"Tick Tock"
Broken clocks and faded timelines
Buried in universal spin
Embrace the absence of the tick-tock
You've only got one chance to win
And the people got lost admist the noise
And the people can't catch a breath
And I stood inside the doorway
And saw them on the belt to death
Faded dreams and broken colors
Buried in universal spin
Inspect the world to find the seams
You've only got one chance to win
And the people got lost in the rush
And the people didn't find love
And I stood in the middle of the roadway
And saw them get the final shove
Broken faces and faded bodies
Buried in universal spin
Embrace the absence of the tick-tock
You've only got one chance to win
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Word Vomit
feather weight babies on the hot street of tomorrow
dancing rubber maid dolls of squashed love and dreams
fulcrum pivot dance dream fuck face identity full cum sum
interesting farcical fluids ranging hard in face of butt
rangey mangy dogs that are cagey falsehoods grief
birds chirping with beef crappy faces learning places
fisting fuckers filching fumbling fumblers crying
fast needing dying flashing crying sickening listening
the way the world spins in stupid stupid stupid dumbness
the way the world is stupid and I am stupid and everything is
stupid yet not stupid and not dumb and it goes on and there’s stuff flying through me and I’m sitting here and I’m aging and stuff is happening and things are moving and flowing and there’s stupid and there is joy and people are fucking and framing and ranging and moving and sipping and dipping and tripping and I don’t know what they are doing and I don’t know why they are doing and I don’t know if they know why they are doing and I don’t know if they think about why they are doing and I don’t think they do but I don’t know they do and I don’t understand one bit of it
dancing rubber maid dolls of squashed love and dreams
fulcrum pivot dance dream fuck face identity full cum sum
interesting farcical fluids ranging hard in face of butt
rangey mangy dogs that are cagey falsehoods grief
birds chirping with beef crappy faces learning places
fisting fuckers filching fumbling fumblers crying
fast needing dying flashing crying sickening listening
the way the world spins in stupid stupid stupid dumbness
the way the world is stupid and I am stupid and everything is
stupid yet not stupid and not dumb and it goes on and there’s stuff flying through me and I’m sitting here and I’m aging and stuff is happening and things are moving and flowing and there’s stupid and there is joy and people are fucking and framing and ranging and moving and sipping and dipping and tripping and I don’t know what they are doing and I don’t know why they are doing and I don’t know if they know why they are doing and I don’t know if they think about why they are doing and I don’t think they do but I don’t know they do and I don’t understand one bit of it
Chattel
"Chattel"
they corral you
they herd you
they want you
in their army
of morons
who feed on
being nothing
they corral you
they herd you
they want you
in their army
of morons
who feed on
being nothing
"Adaptation"
"Adaptation"
she wanted to evaporate or mutate
revamp or dial back
recalibrate into something
recalibrate into
anything
Axioms
We live in a selfish society. That does not mean we should become totally selfless.
We live in technologically based society. That does not mean we should become totally primitive.
We live in a materialistic society. That does not mean we should give up all materials.
We live in a cynical society. That does not mean we should become naively trusting.
We live in technologically based society. That does not mean we should become totally primitive.
We live in a materialistic society. That does not mean we should give up all materials.
We live in a cynical society. That does not mean we should become naively trusting.
Entitlement
Entitlement is defined as "a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract." Conservatives, especially lower to middle class white folks, are always rallying against government "entitlement programs." With their smug expressions, they decry the idea that certain people, by virtue of being poor or belonging to some other socially oppressed group, are given government benefits under certain laws (i.e. welfare being an obvious one).
Okay, so the term "entitlement" is accurate under the definition I have given. Certain people are given certain benefits by law. When conservatives use that word, they are trying to evoke specific connotations and feelings that have been associated with the word. They are trying to elicit feelings of disgust--a sort of "how dare they think just because they are X, that they should get X!"
And what I say in retort--
Yes, these are "entitlement programs" under the definition, but where is the outrage at other entitled groups? Where is the outrage at those who have a right to benefits because of the families they were born into? Where is your outrage at those who receive more benefits than any poor or oppressed person could ever dream of simply because they were lucky enough to be born in an economically privileged family? Does it not cause you outrage that these people are given all the tools and resources for success simply because of an accident of birth?
Why don't you think "how dare INSERT RICH PERSON HERE think that just because they are rich, that they should be given all the tools for success at birth!"
