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!

Not So Happy Trails

The homely gas clerk loved donuts with Big Gulps and smoked 2 cigarettes during each short break

She had no benefits but did get diabetes at 35, already 70 pounds overweight

She was dismissed for missing shifts too often…to sit in line for hours down at the local ER

The Righteously Conservative Evangelical developed a hungry colon cancer

He sold off his plumbing company and moved into a brand new Florida condo

He still talks to his Personal Savior and listens to The Fox there, bedridden on the third floor

The Engineer worked as if it really meant something for way too many years

He is summarily dismissed early one hot and bright July morning

He shuffles out with his treasured technical books and detailed, but fantasy plans for retribution

Mother nurtures her manchild who comes quite handsomely of age

That son is then very suddenly conscripted to join a war a world away

Mother grows old in a hurry, just waiting for a word

The Soldier trains diligently with his unit such that all will kill and not be killed together

He dies wincing in pain without ever seeing his enemy

His comrades resolve that, no matter what their cause, he must not die in vain

The Farmer toils quietly in the Spring and throughout a long, hot Summer

The army comes with guns and takes away his harvest

In a late December darkness, the farmer must sadly eat the seeds for next year’s planting

The Programmer worked under constant pressure, always behind on some artificial deadline

He off-shored mind still racing, he sits too quietly and alone in his empty room

He realizes shortly that, for all his feverish work, he is left him less than nothing

The old career Politician retires with all the due honor of his peers

He goes back to the place he called home, where he hasn’t really lived for 30 years

He finds he has no more deals to cut, statements to make or favors to repay

An aging Salesman is kicked to the curb when he no longer meets his quota

He still shaves and dresses nattily with a new joke every morning

But there will be no more responses to his numerous inquiries for positions

That senile Doctor made foolish errors that others had to cover up

The medical society quiets the furor and drafts his retirement letter

Now the people merely smile when he gruffly orders them around

The Captain of Industry is dismissed from his lofty penthouse suite following a financial scandal

His golden parachute floats him down into a wondrous sunset

Now, he lies awake in his locked compound avenging the imagined slights of former suck-ups

A common day Laborer cannot keep up the grinding pace in the terrible heat

He is no longer chosen from the long line of illegales seeking work

His dreams of returning home to buy a little hacienda must now be forgotten

A Lawyer grows disgusted with the person he has become

He is sickened by his greed and the alcohol-laced emptiness of his work

Comically, his mind seeks a judicial remedy for the self-loathing that has filled him

The former bomber Pilot flying cushily for the airlines faces a mandatory retirement

He looks forward to his well-earned, very generous pension and expensive travel perqs

Villages he bombed so long ago from far above without even seeing still remain in the stone age

The dissipated Real Estate Agent finally loses her last listing

She no longer has any glamour left with which to con them like she used to

Yet she cannot forego her lifestyle and quickly falls hopelessly into foolish credit card debt

A once razor-sharp Professor has his class load reduced to nothing

His agile mind was the envy of both faculty and students

Now he quizzes his patient wife many times a day regarding what they’ll have for dinner

The one-time all-star Athlete hung on until he was unceremoniously released

He misses the adulation and has no other interests, skills or savings

So, he drinks and gambles and sells some autographs, until his liver simply quits

That Man of God who, for years, led us down the righteous path is gone

He is but the shrunken, almost comic, image of his once-imposing figure

Now his children quarrel nastily over the estate and the income his name still produces

Though he was a Handsome Leading Man, now he is even denied a grandfather’s bit part

His loyal agent left him when he broke his hip and had to get a wheelchair

His young wife spends time with her gigolo as others manicure her tiny, snow white poodle

A Teacher for almost 40 years she still lectures anyone who happens by

She is active in the church and volunteers at election polling places

Occupied by the young for so long, now she strives to comprehend new lessons of her own

A happy-to-grovel Middle Manager, he was despised by both his direct reports and his bosses

They downsized him cleanly off their crisp and tidy new Org Chart, without a second thought

Those at the top reaped bonuses and he did finally get a part-time Temp job in Interior Lighting

