Peer Pressure Teardrops

Don’t trade in
your self respect
for a few fleeting moments
of perceived social coolness…

That affirming spot light
you so desperately seek
will blind your senses
and expose bad intentions…

In the end the consequence
just ain’t worth the polite applause
from the shallow trend setting crowd

who will turn on you at the first chance

Dreams of the Fool

In the kingdom
of Amazon women
where I daily toil
I am the lovable lump…

A once proud nobleman was I
now trapped
on the wrong side of history

Today a slapstick jester
summoned for comic relief
who amuses the Queen
and her cackling court
for the loose change
they drop in my cup..

A neutered eunuch fool
playing the butt
of all their snide asides..

Behind this clown’s smile
is a sly serpent’s determination..

Waiting patiently
for the wheel of fate to turn
and for Karma to reverse
my current bitter situation..

Forth and Back

I love contrarians
poking holes in my opinions
forcing me to defend my positions
as I parry and thrust back at them..

This stirring mix of the thought process
percolates meaningful debate
which can actually create
innovative advancements
to all sides of the equation

Gender Blenders

Peeps stuck in the 20th Century
seem excessively obsessed
with gender assignment..

They DEMAND roles be defined narrowly..

Pronoun ID’s gotta roll binary..

You MUST be either a he or she
like it was for centuries
when those who did not fit
were socially ostracized
and condemned
by the hateful majority..

So what is a woman?

What is a man?

Not so obvious anymore..

There’s now a serious degree of fluidity
flowing through once rigid definitions..

Slowly eroding prejudiced conventions..

Fear not our social evolution..

Change does not mean the end of civilization…

Embrace the rainbow
of the human condition
and let people choose to be
whatever they need to be..

And if you can’t adapt to the new reality
learn to mind your own frickin business

Off Center

Loony birds of a feather
truly flock together..

Ruffling staid conventions
to the chagrin of the pack…

We’re all damaged goods
lingering on the clearance rack..

So next time you feel lonely
and out of step with normalcy
just remember
you are a solid member
of the odd ball majority..

Rolling slightly wobbly
but always uniquely

Seed Libations

Alcohol…

That behavior clouding libation
lubricating the loins of history…

What percentage of the population
owes it’s very existence
to boozy fueled
inhibition reducing procreation?

Ever Aftering

Take your insipid distractions
wherever you kind find them..

Draw the curtains tight..

Blast the artificial light..

Get immersed in the fairy tale
with all the hokey symbolism
cynics will surely mock..

Their suffocating world of gray
polluted with jaded sarcasm
is a toxic waste land anyway…

Dreams don’t need heavy substance

or happiness draining validation