Poetry by Brian37 (poems by an atheist)
Offline I post all over the web, but I want a back up in case my computer or one particular website goes down.
I have decided to edit this post because I do not like giving people the wrong impression. I cannot read Shakespeare to save my life. I just remember this one line from act 5 scene 5 and put my own spin on it. I've had to explain this over and over so here I decided to put that in this post so there is no more presuming what I know or don't know. But the plot of MacBeth is the old lesson, you can have everything and nothing at all at the same time. And how did all that cruelty serve you in the end? But I do not like play summeries calling him a Nihisist, because it is possible to not do what he did, and accept life as being finite, and sitll have morals without religion.
NEW EDIT 9/19/22 I got pissed at myself that I was scared to read MacBeth, so tonight, I forced myself to read it online. Now mind you, I did not understand it line for line, but basically Macbeth was an assdhole who murdered his way to the top, and did not believe the 3 witches prophcies. He murdered Duncan and had Banquo murdered. Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth. And made the grave mistake of attacking McDuff's family and killing them(If I am reading this correctly) But Lady MacBeth has a guilty conscience and kills herself, upon finding out Macbeth basically says that life is not worth living and he should go down with a fight anyway, but refuses to fight Macduff face to face and Macduff kills him as the hero. ( I SERIOUSLY read the entire play every line, tonight. I even know where the famous line "double double, toil and trouble". comes from. The three witches, basically saying "look out Macbeth" your ass is in trouble.
So basically the moral of the play, don't be a fucking asshole when trying to get to the top, or "the bigger they are the harder they fall". Reminds me of the movie Scarface and all the shitty things Tony did to get to the top and all for not. But Sosa in that case was not a good guy either.
QUOTE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MACBETH:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Here is my spin on that wonderful and profound line:
Out, Out brief candle, By Brian37
To-deities, and to-gods, and to-God
Creeps in this petty tyrant from day to day
Until the extinction of humanity new ones will be invented
And all our yesterday's Gods have been created by fools
The way to tribal death. Out out brief myth
Claims are but a walking shadow, a poor reflection
That struts our narcissism upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by the credulous, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(END)
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Gone in 60 Seconds, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Almost was the case
Because of insurrectionists
Because of pandering to
White Nationalists
"You have to fight back"
"Take down names and kick ass"
Now it is time for
"Trial by combat"
"6 million Jews
Wasn't enough"
"Camp Auschwitz" imblazed
On MAGA'S clothing
Rebel flags
In the Rotunda
"Hang Mike Pence"
And despite it all
The GOP
Still gleefully
And unfortunately
Supports blind loyalty
We were
Litterally
Less than a minute
Away from obscurity
And oh
The irony
It took a black cop
To distract the mob
Just long enough
To divirt the mob
From hanging
Mike Pence
Unfortunatly
Still all after that
The sycophants
Still in his lap.
What will it take
For of the right to awake
To do what Nixon's GOP
Would have done?
We've seen in history
What yeilds of blind loyalty
The notes of fascism
And authoritarianism
Your oath is not
To one man
But always to
The Constitution
Even Teddy
Said as much
I doubt anyone
Would call him a Communist
Of one, after arrested
After the 6th
A man accused
Of threatening his kids
Of which he would kill
If the beans they would spill
Of mentioning his intentions
Being on Capital Hill
The fucking brat
On his way back
To the bed bug infested
Florida Resort
Is of scourched earth
Mentality
Has no real grasp
On reality
Thankfully
The constitution kicked in
And as of noon on the 6th
Of January
No longer can he
The orange bully
Terrorize the innocent
With his bombasity
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Squater45, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
I didn't want this job
I only wanted to play golf
But that black guy in the White House
I wanted to show who's boss
But now that I am gone
With my tail between my legs
I have scortched earth mentality
I will destroy everything
I have no empathy
Of those whom supported me
Of those who stormed the Capital
I did not pardon thee
And even of my VP
Pence did his job
But becuase I only care about myself
I made him a target of my mob
A lady owns a bar
That alows firearms
She walks through the halls of congress
Intimidating everyone
Then there is MTG
Stalking David Hogg
How is it his he the bully
For not wanting to get shot?