The Office Bitch who terrorized us for 20 years but worked her ass off has finally gone to pasture

Her aggressive honesty a spiny affront to the false political correctness which we all hid behind

But, as it finally turned out, she did have something better to do than to simply irritate us

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

The Visually Unconventional Caste

The nicest among the ordinary say only that we have interesting looks, even as they are edging away

Studies indicate that our unattractive, approximately 15%, earn 15-20% less, throughout their lives

We are also the most likely to experience the Disgusted stare then quick look away phenomenon

Of course, with kids it’s different: They unabashedly point & shout: “Mommie! That man looks scary”

No sponsor is going to pay to have some alternatively-appearing actor push their fine products

We won’t get that promotion over a more attractive co-worker who just fits in better with the team

Girls, the cops wont think your clothing got you raped, but rather that your loneliness begged for it

Guys, you can always aspire to the Gentle Ogre stereotype to maybe win at least some rare pity sex

The attractiveness-deprived can find respect at some low station by working hard and keeping quiet

If part of another minority as well, they will stand last on the list of those requiring quota promotion

Sure, hard work will get them ahead, but never as far as others, for their every step is more difficult

So cosmetically-aware are all societies that even the sufferers always accept their lot as simple fate

There is no medical treatment, cosmetic or otherwise and no research for a cure need ever be done

Try and convince a jury that you weren’t promoted to manager due to your alternative appearance…

Media stars fulfill our hardwired drive towards a loving acceptance of only those we deem attractive

Still, our breed lives on forever as we can always (& only) mate with those of our own aspect caste

But, given the prejudice we live thru, is it any wonder that so many of us also turn to food & obesity?

Others will never understand how an unexpected glance into a mirror can bring on a deep depression

It’s actually a relief for the aesthetically-challenged to age since all seniors are deemed unattractive

At least nobody gets lynched or denied service – For we all accept our place, from early childhood on

Ours is no deformity or scar but rather, we are just the revoltingly-gifted caste & remain so for life

Yet, our mothers and grandmothers still love and nurture us, but cannot prepare us for our reception

We can succeed in heads-down, solitary careers as writers, scientists, geeks, plumbers, etc.

The luckiest of us manage to somehow actually overlook the prejudice their differences engender

Happily, many of the appearance-impaired enjoy satisfying careers providing healthcare to others

For their kind words and gentle voices are enough to calm those frightened by disease or injury

Their highly-homely-endowed faces are easy to remember during times of pain and confusion

And they make lasting memories of “that funny looking nurse that was so nice to me when I got sick”

But, often the facially-compromised are snap-judged to be mean or dumb based solely on their looks

And those of us who are also alternatively-gifted wind up with the jobs nobody else wants to do

We do not seek affirmative action on our behalf, merely recognition by others as to how things work

For we, too, look down upon each other as divergent from our shared & ingrained appearance norms

Devolution

- Descent or degeneration to a lower or worse state

Today there’s something to those pictures that makes me already look old & faded, even way back then

Always keeping so very busy engendered in me a background sense of comforting permanency

I ran the suburbs like a vast personal savanna and then crouched in front of TV like some smoky fire

Striped cat purred on top that old wool blanket on my tired lap during a tiny fractal eddy of forever

In the morning the world seemed born again until I rejoined the angry herd, in the smog, once again

The dew, though tainted with our mistakes, still made things look very fresh and wondrously clean

My takeout beliefs had grown cold and stale just when I needed their nourishment the most

I was unconsciously framing an apology even as I lashed out in blind rage for the 9 millionth time

Swirling into a hungover consciousness, I vowed one more time that it would never happen again

I grew confused as to what year we went where on which, long-anticipated 3 day holiday weekend

I kissed her again for the first time on that golden October afternoon, knowing she was gone forever

Given our circumstances, I found my almost daily depression normal, and my rare happiness a mystery

It wasn’t until long afterward that I realized how late it had already grown, even so long ago

Slowly I convinced myself I had lost my way, though really I never had a clue as to where I was headed

As my youthful anger slowly aged to a foolish bitterness, I still hoped to distill a few drops of wisdom

Even as we made our eternal vows we both knew that simple time alone would unthinkingly undo them

