Pass the pills, the great gobs of prescriptive denial, send us all along our paths surreal as we nod and grin…
Lay it all out before us, the blithely boring buffet of “heroism” won in the distant lands of those “lesser” creatures where terror matinees feature imminent threats to our alleged freedom…
As we all skip gaily bleating off the cliff, grinning our laws of attraction, never wondering why such corruption billows and balloons us all puffed up in songs and hymns and spiritual songs and…
Something so sleepy, so myopic and sludge slothful coursing through our veins as we snort this righteous indignation at any not white, not here first (wait…), not Bible-beating cleanly-seeming…
Importing bootstrap molasses for asses pounding their pulpits reducing compassion for the downtrodden, trampling any and all deemed weak, abnormal, suspicious-looking, not born with silver spoon inserted in the wide wide mouth…
Tune in and turn on the off of any soulfulness, we’re all done with frank and real, raw and feel, we got game for heaping high miles of blame on any who dare expose our truths…
Sit at our table where we’ll rally the professionals, injecting poison and gathering mutant unearthly harvest for the gaping masses of superior mindless compliance, gulping down the greed master’s meal…
See, we don’t feel, think or otherwise manage more than a cursory blank stare in the winking twinkle of this twilight of our delusion…
[…] [Note from Ruth: This is an outpouring of frustration about the war machine the USA is and how many citizens are trapped in an unthinking, unquestioning compliance that feeds that machine. This is also my protest of the notion of patriotism as that which does not protest wars or question the machine devouring lives. To be even clearer: I do not believe we must all stand on a stage and scream about the injustices in the world or be damned. However, if you’re a world leader, I might give you hell for not stopping certain atrocities. I’m also speaking to those with the heart to speak up who’ve become sedated by a numbing culture. But advocacy is best advanced by those with the vision to do so. We don’t all have that vision and that is how life has wired us. Our lives must be lived in truth and love and it is exactly that living that is a beautiful protest in and of itself. We’re meant to be in unity with each other despite our differences. Meanwhile, it’s 2026, and I believe the US is going to become a place of mindful, meaningful unity in love, bit by bit. (This note also speaks to my rumbling ramble of poetic outburst titled “Mindless Americanism”.)] […]