Squater45
Had a lot of help
Even before he ran
Fox was selling swill
And now Liz and Mitt
Are considard traitors
Because they realized
Some things are not worth it.
Is there any spine
Any lick at all
In the GOP
Or will they let ou Republic fall?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Squater45, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
I didn't want this job
I only wanted to play golf
But that black guy in the White House
I wanted to show who's boss
But now that I am gone
With my tail between my legs
I have scorched earth mentality
I will destroy everything
I have no empathy
Of those whom supported me
Of those who stormed the Capital
I did not pardon thee
And even of my VP
Pence did his job
But becuase I only care about myself
I made him a target of my mob
A lady owns a bar
That alows firearms
She walks through the halls of congress
Intimidating everyone
Then there is Boebert
Stalking David Hogg
How is it his he the bully
For not wanting to get shot?
Squatter45
Had a lot of help
Even before he ran
Fox was selling swill
And now Liz and Mitt
Are considerd traitors
Because they realized
Some things are not worth it.
Is there any spine
Any lick at all
In the GOP
Or will they let our Republic fall?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Of Mulligans And Insurrections, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Augusta is not
The land of mini windmills
Where you can tap the ball
Into the cup, with a duck's foot
A "Big fat NO!"
We will not move on
The former President's incitement
Is not a muligan
Incitement
Of insurrection
Isn't excused with
"My bad"
Burning the candle
At both ends
"You cant indict a sitting president"
"You cant indict after they leave"
The green jacket
Isn't earned
By ignoring the rules
On the golf course
The Constitution matters
Not one man
There is no healing
Without accountability
The words of power
Of those in power
Have a bigger responsibility
As to not inflame
Not one pardoned
By the madman
Of the layperson
Not of fame
Who followed him
With blind loyalty
Storming the Capital
Expecting impunity
Many of such
Now regret
Believing the madman
Now expecting a Mulligan
They bought his mini golf
Windmill utopia
Hyper nationalism
And scapegaoting
Beyond the sand traps
Beyond the water hazzards
140 police officers injured
And 3 of them dead
One from injuries
2 from suicide
And all survivors
A lifetime of PTSD
Is this the green
The GOP gleen?
To value a madman
To value cultism ?
The former President
Deserves not a Mulligan
This isn't just merely
Missing a putt
This on his part
Is the worst of the worst
A seat of power
Abusing our trust.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Putsch It Real Good" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
2.0
It seems to be
Beer Hall Salt
Officer Goodman bereaved
The D.C officers of his skin tone
Despite protecting Pence
"Nigger" 45's supporters
Words they had thrown
Goodman seeing
Mitt trying to run
Warned him of
The incroaching mob
Goodman did
Do his job
The officers that day
Politics were not involved
But Rebel flags
And Holocoust images
And the support
Of white racists
Pepper pepper
Protected Salt
Because they knew
Our Republic was under assault
One officer
Lost his eye
Two others
Comitted suicide
One was flat out murdered
Beaten alive
With flag poles
And hockey sticks
And Goodman
Kept his composure
Leading the mob
Away from the chambers
He doesn't just deserve
A medal of gold
He deserves
The Congressional Medal Of Freedom.
He wasn't in war
But deserves that of valor
All though not wounded
A Purple Heart in order
I know damned well
Knowing myself
His kind of bravery
Is not of me
I am not saying
I would not want to
I damned sure know
I would want to
But how many of us
If we are being honest
Could do what Goodman did
In that moment of stress?
