing into ceaseless, demetia-inducing repetition of Faux News soundbites

Unremitting in their howls for death to moochers and angry warnings to leave their Medicare alone

Drooling from the side-effects of potent anti-psychotic meds given to keep them still & compliant

See them painfully searching out the handicapped-friendly at Wal*Mart in wheelchairs & walkers

Their plaque-infested brains bringing on a brutal & obscene honesty which must be hidden away

Nonetheless, they clamor for supersized doses of Viagra and ineffective cosmetic facial surgeries

Laid out on stretchers, they are carted off by bored EMTs as their peers gawk amid pained whispers

Far, far too eager for everyone to start appreciating the vital importance of their bowel movements

Starting to watch their health - after 3 heart attacks, high blood pressure & obesity-caused diabetes

Unashamed of any of the 14 government-subsidized drugs they take like communion, 3 times a day

Desperately seeking only to recapture simple normalcy in a society that has no use for them, at all

Bristling With Dumbed-Down Canned Opinions

“America’s Strength: The Morality of Its People” - latterdayconservative.com

It’s not like they’re ineducable - These good working folks all test out around average as school kids

But, whiners say, the school systems failed to get them to absorb enough education to think critically

That is, teachers could not spin the curriculum entertainingly enough to hold their fickle attention

In any case, now they bristle with tough canned attitudes & fierce, but quite dumbed-down, opinions

Yes, they can loudly mouth the latest in god-fearing, faux-patriotic fake news in supreme confidence

They also know this fact: If it’s hard to read, it’s always boring, stupid, irrelevant and unnecessary

They can see they can get any info they might really need, in a hurry, right off their smartphones

But they can parrot tons of slick ads, worthless sports stats, cool movie lines & obscene hiphop lyrics

Many of them leave it to Jesus to sugarcoat all of those overwhelmingly-confusing metaphysical fears

Employers don’t need geniuses but they find these folks lacking, vis-à-vis simple Chinese peasants

Proudly-loud Harleys & giant smoking pickups noisily herald their quests for fast food & Asian plastics

They do have a deeply personal grasp of terms like diabetes, hypertension, obesity & arteriosclerosis

They’re OK with soil destruction, H₂0, pesticide & fertilizer overuse - So long as white bread is cheap

Addicted by conglomerates to factory food, they just can’t understand why they keep gaining weight

Coal-friendly, Clean or not, they bravely battle that climate scam armed only with old thermostats

Way too often they are far too loudly-eager to bomb places they often can’t even locate on a map

Their Creationist bedtime story is so remarkably lame that the best satire cannot make it any funnier

Their beliefs are buttressed by an unread Constitution & Bible plus media Traditional Family Values

Scoffingly dismissing socialist satistics, they know ours is thE finest healthcare system on thE planet

Ruggedly independent, they only grudgingly become welfare & disability moochers – by the millions

They angrily support phony political scandals ginned up by blustering rightwing media mouthpieces

Amazingly, corporate sports really is a highest priority in their short, but wasted, lemming-like lives

To them, working like servants for the rich, who program their ideology, is what freedom is all about

Their fix for the madness of all the mass shootings is to heavily arm Dad, Mom and the kids, 24x7x365

Their hatred of them dam regelaters stems directly from their freerange apartment cowboy heritage

They know recycling is st00pid & only for doped up socialists, unless & until they get paid for doing it

They realize that exercise is a waste of time, pushed upon them by smothering government nannies

To them, that overreaching EPA or Employment Prevention Agency should be abolished immediately

They anchor their ignorance to an unquestionable, childlike faith backed by loud & nasty attitudes

They always elect rich, old white conservative men who label them moochers and offshore their jobs

They harbor a gut-level hatred for those who would reuse, recycle, refurbish or, god forbid, reduce

Their outdoor recreation must always entail burning gas NASCAR-style on a jetski, snowmobile or ATV

They don’t need that damn Obamacare since they’re already used to blowing off their unfair ER bills

You can observe them in any of those 8 snack aisles stuffing their carts with chips, cookies & candies

Don’t quite yet get that living on 88% interest payday loans really isn’t a long-term financial strategy

Yes, proudly-ignorant & bristling with attitude they’ve cast away fool reason for unquestionable faith

See What You Get Do-Gooder?

