The News.
The horrid day by day assault.
No wonder I am a soldier under siege
holed up in camp Suburbia
just north of a sophisticated city
my kind is too cruel to run a world like this
my fuse too short
my trigger finger too itchy
my reactions too terrible to accept the injustice
my impatience with the stupid and misguided too little
to run a world
of people seeking asylum
from the open sores on the planet
trapped misguided used and abused and accused
sticks and stones, too
comes at you from every wall
as I walk the streets I see the cameras on every corner
some flash white whenever a car runs a red
and they get ticketed by mail
the watched ones must become the watchers
if they are not watching you
you are not fighting hard enough
sooner or later you will fight for or against them
there are NO civilians in a Democracy --
the armies killings are blood on our hands as we pull the lever and make our vote
for who gets to control the guns
Peace we want and Peace we'll get
In the aftermath what is going to be left?
Is Afganistan going to go stone age
Iraq limp along on some sweet loans that will come do one day
a few generations down the line
later--long enough away not to hurt the principles involved one tiny damn bit
like Old Men Polluting a planet they aren't going to need much longer anyways
They've used up the world like life has used up their flesh
moment by unseen moment
like every field cleared
time enters my thoughts as a birthday comes and goes
and I'm reminded again that this life is worth something
no matter how I view myself on my days of self-hatred/the days of shame/when I tear open old wounds
or open new gashes in my thoughts
Nothing is just business
EVERYTHING IS PERSONAL.... wake the fuck up to getting it in the ass
taxi driver went on rampage 12 dead and 25 wounded in England
just flashed across the news and I remembered the horrible angers I had during those cab driving days
I hate and love too impetuously to drive around strangers all day
.threw a cup of cold coffee at two fuck heads in a van
one day after they cut me off and almost killed me
then laughed
fuck em
times a thousand incidents and you get a year of that job
now the world assaults me through a computer screen, the tv, the stereo
newspapers and magazines
you raise your armies and fight among yourselves
while I wonder who would want this shit to continue?
and hear about munitions companies sending in lobbyists calling for the wars
assholes still talking in terms of winners and losers when as as far as I can see everyone is losing
this is just a slaughter or us and them in a civilian zone
every general's nightmare.... didn't talk as much about the nasty side
of Modern Irregular Warfare at the academy
Now our army is lead by an expert in guerrilla warfare
he says the civilian deaths are causing the enemies ranks to swell
as our bed economy fills the ranks of the armed forces with volunteers
no jobs stateside
people are scrambling
lucky to have anything
holding onto what they have and knowing they the lose it
there isn't a guarantee anymore that another job will be waiting
that gets the nation on edge
no jobs
that gets the nation riled up and asking where is the money going?
Why is the middle class going break while the rich get much richer?
Isn't this children's block simple ... this concepts --- the money went from us to them
Reagan broke the unions and let loose the business creeps to do whatever the hell
they cut out that 'red tape' that held up the oil rigs with impact studies
Now
I read that whites worth went up to 100k on average
while blacks in the states went from 3K to 5K
over a twenty year period
All of my adult life the worth of blacks has gone from nothing to next to nothing
and I can see there is a war being fought here with winners and losers that has nothing to do
with justice-- a war I will side on now with the assurance that any Jesus would
the statistics rips open something inside of me
tells me more about the world than anything I have read in ages
my god what is going on here?
Who the hell is still thinking in terms of color and how the hell can we deal with them?
We are one people
one people
we all deserve respect, land and treasure
there is no chosen few
no chosen people
no cursed people
everyone meets their God alone
stripped of the rhetoric of religion
assholes still talking in terms of winners and losers when as as far as I can see everyone is losing
this is just a slaughter or us and them in a civilian zone
every general's nightmare.... didn't talk as much about the nasty side
of Modern Irregular Warfare at the academy
Now our army is lead by an expert in guerrilla warfare
he says the civilian deaths are causing the enemies ranks to swell
as our bed economy fills the ranks of the armed forces with volunteers
no jobs stateside
people are scrambling
lucky to have anything
holding onto what they have and knowing they the lose it
there isn't a guarantee anymore that another job will be waiting
that gets the nation on edge
no jobs
that gets the nation riled up and asking where is the money going?
Why is the middle class going break while the rich get much richer?