There is no other way to put it
Goodman fought racism
Facism, insurrection
In that moment
He was the foil
To the Beer Hall Putsch
A stark reminder
Of what humanity fights
Against the calls
To blind loyalty
Against the calls
Of absurtity
That dangerously
Lead to
The mob
Mentality
Goodman deserves
Our full throated thanks
His quick decisions
That preserved our ranks
Mitt and Pence
And Pelosi too
Pepper defended Salt
And his honor is due.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Every Pejorative, By Brian37 (Aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
We've always been tribal
As a species
We've always
Found ways
To seek a means
To get on top
To beat the other
Pit children against
Every mother
To pit power
Against power
All destroy
Those of under
The lemings of stress
The lemings of lack
The lemings of survival
Look up to the top
And that power
No matter its position
No matter its religion
Preys apon desperation
So when humans
Disagree
All of thee above
Divide by decree
That if only
You blindly follow
Use pejoritives
That ring so hollow
An attempt to rise
By knocking them down
Even if no crime
Is to be found
Pejoritives are
The bastion of desperation
Puffing up chests
No rational arguementation
Pejoratives are
Words of a bully
Words of no substance
Of any meaning
But the false Maryters
All end up hiding
Behind pejoratives
Always void of logic
Those of sane
Those of empathy
Do not care of politics
Religion, or nationality.
I will not lie
Or ever claim
I have no criticism
Between of which I disagree
But there is one thing
I know to be true
All human beings
Cannot continue
To use pejoratives
To declare war
On the only planet
All 7 billion of us do share
I cannot promise
To refain from harsh words
Or refrain from blasphemy
But one thing is sure
As long as I know
With those I discuss
With those who dissagree
But agree to trust
Our back and forth
Or raise voices
Our disagreements
We still have choices
That we fuss and we cuss
There is no utopia
But in our frey
We won't destroy each other.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Every Pejorative, By Brian37 (Aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
We've always been tribal
As a species
We've always
Found ways
To seek a means
To get on top
To beat the other
Pit children against
Every mother
To pit power
Against power
All destroy
Those of under
The lemings of stress
The lemings of lack
The lemings of survival
Look up to the top
And that power
No matter its position
No matter its religion
Preys apon desperation
So when humans
Disagree
All of thee above
Divide by decree
That if only
You blindly follow
Use pejoritives
That ring so hollow
An attempt to rise
By knocking them down
Even if no crime
Is to be found
Pejoritives are
The bastion of desperation
Puffing up chests
No rational argujmentation
Pejoratives are
Words of a bully
Words of no substance
Of any meaning
But the false Martyrs
All end up hiding
Behind Pejoratives
Always void of logic
Those of sane
Those of empathy
Do not care of politics
Religion, or nationality.
I will not lie
Or ever claim
I have no criticism
Between of which I disagree
But there is one thing
I know to be true
All human beings
Cannot continue
To use pejoratives
To declare war
On the only planet
All 7 billion of us do share
I cannot promise
To refain from harsh words
Or refrain from blasphemy
But one thing is sure
As long as I know
With those I discuss
With those who dissagree
But agree to trust
Our back and forth
Or raise voices
Our disagreements
We still have choices
That we fuss and we cuss
There is no utopia
But in our frey
We won't destroy each other.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Fuck Your Half Mast, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on FB)
Flag goes up
Flag goes down
Endless bodies
On the ground
A dead spouse
A suicide
Accidental
The more cry
Thoughts and prayers
The endless carnage
Week after week
It always repeats
A sick skeet shoot
A carnival game
Of real flesh
We kill and mame
And of delusion
Rambo logic
Dirty Harry
Holds all the cards
But of a house
Not of substance
Of delusion
A dangerous illusion
If more guns
Made us so safe
Then why is America
Number one in firearm violence?
San Ysidro
And James Huberty
40 years ago
Still this new century
Nobody is safe
When they go shopping
Or go to a nail salon
This needs stopping
I really thought
Newtown would do it
We'd put our foot down
But that didn't do it
Tasmania did so
It had had enough
It put public safety
Above a mere object
Since when is it a "millita"
So well regulated
When of machine guns
Bodies get ventilated?
If one wants
To go on a killing spree
Of no prior record
Is all you decree
If you want
To murder the masses
If you want leave with a gun
In a mere 5 minutes
You can buy one
Like a hamburger
And on the same day
In short order
Make a public place
A meat grinder
Blood and guts
And lots of splatter
A movie theatre
A concert
A public school
Who cares whom you hurt?
A hotel
A Walmart
For the industry
It is all about profit.
