The Practitioners of Beasty-alityA Poem by Easter3Oh, the Almighty Beast Within !Oh, that Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality The Beast that Howls and Roars Me ! Me ! Me ! Just Me ! And only Me ! The Almighty Me-Beast of Beasty-ality Oh, that Beast within Who when sniffing out the alluring fumes of Power Of Self-Aggrandizement Creates the Golden-Green Pyramids of Trickle Down And keep ‘em down Down ! Down ! Down ! Keep ‘em bowing and crawling on the ground To the multitude of Worldly Idols built to ItSelf Imaging, Imagining, Digitizing, Binarily Fissioning The various intricacies, versions and per-versions of ItSelf The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Oh, that Beast within That Almighty Me-Beast The Practitioner of Beasty-ality That Devours and crunches down Upon Human Beings who Stand in its Way Upon Human Beings it Sees as measly Needy Creatures Upon Human Beings it deems as Poor, as Dis-abled, As easily Dis-criminated against, as easily Bullied Upon Human Beings it Sniffs Out as Being Eco-Freaks, as Tree Huggers, As Planet Savers, as Animal Lovers, as Humanitarians, as Different Oh, that Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Feeds on all the Sheeple/People of the World Longs to make them Fearfully bleat Will do everything It can to broaden and exascerbate Their suffering and misery Because All Almighty Me-Beasts Stay ravenous for Power and Money And For-Profit-Prisons And For-Profit-War And For-Profit-Politicians And For-Profit-Courts And For-Profit-Religions And For-Profit-Corporations And For-Profit-Banks And For-Profit-Education And For-Profit-Research And For-Profit-Guns-and-Bullets And For-Profit-Rockets-and-Missiles And For-Profit-Nukes And For-Profit-Mobile-Microwave-and-Laser-Cannons And All other Forms of For-Profit-Chicaneries That in the End Truly Profiteth Not Are what temporarily put the Almighty Me-Beast’s Perpetually empty Tummy as ease Oh, the Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Will Smile with glinting, dripping Fang And feel no remorse, no pain While slowly and mercilessly tearing Any and Every Human Being to shreds and Devouring Each Human Being’s puny little and be-littled Dreams and Things that they Believe in If a Human Being dares to Get in the Way of the Almighty Me-Beast’s Avaricious Ambitions and Power-Mongering Imaginings Oh, the Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Will Thoughtlessly and Carelessly OverRun and Destroy the World With slums, and genocides, and pesticides And oil spills, and tar sand toxins, and carbon emissions And maintaining low wages while OverCharging For Food, Clothing, Shelter, HealthCare and Transportation And dis-mantling Public Education, Voting Rights, Women’s Rights, Minorities Rights And Societal Social Safety Nets Because the Almighty Me-Beasts prefer Sheeple/People as Slaves and Lackeys Drug ‘em up til they’re Pharmaceutically Cracky-Wacky Then load ‘em up and move ’em out On Trains running on disappearing Trackies Oh, the Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Will convince Human Beings to BeCome Human Bombs Or Human War Weapons In the name of some Almighty Me-Beast’s Version or per-version of some Universal Abstract ideal Or Heavenly Cosmic Location in Space When the bottom line is That the Human Being is nothing more Than Expendable, Fleshy weaponized parts Fed to the Almighty Me-Beasts grumbling belly To BeCome extricated excrement For the Almighty Me-Beasts To spit upon, tread upon, Make Money on Siphon Energetic Power from Shrug their hairy shoulders and shake their slobbering jowls at Rub their Claw-Paws satisfactorily together over And Howl, “That’s that ! On to the next Meal And Winner Takes All Deal !” Yes, that Beast within The Almighty Me-Beast That Practitioner of Beasty-ality Lies-in-wait WithIn us All What will it take to cathartically ignite Or awaken Your Me-Beast ? What will You Choose to do when its Call for You ? Run and hide ? Send it back into the Darker Side of Yourself ? Or Jump in Howling lustfully and lustily For Your First Prey Your First Kill ? Your First Bloody, Beastly Meal ? Trick is that the more you Feed the Almighty Me-Beast WithIn The less of a Human Being WithIn you have left Yes, we’re all Human Beings in the Making or Breaking All Carriers of the Almighty Me-Bests Within All Skin-Walkers and Talkers All possible Practitioners of Beasty-ality What Stands in betwixt-and-between BeComing a Me-Beast or BeComing a Human Being ? Choices Made or Broken Along the Way
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Added on April 5, 2013 Last Updated on April 5, 2013 Tags: Human beings, beasts, human nature, social morays and ehics, self aggrandizement, pursuit of Power and Money AuthorEaster3Liberty Hill, TXAboutLeah Sellers is a native Texan who has enjoyed four varied careers in her lifetime as a: Secondary Education teacher in the fields of English, History, Journalism and Special Education, an Activity di.. more..Writing
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