No good deed goes without some type of recompense

Go question a soundbite maxim you’ve always simply parroted: You’ll get laughed at and belittled

Donate millions for rhinos & elephants but ivory poaching will remain profitable until they’re all dead

Work late nites preparing as a new teacher just to learn how school alone cannot save your students

Watch how after decades of work on diseases, ignorant vaccination superstitions bring them all back

Your football & golf viewing decreased slightly but real men still learn sports stats, not new job skills

Some stopped idling giant pickups thru fastfood takeout lanes – To waddle in for a couple of LottoTix

The snack food aisles might even get a little less crowded, but only if you can’t buy cookies on SNAP

The uninsured swarm for way-overdue free treatment by rich dentists - who need the tax write-offs

That evil BigAg is ruining our soils! Excuse me, I need to go spray pesticide, fertilize & water my yard

Your civic-minded tissue donation gives free raw materials to a profitable cosmetic surgery supplier

Hard-earned contributions to worthwhile causes line the pockets of slick non-profit entrepreneurs

Buy a quiet green hybrid & they’ll gleefully blow clouds of chipped-diesel smoke back in your face

Your clan loyalty is co-opted by corporate sports, factory beer & extruded snacks of sugar, fat & salt
Fossil fuel puppets easily repudiate solid scientific research using catchy lies & snarky-grin sarcasm

As you try to rid your diet of industrial toxins they oblige with clever false advertising & higher prices

Put away a little bit every week while those who don’t get even more new credit - Post-bankruptcy!

Write your congressman all the letters you want but…they only heed their anonymous Corpro-donors

Dutifully recycle everything while libertarians pickle such garbage in their family toxins: At the dump

You can join the Sierra Club but you’ll always still find new bandit ATV trails in your favorite places

Take your kids on their first fishing expedition but don’t forget: The catch is too full of poisons to eat

Respond to your innate need to faith & get fleeced by greedy and horny Religion Sales Executives

Question massive unaudited dEfense spending and be branded as a weak, unpatriotic, vegan coward

Ask about trying to break the cycle of poverty and get scorned as a foolish & out-of-touch snowflake

Protest neighborhood fracking with other families & have your concerns whitewashed & ignored

You can go low-flush but there’s no political will to address the oncoming global water shortage

Spend all your minuscule free time with the kids, but Big Media still dominates their socialization

Poll pro-environment while the leaders you elected gleefully gut all such agencies & their regulations

Safely dispose of pesticides but get poisoned by the toxins in your car seats, couches & mattresses

Fret over our long-ignored infrastructure decay but just sigh as so much publicity goes to LGBT issues

Own a dozen guns but be unable to protect your family against obesity, heart disease and ignorance

Ignore our vast food animal holocaust but don't let one multi-gen single welfare mom prevent a birth

Proudly display pink ribbons but let those gross prostate cancer sufferers languish in shamed silence

Don’t even whisper that all families & no single parents should be licensed before having kids

Just try to discuss a single payer healthcare system & be branded as a tax & spend, socialist nanny

Ask why capitalism drove us into a mass extinction and they will all know that you really are crazy

Question the reality of God’s mysterious, but horrible & unfair, plan for us all & you shall go to hell!

Therapeutically Oblivious

Cultivating a bland obliviousness helps maintain one’s protective lack of awareness

They would not see how their implanted & loudly-proud attitudes were tailored to their ignorance

Angrily rejected any questioning of their violent faith in laughably-absurd & decidedly-stale religions

Enthusiastically supported increased dEfense spending every single year – with no strings attached

Reflexively fought all environmental regulation with the identical, & phony, money & jobs objections

Never even realized how loudly they perpetually talked. Always about nothing. All of the time

Did not notice the household toxics coating the trashed recyclables strewn in their unconscious wake

Never tried to see how empty and false both sides’ opposing soundbites sounded when compared

Stayed blissfully unaware that tasty factory food was killing them & wasting their one & only planet

Somehow remained ignorant of the fact that all of their opinions were media-factory pre-digested

Soccer moms could not see how tiny & comical they looked encased in the carapace of a giant SUV

Lost their patriotic buying power so slowly that they scarcely noticed above all the social media buzz

Never knew that both sides handcrafted slick lies, parroted by their equally well-coiffed spin doctors

Refused to see how their old white male Traditional Value Conservative leaders always sold them out

