Disillusioned Fish

 

I suffer fools
better than most
cause I've been immersed
in this sea of stupidity
for so long
I may as well
be one of the dumb ass fish..

I've long ago
given up the foolish dream
of a benevolent net
swooping down
to scoop me away

from this muddied scene

of unrelenting nonsense

The layers of dumbness

in this stagnant pool

is that thick

We prisoners of mass ignorance

gotta adapt to our environment

and take small victories

in daily survival

Gender Gapping

 

In the battle 
of sexual siege warfare 
the male gender
of which I am a member
is always out deprived
in attrition battles
by the feminine side
cause they got their sex drive
on a much tighter leash
than we perpetually in heat mutts do

And yet we persist..

Cause we boys can be so competitive..

Even when we know we can't win

we gotta ride our stubbornness

right off the blue balls cliff..

Losing the battle AND the war

Waiting to be Reincarnated

 

Isn't it a laugh
that no one is driving this craft?

Ignoring all the warning signs..

Careening straight toward the void..

Conventional wisdom says we'll be destroyed..

Then again..

Maybe this is not the end..

Perhaps post death nothingness
is the sum of our previous life experience
and this scary transition
is just the beginning all over again..

Maybe this cosmic reboot 

is another chance

to get life right this time?

I just wish I had paid closer attention

and took some notes along the way

cause repeating existence mistakes

is what got us into this mess

in the first place

Wanna Hosanna?

 

Life after death..

But just for us humans..

God's divine beasts are we..

It says so in various texts

scribed long ago from antiquity..

The original version of media control..

Cause tis written

only this species
which kills quite incessantly
can self sooth our greatest fear
that there exists for us more than this

after our poorly designed vessels

crash upon the jagged rocks of mortality..

That we, the chosen breed

have a greater purpose
and that this mundane existence has meaning
with a higher power pulling the strings..

Now I  don't wanna piss down on your faith

or denigrate anyone's sacred beliefs..

Whatever gets you through this life

is fine by me..

In fact I'm more than OK

if you wanna pray

for my misguided immortal soul

which I don't believe in anyway..

At least for today..

Because I am not ashamed to confess

that the closer I get to death

as old age tightens it's grip

with frightening finality

the temptation to hedge my bets

against my logic based atheistic play

is far greater than it was yesterday

when I rode with youthful arrogance..

Maybe it's time I join the congregation

of scared sheep secure in warm hypocrisies

though deep down we all gotta suspect

that if this all knowing God we pray to

does indeed really exist

the Supreme Being we collectively worship

has to realize by now his creations are full of shit

Analog Man

 

When people ask me
to sum myself up

where I am currently at
I take out my 80's calculator
(the one I paid a hundred bucks for)
for a quick low tech solution
to the description equation
only to discover
my batteries have gone dead..

And there you have
the best self assessment
of my current

out of sorts

out of time situation

Fatal Truths

 

The influencer formerly revered
by we fence sitting cowards
so petrified of confrontation
we self muzzle contentious observations..

But not our pot stirrer hero..

They were fearless in their pursuit

of unvarnished truth

with unabridged opinions

unabashedly shared..

Until that fateful day

our favorite attack dog

looked back our way

and turned their fangs on us..

Yes, we shot the messenger

cause this is what hypocrites do

when confronted with realities

they know is the enemy

to preservation of the lies

we phonies hold dear

Respect the Defects

 

Let me be
who I am meant to be..

Resist the urge 
to alter me
into your version 
of an upgraded model..

For you see
I am hardwired fully
and now completely
uniquely me..

Flaws and all
is the human condition
we all gotta learn
to roll together with

Island Man

 

Stepping deep
into yet another
awkward social situation
of my own creation
I fail yet again
upon entrance
to take a moment
and gauge the temperature
of the room..

Maybe my thermometer is broken
or perhaps I lack
the aptitude to read it?

Are my small talk skills

really that deficient?

I so often lack the motivation

to even feign chatting interest..

Maybe I should just accept

the self reality fact

that by now is obvious..

I just don't give a shit..