Suicides
Domestic violence
Accedental
Destroy's innocence
The Sunday Circular
Is crimson red
The shopping cart
Full of the dead
But we rinse and repeat
Like Groundhog Day
No end to the carnage
Which has it's way
Those were not firecrackers
Or a backfiring car
That was not a heavy object
Dropped on the floor
It is a combat zone
Thrust upon us
A needless one
In every day life
The same excuses
Raise their voices
Now is not the time
We must allow mourning.
When is the time?
Please tell me?
When will this
Cease to repeat?
I don't think you care
I think you buy fear
And I think the CEOs
Profits they hold dear.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Fuck Your Half Mast, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on FB)
Flag goes up
Flag goes down
Endless bodies
On the ground
A dead spouse
A suicide
Accidental
The more cry
Thoughts and prayers
The endless carnage
Week after week
It always repeats
A sick skeet shoot
A carnival game
Of real flesh
We kill and mame
And of delusion
Rambo logic
Dirty Harry
Holds all the cards
But of a house
Not of substance
Of delusion
A dangerous illusion
If more guns
Made us so safe
Then why is America
Number one in firearm violence?
San Ysidro
And James Huberty
40 years ago
Still this new century
Nobody is safe
When they go shopping
Or go to a nail salon
This needs stopping
I really thought
Newtown would do it
We'd put our foot down
But that didn't do it
Tasmania did so
It had had enough
It put public safety
Above a mere object
Since when is it a "millita"
So well regulated
When of machine guns
Bodies get ventilated?
If one wants
To go on a killing spree
Of no prior record
Is all you decree
If you want
To murder the masses
If you want leave with a gun
In a mere 5 minutes
You can buy one
Like a hamburger
And on the same day
In short order
Make a public place
A meat grinder
Blood and guts
And lots of splatter
A movie theatre
A concert
A public school
Who cares whom you hurt?
A hotel
A Walmart
For the industry
It is all about profit.
Suicides
Domestic violence
Accedental
Destroy's innocence
The Sunday Circular
Is crimson red
The shopping cart
Full of the dead
But we rinse and repeat
Like Groundhog Day
No end to the carnage
Which has it's way
Those were not firecrackers
Or a backfiring car
That was not a heavy object
Dropped on the floor
It is a combat zone
Thrust upon us
A needless one
In every day life
The same excuses
Raise their voices
Now is not the time
We must allow mourning.
When is the time?
Please tell me?
When will this
Cease to repeat?
I don't think you care
I think you buy fear
And I think the CEOs
Profits they hold dear.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
Fuck Your Half Mast, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on FB)
Flag goes up
Flag goes down
Endless bodies
On the ground
A dead spouse
A suicide
Accidental
The more cry
Thoughts and prayers
The endless carnage
Week after week
It always repeats
A sick skeet shoot
A carnival game
Of real flesh
We kill and mame
And of delusion
Rambo logic
Dirty Harry
Holds all the cards
But of a house
Not of substance
Of delusion
A dangerous illusion
If more guns
Made us so safe
Then why is America
Number one in firearm violence?
San Ysidro
And James Huberty
40 years ago
Still this new century
Nobody is safe
When they go shopping
Or go to a nail salon
This needs stopping
I really thought
Newtown would do it
We'd put our foot down
But that didn't do it
Tasmania did so
It had had enough
It put public safety
Above a mere object
Since when is it a "millita"
So well regulated
When of machine guns
Bodies get ventilated?
If one wants
To go on a killing spree
Of no prior record
Is all you decree
If you want
To murder the masses
If you want leave with a gun
In a mere 5 minutes
You can buy one
Like a hamburger
And on the same day
In short order
Make a public place
A meat grinder
Blood and guts
And lots of splatter
A movie theatre
A concert
A public school
Who cares whom you hurt?
A hotel
A Walmart
For the industry
It is all about profit.
Suicides
Domestic violence
Accedental
Destroy's innocence
The Sunday Circular
Is crimson red
The shopping cart
Full of the dead
But we rinse and repeat
Like Groundhog Day
No end to the carnage
Which has it's way
Those were not firecrackers
Or a backfiring car
That was not a heavy object
Dropped on the floor
It is a combat zone
Thrust upon us
A needless one
In every day life
The same excuses
Raise their voices
Now is not the time
We must allow mourning.
