April 25
"Displacement of Artificial Parts/ To Exclude International Addresses":
Are you well versed in societal discourse?
Are you a party to our epidemic dependency?
To search for validation upon steeples,
And not in mutual understanding nor collectivity.
Are you a party to complacent pacification?
What are the excuses that we have to offer each other?
To take action within inaction,
Is a tactic as effective as bread and circus/cannon fodder.
But what happens when they torch the city?
When they burn Rome to the ground.
From the ashes of empire,
Do not contend that caution was taken heed.
In classic classist economical dissertations,
In the history classroom walls.
Within the university and academic institution,
A theory about proper solution.
A question will lead to a problem.
A mathematical formulaic construct
of Hyperion urgency.
"Reach for the Sky...and Work Until you Die (Labor movements of the 1900's)":
Manual labor
Is reaped from our souls.
It's taken from the worker
And sold to the masses.
Breadth from the gallows
And overwrought with squalor.
Is there even an inkling of movement,
Or will heroes/heroines just become martyrs?
A symbol
A passion
A hope
Something we strive for
A pitfall
A delusion
A suffering
A push for withdrawal
Are the unions bankrupt?
Have they been co-opted?
Have the leaders been slain (or sold)?
Have our masses become broken?
Has your spirit been lost?
Who will burden the cost?
To produce consumable goods.
A step towards collectivity
Two steps towards tyranny
Labored ideals
Have been lost to profiteers.
What's the confusion?
What's your delusion?
To swear upon altruism
Is a losing appeal.
"She Said More (Fictitious Lessons in World History)":
What's your political disposition?
Do you have a rational explanation?
Aren't all things considered,
When we're all on the same side?
The libraries are closing down,
And all of the books are being burned.
Take your literary ideas,
And turn them in for re-assignment.
Our histories are catching up with us,
While our present (future) is becoming undone.
Life. Set. Struggle.:
What are we doing here?
Has one ever thought about the process of Life?
Of the technological modernism that has taken the world unto the brink of extinction?
With what ingenuity has the race of man brought the earth unto her knees?
How far gone and deep reaching are the devastations that human beings have raged onto this planet?
How many other forms of life and human civilizations have been wiped out unto oblivion
upon the ravages waged by warfare, technology, resource exhaustion, and commerce?
These are simply questions.
Contemplative inflections into one's collective psyche.
Questions that have been confronted with a melee of responses.
But if there is one certainty, than surely it is this:
"There is no hope or future without change. The path in which we are set is surely a process that has been doomed from the onset."
Life. Set. Struggle.
This has become such a truism that it isn't even something that we question or wonder about. Instead it has become that which we have accepted without second guess. It is the process in which our lives and courses have been destined to be played out. A pre-planned blue print. A set of instructions that must be followed without fail, lest we choose to become failures ourselves in the eyes of our community and peers.
The dropouts of this structure are not viewed nor welcomed by the rest with much kindness or understanding. Instead, malice, disdain, and ostracization are often what are directed to those who have been marginalized and walk out of step from normalcy.
But this argument seems so much like the outcry of every adolescent rebellious punk record of my memory and youth (almost verbatim), that such mantra has become tired and outdated. So much so that the relevance of such has become overlooked and ignored.
But the urgency of the issue has still not changed. We are still headed into oblivion with the western world as the leader of this global course of apocalyptic destination.
Are we to change anything but ourselves?
Can we even be responsible and capable of that obligation?
It is enough of a struggle to make self improvement; let alone to ask one to change the world, or even participate in its start.
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