Mental Cleanse

Take your best shot
and try to loosen
these cemented opinions
reeking of thought rigor mortis..

Your dissent forces me
to question my faith
in the core assumptions
of grounded philosophy
that need to be
battle tested periodically
and run though the personal wringer

Once these views have been tempered
by your challenge of my judgements
be prepared
for my now upgraded
(thanks to you)
counterargument

Down The Funnel

My legacy
is the same as yours…

Our ultimate destiny
ain’t no different
from the kings and queens
we are programmed to revere…

As our end grows near
the truth becomes clear…

When we are dead and gone
and reach the ultimate nothingness
all your accumulated accolades
that came before…

All those glorious trophies
stored on dusty shelves
will be as useless to you
in your current cadaver state
as a screen door on a submarine..

Darkness is our shared destination

Strategic Retreating

Such were the depths
of their endless contention
they could not even agree
on the battle lines location
or their weapons of choice…

For this was a war
he could not possibly win
cause he fought by conventional means
while his feminine adversary
was not hampered
by such civilized restrictions …

So the prudent man
chose to yield the field
and live to die another day

I Reboot

Anytime a new concept
or unfiltered idea
contradicts my programming
I reboot back to factory settings..

This reflex protection
is hard wired in to my model
by those who design mass opinion
to regulate the thoughts
of we easily swayed populace

Applied Solution

Take your main problem

and break it down

to it’s core components…

The solution to this mess

rests in your hands…

But first one question..

Why are you holding

that sledgehammer

over my head?

Seeds of Apathy

As the rhetorical thunder
now just outside our walls
grew in volume
we knew Ignorance
whose threat we had neglected
would be here by nightfall
to devour truth
which could no longer be guarded
by our feckless institutions..

Panic now dominates the realm
as blame is dispensed in all directions
by those who were charged with our protection…

If only they had applied this new found energy
to combat the insidious forces of Lethargy
which slowly eroded our fortifications
into soon to be useless rubble

A tarnished monument
of society’s shameful capitulation
to the forces of darkness
we allowed in with open arms

Glorious Accommodations

You say tomato
and I say anchovy..

You say potato
and I say rigatoni..

TOMATO !!

ANCHOVY !!

POTATO !!

RIGATONI !!

It seems our perceptions
are way out of line..

Which is fine..

Variance need not be a calamity..

We can agree to disagree..

Differing opinions need not be a crime..

I respect you and you respect me..

Isn’t this easier than fighting all the time?