When is the time?
Please tell me?
When will this
Cease to repeat?
I don't think you care
I think you buy fear
And I think the CEOs
Profits they hold dear.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
Evil Words, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs27 on Facebook).
What solution,
Is ever final
To murder the innocent
Upon your arival?
A fucking pussy
Whom couldn't paint
Took his frustrations
Out on the innocent
Einsatsgrupppen
And storm troopers
And his S.S.
Left masses in ditches
Dauchaue, Treblinka
Aushwitz, final solution
Lebensunwertz
Life unworthy of living
Juden
Broken glass
Night of long knives
Nazis ended
6 million lives.
Evil words
Lead to such horrors
Gas chambers
And ditches of such gore
It is a history
None should forget
One to remember
Least humanity repeat.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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All Three Counts, by Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
He used to put
The braclets on
But today he is done
But it isn't the end
It is still happening
It is time for whites
To listen
It is our system
Of policing
It is our institutionalized
Racism
Maxine waters was right
All of us need to fight
All zip codes and races
To bring sunlight to the night
For whites
Whom don't understand
It is up to you to listen
There is something you are missing
Blacks can be viewed
In this light
Like an abused spouse
Whose tired of this life
Living in fear you'll be beaten and kicked
Over minor things
Wondering if
You'll end up dead
There was a time
In American history
An abusive spouse
Paid no penalty
Sometimes the abuse
Becomes too much
And they stand up
To demand it stop
Riots don't happen
Because blacks enjoy them
Anymore than your spose
Wants you to hit them
All three counts
Were a wake up call
White people shut up
And listen to them all
Blacks are
Our fellow humans
And all they want
Is your knee off their neck.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Global Gangrene" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet On FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
A barroom fight
Over a spilled beer
I looked at your girl
The fists are clear
Your missunderstanding
It's not what I meant
Of your hate
You won't relent
I don't look like you
Or share your politics
We share the same planet
Thus you forget
It seems to me
Of our species
This tribalism between us
Is hard to cease
Do you like food?
I do too.
Do you like family?
I do too.
Do you have
A dog or a cat?
Do they lay next to you
Late at night?
Do you have kids?
You'd defend to the death
Why cant the world
Accept this as such?
That we are not much
That we are the same
And all of us want
To avoid harm?
Sick of the lables
That I am
No matter the geography
Or the religion.
I have a friend
From Pakistan
Whom thinks like me
Though not raised the same
But his intuition
Just like this Yankee
We are all humans
No matter decree
I am sick of this fighting
In human twilight
When global warming
Is all that should fight
I could care less
Of your religious dress
Of your prayers
Anything like that.
I need to know
Where you stand
For selfish labels
Or all of mankind.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Take Away, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
You want to
Take away, worker's say
Since Ronald Reagan
It's been that way
Lower taxes
For billionaires
Trickle down
For 40 years
And what exactly
Is the result?
Of worker stability
Such mindset gutts
Dear Jeff
Please tell me
Why you need
Jungle money?
The Amazon
Needs human protection
Not your company
But the lungs of our planet.
Fuck your profits
Fuck your investors
Our species needs
To protect our forests
The false slurs
Of Communism
The false slurs
Of Socialism
Being a liberal
Does not mean
We like the likes
Of Hitler or Stalin
Jeff dear Jeff
As quickly as you deliver
I implore you deeply
To consider
Being on top
Isn't the issue
But how how you employ
The power you've aquired.
Nobody desires
To live in poverty
Nobody desires
To live in perpetual emergency
But that is the state
Of plutocracy
The rich are always right
Taking advantage of thee
But something the top
Fails to see
Is that the ride ends
No matter decree
You want to
Take away workers say?
You want to make
Bundles of hay?
