Forever Sunyata...No senses, no dreams, no movement

Sunyata - all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (Mahayana Buddhism)

nothing to see with

no brain to process the non-existent images

no sound can violate the insensate peace

with no sense organs to capture it

with no mind to create or enjoy them

there can be no dreams to disturb a non-entity

luckily, with no way to move and nowhere to go

any motion is unnecessary

nothing to react to happily, sadly, angrily or even indifferently

nothing to respond with

no need to ever rest

for no energy can be expended

one last thing noted and mind merges with eternal vacuum of the void,

and I am empty and in all ways perfect

no sense of time in the absolute emptiness of the void, eons pass by quite unnoticed

for there is no such thing as forever where time is not measured

not even a quark, much less an atom of my “soul” remains to interact with the physical universe

as well, all other everlasting “souls” forever incommunicado in every imaginable sense of the word

for it’s an everlasting and dreamless, insensate sleep without beginning or end…

that none will ever know

Hey, I Lie, Therefore, I Am

I live in a labyrinth composed of my own lies and I’ve been in here so long that I feel no inconsistency

I can lie right over my older falsehoods without even having to try to maintain a straight face

I spew new and even bigger lies which contradict my former fabrications, without even noticing

Any difference between reality and my statements does not concern me for I know what’s true...right now

I recognize only the veracity of my latest twisted blathering, not what others might wrongly point to as fact

And I belittle those who pester me with questions regarding my earlier pronouncements

I have a coterie of cronies, sycophants and donors who hang on my every word and defend my utterances

Therefore, freed from reality, I can remain insulated and pure to my shifting, emotion-based prevarications

I find that often people agree with me after talking for a while: They remain quiet which must mean they agree

I comfort myself by building a safe cocoon of my own intertwined fairytale falsehoods that surrounds me

I lash out at those who conspire to try and make me admit to false accusations regarding my past utterances

I am so very comfortable lying that I have absolutely no problem believing everything I say...while I say it

A Green Nationalist Call To Action

A right-wing, environmentally-based screed for removal of all Non-Europeans – theatlantic.com

Everyone knows that overpopulation is destroying the whole green earth over which God gave only us dominion

Illegal invaders run wild here, overbreeding, without adequate sanitation and no regard for the environment

After they’ve turned their own homelands into shitholes they want to head right up here to the promised land

And they drag their entire uneducated, penniless, multi-generational, mixed-breed families along with them

You’d better believe they don’t stop breeding once they get here – No way what with the free healthcare

They out-reproduce us by a wide margin of ignorant polluters who daily damage our precious environment

They go to the bathroom wherever it suits them and wipe themselves with our discarded fast food wrappers

Their sheer dirty numbers here are an undue burden on our beloved Earth: One which we can no longer permit!

Our own lifestyles already place an inordinate burden on the planet and their additional damage is intolerable

And, it must be remembered that it is not just in our land, Non-Europeans are a worldwide ecological scourge

Wasting time trying to change their eco-devastating ways is futile – We call for ending their reproduction here

Without their blindly-destructive presence, the civilized world could meaningfully practice sustainability

No question, the gravest problem facing humanity is overpopulation, especially by invasive migrant hordes

As well, it is a scientific fact that these lower-life forms genetically thrive only in their own homelands

Therefore, these out-of-place trespassers cannot ever appreciate the ecological challenges our Merica faces

Best we expunge their presence here so we can get on with the good work of preserving our blessed land

We cannot forget that these vagrant illegals now have no homeland and so do not care about the environment

We simply cannot allow them to overpopulate, pollute and degrade the environment of our God-given land

So, we must always remember that in a world of growing scarcity, our intra-racial solidarity is mandatory

And, therefore, we all face a choice: A healthy, clean Green Merica or a filthy, brown, mongrel wasteland

I am a cancer host

Host (biology) an organism that harbors a parasite inside its body, detrimental to itself

I am not a cancer sufferer

I am not a cancer patient

I am not a cancer victim

I am not fighting cancer

I am an unwitting and unwilling cancer host

I am not hosting a cocktail party or dinner for a few friends

I am a host for a parasite which is silently consuming me to fuel its own mindless growth

Stealing my energy sources, it feeds upon my insides and grows disgusting lesions and tumors inside me

And I have no way to defend myself...but I can track its progress day by day, through my own decay

Scans show its creeping onslaught through various parts of my body via different paths

Every new ache or pain is accompanied by the same frightened thought: Is this the cancer moving again?