My seeming hardened indifference sprang simply from my being overwhelmed by insoluble issues

My safe habits had worn a familiar groove in a very small part of an infinity of frightening possibilities

I studied myself as I slowly devolved back into that dimensionless point from which I had no memories

I saw the four short seasons of my life morphing to an endless and dreamless, dark winter’s night sleep

A Mostly Empty Mass Existence

There wasn’t much behind their loudly-blared patriotism beyond a violent, media-induced insecurity

Twerking their devices was but the latest way of avoiding any unpleasant metaphysical speculation

Their lite, cool & refreshing factory beer was merely littered cans of empty, brain-damaging calories

Beloved news hosts were simply parroting paid sponsor’s highly-charged, truth-twisting fake news

Their sacred TV sports were devoid of real meaning but did serve as wondrous corporate cash cows

Dusty & irrelevant religious faiths were shown to be as effective as any miracle fat-burning placebo

The annual Christmas binge was based only on co-opted, hyper-marketed faith and sales guilt pitches

Their kid’s potentials remained virtually unlimited but...A dying world mostly denied their expression

Immersion in the richness of literary experience was replaced with a self-immolation in vapid tweets

Reasoned debate was recast as the simultaneous, loud & angry shouting of half-truths & outright lies

Sentenced to work til 75, most over 50 were permanently outsourced & broke - yet loaded with debt

Seniors searched for meaning in their empty lives via expensive visits with Medicare-funded doctors

A career spent asskissing, backbiting, shoulderclimbing & downkicking left CEOs empty, but well-off

Bulky legal documents, for which lawyers over-billed, were easily summarized in 2 simple sentences

All their pleasure from new ATVs & snowmachines evaporated almost as fast as the gas they wasted

The noble pursuit of individual happiness morphed into a meaningless quest for the Next Big Thing

The factory food they were fattened upon provided no real nutrition but did fill them with additives

Turned out the Holy Free Market controlled demand by depleting resources & exterminating species

Their greatest life experiences actually occurred in a numbed immersion in empty corporate media

All the sports stats, movie lines & snarky soundbites afforded not 1 bit of comfort on their deathbeds

Though filled with emotionally-charged & stirring rhetoric, costly political ads were very low on truth

Looking ripe & juicy under special store lights, BigAg tomatoes & peaches were floury & taste-free

Upon review, their many tweets, texts & updates proved to be as lame as they were inconsequential

All their patriotic chest-beating against gun control really only encouraged more meaningless deaths

They waited impatiently for weeks on miserly 3 day holidays, which they forgot in near realtime

The sacred doctor-patient relationship morphed into 8 minutes of computer questions & another Med

After 40 years of a wonderful marriage she quietly asked him who he was, whenever he came to visit

Most of their treasured artifacts were sold, donated or discarded by their busy remaining next of kin

They smoked noisily about in clumsy pickups with huge beds they strove to keep very clean & empty

They felt free to decry climate scientist’s fuzzy math though they themselves could not make change

Declaring people to be their greatest asset, they ordered new layoffs & hired more benefitless temps

Politicos had to be highly-skilled at taking 5 minutes to not even answer a simple yes or no question

The 8 snack aisles were a nutritional desert, but rich in subsidized fat, sugar, salt & toxic chemicals

Vast numbers were pushed thru schools & released nearly illiterate & innumerate - But prison-ready

The dignity & sanctity of human existence decreased in direct proportion to an increasing population

Every god’s brand of eternal paradise was a mere fairy’s tale but, at least, the faithful never knew

For We Shall Be Smitten

The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. – Isaiah 24:5

But, we are as nature’s largest filthy rats: swarming disgustingly & destructively all across this planet

Forever making heedless noise, rooting up the earth in a toxic corpro-pursuit of individual happiness

Producing huge clouds of evil smelling smoke burning our trash, right along with the lilies of the field

But, one way or another all this too shall violently pass without a trace in but a wink of geologic time

Our hatred of our brothers increases in direct proportion to our own insupportably-excessive numbers

We routinely loose deadly force upon each other at the international, national, local & family levels

Tellingly, our species has even been able to bring on the 6^th of earth’s great mass extinction events

Meanwhile, we welcome our next Dark Age, braying a loud, scornful rejection of education & reason

None of our 1 True Gods can protect His flock from the blind natural retribution we so richly deserve

Yea, the soils that our corporate overlords have poisoned shall in turn strike them down as well as us

When at last it becomes obvious to all, we will grow angry, asking why & then shout: It’s not fair!

