"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect..."
< Ralph Waldo Emerson >
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>kAble < So, there they were...
The human debris of choice and indecision...
Lined-up-oh-so-orderly...

Wipe the hangover from your minds...
And denial from your hearts...
LAB-RAT-species...
Crawl into your polling booth...
And do your master's jig...

Cause and effect...
How fucking ironic...
We only know consequence after tasting the bitterness of experience...

Politicians > how I abhor them...
Shylocks...
Gutter-crawlers...
Line your own pockets...
And drown us in the karma of your deceit...

< vOyA > Or the karma of our own ignorance....

To be honest....
it's the lies we live by that fascinate me....
And standing in that line with so many others....
hope on my mind for something even marginally better than this world of assassin extremists, pandemic threat....
of the brutality of World War Terror....

HecK, I just wanted Rumi's huge fluid freedom where the enemy of the individual....
the enemy of personal freedoms >
doesn't exist at all....

>kabLe < Hmmm...
Politics > narcosis of the nation...
Peddled by sleazy salesmen with cheap promises...
And rictus grins of insincerity...
They're crawling on all fours...
>>
Just as we all are...
May I add...
>>
A reality of extremes...
I like that...
Reality of desperation...
Spoilt for choice....
Don't make me laugh...
Both options look pretty fucking grim here, folks...

Better the devil you know
Prophecy for sleepwalkers, I say...
The undead...
For a mass population hell-bent on survival...
damn you...
Architects of your own destruction...
For electing the schoolyard bully again...
damn you...
When will you ever learn?

< vOyA > deny.... deny.... deny....
responsibility that is. I mean,
the survival of the species requires extreme adaptation....
extreme self-deception....
unthinkable compromise.

But no, let's not think too much....
let's just stand quietly in line....
false hopes circling....
caught in a choke-hold....
with only two choices really >

one bad, one worse....

I mean... it's no secret....
in Politics, choice is relative....
and choice, it seems, is always ruled by money....

Mmmm....
Randomness, helplessness....
the dynamics of belief....
ruled it seems > by our suspicious minds....
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"Our logic is at fault if we ignore the fact that right is
founded on brute force and even today needs violence
to maintain it." < Sigmund Freud >
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> kabLe < Good old Freud...
Still bloody relevant...
Brute force...
Violence...
Sobriety...
Tools for daily-living, didn't you know...

Ivory Towers...
Medieval Ideologies...
Middle-class-pathogens with an agenda...
Lethal >>
Parasites >>
One-foot-in-the-grave-the-other-in-the-coffers...
Feeding their gluttonous hearts...
Writing their nation's epitaphs...

False hope...
An election promise...
Vote out of fear...
Never out of optimism...

< vOyA > No....
None of that standard-issue paranoia anymore....
I mean.... this is the 21st century mind....
a continuity of consciousness and confusion....
of total damn fear waiting for the global CODE RED....

I tell you....
we're past the tipping point....
Over the spin-machine puking uncertainty....
The political terrorism in the name of safety.

Seriously, does anybody in this crazy-ass world have
the humanity to stop this endless warring....
this cycle of destruction that is the history of our species?

Surely the pattern demands it....
from somewhere other than the political-caste....