It’s an insensate and non-conscious, lumpy entity that, nonetheless, knows how to feed upon me to grow

Stubbornly resilient despite surgeries, radiation, drugs and chemo, its inexorable expansion continues

Alive only through my life, nourished by my metabolism, it is unaware that its own success will kill it, as well

For when I can no longer sustain both myself and this hungry parasite, we will, of course, die together

So, I ask this invading zombie-like army: To what end?...The same question this deadly leech forces upon me

It seems its sole purpose is simply to kill me but then to merely perish when it succeeds

Therefore, this is not a real life form, but something gone very wrong with my own cellular reproduction

Yet, it acts like a simple parasitic infection

Toney Bars, Hip Coffee Shops and Trendy Restaurants

Rebuilding America for long-term sustainability

They call it progress...redeveloping urban poverty zones into toney hangouts...for white people

Opening tattoo parlors, and piercing salons for young, eLife, college-grad baristas

Jacking up rents and hanging banners proclaiming the latest new arts district

Weekend farmers markets with goods brought inside the huge refrigerated trucks of corporate suppliers

Real estate professionals buying up surrounding properties for pennies as the influx jacks up property taxes

Following a proven plan, they non-violently oust the blacks, Koreans, Indians and other native inhabitants

Then come the hip foreign and fusion restaurants staffed by illegales...who of course live shabbily...elsewhere

A few change-the-world tech startups emerge, trumpeting their new and cosmically-important apps

Bearded hipsters open trendy “Buy Local” shops hawking the latest in Millennium trends...at exorbitant prices

And then come the doctors, lawyers, salesmen and entrepreneurs bidding more than the property asking price

Aging GenXers swooning for the aura of pricey, upscale, retro lofts created from abandoned ghetto warehouses

It’s all and only about the food, drink, entertainment and snarky, gentrified lifestyle atmosphere, Right?

Sustainable Progress?...Really?

Goodbye Cetaceans: Though We Never Knew Ye

Threats to cetaceans are almost exclusively from human impacts

It seems our large-brained brethren – the whales, dolphins, and porpoises may have had their day at last

We almost wiped them out with our primitive harpoon hunting methods from wooden ships, long ago

Then came the military artillery firepower and those factory rendering ships

But, at last, seeing the error of our ways thru their loss of profit potential to us, we ceased the slaughter

But now we have unleashed a more lethal arsenal with which to treat them to:

They drown struggling, entangled in our factory fishing nets and are treated as unwanted, wasted bycatch

Our dribbled toxic chemicals accumulate in their blubber for they lack the enzymes to break them down

Plastics, both micro and macro are consumed in ever-increasing quantities by our ocean-dwelling kin

Though whales help reduce CO2, warming oceans disrupt migration patterns and destroy their polar habitats

Our military and commercial underwater noise pollution confuses them and often leads to mass strandings

Confused by the cacocphony, many whales suffer ship strikes which maim or kill them

They also suffer quietly as our oil, sewage and litter foul the homes they’ve known for thousands of years

And we even still hunt them for their meat!

But, wait, we are not rushing about making savage war upon these supreme creatures of the deep...