Never dreamed that Corporate Sports were not actually possessed of a deep, true & eternal meaning

Saw no need for saving until they were permanently outsourced and left unhealthy & in debt at 54

Hadn’t a clue about the thousands of untested industrial chemicals in which they were bathed, 24x7

Mindlessly poisoned their artificially green lawns, even as their precious children frolicked upon them

Never noticed the dirty trucks crammed with tomorrow’s hamburgers, pooping in each others faces

Did not know where their clean water came from & never asked where their foul wastes were flushed

Instinctively opposed all initiatives coming from the other side: Willfully ignorant as to their content

Focused on the trivial, they had no time to consider the astonishing shortness of their consumer lives

Their pursuit of happiness encouraged a sneering contempt for the eco-devastation that it produced

Inflated by the media with hot air patriotic propaganda, they could belch ‘USA! USA! USA!’ for hours

Pecking blankly at their phones they missed just how fast their real minutes were actually used up

Oblivious to whatever mercury, CO2 & mountaintop removal they cheered on cheap, coal-fired A/C

Brushed away consideration of record temperatures, increasing drought, huge storms & rising oceans

Did not realize that clean air, good water & toxic waste control were actually not infinite free goods

Never dreamed their kid’s potentials were shrinking or that any possible grandkids might curse them

Never paid enough attention to notice that they fostered a 6th mass extinction from their couches

Remained blind to the ingredients in the factory-extruded, flavorized feed they were fattened upon

Were always too busy to exercise but steadfastly maintained they could not tell any real difference

Their pounds of useless fat built up so slowly they never actually noticed, until their Widowmaker hit

Remained frankly unaware of differences between in-depth analysis and snarky, buzzword-based spin

Deliberately would not consider that overpopulation was actually the root of all their real problems

Were somehow simply blind to how very tenuous was the existence of their benighted human species

Stubbornly oblivious to the end, they were all, nonetheless, recast into the void that spawned them

Free Range Apartment Cowboy

Aint nobody ever gonna tie me down cuz I got my pickup parked facin out, right in fronta the buildin

These here rundown aparmints are jest temporary til we save up enough fer a few acres of our own

I’m might git me a horse and the little lady wants a cupla chickens and the kids & dogs’ll love it, too

Yup, I cun see rite past the dirt, litter & dead cars of today to our beutifuel future, out on the range

We’ll be getting away from that dam overregelatin landlord always whining if the rents a little late

I’m following my dreams jest like my downhome country music heroes & that’s what really matters

Ya see, at night, when I git back home with a 6-pack, I know that everthing’s gonna be jest all right -

Unless them hindis next door start stinkin up the place with they whatever oriental tofu vegan shift

I grew up in a mobile outsidea town with dreams of ridin free range just like all them TV cowboys

Learned ta be the man I am fightin & drinkin & dinit waste no time on dum shit like readin or joggin

At last I learned the truth about that libral media conspirucy thanks ta the good folks over ta the Fox

Realized that pergressives are wantin to give over alla are precious freedoms ta that godless UN

Don’t need that dam obamacare cuz we aready got a good free family doc right down ta the local ER

Yeah, that’s our old couch out there with the resta the trash by the dumpster…piecea junk

Yella traiters are taking away our godgiven right ta bear arms by makin ammo near impossible ta get

And the dam vaccinaters keep buggin our kids at school ta have em get shot up with they poisons

Well, between this rifle & that pickupa mine settin outside, I monna take carea my family

Not embarassed ta use them SNAP cards fer food cuz it’s them dam socialists fault things are so bad

I’m hopin ta take the whole family down ta disneyworld fer a real dream vacation, perty soon now

And I’ll tell you what, we got us a bigscreen and I don’t never miss nonea my Big Games

I rilly don’t get why the socialists aint down with just bombin the sh*t outta that stinkin middle east

Guess theys jest too busy chewin that overpriced organic, wimp rabbit crap ta figure stuff out right

Like them nannies gotta some right ta get all up in our faces with they Poison Fastfood BS, anyway

But, I can ferget all about that BS when I’m blastin a new trail way up high on toppa my camod ATV

Dont take no genyus ta see that jest followin the holy bible & our sacred constitution wud fix stuff up

But no, they gotta invent schemes like that bogus climate change scam ta steal our precious sovernty

