Category Humanity’s Insanity

AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL      

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ On the anniversary of the Sandyhook School shootings and the aftermath of the Brown University shootings, both resulting in death and destruction.                                                    […]

If We Do Nothing

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Whatever petty squabbles, our power struggles, our profit margins, the foolishness which would sacrifice all because we’re not getting our due The bill is long since filed away, so deep in our psyche, we no longer realize how large the price has grown or how little time […]

So We Line Up

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ We set an arbitrary standard, usually learn by rote, without a sense of reason. No logic to how we vote, When directed by hate, fear, or both. We can then be swayed. Sheep who’ve been told they will be eaten by the wolf, so we line up […]

No Matter What

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Has the problem always been with us? I wonder. What do you think? Do you ponder the slow notes of the piano? Wonder at the length of time the sustain pedal is depressed. Surely, an odd way to look at life. It is close to the truth, […]

Another Dance

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Hear these steps of all soldiers dancing a waltz, on the evening before they are deployed. War awaits them, with certainty and horror; hiding the fear of death. Keeping their fear ever to mind. Until they almost wish for, hope for, pray for it to prey upon […]

Cover Your Ears

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Much like grabbing onto an electric fence; her arms locked, rigid, and she can’t let go. Constricted, restricted, hands become fists. What to punch? Who to punch? Maybe her, She cannot punch her child. Though after the fifth shrieking alarm heard tonight, she must rush out, away, […]

Why We Let This?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The machines move rapidly, creating life, formerly, our own.They push us aside, but can theyfeel the satisfaction of the jobwell done? Work passed down,father to daughter, mother to son. Whatever combination I call forth,will it matter? When everything is made by machines and we are left to […]

Who Knows

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Have I not suffered enough my life should feel replete, while not complete? Nature wonders at all my misplaced questions, ideas, my singular beliefs. Am I not here for this alone? Who knows the answers if not I? All the chances missed While I listened to the […]

Gather Our Folly

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ May I take on the travails of our small garden of Earth? No god or saint, I’m simply willing. Surely I must not be alone in this, the capacity to bear the burdens we have packed and long-shouldered? Through our hubris and false belief, misplaced confidence, we […]

Lies That Enable Us?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ There are so many things I do not know. Facts are there, but how does grass grow? Why may be a better question, I’m not sure. Because is too obvious an answer for me. I may never know, yet I continue to search. How did I find […]