It’s just that our frenetic ordained progress to support an unsustainable population has blindly doomed them

When they’re all gone forever, we’ll never grasp the mystery of their large brains, but we won’t have to care

Sadly tho, once we’ve extinguished them, visiting aliens won’t have rational creatures to communicate with

In My Exceptionist Hindsight

Always moving forward, getting on with life, I had no need to glance behind at my destructive wake

In any case, the way back was always shrouded in smoke, dirt and dust from my many burnt-out memories

But, nonetheless, I easily believed that it all was merely part of some beautiful and mysterious plan

For I knew I was meant to move ever onward riding the glorious wave of our divinely-ordained progress

Looking back now, but not too closely, I firmly resolve: I would not have changed a thing

Yes, from here the actions and activities of the lucky few like me make a perfect and enduring sense

Training a distorted lens on tangled recollections, my mind creates false patterns to suit my current beliefs

So, I can look around with a feeling of satisfaction to remark that in the end, things do indeed make sense

Certainly the past looks less attractive than that sun-strewn Morning In America now in my windshield

Nonetheless, I certainly find no grounds for any type of even the very least of regrets...Whatsoever!

For really, what’s done is done and the ancient history of 10 years ago is irrelevant to our moving forward now

In the unlikely event I should miss the Next Big Thing, I’m already ensured a 5 Star place in Heaven

Turns out that me and my little friends were right about ignoring their various false environmental scams

We realized that simple belief is a powerful force against control-seeking, socialistic, money-driven science

It’s so true that everyone’s simply grabbing as much as possible is the best way to ensure all of our futures

Our self-anointed exceptionist destiny has ensured us a dais well above the lowlife foreigners of the world

It’s obvious now we cashed in so very well in the pursuit of happiness solely due to our own abilities

I note with satisfaction that luck played no part in my arrival at this current privileged station

It was simply my god-given talents, faith in his word and, mostly, my own hard work that mattered

And all you pitiful whining losers need to remember this simple true fact: The victors always write the history

Howlelujah

Hallelujah - From Hebrew, ‘Praise ye, Jehovah’ Leonard Cohen, Howl – By Allen Ginsberg

For no single drop can claim to be river

But river is many drops water

No one tiny fish steers school

bait ball moves as one

Single step begins journey

Forgotten paces define trek

Single leaf cannot whisper

Breeze sings stories thru a tree

I could not build cathedral

My trace in final glory

Any true god fulfills need to faith

Combined their yammering but simple noise

Entropy a guiding force in evolving universe

In a moment sense Eternal minding Indivisible

We march only forward trampling mistakes

Incidents long forgotten arise and torment

Dust upon window obscures a view

Misty Milky Way above a cosmic portal

Howlelujah, invisible, unknowable and unprovable

Adapt best flowing with the Tao

Clouds embed mystic images in upturned faces

But, as fog, cloak in equal shade of gray

Staring into clean, cold water all is clear

From beneath the surface, nothing above retains focus

Rise as one for sacred flag

Shit together upon mother earth

Upon occasion, bow heads to pray

Baste in corporate fantasy all day

Consciousness lost forever, rejoins beckoning void

Puny effects approach...nothing...forever...Howlelujah

Praised Be Those Merciful Caregivers

Nurses, Medics and Techs

Through them flows the true milk of human kindness from that hidden spring of grace

Always ready to abandon their keyboards to look into your eyes and really listen

They actually take the time to answer all your questions...and get answers if they cannot

They will simply chat to help and calm you down, take your hand when things are truly overwhelming

They do not simply provide required health care...one knows they actually do care about their patients

Providing that real caring is some of the finest and most effective interventions a human can perform

And they actually remember their patients and seem truly eager to hear of their progress

For theirs is that miraculous tender mercy that cannot be learned or faked

Underpaid for their job descriptions, they nonetheless continue to dispense an unpaid tenderness to the sick

Dealing with the sick, injured, soiled and dying every day, though subject to burnout, they selflessly deal

Like opening a window in a dark room, they enter and patients bask in the warm sunshine of their support

No slaves to fashion these modern Madonnas, we remember them for their reassuring voices and gentle smiles

More likely to burnout given the huge numbers of sick and injured they must treat every day

