Strange Days Indeed;
Magazines, commercials, vacations, infomercials,
credit card -- saviors, flashing electronic billboards
flickering in every corner, America… Almost buddy,
try the better half of every culture on this planet.
Here's a thought, currently on the planet
Earth not only can you still find indigenous tribes
4 feet tall that are half nude, live to only their mid
40's, and hunt monkeys with blow guns, but also;
Less than a hour flight away, individuals that
make 500 billion dollars extorting the hell out
of every possible thing nailed down, or not,
from a cell phone, or laptop. Now that’s some
serious evilution. Perhaps Darwin did have a
touch of the Devil in him after all for defining
such a prospect? How's that for separation of
church and state? Do we even need wonder
why Bigfoot has been in hiding?
With so many things to be deathly afraid of
yet seductively enticed by, it would be a lie
to say some 'thing' wasn't happening, and
happening quickly to our world. Do you realize
we were still riding horses, and other pack
animals as transportation up until 90 Years ago,
HELLO!? Now we're shooting rockets to Mars?
Did I miss something? Did I fall asleep at the
wheel? Is my Tasty beverage spiked with
peyote buttons? The laws of Physics state
every action has a reaction, but some how
I can't find the original action of this
phenomena for the life of me, or can I?
Okay, so let me get this straight. We are
flying around in propeller planes and then all
of a sudden, after World War II, Tada, the jet
engine, and mach 1? What the F%#@! was that?
Alright, I guess I’ll Try to pretend WE REALLY
DIDN'T find anything at Roswell, New Mexico.
No aliens, no ship, nah, couldn’t have been.
Why would we ever want to study alien
engineering? We're the nice guys, we're the
good guys, we’re America. We wouldn't
sell that information to other countries that
would in turn use those same weapons against
us, would we? Look, there goes a monkey, get
it with the blow gun we borrowed from those
Indians we 'accidentally' Small-Poxed into
oblivion! If we wing it, we can sell it to a
zoo or just stuff it as a trophy.
Oh, here comes my Architectural Digest in
the mail. I bet I can find some guy with more
money than the entire population of Haiti
(If there even is a Haiti in a year)
building some remarkable declaration of
sublime aristocracy. Yes, here's one now,
Sir Bingo Gar, it says here Sir Bingo
(recently knighted by the queen of Whateverland)
plans to build himself the biggest castle ever
seen on the smallest Island he can afford.
It's going to cost 100 million, and is
being furnished by Martha Stewart herself
from a satellite phone from her prison cell.
Yippy, and we all get the supreme privilege
of witnessing it with him, vicariously,
Isn't that the cat's widest meow to date?
On tv this week? Absolutely everything you'd
never want to watch: Priests that bugger bugs,
children the fiddle priests, Jesus reflected
off of a donut glaze in Prague, a new electric
car that kills you before on coming traffic can,
and a new dating Show were everyone finally whip
out machine guns and get the love F%$#@$# over
with first. Before boring us to death with current
events from their home towns of Asshat, Idaho,
and Lapsnorkle, Wyoming (Where the president
goes to get his ten gallon boots and hats). On
the radio more of the same. On the internet,
ditto, but with extra tit pills and penis pumps.
Henry David Thoreau, and Monty Python were
right to “Run away, run away”, but once Osama's
caught? There will be no safe place left to run
to, and we will be forced to build rockets of our
own, in our garages and basements, secretly.
In fact, I purpose bomb shelters are a thing of
the past. But Solar powered solo rocket ships?
The next step in being fashionably brave yet hip
and politically aware. Now, If we could only find
a way to get some insurance on them, we'd be
in business. Until then, one can still always
pray that somehow GOD is in control. Look,
I mean if G.W. Bush has enough faith in him,
along with two third of our country's Christians,
things can only get better in Jesus?
I'm sure I'm just over-reacting, crazy, or being
paranoid. What's the worst that could happen,
besides the end of life on this planet as we've barely
come to know it? A few more Nukes sold here, and
there. A couple more high altitude stealth bombers,
and we should all be about as snug as some bugs
in a rug. I don't Know about you, but the middle
of no where is starting to look highly appealing.
Head shrinkers or not, I'm about to take my
chances 'way' out 'there' with the Indians.
At least until they discover Tide with Bleach
and a million different ways to cook a fish
in under 15 minutes.
/Strange Days Indeed;
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I'm really glad you liked it.
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Awesome, Im left speechless after this because its so true
-We're the nice guys, we're the
good guys, we’re America. We wouldn't
sell that information to other countries that
would in turn use those same weapons against
us, would we? Look, there goes a monkey, get
it with the blow gun we borrowed from those
Indians we 'accidentally' Small-Poxed into
oblivion! If we wing it, we can sell it to a
zoo or just stuff it as a trophy.-
Im so sick of the 'Im an American, I can get away with everything' shit that people try and pull.. and the 'Im so fuckin innocent, and Im an American..' sob story that I run into every now and then.. yeah who gives a fuck..
Mal -
It's a column, not a poem.
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WOW! That was a really really good poem I don't believe I have ever read something like it before. I loved it. Good Write.
Juarez
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Another amazing insight into this shitty ball of dung we refer to as 'Earth'.. I threw my tv out the window about ten years ago cos i figured if i wanted to be lied to, drugged and destroyed from the brain downward i'd just become a member of The Jesus Army or a mormon. Hilariously astute observations..