Even the feeling to belong

which is a core human trait

has gone missing in me..

I have no use for people anymore..

Please don't take my exit quest personally..

There is no hate

in my encased heart for anyone..

Just a general sense of apathy..

I sure do miss the lockdowns of COVID

and the state sanctioned social isolation

that shielded we antisocial types

from the viral implications

of people interactions 

The Power of Selfies

 

Here I am again
up against the insidious forces of Can't..

That unrelenting villainous tyranny
doing it's best to wreck me
and undermine my confidence
with a toxic barrage of negativity..

Time to put on the battle gear
for this war will be a long grind
that can only end in victory
if my walls are well fortified
to block self doubt from my mind

Trimming the Fringes

 

Clowns to the left of me
please lose the MAGApocolypse hyperbole...

A Trump victory
won't mean an end to democracy...

We survived this jackass before

and we'll do it again easily...

So temper the dramatic hysteria

that prevents us from taking you seriously...

Jokers chirping on my right flank
please temper your distortions...

A Biden win
won't disintegrate our country...

So holster the hateful rhetoric

that serves to divide us even more..

America is every bit as great

as it was before

even if it's not perfect...

You extreme wing nuts
both need to study U.S. history
and chill the fuck out

with your worst case scenarios

that are bumming us normals out

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Be the Refugee

 

When dawn arrived finally
it was very plain to see
we had driven right off the map
and landed somewhere
in the midst of an abstract concept..

Standard points of reference
no longer made a difference
as all the freakish elements
we had previously shunned
now held dominion over us

here in the new abnormal..

The bottom rung was our new residence..

Feeling the whip of brutal class prejudice

along with all the other unfortunates

who landed on this rock God forsaken..

If we ever manage to escape this wicked domain

and rotate our way back to our former station

maybe we will bring back with us a little tolerance

for those unfortunates hanging by a thread

on the short end of the fairness stick

Gender Blocks

 

Barkeep...

Please pour me another drink
cause like those horny girls over there
currently ignoring my unappealing ass
I got painful chains to dissolve too..

Though my constraints are male specific..

Forged over centuries of gender restrictions..

Human feelings harshly suppressed..

So I don't wanna play a stoic
emotionally repressed guy tonight...

I wanna wallow in a sobby pool
like a self pitying teary eyed fool
and really get into my misery

But please don't worry about depressed me..

Come morning I'll crawl back

into my stone casing

and become emotionally numb again

like a REAL man

Concept Requiem

 

Our deceased friend we bury today
was a real relic of yesterday..

A dinosaur of the highest quality
saddled with a maddening morality

that made him a freakish outcast

in a jaded world tilted off it's axis..

Now he's just another disillusioned stiff
who saw all of existence go to shit
and became extinct
cause the bastard could not adapt
to this cynical reality..

Alas there are so few of us left

to mourn our fellow mocked misfit

now buried with his diminished values

that hopefully one day

will become fashionable again..

If not, the society

who ridiculed him

with his antiquated ways

will be joining our fossil pal

in extinction some day

Spreading the Badness

 

Slimy sycophants

seeking absolution

for their monstrous creation
flock to the cathedral of social media
armed with their best rationalizations
and desperate whataboutisms..

Deep within these thick walls

they stand on the Tabernacle of Alibis

where the very concepts of truth and lies

gets stirred in the propaganda mix

til reality itself becomes a blur

to be dispensed to all true believers..

The sludge they dish

to the eager congregation
that "everybody is doing it"

as if the immorality of their beast

can be magically diluted..

As if sin can be forgiven
by the alleged mass participation

of all the other naughty children

Modern Transitions

 

We painstakingly
copied electronically
volumes of Renaissance poetry
from a delicate parchment
to a silicon microchip..

A program of modern efficiency
and coveted convenience
but nowhere near as elegant visually
as the now rapidly fading original..

Progress need not come

with such draconian trade offs

though we always seem to choose

the path of maximum aesthetic resistance

Cursed Be the Appeasers

 

Oh great...

The beast we admire secretly

for his hard core tenacity

is doing beastly things again..