Oh certainly you can
But in the end
Rich or poor
The ride always ends.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Hate In An Elevator, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
The masacre started
With a white lie
A white girl
Sold a lie
That a black man
Looked at her cross eyed
The white people of Tusla
Made the city a pyre
Not because
He did anything wrong
But because
Black Wall Street was strong
Having it's own success
Made white Tulsa
Jealous
And nervous
It was an excuse
Long standing
For the insucure white majority
To continue killing
The Black Wall Street
Had no chance
White Supremacy
Danced it's dance
Ropes and nooses
Firebomb busninesses
Biplanes and crop dusters
Drop dynamite on them
In 1921
That was the norm
To treat blacks as subhuman
Regardless of harm
A hundred years later
We still have the matter
Of assholes like Chaulvin
And GOP denial
In that race
Is something to get over
When whites stupidly claim
We are far better over
No no,
We still are stuck
In the racism that divides us
Needlessly stuck
It isn't enough
For whites to say
I wasn't arround
In that far day
We still are dealing
With racism today
Because of the gap
Whites do not face
It isn't enough
To look at Tusla
A hundred years ago
Then point to Obama
There still are
Inequities
America will not
Ever relieve
If we never never achieve
The understanding
Of a past
None should ever forget.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Springbok By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Half penny, two penny
Let's flip a coin
Let's remember
Whose on the soil
There's Imperialism
It's on the take
Kurgerrand
Is head of the state
Half penny two penny
Go for the white
Such an impressive
Imperialist sight
White man
Has to be
The only obvious
Currency
Half penny two penny
Melt me down
A horned animal
Is my crown
Apartheid
Did not last
Dispite all
Whites did test
The springbok
Surely much older
Occupying the land
For century's much longer
Is far more
Appropriate
For Krugerrand
To suffer his fate
To accept
That life is unique
And something
For no one can speek.
END.....
This poem is an ode to the Styx Song "Half Penny, Two Penny".
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Suicides of Saipan, By Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter.
ToJo
Like the Fuhrer
Had a scorched earth policy
Demanded blind loyalty
To the death
Not just of military
Demanded the same
Of civilians to calamity
In the Pacific
As Allies landed on the beach
They met resistance at first
But once the land was ceased
The propaganda
From the mainland
From Tojo
Made a fatal demand
Tell the captured
They were at end
To be raped and tortured
So fight to the end
And when the empire
Could not be defended
Off of a cliff
So your life honorably ended
Over the brush
Over the boulders
Over the cliffs
Holding kids on your shoulders
Fearing the Yankee
Listening to Tojo
Needlessly plummit
To your death asshured
Thus is the absurdity
Of all or nothing
That one race or nationality
Can dominate everything
But to say
It can't happen today
In the western white world
With the same mentality
I am unfortunately sure
Under the orange scourge
If he or his minions
Gave the same orders
They would do their duty
Fight the lost war
And lose via suicide
Thinking it was honor.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Believe It Or Not, by Brian37(aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter.
Believe it or not you're not William Katt
Your reigion wont make you free
Flying away on a delusion and unfounded claim
Who could it be? Believe or not it's just memes.
Just like the lie of a new lie
Hit me from out of the blue
Suddenly out of my self entitlement
It could have been Hillary
Believe it or not
I sell bullshit
I don't give a fuck
Who gets hurt by it
Flying away
With my bullshit today
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just screams
When I was a child, I'd play games
And shit my paints when I'd lose
But just like my daddy if so
I'd be a dick and abuse them too
Believe it or not I am an orange turd
Never thought anyone would challenge me
Flying away on delusion and narcissism
Who could it be, believe it or not it's just sleeze.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If The World Were, By Brian37 AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter.
If the world were
All Christians
There would still be
Divisions
If the world were
All Muslims
There would still be
Divisons
If the world were
All Jewish
There would still be
Divisions
If the world were
All Buddhist
There would still be
Divisions
If the world were
All Hindu
There would still be
Divisions
If the world were
All capitalists
There would still be
Divisions'
If the world were
All Communist
There would still be
Divisions
If the world were
All Socialist
There would still be
Divisions
But if more of the world
Would accept
All humans need
Resources
If more of our species
Could see the fultility
Of labels and tribalism
More peace we could seek.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Telling Her, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Telling her you want her safe
Telling her
She cant do
The same things
Telling her
In her old age
She has to slow down
Her usual pace
Telling her
She shouldn't drive
Telling her
Too keep alive
Telling her
She needs help
In her old age
She won't accept such
Telling her
Independent mind
In her twilight
She needs a hand
Telling her
To listen to
The doctors
Whom advise her
Telling her
To keep going on
Through all she's been through
There is an end
I've argued to no end
Fight, fight fight
Out of my own
Selfishness
I didn't want
To let her go
She had always been
My hero
But what right
Did I have
To demand she
Extend her life?
