We had Gumby
and Pokey,
And Sanford & Son.
We had Mark Spitz,
And Monty Python.
We had Lenny Bruce,
And Chips.
We had the Sex Pistols,
And A Ballroom Blitz.
We had Martin Scorsese,
And Happy Days.
We had the
Stepford Wives,
And Roe VS Wade.
We had What's up Doc,
and the Rockford files.
We had Gay Pride Parade,
and I can see for miles.
We had Women's Lib,
And Emergency.
We had One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest,
And Mohamed Ali.
We had A Star is Born,
And little Chinatown.
We had Jesus
Christ Superstar,
And Foxy Brown.
We had the VCR
And Adam-12.
We had White Lightning,
and Josey Wales.
We had the Gay
Rights movement,
And Dragnet.
We had the Deer Hunter,
and Stanley Kubrick.
We had the Iran hostage crisis,
and a Six-million-dollar man.
We had Carnal Knowledge,
And The Stand.
We had the
Mississippi Queen
And Tony Orlando.
We had Abba singing
about Fernando.
We had Mick Jagger,
And John Wayne.
We had Rare Earth,
And Fire and Rain.
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What sad fate does all of these celebrities likely have in common?
Aaliyah
Aaron Hernandez
Abraham Lincoln
Amy Winehouse
Anna Nicole Smith
Bob Marley
Brandon Lee
Brittany Murphy
Bruce Lee
Buddy Holly
Christopher Wallace - Notorious B.I.G.
Elvis Presley
Frank Zappa
George Washington
Gianni Versace
Grace Kelly
Heath Ledger
Jeffrey Epstein
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Joan Rivers
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John Lennon
John Todd
King Leopold II of Austria
Kobe Bryant
Kurt Cobain
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lou Reed
Malcolm X
Marilyn Monroe
Martin Luther King Jr
Michael Jackson
Otis Redding
Paul Walker
Pope John Paul I
Prince
Princess Diana
Ritchie Valens
Robert F. Kennedy
Robin Williams
Sam Cooke
Seth Rich
Stanley Kubrick
The Big Bopper
Tupac Shakur
Vince Foster
Whitney Houston
XXXTentacion
this being
closer to what
was supposedly
really said as
not a mankind
leap but a step
for a man
not man
in general
for history
in a way they
say repeats it
self as i can be
heard breathing
heavily as i light
ly step out and off
of a plane for
my first time
on not only South
American soil but
dark coffee grind
Colombian dirt
as earth can only be
described what up
until now has been
for me seen from
a telescope
Kubrick died in ninety
nine so never saw
the real 2001 but
is said to have made
a reel of an event if
needed to be faked
so in my case in case
i don't make it
i'd like Coppola
to cast a fat
Brando as me
coughing out
cotton balls
stating so
everyone
knows this
is the real
fake
the
horror
THE EARTH IS FLAT.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD A LIE.
FACTS AND FIGURES TELL US THE TRUTH,
OF THIS EARTHLY REALM WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT.
THE MOON LANDING WAS A HOAX;
QUITE POSSIBLY AN ELABORATE SOUND STAGE,
OF LIGHTS AND CAMERA.
DID KUBRICK KNOW THE TRUTH?
FIND OUT THE TRUTH.
DO THE RESEARCH.
DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT.
THE EARTH IS FLAT?
QUITE POSSIBLY, THE TRUTH IS IN PLAIN SIGHT.
WHY THE DECEPTION ALL OF THESE DECADES?
ANCIENT PEOPLES BELIEVED IN A FLAT EARTH.
THE TRUTH FOR HUMANITY LIES IN OUR FREEDOM OF THINKING.
NASA KNOWS THE TRUTH, BUT DENIES THE PUBLIC ITS TRUE KNOWLEDGE,
ABOUT THE FLAT EARTH REALITY.
THE QUEST FOR TRUTH AND FREEDOM IS NOW.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.
THE EARTH IS QUITE POSSIBLY FLAT.
CAN WE STEP OUTSIDE OUR LITTLE GLOBE OF LIES?
I THINK WE CAN!
WRITTEN BY, CHADWICK ANDREW VINCENT
MAY 2018
He's messed up the whole earth's morale
Donald's not a traveler's pal
Because he's a thug
We must yank out his plug
As Kubrick directed for HAL
Author's note: Last line is a reference to "2001 A Space Odyssey." Quite like what happened to the HAL 9000 computer in the film, we certainly think there is something wrong with the brain of our master.
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