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"Almost, buddy"
"at the wheel."hhmmm, 'like a steering wheel'...
(get a grip)
"...as we've barely come to know it..."
Indeed.
Straight filth, humanity. What is it seperating these ...threads? I bounce between accepting and vomiting... -
and i've missed your work until now....
how???
going to have to fix that mistake
to quote the pumped up austrian
i'll be back.
~liz -
Good vent sweets
I liked it and it rocked
Keep on penning
Luv ya
Susan~~~
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such a anarchicly organized expression of the doubt that everyone is feeling about our bloody universe right now. It's crazy, and this poem is crazy, and it reflects well upon the all around craziness. Ahem. I'm not sure that made sense. But great read, it's always good to hear a vent. good work
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The earth may one day get lucky and mankind will cease to exist- maybe disease will be the end of us..or that huge astroid that is headed our way... Great read - interesting and very well written!
I'm sure I'm just over-reacting, crazy, or being paranoid.
What's the worst that could happen, besides the
end of life on this planet as we've barely come
to know it? A few more Nukes sold here, and there.
A couple more high altitude stealth bombers,
and we should all be about as snug as some bugs
in a rug. I don't Know about you, but the middle
of no where is starting to look highly appealing.
Head shrinkers or not, I'm about to take my
chances 'way' out 'there' with the Indians.
At least until they discover Tide with Bleach
and a million different ways to cook a fish
in under 15 minutes
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This is insane! I loved this piece, a little long, but who cares? The atrocities and misconceptions of the world collide in a dog-eat-dog world, where the main course is chicken fingers. What a mad, mad world we live in when we protest for peace and start rioting the next minute when someone with a different view comes along. Why not just hate everybody equal and get over our rascist mindsets? Because you have people who are ridiculously closed-minded and would rather bitch about rascism rather than trying to fix the situation at hand. Anyway, this was very well written and I enjoyed very much so; keep up the good work and I look forward to reading more.
Keep up the good fight; it's all we have left...
The Rev -
so true, so true...cRaZy world we are living in. nice though, this was nice.
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great insight into our crazy world!
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Oh well thanks... Yes, it's not a poem, it's a column, but oddly enough if read right, it rhymes in many spots. Can't take the poet out of the columnist aye.
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How can someone be so much talented? <---not over-acting. Wonderful write...not sure if this is a poem though.
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I don't think you're over reacting, and you are definately not paranoid! I think you have penned the most significant ill situations of a "progressive" society like ours.
We are preplexed, mismatched, unleveled, and totally insane, and boy does that make for good sattire. And to think, this is just the beginning of the troubles. This poem should be featured and I think it would be my pleasure to do so. There are six million ways to die. In America we can just pick one and sit patiently waiting for it to happen. Great work my friend!
Renee
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you rock my world.
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I don't think we can ever become clean again.. from the atrocities weve splendidly caused.. chaos,cosmic radiation,and much more crap than anyone ever imagined..
Good mind-prodding piece Nephew
held my attention long enough to turn the bloody news off ..just sick of seeing lies told uopn lies..!!
~GILL~xxx -
blow it all up and roast marshmallows or hotdogs on the flames.
at least i wont die a virgin.
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Run away! Run Away!
"evilution", LOVE it.
Yeah, we're pretty much screwed, aren't we... I thought it was really funny the big deal they made out of that power outage last summer (I missed it. I was in the woods.). Without electricity, we can't function, you know. We can't ask Dan Rather what we're supposed to think today. We can't get a Whopper. We can't blowdry our hair. Gets dark at night without Las Vegas beating back the starlight. I guess if we want to stay around (as a culture, as a species, even), we need to learn to depend on something more than the craziness we let people make for us. Of us. -
Great!
Yet another gem Horus8. Funny, insightful, true, at times scary and in tune. I only wish that it were longer, lol. really. I cant get enough of this shit. -
Separation of church and state, that called Devilution, isn't it? Thank God (for want of a better word) that someone has a brain, and I kinda wish you'd get your smug ass over here and do some poetry readings in England, wot is infra dig. Natch.
Funny as fuck, and I'm thinking, ok, you bastard, but hell ... there ain't many places you can get this kinda stuff without paying for it. Not that the Whorus8 wouldn't get ideas, spuna-isms etc.
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Im getting my war paint and following you. Just how many monkeys do we have to get a day to keep up the lifestyle we enjoy presently? Well what about the air conditioners can we bring them, um it would be nice to have a can of beans too but if that is too much I will stick with the air conditioner.......lol. I dont know why but as I read down through this horus8 i just kept getting faster and faster as if I were being hurled down a hill on a snowboard with wheels and a forced fan propulsion system until I wanted to be doing that hand to mouth thing like the indians used to do, or was that just me in my youth......lol. K, now that I got all the inner feelings out on the table I would have to say that I enjoyed this news flash of sanity, or at least I think I did, you didnt slip something in my coffee did you.......lol. Great write and thanx for spreading the word......quick another monkey get the dart!
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shit.. it's too long for me to read now...i have to get to drum lessons...i'll read it later..promise..
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its too true to be funny...bring on the parrots...
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lol i liked this i thought itd be like that Doors song "strange days" but it was better and more today! this made me laugh, though i know i shouldnt it really good, your really talented keep it up!
---Hannah
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