Junk Mail Again
Wow, look, we can save $500!
I wonder how much we must not save
to generate this savings.
Oh, I see.
We need only buy a new or used car,
which, of course, as everyone knows,
is something that we truly truly need,
like a thneed.
Yet another car or truck
to insure and register and feed full of fuel
and maintain and repair.
And don't forget those exhaustive system screenings
to be sure you are not doing more than your fair share
to poison our over-exhausted and under-rested air.
Seems like too high a price to save so little.
I think we shall pass
on this less than overwhelming offer.
What's next?
Oh yes, the cell phone bill.
I wonder how they will help us save money
this spent out month.
I could use a direct line to God
about all this junk mail
and these bills
for services not so generously,
or even fairly, delivered.
I could save a lot of money
by not talking to anyone
and not going anywhere,
but would we have unpredicted costs?
I could not bear or swear
we have come or gone
from here or there
across quite some space or time now.
I could confine my communion thirsts to tap water,
which does not cost so awfully much
compared to cell phone liquidity.
But, to really save time and money
I could make a long-term commitment
to this reclusive lifestyle,
and downsize to an old geezer tricycle
with a cargo basket on the front,
and a Slow Moving Vehicle sign strapped onto my back.
Children going by would suspect me of false advertising:
Mom, look, he isn't moving at all.
Is he for target practice?...
Oh Mom, how could you possibly have missed him,
you drove right by,
his cap still flies,
carried by the sailing wind
of our cadillac on sale.
Yet false salvific advertising
has itself become culturally addictive.
So much easier than owning upstream
to what we really have to bargain-basement sell
downstream.
Which is nothing left
or even right, I think?
Mom, shouldn't he not be wearing black?
And shouldn't he have a long straggling grey beard
and orange brimmed hat,
less soft rimmed fat
and not that University of Life ball cap.
That's not right at all,
that whole situation
of maladaptive recreation.
Better call the police,
the crazies got off pathology's reservation
again.
I suppose it would be malignantly psycho
to save all that much money,
and for what new or better fed addictions?
A person can only eat so much ice cream
without developing permanent runs,
and what else would I want to buy
with all that saved up money?
Regardless, to really really save money and time
it would help so much to know what for,
to what other alternative investments.
Divestments of habitual climate challenging addictions,
like anger management,
require much less raw will power-over
short-term thinking ego's autonomic habits
of mind and body,
when floating in new rivers of healthier adaptations
to Earth's resonant climatic opportunities
with ever greater power-with warmth,
invitation,
grace resetting kosmic karma's sights
from addiction within culture's BusinessAsUsual wrongful rights
In favor of Earth's felt and believed
less dark nights,
beautiful polypathic truths
of timeless climate health,
yin within as yang without,
anima's spirited love-invoking
animus vestments
of co-incorporated savings power.
Oh yes, I know,
let me fully invest in a new Recreational Vehicle
to drive and fly away from all this savings
of self and other and Earth,
never planning to return to this asceticism
without aesthetics of co-invested,
though curiously humored, pilgrims
Looking for ever renewing ways
to save 500 dollars.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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