Desire
Greasy black boot bottom stain
Across his broken teeth
Open, pink and pulpy pain
Smothers the cry beneath
..
He's wadded and discarded
Blood on the subway floor
"What are you bitch, retarded?
Realize you're just a whore!"
..
Gleaming, shining knuckles fly
Crushing the bone within
Soupy, fleeting questions why
Don't have time to begin
..
Life's refuse is left behind
Like grime left in the crease
"Don't you fuckin' use your mind
Don't even think of peace"
..
Soothing tranquil thoughts once were
So seated in his head
Cost and profits all concur
Tranquility is dead
..
We need them to acquire
They cannot be at one
"Money comes from desire
You're fuckin' with that son"
..
Fading now the shades of gray
They beat him to resist
Such audacity to say
We all can coexist
..
In his hand a paper lies
The words they must condemn
"Never will we realize
While we still call them them."
Ryan Nikkel
11/08
I was angry at greed and selfishness when I wrote this. I see it as a stumbling block to happiness. I think I'll go watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy" again.
I posted this originally on my myspace blog, but reading about the ban on organic farming, spearheaded by Monsanto and their wonderful disease causing "engineered" seeds made me think of it and decide to post it here.
Better living through chemistry, if you consider a state of total delusion as "living". No thanks. Keep your crap and I'll keep both my money and my health. This is the change we need. This not only needs to be defeated, but we need a legal response to what amounts to engineering a monopoly. This cannot be legal. The lobbyists should be fired, the politician who entertained this nonsense should be thrown from office. Since none of that is going to happen, the change is in our hands. Pay attention to your elected officials. It is a truly sad state of affairs but it is up to US to keep them honest. We need to make it known that the status quo is no longer acceptable. We need to follow the correct action and run the wheels off it every single time. Corrupt politicians are counting on the fact that a) we're lazy and you KNOW we are! b) We don't have the conviction to fight for change c) We absolutely WILL NOT inconvenience ourselves for change (because we are hypocrites, we really are) and d) it will only be a month until a new "cause" gets our attention and support and we no longer pay attention to this one.
We rant and piss and moan about these sorts of things all the time yet we ALLOW corrupt officials in office. We deal with the symptom and never the cause. We will defeat this measure, and stop there. What about the elected official who KNEW this was bologna and went along with it for kick backs, or political clout. We can't prove corruption in every instance. We need zero tolerance on dishonesty, in all forms. It starts with the campaign. We have all seen the thinly veiled attack ads. The next time I see one for a person I was going to vote for, they will lose my vote and I will make it public in a letter written to them and copied in local media. We have to be the change, we have to drop our hypocrisy and hold to our integrity.
We suck and WE are the reason there is no change! Need proof? The last time someone sent you something political in nature and asked you to support it, did you read it and support it because it was what was right to YOU, or did you rubber stamp the petition because your friend did and you don't have the time to be bothered? We scream for change while clutching our own vices. We rant for diligence from our lazy boys. Why is it we elect someone and somehow expect them to be better people than we are?
We are one people. There is one truth.
