Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Adam Ate The Apple...

The sun was shine'n'
over that garden grand
as the old snake came slither'n'
and advertise'n' its brand
Of all the varied fruits
from all their different roots
that apple red delicious
had hardly seemed malicious
despite the prohibition,
the warnings, and apprehension
And as the apple of his eye
urged him to taste the sky
adam ate the apple
but never did say why

...and now, and how
we all walk, and talk, and feast
like men, like women,
-not descendants of some beast
All of us so all consuming
of all we're led to be assuming
We breathe the breaths of adverse ads
and follow the paths of stagnated nomads
while ill-advised appeals replace ideals
as greater thought gives way to feels
and we choke 'cause we refuse to cough
being strangled by bitter scorn and scoff
as if our adam's apple were a snare
to trap us in the sins we share
since adam ate the apple
and still we don't know where

...and now, and how
the headlines turn heads into lines
releasing memes from their confines
while quotes, stats, and evidence skews
until it all supports the narrowed views
as the men and women are all turned to stone
to bear inscriptions of some subscribed throne
All becoming one and the same
as the snake that started-off this game
when adam ate the apple
of what knowledge we proclaim

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

A Parental-Parable...

I was standing behind someone in line. They spoke loudly into their cellphone, and I couldn't avoid overhearing what was being said. Essentially it sounded like a parable of elementary-aged twins with an impending birthday and a set of circumstantial concerns related to this approaching event.

One of the twins was interested in models. From the discussion the supposed parental figure was divulging into the open air and cellphone network I deduced that the progeny was predominantly enthused by the kind of models that require diagrams, specialty glues, and assembly rather than wardrobes, professional lighting, and lavish levels of narcissistic supply. It sounded as if this doppelganger had been in good standing with his teachers and parents, and that there was only the lingering question as to what particular modeling-kit would be purchased and bestowed upon him for his annual commemorative celebration day.

The other duple had demanded a kitten as a token of admiration for his demonstrated prowess in surviving yet another year of elementary existence and educational tribulations. This duple had been recently reprimanded for refusals to share with his constituents at the educational institute where he was still presently deployed. I heard the voice in front of me imply that given this circumstance and the fact that one of the parental-entities possessed feline-allergies perhaps some other token should be considered for this impending occasion.

I found myself almost annoyed by the dissemination of these audible insights as I waited in line, but then I noticed something. My eyes had instinctively been scanning over all the last-chance items that had been arranged like beggars under the command of a military drill-instructor with OCD, and one of these pleading packages drew my attention. Perhaps the advertisers for this particular product had succeeded, or maybe my mind was showing early signs of some cognitive-collapse, but my hands reached over as if possessed by some imbued spirit's ataxia, and requisitioned two of these individually wrapped products.

Just then the voice had ended its cellphone transmission. I requested the attention of the beguiled parental-person before mentioning that I had inadvertently overheard their preceding conversation. Then I passively posited that I might have had a solution to this parental-parable. With a look of favorable inquisitiveness I was asked pleasantly to divulge my advice.

I handed the parental patron two KitKats®. The first one I explained, was for the twins. This would serve as a model for sharing thus allowing the model-enthusiast a gift fitting his interests, and providing the stingy duple with educational reinforcement while still granting him the gift of a Kat in accordance with his wishes.

The parental person appeared to have become perplexed and perturbed by my humble suggestion. Then holding the second KitKat® in front of us the beguiled guardian asked me why I'd handed-over this duple-delicacy. I calmly pointed to the advertised slogan printed upon the front face of the wrapper and mentioned that I thought given what I'd heard perhaps it wouldn't hurt for a parent to give themselves a break too. (Even if such a break required paying full retail-price).

Before the perplexed parent could thank or condemn me another register opened-up, and I cordially excused them to take advantage of the reduced wait. I didn't see if the parent ended-up purchasing the treats or putting them back on the shelf. Perhaps I'll never know if I was of any help in this parental-parable. As much as I'd like to have thought that my recommendations had been useful, by the time I was actually ready to check-out I'd added a Snickers® to my cart.

Note: I do not have any children of my own. You are all welcome.

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Colloquial Prognosis (This Goes On)...

The door-to-door salesman
has gone peer-to-peer
as mailmen are replaced
by another kind of drone
and all the people go postal
posting pitches and pantomimes
as mankind mimics mockery
in a meta-maniacal mundane mania
growing cynical of all but cynicism
declaring everything catastrophic
except for the existential catastrophe
they decry of every attempted apostrophe
for the possession of only dispositions
has dispossessed the sovereign soul
from every so-called sentiment professed
as fear and loathing become dearly blessed
while the social-senate sanctifies sedition
and sedates the sanctimonious until sinister is best
as the market crashes and crashes are marketed
in the downward spiral of spin-doctor-sales-pitches
advising spaniels submit to be spade & segregated
so as to spare other bitches
from slumbering unto their eternal sleep
while everything without a remote controller
is gradually turned down or off
as it all goes on and on
going on and on like this

Thursday, June 16, 2016

And It's All Screaming...

The sun rises slowly
and the birds and bird-brained
begin their vital vociferation
As owls disappear knowingly
from the light and the light-stained
that complicates their contemplation
For it's all screeching, all beseeching
And it's without dreaming
And it's all screaming

I open my eyes to the blinding glare
as my alarm sounds its horrid blare
And it's time to move
and get into the daily groove
With the radio, tv, &/or internet on
Advertisements declare new dawn
Each signal streaming
Every impulse beaming
Not as it is, but as it's seeming
And it's all just scheming
and it's all screaming

Faces face the bumper-to-bumper
Exiled from their existential stumper
Stranded in these crowds and droves
with scalded hands held over stoves
All silenced by the dense distractions
All numbed and dulled to real reactions
The desperation in each stare
This disparate journey to no where
All so demeaning, beyond redeeming
and it's all so quiet & violently teeming
and it's all screaming

The faces facing-off
take turns trading talking-scoff
As mockers mock this mockery
Debauched by this debauchery
Voices raised in frantic phrases
All trails lost to inflammatory blazes
And everyone is steaming
in this infernal mainstreaming
And death presides undreaming
and it's all just screaming

Friday, June 3, 2016

Redundant Redundancies Redoubled...

Can't go anywhere at all
without going back to being gone
Can't do anything at all
without doing what's been done
Head spinning round
in a round spinning world
   in a spinning galaxy
     in a spinning universe
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Redundant redundancies redoubled

Double-down & double-down again
Gotta get away, get out, get over it
without leaving, without grieving
Gotta get on with it, or get into it
without thieving, without deceiving
Double-down & double-down
So as to get back what fortune lost
Till there's no affording the fortune's cost
Double-down to double-back & double-up
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Echolalia! Echolalia!

Trying to go somewhere and get something
Till arriving at nowhere and finding nothing
With all that's lost in the infinite inbetweens
Lost again to dead-eyed glares
Cast over these graveyard scenes
As zombies seek-out zombies
& vampires suck on vampires
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Echolalia! Echolalia!

The exit signs of the prison marked
& illuminated through hours night & day
The roads from every here to where-
All made clearly legible in this same way
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Echolalia! Echolalia!
Proclaim!! Proclaim!!

Caught dizzy in this circle as a square
Gone woozy as a renegade in despair
Then falling in a twisted fate
Then falling as the heart beats faint
From the nothingness before first birth
To the final void for what it's worth
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Redundant redundancies redoubled
Echolalia!! Echolalia!!
Proclaim!!! Proclaim!!!