Showing posts with label cloned beliefs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloned beliefs. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

They'll Ignore You

They’ll annoy you without conscious effort and then tell you it’s none of your business
They’ll step on your face with a condescending smirk while clawing their way to the top
They’ll throw shit on the ground when no one is around and then just drive away
They’ll make gasoline-powered noise to blot out the good silence that makes them feel uneasy

They’ll throw up cheap crap on good land, make quick bucks and then leave town for good
They’ll call you when you’ve had an accident and then drive up in another new leased BMW
They’ll pimp real estate to gullible strangers like a mother bird feeds her tiny chick
They’ll ignore the homeless as they drive by every day behind their tinted windows

They’ll act righteous beneath their fascist, literalist, fairytale personal saviors
They’ll spout gibberish and call for soundbite political debates with real scientists
They’ll carry their canned, evaporated culture far from home and never see a thing
They’ll piss you off with their thoughtless waste without ever even knowing it

They’ll shame you to the civilized world with all their ignorant, macho, cowboy posturing
They’ll spend thousands to go hunting but demand that all forests return a profit
They’ll blithely support resource extraction ignoring any and all of its long term costs
They’ll call birth control a sin but use the excess ignorant as their contract wage slaves

They’ll never walk anywhere outside except to shiny vehicles parked closely nearby
They’ll mouth the nonsense of televangelists and conservative think tank analysts
They’ll work diligently on their pathetic golf games on grass that’s a toxic green
They’ll take pride in an ignorance knowingly pitched to them as tough, manly and rugged

They’ll no longer require your services once you have called them on their charade
They’ll spoil and ignore their lazy children but blame their failures on poor schools
They’ll unknowingly waste more every hour than most people earn in a month
They’ll demand ever more criminally wasteful military money and call it patriotism

They’ll support our troops with plastic bumper stickers on their sleek imported cars
They’ll subsidize terrorists with hard cash every time they fill-up at the gas pump
They’ll idle their 300 hp engines to serve as personal room air-conditioners
They’ll go out for expensive meals prepared and served by the angry working poor

They’ll refinance all of our futures and every one of us will have to pay
They’ll drive to the wilderness and run loud generators to watch action DVDs
They’ll ignore you and get up way too close then start making lots of noise
They’ll always know lots about the latest bright and shiny consumer fad

They’ll take tax-deductible ski vacations with their corporate mega-churches
They’ll get tough on crime but cheat on their taxes and shortchange their illegal workers
They’ll be concerned for their security and burn bright lights which also blot out all the stars
They’ll call for roads to eliminate congestion and immediately crowd them with tacky shit

They’ll bulldoze native plants then spend enormous sums maintaining toxic, artificial lawns
They’ll cut your throat behind your back using canned & coded corporate PC catchphrases
They’ll twist the words they put in your mouth and then put them to use against you
They’ll advertise for proactive self-starters who must also be good team players

They’ll produce elaborate fictional schedules as they socialize in their meetings
They’ll forget your name should they ever be unable to avoid meeting you face to face
They’ll espouse a laissez-faire evangelical Social Darwinism fueled only by their shortsighted greed
They’ll copyright your handmade ideas and cheaply manufacture them overseas

They’ll change lanes impatiently over and over, angrily saving even more wasted time
They’ll make sure everybody in the office thinks they work 12 hours every day
They’ll be full of friendly smalltalk and jovial smiles when their boss happens by
They’ll mouth free enterprise while lobbying for their own tariffs, subsidies and tax breaks

They’ll dismiss your ideas out of hand while endlessly quoting their gutless, invisible leaders
They’ll drive up your property taxes and then buy you out to make a quick profit
They’ll sell you on personal responsibility but control your very bowel movements
They’ll rule as corporate control freaks but then plead complete ignorance to company crimes

They’ll pay vapid fast-talking salesmen princely sums to pimp their useless products
They’ll get fat bonuses and stock options for their, unfortunately, immeasurable contributions
They’ll cut your benefits, eliminate your position and renege on your retirement
They’ll purchase influence and legislation to insure their own continued success