Possibly suffering a loss of empathy due to grinding schedules forced upon them by corporate overlords

Those left unscathed are too often those for whom caregiving is simply a means to an economic end

But, your thankfulness can re-inspire them. Therefore, Show your love for your caring Providers - PRN

Won’t Ever Use The Real N-word Again

Because it’s emotionally supercharged, blatant, evil racism – a racially-sensitive White Nationalist

Those N-words better not think I’m a racist cuz I’m not even using the real N-word

Hey, even the least educated N-words are smart enough to see:

At least now we got a tag that aint prejudiced but still expresses our powerful but unconscious bias

So, yo, all you N-words out there! Don’t be getting all like uppity about it cause it’s not a racial slur

And you gotta know, our honorable black citizens are certainly not to be confused with N-words

You see, it’s just a tiny minority who are drunks or drug addicts...

Just a very few others who are robbers, carjackers and inter-racial rapists...

And we’re not even counting the small fraction of multi-generational N-word Welfare Professionals

Why, I’ve known many N-words for years, take for instance our lawn man, Clarence and his little sons

And I’m just glad for them that they were lucky enough to be born here in the blessed USA and not Africa

Cuz, man, the N-words over there don’t have a chance what with all that filth, poverty and disease

Yup, our N-words got it made, getting lifetime Affirmative Action, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI and TANF

Now that we got rid of that fekin N-word Obama we’re makin real progress with N-word unemployment

I’m sure real N-words like the term better too, cuz it dont carry no damaging racial connotation

Hell, I use it every day at work on own my white friends as well...

Nope, it aint no racist slur and the N-word don’t cause no permanent psychological scarring, either

It’s like using sanitized words such as Darn, Shoot, Gosh or Geez – each of which substitute for an obscenity

Now we just all need to train our tongues to forego the racist slur and use the safe and clean N-word instead

So, listen all you libtards out there, you all just stop being so thin-skinned and use it without prejudice

Nope, not using the real N-word and not holding them down without even a single conscious thought or action

The Real Estate Developers Tale

Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle. In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle, That toward caunterbury wolden ryde - Geoffry Chaucer

I was born in comfort and raised steeped in the sleazy art of backroom deals and hidden contract details

I learned well how to avoid small contractor liabilities thru costly litigation, unaffordable to them

When faced with uncomfortable facts, I knew I could angrily lie again regarding false statements I had made

My enemies were many and I made up insulting, teenage-style nicknames for them, one and all

I fraudulently avoided military service yet cloaked myself in a phony patriotism whenever it suited my needs

Sold myself as a bravely-independent entrepreneur as I greasily back-doored deals with greedy politicians

Constantly sought out the spotlight trying to fill the gaping maw of insecurity at my core

Thrived only due to my total inability to feel the effects of my self-serving actions upon any other people

I demanded absolute loyalty from my lieutenants but quickly heaped blame on them to clear myself

Still, often the filthy lackeys flipped on me with total lies just to save their own weak and stupid necks

But all the women loved me, so I grabbed them whenever and wherever and paid them off to shut up

I always made my deals with Other Peoples Money but took lots of profits, writeoffs and all of the publicity

I sold my gauche de-constructions built for the noveau riche as job creation and community development

I actually did not notice how often I immediately repeated whole sentences during my many tirades

I never had to apologize because, as it turned out, for my entire life I was never actually wrong

Looking back, I can honestly give myself an A+ in all aspects of my personal, public and business life

I sidestepped accusations by concocting explosively-false distractions to cover my own improprieties

I combined a ruthless vindictiveness with a long memory against those who dared raise my childish ire

I proclaimed myself a fount of unvarnished truth and labeled all stories unfavorable to me as evil fakes

I publicly declared myself a true genius, deserving of the adulation and adoration of all my little people

I was always at the center of the very Biggest, Greatest, Fantastic, Tremendous and Beautiful things ever

