SEPARATISTS YOU
FOR NEWS, WHAT IS IT YOU DO?
GOES FOR TRUMPERS TOO
Note: Poem sung using the melody from Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns.
isn’t it perfect
the moment the scales slip off
right when the spotlight hits.
are we a duo
me on the ground pretending calm
you mid-air, mid-morph, mid-blink.
send in the reptiles
the ones with the tailored suits,
the ones who rehearse their humanity
and have suspiciously cool hands.
isn’t it lovely
how they glide through chaos
like actors missing half their cues.
one keeps pacing in circles
one freezes like a statue
both insisting they’re totally human.
send in the reptiles
oh right~
they’re already here
adjusting their holograms
and sipping lukewarm tea.
don’t you love farce
the cosmic variety
where the joke sheds a reptilian tail.
I thought you’d stay hidden
sorry, my dear
you never do.
so send in the reptiles
quick, send in the reptiles
don’t bother~
they’re already here .
SPREAD THEM AS THEY PLEASE
THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
BOTH SIDES USING THESE
She's two fish swimming
in opposite directions
and physically incapable
of answering my questions
always on the stick's wrong end
yet not to harp or carp
but I'm forever on the opposite
that which is pointed and sharp
would I enquire of the right one
it's the left natator who replies
with something unrelated
from out of yonder wild blue skies
and not knowing which will respond
altho' I have my theories
with only what makes sense to me
is how I phrase my queries
but as none have even been addressed
it's become a chore &/or task
I could give in let her win
and evermore simply shouldn't ask
Social Media influencers on the racist right
said us Jews control radio and TV
That we rot the roots of morality’s tree,
The implication is clear; there’s no society free.
One TV personality invited a guy
who spouted reasons for Hitler's views
As the real deal, I wonder why
So much dumping on the Jews
They talk of the 'noticing' - a kind of right wing 'woke'
where folks wake up to Jewish control
They take advantage of a center that's broke
Old ideas corrupt a bewildered soul.
Some shout that we’re pushing everything gay,
Yet many gays march against Israel today.
On campuses now, free speech has its price—
Debate is forbidden; it just isn't nice.
Even China got into that social media bed
plus it helps Iran, the Houthis, lots more could be said
In Brooklyn, some blacks punch Jews in the head
In America, some Jewish blood spilt and ran red
Yes, it’s true we have fools, that cross red lines,
Who chase after causes that darken our times.
But most of us build, most of us mend—
Confuse friend and foe, and you hasten the end.
Bad ideas never die
Let's stand firm against the lie.
Theory
A word of promise
As the story..
Something new
Outside the box
Which will fix
What seems broken..
A scientific hope
For a new day
Ahead..and the
Miracle is that
This possibility
Is a story
Not separate from
Impossibility...
Duality
Can seem to
Conspire against
Freedom..
Non duality
Can seem to
Conspire against
Life in the wild..
Conspiracy theories
Both of them
Empty and void...
Can he dance for do you move heterogeneous. clam chowder to be ingested can you guess his name. Undistinguished gentlemen ferocious and insane. Currently the much wise sagacious yeti who devolution confer his home to a carpenter. I came to listen to turculent demon who eyes glow with a scinilliant green light a head of a tiger wings of a hawk opens maestoso revealing a conjoined body of faces made of clay crooning in refrain. Heres comes the godhead brain.
up or down a matter of perspective
definitions are always subjective
various things we bother to measure
often become that which we most treasure
mysterious quantum entanglement
not relativity's abandonment
rather dissimilar things may be true
all depends on observer's point-of-view
everything is constantly evolving
while the cosmos continues revolving
now longing to travel faster than light
we pin hopes upon theories not quite right
progress comes through that which we dream may be
and the will to make dreams reality
Bobby always voted for Trump.
Liberal elitists said he was a chump.
But QAnon proved they are all cannibals.
Besides, they’re all a bunch of radicals.
Bob only cares for MAGA triumphs.
Conspiracy theories are nothing new
I'm sure you know a few
But they can take you down a dark maze
And used by politicians to manipulate you
The moon landing was said to be fake
With wind and shadows on the make
Was it just wishing on a star
And faked to win the cold war
JFK conspiracy theories still persist
Was it Oswald that did it, or the mob
Or was it the goverment who killed him
In a sinister plot
Covid 19 has many conspiracy theories
First they said it was a hoax contrived by the media
But it was a deadly virus
That killed millions
There is one about the Denver Airport
Said to be the Illuminati's headquarters
Where lizard people live
Beneath the buildings
The most famous one is that the Earth is flat
Even though proven that its not
Yet people still believe that
Are people crazy or what?
There is the theory that the election was stolen
And Italian satellites changed people's votes
And on and one it goes
Right down the rabbit hole
There is the one that Poetry Soup is run by aliens
Trying to steal our thoughts
Don't go running for cover
That one's just a joke.. :>)
9-13-2022
Critical race theory
could also dynamically camouflage
critical sex theory,
critical gender theory,
critical binary theory
Which might look like
Analytical Feminist Theory
on Earth's creolizing Eastern Hemisphere
And speak of more competitive
DisPassionate Predation Expertise
toward the colonizing
riled-up Western Hemisphere
Dipolar co-arising
a great transitional dialogue
within each individual
Left and Right mindbody
engaging theoretical experience
of competing cooperative
integrally spiraling
potential green wealth
of EarthTribe panentheistic health.
Suppose the barrage of apocalyptic theories is true
While time is forevermore drawing to its climactic end
What? my friend, … just what are you going to do?
Will you find some nutcase group with which to blend?
Spending the rest of your days in anguish and fright
While time is forevermore drawing to a climactic end?
Is it possibly true you are letting yourself lose sight--
Believing these conspiracy theories with no authentication,
Spending the rest of your days in anguish and fright?
Without regard for the danger they cause our nation
Creating fear, desperation, and panic throughout the land,
Believing these conspiracy theories with no authentication.
The greatest fears are fomented by lies gotten out of hand
Widely spread through an irresponsible social media
Creating fear, desperation, and panic throughout the land.
Better to study the ancient documents, the encyclopedia,
Suppose the barrage of apocalyptic theories is true
Widely spread through an irresponsible social media,
What, my friend? … just what are you going to do?
time
t e s t s
theories
7/14/21
For one's time to be taken for granted,
theories will arise.
Within them,
confusion is awaken.
As for the truth being taken from the stretch of ones speculation,
then leaving a dent in his or her concentration,
pausing the breakage soon expected in his or her mind.
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