But worry not, for we will go down fighting: Fighting each other over a few pitiful remaining scraps

The correction will not be vengeful, but rather a simple, blind and natural correction of our excesses

Yet, most shall tiredly insist that our misfortunes are the wrath of our many & petty, One True Gods

For as the wages of sin is death, so shall our reward for ecological devastation be societal extinction

We shall be smitten and, of course, we shall cry out in fear & anger, begging for mercy & forgiveness

Leaders note: All of us shall be smitten, not just the brainwashed moochers who keep supporting you

Though our population growth shows a steep increase, its decline shall be far faster & much steeper

And there will be no enemy bogeymen to vilify as the poisoned earth adjusts itself - At our expense

The blind hand of the marketplace shall be shackled by the handcuffs of resource over-exploitation

& all of their industry-backed, libertarian, fake-news campaigns won’t prevent our fall from grace

We shall at last realize that we have narrowed our precious children’s futures to a mere base survival

But through monstrous brutality and adapting to disease-ridden squalor they may carry on-for a while

Odd fellows, as monks once did, will again try to save bits of our wisdom from the returning Dark Age

Tragically, vast quantities of digital spam, tweets, selfies, updates & advertising will be lost…forever

Yet, fittingly, a geologic layer of legacy plastic litter shall mark our passing…for millions of years

But, not that long for the trillions of $ worth of weapons & ammunition we have so lovingly produced

Beacons of freedom shall continue to comically advocate for slashing taxes & regulations as solutions

But they shall not fail to cut infrastructure, education and basic research while increasing dEfense

Yet, all the expensive lobbyists put together won’t be able to protect their wealthy donor’s interests

So, naturally young men will be called on to bravely sacrifice in holy wars over vanishing resources

And still, none of our leaders will mention our own overpopulation as being the root of our vexations

Lo, that rabid anti-environmentalist shall be put down right next to this squishy green tree hugger

Media’s Traditional Family Values will not spare our exceptionist children being punished as well

The seemingly pointless suffering shall leave us with nothing to believe in…and little to hope for

So shall our most rich sense of entitlement be at last fulfilled: In hunger, filth, disease and ignorance

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

Cowboy Dowper

Under the Controlled Substance Act marijuana is <gotdam right> treated as a Schedule 1 drug - the same as heroin

A cupla hitsa that evil weed & I aint even wanta smack the livin shit outta some elitist LBQT no more

Why, sometimes when I’m stoned I feel like putting on headphones, closing my eyes & bein real quiet

I mean that shit makes me real, real peaceful - and ya know what? I aint normully like that-tat all!

And, it aint got nethin whatsoever ta do with drinkin cuz I’ve had that under control fer years now

Yup, soon as I put down that pipe I’m all done with like jumpin up ta start swingin at some dickhead

But that shit is bad & I wisht I cud stop cuz I can see now that I’m an addhict & it’s ruynd my life

Oh, lordy why’d them liberals ever go and legalize this brain-damaging, family-destroying poison

Its getting ta where I caint do without a bowl jest ta calm down – after a cupla days flyin on Crank

I been seein shit that aint there and hearing voices thet’re jest in my head & it aint Jesus callin

I’m tryin fer Disability now cuz my Unemployment run out & I just caint stop sucking the damn dowp

We split a 12 pack ta get fired up ta go do a crime but after toastin a bowl I just wanted a brownie

Yessir, when that dowp got me so by the balls I hadda get on the Oxy ta try and regain some control

And them phony resurchers are all sayin its like 114 times safer than beer - Well, that’s a gotdam lie!