While the global uproar

is entirely predictable

we'll stick to our hardened principles

that stoke the flames of anarchy..

If we keep appeasing the bully
maybe he'll go away eventually.. 

He's not such a bad guy actually..

Putin is an ultra strong authoritarian

who projects strength just like us

with the fervor of a mega nationalist..

Sure sometimes Vlad gets a tad crazy
but he's not after us currently
so let's ignore future reality
and hide behind denials
that have been toxic throughout history 

He's still preferable

to Biden and his band of socialists

who mock our many grievances

and treat us patriots like terrorists

We are gonna hang our MAGA hats

on the antiquated cliche of a concept

that the enemy of our enemy is our comrade..

Anything to own the Libs

Bitchin in the Kitchen

 

Pot
calls the kettle black.. 

Said it with such a disparaging tone..

All assembled let out a gasp..

Kettle
comes back and retorts "Bullshit"..

Labels the pot
a phony ass hypocrite.. 

Blind to the obvious reality

staring him in the face..

The meddling gray pan
sticks in it's two cents
and suggests cookware group therapy..

All agree
their insipid tepid lives
really need more heat action..

And definitely a lot more

above table honesty

Believe the Hype

 

Once upon a time
in a place right here
those of us
of a spectator bent
viewed modern politics
as strictly an entertainment
event...

A veritable Roman Circus
complete with bad ass
gladiator wanna be freaks
using word swords of sharp positions
to verbally bludgeon the opposition...

We'd run to social media daily
to participate in the spectacle
by posting our two cents
in pointless circular arguments...

It was all good time devouring fun...

Few of us took any of this hyperbole seriously...

Until...

Clever jesters not so innocent
began taking advantage
of our consequence indifference...

Til all the freedoms
we had taken for granted
were now slayed victims
of the scorched earth retribution
they had angrily pledged to enact
if they managed to con enough pilgrims
to bring their vengeful asses back...

Those of us naive
institution believing dupes
who believed
we had no skin in this game
are now learning the hard truth
that pay back is a bitch
and history is replete
with sad tales of the corpses
who refused to LISTEN

Busted Us

 

Post blunder event..

Time to assign fault..

That badge of dishonor..

Unholster the worn finger of blame

and point it in the general direction

of our favorite scapegoat collection..

Just another rote exercise 

of convenient alibis..

Cause deep down we know

the biggest enemy of us

is usually US.. 

OK...

Let's pretend

as a face saving

deflection gesture

it's really THEM

and broadcast their complicity

on all social media frequencies

but truth be told

past experience shows

most times

the foot that trips us up

is usually US..

Of this we are quite aware

as dazed us stares up from the floor

where we've landed many times before..

Trying yet again

to hide from the embarrassment

of being the flawed human

all of US most certainly are

Post Game Show

 

In the bosom of pure blackness
that was conjured up last night
with ancient incantations
(that may have been Satanic)
we desperate Shadow People
summoned the Beast..

It would be our avenging savior

to do battle with the forces of change

that mocked us defenders of the old ways..

In our arrogance

we believed we could control the beast

or at least point it in the direction

of our rapidly advancing enemies..

Such the classic error of history

which should have taught us fools by now

that concentrated evil power

can not be easily moderated..

Scholars of the Theology
can debate if our monster creation

is indeed the anti Christ
or just a corrupted manifestation
destined to one day

turn out our collective lights..

Hell Bound

 

I've been to Hell and back
on more than one occasion.. 

The joint is really not that dire..

Sure tis hot as it's namesake
with all that brimstone and fire

roasting many of the inhabitants

to a toasty shade of burnt..

And it's overcrowded definitely
but there's great sinner camaraderie

in this atmosphere of esprit de corps 
as misery does indeed love company..

Next time

you really should come down with me..

Maybe stay for the season..

Savor the rush of pure freedom

in a non judgemental environment

where no one is ever turned away..

Ledge Musings

 

Go out on that ledge..

and take a strong stand..

Take your disillusioned toes

right to the edge of the abyss..

Harsh consequences be damned..

If you are going to take the big fall
may as well go down with your convictions..