I never wasted time studying the details, for my gut instincts always guided me in the right direction

I found the vast majority of people, especially those who opposed me, to have really low IQs

I loved to be seen with the beautiful people enjoying the lifestyle of the rich and famous, with some bimbo

I lied spontaneously and guiltlessly and later smoothly denied and contradicted myself with further untruths

I found it necessary to hyperbolize myself as larger than life and to hyper-inflate my crooked deals

I attacked with a red-faced lying bluster those fools who dared contradict me in any way

I suffered a painful jealousy of those richer than me and savaged them with a loud & venal intensity

I found I simply had to inflate my monetary worth and therefore had to hide my real financial details

I found myself to be above, and secretly operated outside of, any laws my fixers were unable to skirt

I knew more than so-called experts and loudly spread that word as far and wide and as often as possible

None of my projects resulted in less than fantastic success and I always deserved and claimed all the credit

My lawyers ensured I never testified knowing, given all my lies, I could not help but clumsily perjure myself

I became an expert on any subject merely from two page summaries in large print with lots of pictures

I always began negotiations with impossible demands expressed in a harsh Take-It-Or-Leave-It fashion

I found that repeated bombastic claims made without evidence often enough produced the desired effect

I thrived creating raging, meaningless controversies by garbling the facts and repeating proven falsehoods

I could not speak without modifying terms like tremendous, and fantastic with the word very

I found my voice was especially attractive to the masses of frightened and ignorant lower class help

Yet, all alone, I found myself scared and insecure, starving for the spotlight and more fawning adulation

Oh, and I hired yet another fawning sycophant to write this story – but of course I take all the credit

I’ve only read a summary of it...

I was born in comfort and raised steeped in the sleazy art of backroom deals and hidden contract details

I learned well how to avoid small contractor liabilities thru costly litigation, unaffordable to them

When faced with uncomfortable facts, I knew I could angrily lie again regarding false statements I had made

My enemies were many and I made up insulting, teenage-style nicknames for them, one and all

I fraudulently avoided military service yet cloaked myself in a phony patriotism whenever it suited my needs

Sold myself as a bravely-independent entrepreneur as I greasily back-doored deals with greedy politicians

Constantly sought out the spotlight trying to fill the gaping maw of insecurity at my core

Thrived only due to my total inability to feel the effects of my self-serving actions upon any other people

I demanded absolute loyalty from my lieutenants but quickly heaped blame on them to clear myself

Still, often the filthy lackeys flipped on me with total lies just to save their own weak and stupid necks

But all the women loved me, so I grabbed them whenever and wherever and paid them off to shut up

I always made my deals with Other Peoples Money but took lots of profits, writeoffs and all of the publicity

I sold my gauche de-constructions built for the noveau riche as job creation and community development

I actually did not notice how often I immediately repeated whole sentences during my many tirades

I never had to apologize because, as it turned out, for my entire life I was never actually wrong

Looking back, I can honestly give myself an A+ in all aspects of my personal, public and business life

I sidestepped accusations by concocting explosively-false distractions to cover my own improprieties

I combined a ruthless vindictiveness with a long memory against those who dared raise my childish ire

I proclaimed myself a fount of unvarnished truth and labeled all stories unfavorable to me as evil fakes

I publicly declared myself a true genius, deserving of the adulation and adoration of all my little people

I was always at the center of the very Biggest, Greatest, Fantastic, Tremendous and Beautiful things ever

I never wasted time studying the details, for my gut instincts always guided me in the right direction

I found the vast majority of people, especially those who opposed me, to have really low IQs

I loved to be seen with the beautiful people enjoying the lifestyle of the rich and famous, with some bimbo

I lied spontaneously and guiltlessly and later smoothly denied and contradicted myself with further untruths

I found it necessary to hyperbolize myself as larger than life and to hyper-inflate my crooked deals

I attacked with a red-faced lying bluster those fools who dared contradict me in any way