Hell, I lost my last good job due ta failin a random drug test after getting high the night before

And I know that shit’s corrodin my lungs - Why I kin harly smoke a cigarette after doin a doob

Futhrmore, I lay the wife’s extry 50 lbs directly on all them bon-bons she pops due to her Munchies

I’m perty sure my lacka carear motevation stems directly from a longtime cannubis dependuncy

Look, I’m telling ya, I was always a good man til Satan sucksessfly tempted me with his green bud

After doin up a fat reefer its way too loud & not even fun ta go out & touch off a cupla hunert rounds

Imagine! when I’m high, even the noise & smoke from my own pickup don’t harly inspire me no more

It’s like, I wanna fight the good fight but that THC just keeps me too chilled out ta disavow socilism

Look, the dam ganga is a real threat to our naytional security & Traditional Family Values for shore

I’m truly thinkin that weed is one more weapon in ther vast & treacherus libral takeover conspiracy

Dont these people know that all thru our vilent history, alcohols always been the self-med achoice?

Just how we gonna smite them heathens if our boys are all stoned out, layin around playin bongos?

Why, studies show them dowprs are 87% more likely ta mistrust the Fox, Clean Coal & even the NFL!

The thing is that the CIA&NSA been secertly adulteratin kid’s dowp with mind control drugs fer years

Yup, and that evil plot is bein led at the highest levels overta that sovernty stealin Unitud Nations

I mean hits getting ta the point where I caint bear the thoughta wakin up with even a mild hangover

And the herb seems ta be cloudin my mind as regards such sacred issues as gun control & imegrayshn

There’s even been times I’ve had thoughtsa quietin down my bigo-badboy diesel pickup

Shockinly, my ATV, snowmobile & jet skis dont hold quite the same attraction when I’m all dowpd up

So all I’m axin is fer people ta wake up ta this menace that’s slippin up in all amongst us, so quietlike

It’s too late for me but maybe my story will help save one god-fearin gun owner from this addiction

Yep, yer families & children are all under threat of this mind control drug they want us all ta smoke

But, pardun me, I gotta go off somewhere quiet & do a bowl - Givin up my sacrud furedom agin!

Confusedly Seeking Clarity

I get confused trying to figure out which lame candidate is reading the biggest PAC-sponsored lies

Its hard to fathom how slick media mouthpieces can scoffingly dismiss rigid scientific studies so easily

I wonder why we try to export our values when our own family structure is so very badly crumbled

I can’t grasp how coal gets Clean just by saying that someday we might shove some CO₂ down a hole

Why does congress get 239 days off/year + healthcare & pensions but I get nothing from 3 temp jobs?

Please explain where the Southwest will get water when their aquifers and the Colorado both dry up

It’s bewildering how we let the roads, bridges, electric, water and internet just decay all around us

I’m befuddled by the fierce & loudly-proud disdain for educated rationality that’s so popular today

If find it disconcerting that my health benefits keep shrinking but my payments always only go up

I get confused between the Ask your doctor abouts and the Have you or a loved one suffered froms

My thinking must be muddled on those litmus test issues: I don’t find any of them too very important

I’m discomfited by cooked gov’t inflation figures that just can’t include half the stuff we have to buy

I’m unsettled that conservatives only want to talk stuff like guns, abortion & corporate welfare

It confounds me that the Clean Coal people refuse to remove brain-damaging mercury...for our kids

I get disoriented in the black smoke, C0₂ & loud noise billowing off all their fat, fuel-guzzling pickups

I puzzle over holding the door for an equally-paid co-worker leaving early again to helicopter her kids

I’m baffled as to why we all need to carry assault weapons in order to maintain domestic tranquility

I’m mystified that real men spend 20 hrs a week staring at other men bent over in really tight pants

It’s perplexing how all political speeches end with an exceptionist imperative that God Bless America

I’m clueless as to how they idle in A/C’d comfort in drivethru lines while billions subsist on $1 a day

I am confused as to how our savior-ordained stewardship of this earth produced a 6^th mass extinction

I’m flummoxed hearing BigOil tout a fracked energy independence - Even as they profitably export it

I need clarity as to why no one dares even mention that human overpopulation is our biggest problem

Help me to comprehend why we constantly cut social programs yet always raise dEfense spending

It is difficult to grasp how billions retain any faith in comically-silly & truly stale religious franchises

I just don’t get how we can piously ban abortions and righteously ignore all the poor, fatherless kids

Why would we re-elect the old, white men who already sucked before all they did was just say NO!?