I support this freedom of expression
and the radical statement conveyed..

Trust in gravity..

Just please don't land on me
or you'll lose my undying support

Fish Tales

 

Gasping for sustenance

the fish out of water

flops about desperately..

Soon to be suffering

from a severe case

of life deprivation

viewed on voyeur flat screens

in a shared experience globally..

His public tribulations

generates mass speculation

and much social media commentary

from self anointed experts

in the field of everything

with their drop dead analysis..

Self serving predictions..

As the subject flips it's last flop

the peanut gallery contingent

hurriedly checks posts past

for self gratification

of accuracy verification  

as they take a victory lap

on the carcass of the recently deceased..

Don't let life's tragedies make you cry..

They'll be other fish to fry

and other unfortunates

soon to be gone 

to collectively crush

as the show grinds on

Attention PLEASE

 

So much can be derived 
from our discerning eyes
if we focus on the obvious..

These visual cues we need embrace

staring oblivious us right in the face..

Deciphering signals
transmitted by exposed

and repetitive 
body language displays
that convey true intent..

Suppressed feelings

gravitate toward these outlets

that cry out to be seen

for those paying attention

to blessed revelation

reclining between the lines 

Make America Hate Again

 

Seriously..

Why in the 21st Century
here in the Land of the Free
must we still have to deal
with the idiocy of bigotry?

Why in this age of easy access information
is mass ignorance still even relevant?

Why must we suffer these intolerant fools
who insist on spreading this hateful bullshit?

Why can't we as a nation ever get past this?

While we were founded

on a mountain of hypocrisy

we at least pretended to have ideals..

Now it's all about scapegoat prejudices

inciting the fears of the gullible

courtesy of manipulative puppeteers..

Waiting on social evolution 

sure is an exercise in frustration

Wash and Rinse Rewind

 

Disciples of black and white mindset
live to compartmentalize
and neatly slot all issues
into their narrow 

us versus them narrative...

The truth they do twist
with shameless daily bullshit
may have been diluted impure
but it still exists
and will be resurrected some day
by the cleansing force of destiny..

Those who chose to make the mess

to further their toxic agendas

are destined to be flushed away

though if the past teaches us anything

these sludge clogs of humanity

will return with a vengeance

to once again stain our history

 

Hit Me Chief

 

Medication time..

Get these sheep asses in line..

Herd the numbed masses

into their cubicles
for their daily pharmaceuticals
to keep them level set

and controllable

The sick irony of it all
is that
the keepers
of this madhouse
are far crazier
than the committed inhabitants
trapped within

these antiseptic

padded walls

The Friendly Lover

 

Dating a princess way out of my league..

A real beauty and the beast tryst..

She's my latest vanity project
in a long string of conquests
that to the world makes zero sense
cause we ain't exactly a perfect match..

But here's the thing..

I know how to listen
and cut through the bullshit

when all a girl wants to do is talk..

or vent..

or confide in a friend

she trusts and respects..

Getting deep into the depths

of the muddled mess

churning in her fair head..

Where few of my gender dare go

cause we fear being trapped

in the dreaded friend zone abyss..

I have am not burdened by that fear

as my options are more limited

by this flawed face in the mirror..

So patient me let's time

and the natural progression

of human relationships

do the rest..

Physical barriers being no match

from the force of erosion

that wears down all resistance

in the end

Golden Ruler

 

Where life lessons

are sadly lacking

ignorance definitely

ain't bliss

They should teach
the golden rule in school 
every day
til it becomes rote
like multiplication tables
and gum stalactites under the desk

Call it the Pledge of Respect
until hopefully it sticks
and the daily lesson 

rolls into habit
and the kiddies
grow up to be decent adults

Past Prejudice

 

Let's have MY people
meet YOUR people
at the designated place
where we will interface
and formulate secret plans
against THEM
who have no people
of any consequence..

We entrenched natives

gotta unite
because if we don’t
those we fear
will succeed in eventually
becoming part
of us
and the blood purity
of our former ethnic exclusivity
will be forever lost

as part of the Great Replacement

Deep State conspiracy