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Wish Upon a Star

I wish upon a star
    A happy, big, fat, stupid star
    You and your momma's favorite star
    Everybody everywhere gets every silly
  mindless infantile thing they most desperately
  crave and desire

 I am Immanuel Kant
 I am compelled to tell the truth
 Even if we're all insane
 I feel I must tell the truth

 We live in a gimme- gimme goo-goo world and 
 its impossible to stop wanting for all things
 under Heaven ( and a few things just above Hell)
 Try not to try; try not to feel, anything at all
 if only for the next 5 minutes- I dare you

 So in resignation, I resolve myself to the tragic 
 Suffering in us all
 Condemned to be free, to choose, one or the other
 The who, what, where, when, why, and how
 And to be a prisoner to those choices, 
 not really free at all
 
 So I wish upon a star
 A bright and lovely stupid star
 and hope you get everything you have
 coming to you

Copyright © Edward Wheeler | Year Posted 2019