What’s so wrong with profiling groups if they commit most of the crimes or all of the terrorism?

I get confused as Neocons reach out to latino voters while demanding border security & deportation

I don’t get how people let snarky, paid, political denial on CO₂ overrule unbiased scientific research

Why can corporations spout patriotic ads even as they furtively move their headquarters overseas?

I don’t see any good reasons except for ad$ & Dem votes that we have to have everything in Spanish

Explain to me why we must troll fake news scandals instead of rationally discussing the real issues

Give me clarity as to why insurers would ever compete to provide healthcare to the poor or the sick

How can gunning down little schoolgirls earn an ignorant, brainwashed jihadi paradise and 17 virgins?

I cant see why they’re convinced either the constitution or the bible pack unassailable eternal truths

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

Just Outside Our Pre-Programmed Maya

Maya – fr. Sanskrit, The illusory reality of the material world

Dirty rain can’t penetrate the pavement, so it quickly washes our wastes straight down to the rivers

Our billion tiny non-point sources are an uncontrolled runoff into their unsafe drinking water intakes

The magnitude of the devastation would simply overwhelm our minds, so we just smile and carry on

We are as hungry dreaming automatons meeting our simple swarm needs in strictly programmed ways

The vast fecal output of the mega-chicken farms leaches off & turns the bays & water supplies green

Every single home drips a thousand different chemicals, each and every time it rains

The innocent pigs imprisoned by the thousands stamp their contaminated waste into the groundwater

Model families spray poison on their flowers and over-apply everything to their artificial bluegrass

Abandoned sites still filter PCBs into streams and bays as well as into the flesh of nearby inhabitants

But, we are assured, this poison uptake issue cannot cross the species line separating us from animals

A dead space the size of Massachusetts is excreted from the Mississippi’s anus we call New Orleans

We tack up flimsy cellophane protective barriers around the new chancres of our ongoing progress

We roar across the shrunken Western reservoirs drunkenly shouting above our 500 horsepower din

Meanwhile, hot desert winds harshly evaporate the precious water at an astoundingly rapid pace

And yet, every single drop is spoken for, spoken for several times, in over-allocated state compacts

So, we clean out their upstream poopie but still drink of their vast array of chemicals and hormones

Turns out it’s far more cost effective to just warn of poisoned waters than to actually clean them up

Your kids should never swim with the remaining fish which we have tainted too badly for us to eat

But it’s OK, my precious children, you can always drink bottled New Jersey water & toss the plastic

And you won’t have to fret, cause you never saw, or even knew about, anything that was any better

Heavy factory fleet nets smash coral reefs that are already bleached out and dying from the warming

That’s after they came by with arsenic and dynamite to stun and paralyze their prey

A dead bycatch of seabirds, dolphins, albatross, marlin, sharks and rays bobs lazily in their wake

But, they’ve externalized the costs of ocean strip-mining so you can simply enjoy our weekly special

We institutionalize warfare, glorify suffering and commit ever-spiraling sums to our so-called dEfense

Only the truly wacked-out dare suggest that our divine Jihads simply quicken our own destruction

Countries encourage defensive population growth only to then fight resource wars to feed them

Conflict is simply inevitable so we know research to eradicate it would just be more socialist waste

We snicker at their fairytale squishy nonsense regarding climate change as well as global warming

Libtards dont dare ever mention how much money and how many jobs it would cost to even try to fix

And proudly every family joins the battle by adjusting home thermostats to their personal comfort

But one-worlders keep twisting out of context, junk science in their vast, conspiratorial takeover plot

And every single morning brings another half a million mouths to try and feed sustainably...

But only fascists whisper against the will of all our gods regarding our duty to be fruitful & multiply

So each day we add to our responsibility to squeeze out just a little more from just a little bit less

And no government dares think beyond simple food, shelter & jobs…and new breaks for the very rich