Isn't this children's block simple ... this concepts --- the money went from us to them
Reagan broke the unions and let loose the business creeps to do whatever the hell
they cut out that 'red tape' that held up the oil rigs with impact studies
Now
I read that whites worth went up to 100k on average
while blacks in the states went from 3K to 5K
over a twenty year period
All of my adult life the worth of blacks has gone from nothing to next to nothing
and I can see there is a war being fought here with winners and losers that has nothing to do
with justice-- a war I will side on now with the assurance that any Jesus would
the statistics rips open something inside of me
tells me more about the world than anything I have read in ages
my god what is going on here?
Who the hell is still thinking in terms of color and how the hell can we deal with them?
We are one people
one people
we all deserve respect, land and treasure
there is no chosen few
no chosen people
no cursed people
everyone meets their God alone
stripped of the rhetoric of religion
sit here thinking send them all home
this is causing more trouble than it is worth
open talks with the people we call 'terrorists'
Hamas and the Taliban should be able to speak to power as well
instead of feel the only weapons they have are bullets and bombs
This week commandos from Israel stopped a convoy of supplies
from a flotilla
killing up to twenty and losing soldiers
All over a blockade meant to punish someone for bombing them
I can see all the different sides of this of course
no one wants to get bombed
but no one wants to lose their jobs and access to consumer goods --
punishing civilians for the actions of a few military leaders
"If I had a rocket-launcher...I would make somebody pay...."
comes on the radio as I write and I think yes too cruel to rule this ridgway boy is
or just cruel enough
the rule of my fiefdom is closely guarded by my education
my morals
the walls are invisible to all and unsuspected
too ethereal to draw their notice
in the center is a calm garden
where I alone can enter
the place of my magic
where I conj-our words people seem to want to read
caste my spells over the masses
Play Out My Messianic Myths
The One Who Wishes Only To Have A Clean Soul
The peacemaker
so easily slaughtered by the better armed
can't lay down my weapons
can't stop because of a few wounds
mental and otherwise
I will not lose my ability to be a sword
a bullet a bomb
fires in your night
oil raining down from the sky and igniting a country into flames
as I write millions of gallons of oil are spewing up through a hole in the ocean
Courtesy of Republicans who were all chummy with the companies
let them blow off the safety
standards them damn liberals had saddled them with
I can't watch the usual day of news anymore because injured animals destroy me
I feel them too much
like I am a bomb and these images will start me ticking
leading to some inevitable explosion
like I write in my Waking Up Jesus book
my Christ who deals -- badly -- with heralding the End
the end of the world is open to debate
greenhouse/oil rain/meteor/marauding aliens
if we are that screwed
than even talking about it ...
is like bringing death up to a cancer patient
is like bringing death up to a cancer patient
a Russian Scientist wrote that we are in for oil rain that will destroy North America
I pray he is just being alarmist but damn the very words are enough to make you wonder
what if?
WE WOULD BE SO FUCKED.
Oil Rain.... killing all of our crops/coating all trees and animals and killing them
I didn't know such a thing was possible though of course it makes perfect sense
Ugh, the news....
spews and spews and spews the views.....
there will be
fighting
in the streets tonight
gangs
cops and robbers
soldiers around the globe in dusty desert cities
ah, no matter how a sorry sight
I keep on looking for that little bit of light
the laughter of my friends and the kisses from my dog and the birds singing for spring
on my lush green block filled with front yards turned into virtual gardens now
amazing displays of floral wealth ... professionals, doctors, lawyers...
and us
the refugee's from the lower classes
in the one apartment building on the block
th stoner writer leading his little army
of loose net of half spies and full spies and pol's and artists and you and you and you
probably/maybe not
Napoleons in Rags*
one and all
throw your hat into the ring
light up a doobie
clean your gun
and hum a song
you'd love to be able to sing
sharpen you swords your wit
write your screams on a poster and march alone
always alone
too careful with your allegiances to allow anyone to speak for you
People like me are like Christ...
no church has come round yet that encompasses what we believe
so we stay away from them
and their superstitious, prejudiced piousness...
the money-grubbers in the temples of tv.
no church has come round yet that encompasses what we believe
so we stay away from them
and their superstitious, prejudiced piousness...
the money-grubbers in the temples of tv.
(Bob .Dylan.)
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