Independent
To her last day
I could not tell her
What to say
It was in horror
To watch her last breath
But I know
In her death
She picked her own path
She did so with pride
As scared as anyone would be
She did so in stride.
This was a woman
This was my mother
This was a human
Whom did me forever
Up to the end
I always depend
And now that she's gone
I don't know where I've been
5 years out
Now on my own
I look back at her abscence
And don't want to be alone.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Telling Her, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Telling her you want her safe
Telling her
She cant do
The same things
Telling her
In her old age
She has to slow down
Her usual pace
Telling her
She shouldn't drive
Telling her
Too keep alive
Telling her
She needs help
In her old age
She won't accept such
Telling her
Independent mind
In her twilight
She needs a hand
Telling her
To listen to
The doctors
Whom advise her
Telling her
To keep going on
Through all she's been through
There is an end
I've argued to no end
Fight, fight fight
Out of my own
Selfishness
I didn't want
To let her go
She had always been
My hero
But what right
Did I have
To demand she
Extend her life?
Independent
To her last day
I could not tell her
What to say
It was in horror
To watch her last breath
But I know
In her death
She picked her own path
She did so with pride
As scared as anyone would be
She did so in stride.
This was a woman
This was my mother
This was a human
Whom did me forever
Up to the end
I always depend
And now that she's gone
I don't know where I've been
5 years out
Now on my own
I look back at her abscence
And don't want to be alone.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Telling Her, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Telling her you want her safe
Telling her
She cant do
The same things
Telling her
In her old age
She has to slow down
Her usual pace
Telling her
She shouldn't drive
Telling her
To keep alive
Telling her
She needs help
In her old age
She won't accept such
Telling her
Independent mind
In her twilight
She needs a hand
Telling her
To listen to
The doctors
Whom advise her
Telling her
To keep going on
Through all she's been through
There is an end
I've argued to no end
Fight, fight fight
Out of my own
Selfishness
I didn't want
To let her go
She had always been
My hero
But what right
Did I have
To demand she
Extend her life?
Independent
To her last day
I could not tell her
What to say
It was in horror
To watch her last breath
But I know
In her death
She picked her own path
She did so with pride
As scared as anyone would be
She did so in stride.
This was a woman
This was my mother
This was a human
Whom took care of me forever
Up to the end
I always depend
And now that she's gone
I don't know where I've been
5 years out
Now on my own
I look back at her abscence
And don't want to be alone.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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He Begged For His Kids, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Do not tell me
Or try to argue
That January 6th
Was a patriot's venue
It was an act
Of insurrection
Incited by
One selfish man
One officer
Pleaded for his life
While being beaten
Saying he had kids and a wife
This same man
Along with 140 others
Were bludgened and beaten
Becase of one man
MAGA and Rebel
And don't tread on me
Were incited by
Orange absurdity
Or should I say
Insanity
A narcissist
A pathetic bully
What did these
Officers do
Other than
Protect the constitution?
These brave officers
Protected congress
Without regards
To political divisions
To have an officer
Beg for his life
To protect
Our institutions
Is nothing short
Of a disgrace
To let one jackass
Make a mess of this place
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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He Begged For His Kids, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Do not tell me
Or try to argue
That January 6th
Was a patriot's venue
It was an act
Of insurrection
Incited by
One selfish man
One officer
Pleaded for his life
While being beaten
Saying he had kids and a wife
This same man
Along with 140 others
Were bludgened and beaten
Becase of one man
MAGA and Rebel
And don't tread on me
Were incited by
Orange absurdity
Or should I say
Insanity
A narcissist
A pathetic bully
What did these
Officers do
Other than
Protect the constitution?
