Ironies and Absurdities

I can barely breathe through the poisonous fumes of carbon monoxide emitting from the obsolete vehicle I drive to the non-smoking restaurant. Tourists grumble about the heat in Florida while construction of another Publix replaces one hundred acres of nature's cooling trees. News of another captured and subsequently murdered alligator soothes the minds of many residents bent on denying their own culpability. Children curse their parents who allowed the television to raise their babies then wonder where they went wrong by sending their ill-equipped offspring to deal with an unfair and uncaring society. Wal-Mart and Blockbuster on every other corner bleeds the American dream from the life-line of a country demanding the world take notice of our great freedom and liberties. My elderly aunt suffers from the ravages of Alzheimer's while I drive my cancer-riddled dog in my carbon monoxide emitting car to the vet to be released from his never-ending agony. I see institutions built for religion honoring the Tibetan tradition in the name of preserving culture on another continent by the same government who requires my Tribe to submit a fifty page form requesting permission to have a pow-wow. In the name of justice a dominant people dictates how another country should conduct the business of a land they intend to export jobs to that will render their own people without hope who will wonder why they didn't vote. A Native American Indian shakes away the thoughts provoked by the question of the land today as opposed to the savage new world celebrated in the guise of seeking freedom against their oppressors in a world where today there are few freedoms left.