We are all of us sleep walking,
all living a dream.
We do indeed effect actuality,
not in the way though any of us intended or will ever understand before crunch-time.
If we get our little treat we think we've done something.
We are all functioning in the waking gestalts we consider to be reality,
many think that their limited experience is a guage,
within a moment of its existence it seems to attain the weight,
to sustain itself when balanced,
against the truth of all things.
The actuality of the diverse channels we are all involved in,
has very little relevance to us,
despite how arrogant the eyes and mind may be,
their reaction does effect everything.
At least they acknowledge the weight of every percieved decision.
We all change the world every day,
but just as often in places we never have the chance to imagine.
This simple spot is where we are broken.
Maybe in another part of the universe.
Likely in some specific time the perpetrator has no idea their actions control.
Maligned perhaps.
We have performed a profound service to humanity,
by throwing a ladder angrily into the window.
It does not matter how you feel about your actions.
This idea of us created the catharsis and exists and guides us all the same.
We do not know what we are doing here.
We should own that.
It's unnerving how even the most clinical and maniacally conservative of us soldier on.
Eventually though we potentially all come to some rationalization.
In every moment of desperation,
our values become more important.
We have to dig in to the tool box at some point,
or sit there stupid and silent while the world passes by.
We are animals,
and the beast controls every one of our thoughts.
The only useful laws are written as guidelines,
never needing to be enforced.
If you don't agree you can come but you just don't get in.
The principal authors of the constitution of the united states,
tried to acknowledge and have tried to decree...
the truth they knew.
They had already found there was no measure for it,
before they came to the table.
They themselves only rendered a few idealized guidlines.
Trying to make the intangible idea of utopia become something we could all recognize.
I suspect they were hoping we'd expand on that.
Once we dropped that old englich baggage.
We did sort of carry that with us.
It is not about what we are and how we should conduct ourselves throughout infinity.
The founders of America tried to make peace with themselves.
If you're ever going to do America.
Now is the time.
They never said anyone was going to do it for us.
They only tried to show us how.
The process has been infiltrated.
If you read on; someone you can probably not identify has some shit on you.
Or at the very least believe they do.
All you need is to believe in something,
almost anything....
get the numbers and know how to exact change.
If you don't though,
it's probably going to happen anyhow,
by those who don't even know they're participating.
Everyone who doesn't recognize and break the fear...
contributes.
This could be you.
The universe doesn't have to be embaressed or explain itself.
We're made of the same stuff.
Why do we think we should apologize?
Not for being molesters coveting the exotic,
or thieves, attempting to take that which we believe isn't owed to us
not for trading information freely, even though they tell us we're stealing a fucking Jaguar.
Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's ecumenical.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's damaging the individuals who constitute society.
Humans do what they want,
what they can get away with.
So do the corporate interests,
whose goal, nearly as strong as our survival...
is the bottom line.
The bottom line is all broken now.
Who buggered the law in spirit and letter?
Who fucked up?
Who did the wrong thing?
Who allowed them to own and dole out the water, the air, the land, the ideas?
Us. In fear...over time...we let the laws pass.
We're going to do it over and over again for awhile.
Corporations do not deserve human rights, they are not entitled to them.
This one simple acknowledgement could put us on the right path.
Taking away the rights of corporations to be entities,
is an absurd notion we live with every day.
I don't think they're going away very soon.
If a dozen, a hundred, or a thousand voices, can speak with no fear of repurcussion,
share their resources,
tow the line,
why shouldn't I share the same power to say what I think?
If I can't (and I can't) the game is rigged.
The game is rigged.
The only small advantage I have is that I know it.
Author notes
I've spent an absurd amout of time writing this. It was a concept...and even the base of it just kept wavering between what we are, what we do, and what we accomplish...then gets sort of preachy...sorry...but I wrote it...so here it is.
You percieve things, and form opinions. How could you ever as a human be right though? There's no empiric answer.And so many alternatives.
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I felt that this was an essay trying to be a poem. All of your thoughts are fully-formed, complex sentences. You make a lot of good points and have some interesting metaphors and viewpoints, but on the whole I feel this is too wordy-- like the same thing is said multiple times not for emphasis, but for length.
Also, in the line "their reaction does effect everything", the word should be "affect" with an 'a'. -
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Everything was injected into the piece for emphasis. I poured over this piece after every little edit, and poured over it again. In the end though the effect is as you say. I'm sure this could be boiled down to its essence and retain it's meaning. Given another 4 hours of writing I might have done so. I was pretty exhausted at the end. When I feel ambitious I'll revisit this piece and try to say the least that needs to be said to express more exactly that subtle truth I almost accomplished.
Thanks for the effect affect correction. It's amazing the simple principles you miss when you're obsessively writing. I've noticed a few myself but haven't corrected them yet.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
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Good bits; needs pruning
There are some awesome bits to this one, but the length detracts from it, in my opinion. I found that I would catch a current of meaning and think, "Ooo, now we are going somewhere" but then I'd get pulled into a thought-numbing whirlpool of side-lines and preachiness. For example, I really enjoyed the first 6 lines, as well as:
"despite how arrogant the eyes and mind may be,
their reaction does effect everything."
and
"The universe doesn't have to be embaressed or explain itself.
We're made of the same stuff.
Why do we think we should apologize?"
and
"We have performed a profound service to humanity,
by throwing a ladder angrily into the window."
and a few other bits here and there.
But, in between there is much that feels like lecturing - even ranting, at times. It meanders without enough imagery and clarity to keep the reader "tuned in".
In my opinion, this needs major trimming, spell-checking ("embarassed", for example), and some alternative word choices. It might also benefit from some imagery and action to break up the monologue feel - as accomplished with the "ladder" analogy.
Good job, overall, on the free thought flow of this. And good luck on getting it tuned up.
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Thanks for taking the time to give a good critique and fair appraisal of the piece. It is much appreciated. My feelings are that it's a great deal to wade through...and could do with some sharpening up as well.
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Very thoughtful - but you knew that - that is why you wrote it
...to get your thoughts in a place where you might be able to form them, look at them, organize them....make sense of them...and then communicate that which began in your gut and forces itself to be heard - to reach. Because it's in others, in relationship, where we find our greatest power, right? percieving, forming opinons - one canNOT be right, ONE cannot provide the empiric answer because we are all different, but we need each others differences to see all those alternatives (all those turns of the prism) in order to know all. and that is the deal. whether we want to hide from it or not, we all want to 'know all' - and we cannnot know all. not alone. I know my comment is too long - but like i said your piece is very thought provoking - so i guess you did your job
. i really really love this. I almost think this should be more than one poem, because there are a couple of different focuses that each deserve their moment so that the reader can breathe, metabolize it, and move on to the other. I am overwhelmed by yours as is - but in a good way.
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Thanks, yeah...it's about the cumulative power we have, how great it is, and how we deny and destroy it.
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