I suffered a painful jealousy of those richer than me and savaged them with a loud & venal intensity

I found I simply had to inflate my monetary worth and therefore had to hide my real financial details

I found myself to be above, and secretly operated outside of, any laws my fixers were unable to skirt

I knew more than so-called experts and loudly spread that word as far and wide and as often as possible

None of my projects resulted in less than fantastic success and I always deserved and claimed all the credit

My lawyers ensured I never testified knowing, given all my lies, I could not help but clumsily perjure myself

I became an expert on any subject merely from two page summaries in large print with lots of pictures

I always began negotiations with impossible demands expressed in a harsh Take-It-Or-Leave-It fashion

I found that repeated bombastic claims made without evidence often enough produced the desired effect

I thrived creating raging, meaningless controversies by garbling the facts and repeating proven falsehoods

I could not speak without modifying terms like tremendous, and fantastic with the word very

I found my voice was especially attractive to the masses of frightened and ignorant lower class help

Yet, all alone, I found myself scared and insecure, starving for the spotlight and more fawning adulation

Oh, and I hired yet another fawning sycophant to write this story – but of course I take all the credit

I’ve only read a summary of it...

I Am A Stinking Coward

And it even took me all my life to overcome my fear of admitting it...

Yes! I am afraid of hidden automatic weapons firing hundreds of rounds at me every second

Sadly, I always identify only with the anonymous fallen in those movies of valiant actions on the battlefield

Never could picture myself charging out in the open towards an enemy position raining fire upon us

I just know I’d wind up hiding somewhere sobbing and smelling of frightened urine and cold sweat

Never dreamed of achieving fame and glory somewhere off in those far-flung foreign killing fields

But, I do have nightmare visions of my guts dragging in the dirt as I crawl off to die, so far from home

Afraid that some skinny little fucker whose ass I could whip would blow himself up, right in my face

Don’t ever want to pursue a guerrilla enemy through his own country...where everyone looks alike

Can’t stand the thought of bullets hissing past my head, each capable of instantly shattering my brain

I’m also too cowardly to hold my closest brother, cradled in my arms, writhing, pleading, bleeding...dying

I simply cannot abandon my fear and rush forward thoughtlessly into the jaws of death...for leaders in safety

To me, ignorance of the horror that awaits and false hype are required to pump our boys up with courage

Don’t think I could blindly ignore half-naked refugees stumbling off, hungry, dirty, homeless and destitute

I know I would be one of those taking refuge in too much alcohol, drugs and stupidly violent R&R

Very much afraid that I would learn to condone uprooting families, torturing prisoners or bombing weddings

I am a coward and all my life I was so very afraid to admit it, even to myself...to avoid the humiliation

I saw the crippled veterans, toppled churches, orphan children and sobbing mothers and I was sore afraid

Tho I feared our enemies who were always coming to eat our kids, rape our women and end our way of life:

I never felt enough anger to go off to fight and die for the fictitious causes of slick corporate politicians

I was always ashamed by my lack of commitment to our fearless leaders endless, pointless orders to slaughter

I cowardly dodged military service but I never had the guts to protest wars in public, much less out loud

So I felt guilt for resisting the call to arms to foolish conflicts in faraway lands where we were not welcome

Often felt I should have actually come out against the lying crooks who insanely sacrificed my brothers in vain

But I never felt I missed out on something that would have made me a better, more human being

Never felt the need to prove myself tough enough for Basic Training simply to be randomly sent to the front

So, I envied the honor of those who served but avoided the bullets, bombs, death and destruction

And admired those who could come home, injured but alive, and go on to raise families and lead decent lives

But I knew I would have joined my 2 cousins and many others in a lonely, PTSD-haunted, drug-overdosed death

Fox News: Climate Change Alarmists Deny Science

I read with great approval FoxNews commentator Liberty Vittert’s opinion piece destroying the climate change myth. It’s about time someone stood up to challenge all these so-called scientists to a debate. Most everyone knows that all these wacko one-worlders pushing their global warming agenda are simply doing it to gain control over our exceptionist and God-fearing country. Not to be forgotten is the fact that these thousands of “independent” scientists are actually colluding with libtard foreign governments to cost us all trillions of dollars – with which they will line their pockets.