They jest don’t get how their over-regelatin only costs us good folks way too much in jobs & money

http://fantasticblur-taotekaching.blogspot.com/2014/01/filter-those-bits.htmlAnd ther bringin them illegals in ta take our promised good jobsa tamara they offshored us ta create

Then there’s this bullcrap about exercisin – now if that aint nona they business I got no idea what is

And freakin whining at me about my BigGulp MtnDews like they was my 2^nd grade teacher or somethin

Tryin ta take away the kids Coco Puffs, Frosted Flakes & PopTarts - I jest caint believe this crap

Yud think good old Oscar Mayer was some kinda islamuc terrerist the way they carry on about balony

They say my truck’s too loud and they caint stand how I chipped her ta cover em with diesel smoke

Then they whine cuz NASA spooks are collectin they phone calls ta pertect us here in the homeland

Well, I’m hear ta tell ya we done had enough of they fuzzy math, bad science & one world agendar!

Cuz all were tryin ta do is ta carry on by our God-Given & Fox-Enhanced Traditional Family Values

It’s Not About The Issues, It’s About The Spin

It’s not about the issues, It’s about how smarmy spin doctors can frame the political debate for their sponsors’ target audience

It’s not about twisting your wornout god’s absurd fairytales into silly pro-gun, anti-abortion diatribes

It’s about ignoring this human-caused mass extinction which civil society is also unlikely to withstand

It’s not about your phony political posturing, perpetual money-raising, foto-ops & legislative gridlock

It’s about the inescapable effects of climate change on all societies and the few generations to come

It’s not about their bullying, fake-media-created, propaganda-supported ignorantly-proud patriotism

It’s about the resources, opportunities & wonders we are denying to all of our possible descendants

It’s not about the ludicrous & laughably-insane sectarian religious wars each faith so eagerly supports

It’s about the already unsustainable, yet still-increasing, human population that is choking the planet

It’s not about how many new smartphones we stand texting, heads down, in long lines to buy again

It’s about our threats to so many keystone species anchoring systems that underpin our very survival

It’s not about our cleverly-stoked, quasi-religious patriotic paranoia over concocted political scandals

It’s about BigAgs guilt-free monocropping, water waste, soil erosion & abuse of migrants & pesticides

It’s not about your time-wasting but expensive yet absolutely meaningless corporate sports addiction

It’s about that bloated, wasteful, never questioned, yet ever-increasing, so-called dEfense budget

It’s not about flawed & incomplete, yet nonetheless, cooked GDP, unemployment & inflation figures

It’s about antibiotic overuse by BigAg & Healthcare & those super bugs lurking in your child’s scratch

It’s not about sharing your spoonfed beliefs & bowel movements on Facebook with likeminded droids

It’s about the dark cloud of superstition & ignorance that is slowly descending over us all: Once again

It’s not about constant voting to abolish Obamacare, knowing full well that it would never happen

It’s about not even addressing our failing power grid, internet, roads, bridges, dams & water supplies

It’s not about how good it tastes before it ends up as more ugly & dangerous fat around your waist

It’s about how it’s mass-produced and all the polysyllabic chemicals injected during its manufacture

It’s not about debating over which pompous, neophobic, old, white man is the most Conservative

It’s about factory fishing legally stripmining all the vast oceans for AllYouCanEat weekday nites out

It’s not about cheap air-conditioning provided by burning industry advertising’s fictional Clean Coal

It’s about coal’s mercury in your child’s brain, mountain top removal & record, coal-fired CO₂ levels

It’s not about your anti-environmentalist, black-belching, unmuffled, Faux-NASCAR-Military pickup

It’s about a proudly-loud ignorance which thoughtlessly destroys that which sustains such empty lives

It’s not about the artificially-created gravitas of abortion, gay marriage or gun control to either side

It’s about the 54% of black children who don’t have fathers & the 88% of them who live in poverty

It’s not about your constitutional right to rip new bandit ATV trails all across your federal lands

It’s about fixing a broken healthcare system – not merely wastefully subsidizing it thru Obamacare

It’s not about our CEO’s all-consuming focus on stock prices simply to earn yet another obscene bonus

It’s about absent corporate morality and their right to unlimited, anonymous, free speech donations

It’s not about the totally imaginary, so-called will of any of your archaic & wildly-implausible saviors

It’s about simply doing the right thing even in the face of the onrushing and inescapable, eternal void