The bloated politician extends a hand
to the 60-hour-a-week little man.
Tossing him a few dry crumbs for a greasy vote.
Just enough to keep him pacified and afloat.
A pearly string of empty promises will follow.
We've been played again and again and again.
Sheep following a lemming's greed.
Hope lost in the fold of the final breath.
The ego of the damned shines but is fool's gold.
Blackened tongues pretending to be bridges.
While carving mountains into tombstones.
The elite slurping middle-class marrow in the shadows.
While goodness sips the dusty fate of tomorrow-
slice of lemmings
white wilderness suicide
thank you walt disney
fresh on her eyelids
a zephry wind softly stirs
gardenia lemmings
2) zephry eyelids gardenia
Today on my way home i chose to
permeate my daily grind
By buying myself a chicken to cook
once i got home
The reason being i am trying to be more positive
It can't rain all the time
As i wanted to break the wishbone
and wish for better thing's to come
Then instantly after dinner i went into my back garden
And started picking lemmons from
my lemmon tree
To make lemonade
Only to realize i didn't have any
sugar in order to make it
Which in the end made the moment somewhat bitter sweet
But hey to accentuate the positive
Lemmons we're supposed to be bitter
not sweet and full of sugar
And not only is it full of flavour and
retained it's vitamin C content
But this stuff could be sold as a
diet tonic as it goes through you
like a dose of scurvy
Or to be left in your office or
house fridge for those people
who take your stuff without asking
And best of all the 1st bottle is absolutely free
So when life gives you lemmons
Don't waste them
Use them
On Lemmings, Chickens, and Things
Across the tundra, lemmings race
Toward the cliff, then over the face.
The prevailing theory laments
That this is not mass hysteria
But a judgment miscalculation
In migratory behaviour.
And I watch my neighbours hoarding
Lest they should find themselves wanting,
Epitomes of ascendancy
Clipped to animistic qualities.
Flailing arms scurry to the abyss,
Repeating, “The sky is falling!”
And I, a social misfit, surmise
A deluded prank on the populace.
The lemming’s way
Is like Hemingway's
The town hall clock chimed twelve
And the crowds they were a' swelling,
A vision came into my mind
They reminded me of lemmings.
Of course there was no waiting cliff
No fabled deadly leaping,
Just an endless tidal flow
Onwards, ever creeping.
Each it seemed held a phone
'Twas quite a sight to see,
No colliding nor incidents
It was choreography!
We have evolved a sense
So we need not lift our heads,
We just switch to autopilot
Then chat and text instead.
Lemmings
WHO will pay for the wall?
Mexico will pay for the wall
who WILL pay for the wall?
MEXICO MEXICO
who will PAY for the wall?
100% Mexico will pay for the wall
who will pay for the WALL
Mexico
WHO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL?
MEXICO WILL PAY
Many tell me I Donald Trump
can not get Mexico to pay for the wall
I promise you, MEXICO will pay for the wall
you can bet on it! They don't even know it!
But they are paying for the complete wall!
WHO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL?
The Lemmings will
CANADA
Canada needs a wall
to keep out the lemmings
Instincts stored from antiquity
Leather bound books; library in the mind
Beautiful tragic collections and revisions
The conundrum of neurology; conflict presides
Endowed with supreme cognition
Cursed, condemned by the residue of blind drives
Irreconcilable emotional juxtapositions
Humanities ironical demise
Profoundly ignorant, unabashed, and indifferent
Audacious opinions of uninformed certitudes
In the end, passions rule reason
The instinctual beast can’t be subdued
Like Lemmings to a cliff running blindly
Chasing those with no knowledge or esteem
If only one to be the wiser
Perhaps we awake from a really bad dream
"Tree huggers” use AT&T
The human cost catastrophe
On the horizon
Like text from Verizon
Is sent with the speed of 4G
Pollution's still booked at no
cost
And Earth’s expenses neatly tossed
Off the balance sheet
With a "Sprint" so complete
The effects on nature seem lost
Yes EPA rules do offend
Those who crave Earth’s wealth without end
They claim to hate debt
But have seen nothing yet
Like phone bills "T-Mobile" might send!
Author's note: It seems ironic and strange that debt haters (like tea party supporters, for
example) and those who are pushing more reliance on fossil fuel and less "subsidy" for
renewables (Romney/Ryan for example) support the continuation of policies and
practices that will damage the environment and that will hurt future generations. They are
pushing growth and not pushing conservation. I would have more respect for them if
they talked about the costs as well as the benefits of their plans. I wonder if it might just
be a scam to reward large corporations for the short term and stick it to the rest of us for
generations. That would be nothing new.
En mass, a colossal fedora
covering entire islands
lunar eclipses
Move in constant rhyme
Pebbles the size of mighty thunderheads
And rivers with caps will not hold you back
Just a matter of time
swarm the meadows and the forests
leave clues but insufficient for the sleuth
invincible, not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
counter the swells
conquer the precipice
for the journey is inimitably divine
leap and bound
not hungry
unfeeling
unseeing
unmovable
untouchable
mortal
not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
get there
you will
like millions of flying squirrels
dancing on clouds
surmount
the highest of cliffs in the lightest of air
leap
to the next stone
fall and drift, tumble and glide
scurry in mid flight
oh your bellies must buckle
Oh why bounce your essence
off the rocks of the sea
bodies no more to be?
not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
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