President Trump wisely deflated that money-wasting, government-funded National Climate Assessment claptrap with a firm and eloquent “I don’t believe it”. SAD, even given his ringing testimonial, that a huge majority of the liberal elite in this great country have been duped into supporting a thinly-veiled socialist plot to rob us of our precious national sovereignty via liberty-stealing global treaties and useless but expensive so-called “shared climate solutions”.

You can easily learn all about this bogus climate change scam-in-progress by staying tuned-in to Fox News. Or you can be tricked by the fake news media which is supported by thousands of deceitful scientists, foreign politicians and whining eco-kids striving to steal our hard-earned freedom from globalism while fleecing us of untold amounts of money. Just remember, your unbiased belief is what really counts in this wholly political debate – not the reams of junk science, bad math and plain lies coming from those who would bind us in the chains of poverty and socialism.

All together now common sense-driven patriots: “Drill Baby Drill!”, “Trump Digs Coal!”, “I don’t believe it”, “Abolish the EPA – the Employment Prevention Agency!”.

Human Progress Destroys Cosmic Spacecraft

We are but lately-evolved terranauts slightly perturbing an already 4 billion year journey...which will continue without us

In reality we are already undertaking a pilgrimage of truly cosmic proportions...

Revolving at 0.28 mph/sec, we orbit the sun at 18.5 mph/sec and the Milky Way at 140 mph/sec...

Heading for the center of the local cluster at 25 mph/sec and 375 mph/sec towards the Virgo Cluster

And yet our venal and mundane interests preclude us from appreciating the epic nature of our journey

Our capsule is fit for our travel until our sun claims us once again – in approximately 1-2 billion years

Therefore, all we really need do is routine maintenance to ensure our craft remains able to sustain us

How is it we do not see how the upkeep of our one earthly capsule is absolutely necessary for our very survival?

For it’s certain that venerable market economics is not preserving systems that enable our ongoing existence

Yet we rush on, blind to the miracle of this tiny life-giving, blue-green-white sphere we travel upon

Look, there is no other unspoiled paradise to move on to once we have fouled our one and only real nest

But wait, can’t we go to Mars or the moon and start again while the earth reinvents itself once again?

Right...On those harsh and lifeless worlds we would be as fish gasping out of water...totally out of place

Every cell of every single living organism is perfectly evolved to survive in this miraculous spaceliner

But so consumed with feverish activity spawned by ludicrous beliefs we blindly trash our only refuge

Whirling thru the heavens on a journey of a billion lifetimes, we have purposefully chosen to ignore our ship

We war constantly and eco-destructively in a consciously-vapid ignorance of the grand wonder of our travel

Even as we poison ourselves with the toxins which we have spread all about our craft...we simply party on

Though many warning lights are flashing in our cabin, we deliberately take no heed of them

We remain willfully unaware of the very long term effects of our actions on our one and only home

For we believe in the end we can always pull back from the abyss with some cheap, quick and dirty fix

Yes, we are certain that we have been divinely ordained as masters of this amazing starship we call Earth

Thus, do we cut the trees, gouge the soil, poison the water and foul the air with a righteous impunity

And our astronauts are aghast upon seeing from space our dirty stains upon this tiny speeding capsule

But, grovelling, noses down, in our own wastes we can ignore the sky above, hidden by our smog and light

Oh, sure let’s get ready to go terraform Mars because we will soon render the earth uninhabitable, right?

We can probably make it work despite the radiation, cold, dust storms & lack of plants, water and oxygen

But, why the heck would we ever do that when we already travel in a capsule that we evolved to survive in?

Are we so insane as to despoil our one true ship like a proudly-ignorant libertarians’ dilapidated modular?

