An Off Duty Fortune TellerA Poem by Ben
The parody is only relevant to the indoctrinated
Value, arrivals at ends Authorityless, My law and mans law I bend more to mans because the consequences are more In certain ways And Social constraint more ferocious than the whisper of my confinement In the grand tradition of mindlessness Take that which ever way you will All their worlds taken so seriously, every emotional-perceptive coloring we've called truth Someone so stuck in their ways, Doesn't know the clearer definition and vividness of life out of sedation I walked into the forbidden fruit And it's hard to tell Am I unfolding or unraveling Or is it both Must I subscribe, lay my life down in resignation wholly to these words Fleeting whimsical bullshit capacity, these words Or should I pay attention to practical yet higher things Authority, I appeal and go back above their heads Over my great-grandparents heads Escaping the gravity, ozone and atmosphere of what they deigned or insisted on conforming to and prizing I go back to an almost alien land Like to read things 500-3,000 year old authors I feel like that's going over their head And these works which survived and still inspire and guide and help render sturdy compasses one by-product of imperialism is empiricism in exploration and translation of great texts International databases mutual intelligible body's of international literature We constantly have our feelings about laws and traditions; behaviors in society Yet it is always based on the status quo We are always standing in the great bewildering perplexing image of the reflexion of conformity and legitimacy How do you know the whole world isn't full of s**t And that in between the lines Isn't twenty million things left unsaid and skimmed over for profit & in administrative abuse The world works fine this way, the cement truck driver and steamroller driver said to each other as they drove their vehicles over the primitive human society cliff There are wiser things in all of the lines of Montaigne Than there will be in the average minds of men in 500 or 1000 years in the future There is no hope I don't believe in democracy or communism for at least another hundred years No money is not removeable, Marx should have been dismissed by common sense and practical history And as for people voting their opinions Their opinions are grown on farms, like bill hicks said © 2014 Ben |
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Added on June 11, 2014 Last Updated on August 12, 2014 AuthorBenPortland, COAboutLike to learn and know And be my potential of aware I love the quote, "look in, let not either the true nature of things or their proper worth escape you" I also love the quote "In the mornin.. more..Writing
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