Discipline of the Vanities

."....all is vanity....". """But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood!""" Jeremiah 10:8

Hard work is not hard work without the showing

To your family, your friends, your rivals, your enemies

Accomplishing enough is rarely enough

Ulterior motives hiding shame within us all

From ourselves, from each other

You think you are here for you

Or her or him

Maybe once, maybe 100,000 years ago

We now kneel before window dressing material

Call it a lifestyle

You are here from and for - a lifestyle

Hush child, be quiet now; it's adult time show and tell

It's what the hell we're working for

It's what the hell we're living for

It's what the hell we're dying for

Finger painted bank accounts, macaroni art sport's cars

Mcmansions served as sick perceptions of importance, of vast wealth

This is American life

Perceptions of incomparable things

Standard goal orientated behavior

Sans vanity

This game is just a game to kill time

With pride and ego we go

Willfully narrow

With vanity

Now my clown car's a Porsche

Every weekend is Halloween

Every weekday a birthday

My wife's clown paint costs more

My children are always beautiful

We are forever young

My hard work? never not important

Because my clown car's a Porsche

And I live in the right neighborhood

As you can clearly see

As I need you to clearly see

I don't work a job

I feign value to buy feigned substance

And claim ultimate purpose

On pre-agreed upon values

Worshiping this subjective

Requiries great discipline

And vanity

A way to hide the self deception

Even the saints run on ego

Even the devil shares that ego

What the hell you're living for

Is what the hell they're dying for

Is what the f**k you're pretending for

Author's Note