An Off Duty Fortune Teller

An Off Duty Fortune Teller

A 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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Ben
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