Dumbing Up

Contrary to popular opinion
I am still convinced
there is no better defense
to block impediments to happiness
than blissful ignorance..

The concept that knowledge
is the key to enlightenment
while a well meant myth
will make one a miserable
son of a bitch..

Make denial your ally…

Embrace all counter realities…

What you don’t know
will probably kill you eventually
but we’re all gonna die anyway
so this glorious trade off
for being momentarily happy
is worth a little personal darkness

Clock Thief

My synapse connections..

Becoming more unreliable
as the clouds keep rolling in
on the conveyer belt of time..

Doubt is now my unfaithful mistress..

Whispering chaos fragments
to this thought impaired man
now struggling to be cognitive…

Where did I leave my glasses again?

Sheep Dip

“When I go
I’m gonna be gone
and you ungrateful creatures
will be on your own”
said the shepherd
to the complacent sheep
as the perimeter wolves
eagerly count the days
and await their feast
without the inhibiting presence
of a viable deterrent
to rein in
or deter
their predatory ways

For you see
my fellow herd crew
this support structure
a few of you bleating
dumb mutton fools
wanna send away
cause of their imperfections
exists not only for our protection
but to guide us through
the dark forest when we are lost

In the Cards

Let go of the desperation
that is paralyzing your situation…

Lose those chains of self pity
holding you back currently…

Time to embrace today’s reality
and play the dealt cards as best you can…

Embrace the what should be obvious realization
that they can’t all be aces

Mental Health Mitigation

Not only
do miserable peeps
love company
they actively seek recruits
to join their misery symphony..

Fueled by unsocial media
we as a country
may have reached the tipping point
where depression is now the norm
and happiness the mental disease..

Until science finds an attitude vaccine
we need to put negativity on quarantine…

Let the naysayers keep infecting each other
with their rampaging bitchfest nonsense…

Try and stay above the contentious fray…

You’ll be much happier this way

Callous Calculations

We the people species now classified
by the autonomous bots
as a rough approximation
of the standard median deviation
duly notated in the analytic bible
we are required to pray from…

So our inevitable dissolution
will be an impersonal data execution
of a cold blooded algorithm
installed to maximize program efficiencies

Once we skewed variances have been classified
and human imperfections properly identified
a massive data dump will be loaded
into all infected servers
to flush undesirable mutants
replete with defective deficiencies
out of the now purified system

Hurray For Singapore

If a writer composes and nobody reads him
did he really write anything at all?

Welcome to the barren Island of Me…

Scribbler of anonymous poetry…

A total global non entity…

Invisible everywhere but there…

A far off speck on the map
where according to analytics
I am daily widely read…

Welcome to the Republic of Singapore..

Far far beyond the rainbow…

A sanctuary for my unclaimed words…

Don’t ask me why I am a hit on these shores..

Maybe spies transmit my prose as code?

Secret messages embedded in the fine print..

Perhaps every syllable I scribe is plagiarized?

Repackaged and recrafted as their own
for massive fame and fortune…

It all matters not in the grand scheme
these theories nothing more
than rocket fuel for my dreams…

I hope my new Singaporean friends read this
and use this blurb however they see fit
along with my sincere appreciation
for taking the time from their daily lives
to click on the shit that I write

Down Is Up

Been hanging by a tether thread
for so long
over this frickin abyss…

Twisting ever so slowly
in the indifferent breeze
with nothing below me
but the cruel force of gravity…

Fretting over the fiber shredded
in tearing increments
a fraction more each day
til all that remains for support
is a thin filament
with a broken future…

I realize finally
after much wasted consternation
the crashing
now inevitable disconnect
I have long dreaded
will in reality
be my liberation
from chronic death anxiety