Waiting to be Reincarnated

 

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

Ignoring all the warning signs..

Heading straight toward the void..

Conventional wisdom says we'll be destroyed..

Then again..

Maybe this is not the end..

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

Maybe this cosmic reboot 

is another chance

for us to get life right this time?

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

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 with

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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