Current Future

Swimming with the fish
down a free flowing stream
of electric consciousness

Bouncing off bubbles
that can only exist
in this artificial thought environment

Mother Earth keeps spinning
as we oblivious inhabitants
bullet toward the sea

All the inhibitions of yesterday
now dissipated completely
by a maelstrom of natural release
formerly damned as immorality

Time has lost all relevance
which is a scary development
for our crustacean traditionalists
who insist we drop anchor
to cling to the rapidly receding past

But their ancient hooks won’t hold
cause the current now flows too strong

Our future is humming
in a complex mesh
of new wave wires
labeled the world wide net

A mocking requiem
for the last vestiges
of human civility
that never stood a chance
against the torrent of tech inevitability

Formula Man

Always gotta respect
the power of cause and effect

The relationship engine
of these two entwined
baseline variables
fuels oft complex
human interactions

So when you find
yourself of a perplexed
confused mindset
use your best available tools
to alter the root cause
of the conundrum
til you properly calibrate
the very achievable
and quite applicable
happiness equation
that can be utilized
as a go to formula
to solve 
problematic life variances 

Assigned Seat

I AM NOT A NUMBER!

Who the Hell am I kidding?

To the powers that be
I’m just another blip
on a scrolling data base screen

A gnat of a stat
locked on a spread sheet
to be measured
and quantified
then fed
to the ravenous algorithm

Gutted and marginalized
into the taste extracted ingredients
that comprise the homogenized
recipe of modern
non creative blandness

Rampant Inflation

That radical swami
named Blah Blah Mamdani
took a left at socialism
and docked his radical craft
with fellow traveler Marxists
as they plotted insidious plans
to wreck New York and beyond

We patriots collectively salivated
at the prospect
of this subversive
being served up on a spit
for skewering purposes at the hands
of the Master Troller in Chief
when face to face they met

So imagine our chagrin
when our champion of America First
gave this commie his blessing
and full endorsement

How the Hell are we expected
to damage control spin
this deflating embarrassment?

Paper Tigers

The relentless propagandists
using all their tools
to move the proverbial needle
of public opinion

Dishing disinformation
with inhuman frequency
the well funded influencers
who now spew indistinguishable
from the unbearable bots

They canonize the broken prophets
in social media
thought silo cathedrals
while skewering
today’s designated enemy
with incessant negative fury

Their words a futile rallying cry
to disillusioned rebels
desperately grasping for alibis
as the disjointed mob now declares war
on a disinterested real world
that long ago moved on
to more interesting distractions

Label Breakers

I came to this forbidden place
especially to rip away
the dire famous disclaimer
designed specifically
as a loyalty test
to forever deter rebels like me
from doing life naturally

Institutional rules and regulations
stamped on our foreheads at birth
right after they slap us in the ass

Inhibitors of behavior deemed deviant
wielded by the heavy handed
bastards of repression

Authoritarians Hell bent
on squashing self expression
that runs contrary
to the uni thought collective

These enemies of creativity
flowing from human curiosity
only fuels pockets of non conformity
to their fascist dictates
that they must suppress

So we contrarians knowingly charge
into the obvious entrapment
set by the determined authorities
to snare us wanna be martyrs

Although the path of insurgency
can be a painful trip
we do ride with high quality company
cause Jesus was a rebel too
who tugged on the label of the Pharisees

A Very MAGA Christmas

During this holiday season
of America First austerity
fret not about affordability
as what’s left of your money
has been diverted
to personal survival needs

Say hello to Want and Ignorance

The MAHA famine weight loss program
will keep you healthy and lean
so insurance you poor bastards won’t need

Just a few clean coal presents
to fill your tattered stockings
from the benevolent Grinch oligarchy
in this new age of Diminishing Returns

Just buy less frivolous gifts
and celebrate the true austerity meaning
of a very Trumpian Christmas

Welcome to the Golden Gilded Age
of a very scary MAGA holiday

Oh by the way
when that dangerous
illegal alien Santa Claus
tries to sneak across our sealed border
our fearless ICE agents
will apprehend his fat ass
and ship the commie invader
back to his shit hole country

This is what you voted for

Choice Cuts

Doing the things
that need to be done

Or at least the things
we think we need

Options are weighed

Best guesses made

Life is rarely
neatly cut and dried

Doubt has an insidious way
of disabling self confidence

We live with our choices

Die by residue mistakes

This is the truth of it

Actions have consequences

Better learn to deal
with the bitterness of disappointment

Or you will become
a dysfunctional
cynical denialist like me

Worst In Show

At our daily bitch session
in the battle for attention
I took the contrarian position
when our self pity party
devolved into it’s usual pointless
boo hoo competition

Rather than playing can you top this
in the side by side
my life is worse than yours
comparison stink test
I chose the more noble option
of counting my blessings
[meager as they may seem]
and thinking of those souls
truly less fortunate instead

Of course my altruistic plea
got my saint wanna be
ass booted off Selfish Island
by the Woe is Me inhabitants
who had zero interest
in the betterment
of the human condition

Lighten Up Mate

How dour can you be
that you take this bullshit
so damn seriously?

All your panicky
sky is falling hyperbole
ain’t gonna change today’s reality
one damn bit

Embrace this truth of history..

All the somber blue
boo hoo life scenarios
which may or may not come true
are gonna play out as destined
just the same without you
and your hand wringing apocalyptic predictions

So let go of the self generated strife
which ruins this grind of a trip
and start looking at the bright side
of this all too fleeting life

Serenity exists in the internal spin
as a natural alternative
when you don’t have proper mood medications