The point isn't whether you agree or disagree with entitlements. The point is that you must recognize that it isn't just through the government that entitlement is administered. If you're going to decry entitlement, at least be consistent. At least decry birthright entitlement too. And please don't argue that "well, those privileged peoples' parents worked for it." Because, the kids of the privileged did not work for it, and the rallying cry against entitlement programs for the oppressed is always "they didn't work for it."
And I can tell you why the focus is on "entitlements" of the poor rather than the privileged...it's internalized oppression. These middle to lower middle class *usually white* folks who decry the rights of those more oppressed than them, well, they see themselves as fighting for the same crumbs at the bottom of the cookie jar. And how dare these "entitled" oppressed groups get any benefit that might give them even a slightly increased ability to get to these same proverbial crumbs. These middle to lower middle class folks are scared. They're scared of losing a pittance of crumbs.
And that's what's sad. The political climate, our society, etc. have pitted a huge portion of the population against one another for a pile of lousy crumbs. Instead of banding together, instead of making it their goal to get an actual cookie instead of a pile of lousy crumbs, these people tense up. They get scared. They split apart. They fight for crumbs.
Okay, so the term "entitlement" is accurate under the definition I have given. Certain people are given certain benefits by law. When conservatives use that word, they are trying to evoke specific connotations and feelings that have been associated with the word. They are trying to elicit feelings of disgust--a sort of "how dare they think just because they are X, that they should get X!"
And what I say in retort--
Yes, these are "entitlement programs" under the definition, but where is the outrage at other entitled groups? Where is the outrage at those who have a right to benefits because of the families they were born into? Where is your outrage at those who receive more benefits than any poor or oppressed person could ever dream of simply because they were lucky enough to be born in an economically privileged family? Does it not cause you outrage that these people are given all the tools and resources for success simply because of an accident of birth?
Why don't you think "how dare INSERT RICH PERSON HERE think that just because they are rich, that they should be given all the tools for success at birth!"
The point isn't whether you agree or disagree with entitlements. The point is that you must recognize that it isn't just through the government that entitlement is administered. If you're going to decry entitlement, at least be consistent. At least decry birthright entitlement too. And please don't argue that "well, those privileged peoples' parents worked for it." Because, the kids of the privileged did not work for it, and the rallying cry against entitlement programs for the oppressed is always "they didn't work for it."
And I can tell you why the focus is on "entitlements" of the poor rather than the privileged...it's internalized oppression. These middle to lower middle class *usually white* folks who decry the rights of those more oppressed than them, well, they see themselves as fighting for the same crumbs at the bottom of the cookie jar. And how dare these "entitled" oppressed groups get any benefit that might give them even a slightly increased ability to get to these same proverbial crumbs. These middle to lower middle class folks are scared. They're scared of losing a pittance of crumbs.
And that's what's sad. The political climate, our society, etc. have pitted a huge portion of the population against one another for a pile of lousy crumbs. Instead of banding together, instead of making it their goal to get an actual cookie instead of a pile of lousy crumbs, these people tense up. They get scared. They split apart. They fight for crumbs.
Mediocrity
This is something I wrote in the past in regard to societal mediocrity and my own sense of it....
I see the political rhetoric "we the people" and "power to the people." And I ask myself: What do the people want? And I find myself answering: Most people want to be free to live the same mediocre lives their parents led.
And then I ask myself: What do I want? And I answer: I know what I don't want. What I don't want-- I don't want to live a mediocre, forgettable life. I'm confident of that. I don't want the trappings of their suburban death march. I don't want the ball and chain that is their children. I don't want the cage they call "work."
I do know one thing I do want-- I do want my husband. I was very lucky to find my soulmate amongst all these ghosts.
But what do I want for myself? What do I want to achieve? What am I striving for?
And then it comes to me--I am afraid of a different kind of mediocrity. What if I am not them, but at the same time, I am nothing? It's not enough to just not be like them. I want to be something. I don't want to be defined by what I'm not.
I see the political rhetoric "we the people" and "power to the people." And I ask myself: What do the people want? And I find myself answering: Most people want to be free to live the same mediocre lives their parents led.
And then I ask myself: What do I want? And I answer: I know what I don't want. What I don't want-- I don't want to live a mediocre, forgettable life. I'm confident of that. I don't want the trappings of their suburban death march. I don't want the ball and chain that is their children. I don't want the cage they call "work."
I do know one thing I do want-- I do want my husband. I was very lucky to find my soulmate amongst all these ghosts.
But what do I want for myself? What do I want to achieve? What am I striving for?
And then it comes to me--I am afraid of a different kind of mediocrity. What if I am not them, but at the same time, I am nothing? It's not enough to just not be like them. I want to be something. I don't want to be defined by what I'm not.
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