Marginalized and disparaged scientists squeak impotently beneath a cacophony of trivial, fake news issues

Ordinary folks squeal of terrorism, border security, abortion and jobs while their only home is destroyed...

Saying nothing at all of over-population, the 6^th mass extinction, toxic metals, CO₂ or soil destruction

Meanwhile, our ship sails on oblivious to our foolishness, fully and blindly prepared to survive our extinction

He made me feel so terribly defiled

He nearly violated my personal space while oozing micro-aggression and then began aggressively man-spreading

He made me feel so uncomfortable that I had to go to the nearest safe space on my app for several hours

There, even with my marginalized sisters I could not lose the feeling that I had been defiled

I tried controlling my breathing, repeating my mantra, practicing mindfulness and journaling, all to little avail

I prayed his menacing presence would not cause me any permanent damage

But, I kept flashing back on how openly he carried on with his likewise-intimidating friends

And how threatened I felt by his potentially-brutal and certainly toxic masculinity

His large size and aggressive aura remains locked in my mind, degrading me again and again

I’m seeing a counselor twice a week who thinks he might have left me with PTSD

These sort of men should be made to wear some sort of a Trigger Warning to protect our feminine psyche

I keep having these intrusive thoughts related to his horribly negative presence

He almost knocked me down pretending not to threaten me, but I knew he really wanted to

He and his overbearing friends are perfect examples of why the definition of masculinity must change

Though they never said a word to me, their outbursts penetrated deeply into my already-fragile emotional core

I honestly feel profaned and am looking to the government, university or my parents for recompense

I can only hope that some day these barbaric creatures can be forced to go about invisibly...maybe in burkhas

Memorial Day – Once Again Re-Considering Vietnam

Lest we gloss over its unpopularity, false pretense, lyng leaders and useless sacrifice

Are those 57,000 Mericans who died in Vietnam heroes?

Oh, yes, they are heroes each and every single one

Was their mass blood sacrifice in vain?

That cannot not be possible, though history shows it most certainly was...for nothing

Were our boys brave?

My god, Yes they absolutely were!

What did their bravery accomplish?

It’s really very difficult to admit, but they did not attain anything for their country or even protect us

Were our young men like gallant knights earning honor on the glorious field of battle?

No, they fell bleeding among the bugs, mud and awful heat onto shit-covered bamboo-spikes

Did they pass away urging their fellows onward in the grand struggle against the evil enemy?

They died asking why, in a faroff foreign land where enemy and ungrateful civilians all looked the same

Did our efforts result in a great victory?

Well, we did sign a peace agreement

How did that work out?

We gave up and the communists violated the agreement, killing 80000 South Vietnamese that same year

Did we greet our returning boys with parades, cheers and kisses?

No, but they found a variety of drugs and alcohol there to silently greet them

What did they say to “Daddy, what did you do in the war”?

“I was drafted and I did what I was told: They told me not to think and just shut the fuck up and obey”

Did they care for your PTSD gently with loving mercy and the milk of human kindness?

No, they shunned you like they ignored the war that they silently did not support

Did our brave leaders stand up and share the hard truths with us?

No, they kept intelligence secret and made up lies to justify our increasing presence...and losses

Weren’t those who protested the war just a few unpatriotic, spoiled, drug-crazed so-called hippies?

Maybe a lot of them were...But guess what!..Turns out they are now on the right side of history

But surely those who fled to Canada, burned their draft cards or falsely gained deferments were traitors

Maybe, but those who served parroting “My country right or wrong” were traitors to patriotic rationality

And what of those who now proudly cover their fat in Vietnam vet T-shirts and bald heads under Army caps?

Sorry, boys you are still wrong: you were too young to know better then...but by now you really should

Sure you have stories of great heroism...and senseless slaughter, but I ask again...What the fuck for?

You don’t have to hide your PTSD anymore but don’t try to convince me of the nobleness of that false cause