They’ll rend the very fabric of the living world and belittle you for not putting people first
They’ll always chant of costs in jobs and money over environmental and safety concerns
They’ll pass you at full noisy throttle then brake hard to turn off at the very next corner
They’ll eat the pus-like middle of their white bread and then toss the phony crust aside

They’ll speak of a love of peace while subsidizing their weapons-making donors with no-bid contracts
They’ll pray to a god who rationalizes all of their greedy and short-sighted actions
They’ll glowingly praise democracy while buying up votes and peddling their influence
They’ll ignore you completely until it might cost them a bit of power or just a little money

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Collective Quantum Entanglement

Quantum entanglement: “spooky action at a distance”, Einstein
All by myself I decided that hair dye, botox and cosmetics were not made for me
A thousand miles away you made the same decision and we passed each other on our trips

Sitting home alone in the dark I realized that we were headed in the wrong direction
Half a continent away I heard a stranger say just that on a far-off radio frequency

I set out to save the world via the personal attainment of a sustainable lifestyle
You invented the same solution and we never had to meet or talk it over at all

We rejected childlike Christian fairy tales for the sound of a hand clapping all alone
Millions of us wandered in these same directions happy at not ever seeing one another

We both traveled far from totally different places to this unremarkable vista point
You had a brother not far from us and we had once shopped in your town

Your large SUV cost too much to fill and we found no solitude upon the trails
We shook our heads in agreement there was no stopping this thing called progress

We talked it over alone at home and gave up on factory poultry and industial beef
Overnight new industries appeared as unrelated millions made the same decisions

My well-considered conclusions on social issues were never shared with a soul
But you read my mind out loud in an interview with another random citizen

I knew I was alone and righteous in banishing packaged sports from my entertainment
Lo and behold their ratings began sliding for good, all across the nation

Thinking about it, I realized that neither chemicals nor cremation was for me
Next thing I knew green burials came along seeking to fill the bill for a profit

We sold our giant house before the stupid speculative market bubble burst
Luxurious downsizing was reported as a great new trend among us

I realized that the inner political circle did not have our best interests in mind
Their numbers continued to sag despite all their best in marketing efforts

After my last downsizing, I would never again pledge allegiance to any corporation
The same lack of trust and commitment spread silently to colleagues I never met

I came to my own conclusion that neither party worked for my real interests
The Independent label grew faster than it ever had before

Despite their best efforts I became convinced of the reality of global warming
They were left holding their empty rhetoric as people changed of their own accord

We realized independently that real estate agents should not share in the proceeds of our work
We had no problem in connecting with buyers and sellers who shared our beliefs

In quiet and solitary meditation I slowly learned to find a little peace
You did the same and, likewise, never spoke of it with another person

Talking only to ourselves we concluded we would never get to spend all that time we were saving every day
Millions silently realized the decreasing marginal benefits of more money, longer working hours and ever-increasing consumption

After too many pointless tasks the artificial deadlines and hazy goals of foolish project managers could no longer motivate me at all
They laid us off for good in favor of those still young enough to swallow the nonsense they could only parrot nervously

We had enough Hollywood special effects and over-hyped, overpaid, so-called stars
We shared opinions on independent and foreign films we all watched on the web

I laughed at the absurdity of the big box, drive-thru evangelical mega-churches
Gradually their congregations decreased even as their advertising was redoubled

You cut my hair for years and it only saved us a lot of money
Economists noted a trend towards fewer salons charging more in a shrinking market

My Spanish always helped me to communicate - with the janitors in our buildings
Now they say it’s a vital skill in the newly globalized economy that we all must live in

We laughed about their latest mania for those 300 foot long luxury yachts
Polls showed few believed any of their latest tax cut money really trickled down to us

We privately decided to make a personal statement regarding overpopulation
Demographers noted that the educated bred at lower rates than the swarming immigrants

We determined to support our troops by wishing for the ouster of their chief
Public support evaporated despite the light and heat of their ongoing propaganda

We smiled at their awkward efforts to put a few bags of groceries in a giant pickup
For us, the era of the monster vehicle was over long before American auto makers even had a clue