These brave officers
Protected congress
Without regards
To political divisions
To have an officer
Beg for his life
To protect
Our institutions
Is nothing short
Of a disgrace
To let one jackass
Make a mess of this place
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Great Dain " by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Mark Anthony
Of the culinary
Lexicon of the visionary
Oxford dictionary
Wordsmith
Of the kitchen
Toured the world
Of the tastebuds
No reservations
But yet he had
Mental illness
The body does fight
It is a recipe
None want to have
But the reality
All need to face
If we are
To honor his legacy
Then it up to us
For all to see
Not just to value
The words he said
Not just to value
The food we are fed
But to know
There are those we know
Whom on the outside
Seem to be brave
But below the surface
No matter what is cooked
There are recipies
And mindsets not looked
Bored is not great
But Dain is
The value of looking
And helping in need
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Joy Of Meandering, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
If you enjoy sax
Then sit back and relax
And let Stan get you
To the ultimate slack
He Getz the notes
And wanders around
Mellow and soothing
Is his sound
An aquired taste
Some do turn away
But his meandering
Is the place to be
The "whatever"
The "wherever"
The wink
And the node
The complexity
And simplicity
The sound of
A calm ocean tide
If you dont get it
You don't know
How to
Slow down
And relax
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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10 Seconds To Decide, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
In your cubical
Above the clouds
You did your bisiness
Untill two jet liners became bombs
In your panic
In your distress
You reached out
For someone to help
The smoke and the flames
On the prestine day
You scowered and scurried
Whatever way
The curcumstances
Left you no choice
Die by fire
Or jump for more
If only 10 seconds
Or so
Heat over
The land below
It is not a choice
Anyone should make
But one forced on us
By that of hate.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Snowflake, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
How did a feline
End up
Hanging by a line
In despration
In the upper deck
About to fall to it's death
Only to be saved
By the American flag?
I think compassion
And quick thinking
Dispite our nation's
Political divisions
That the Democrat
And Republican
Know deep inside
Pets are family
Why is it with humans
We are willing to murder
Each other
But save a pet?
You cannot tell me
Every fan in Miami
Voted for Biden
Or Trump for that matter
But when the feline
Was in danger
When it was about
To go splatter
None of
Our dvisisions
At that point
Did mater
The entire stadium
Was distracted
Even it's anouncer
Soon reracted
A cat in peril
Hanging by a thread
When it could hang on no longer
Was saved by the American flag.
It would be nice
If humans in kind
Would treat each other
In the same mind
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Gabby, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Parents are supposed to get old
And be the first out
Before their sons or daughters
But reality hits them hard
Nobody should infringe
Or take away their mourning
Of poor Gabby's death
Which came without warning
But there is an enequity
In ratio of what media reports
Far less attention to the same missing
That happens to minorities of all sorts
Blacks, Latinos,
Native Americans
Don't get the same volume of attention
When they go missing
If Gabby had dark skin
And spoke in a broken language
If she was an immigrant
Would she still get the same amount of attention?
All 7 billion humans
Are the same species
The majority of humans
All want the same thing
To live with out fear
And hold their children dear
See them succeed
And hold them near
But there is inequity
That permeates society
That puts one demographic
Above all others
Having seen my late mother die
In a nursing home, of old age
No no, it is not the same
But pain is pain, no matter the way
I am not demeaning
Her family's loss
But there is inequity
All should face
Gabby is due
The attention she's getting
To figure out
Who caused her end
But minorities do not
Get the same attention
When similar things
Happen to them
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Angle Of Attack, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Nose down
Spiral to the ground
Human arrogence
Everywhere to be found
Clever we are
Such a species
To pin our hopes
On speed and greed
Shortcuts
To foster profits
Faulty sensor
Faulty programing
But this is one industry
Why can't the world see
That humans are not
Everything we claim to be?
Sure we are kind
And we can do good
And sure we make things
And provide food,
But we are also very arrogant
Capable of unimaginable violence
And when profits give investors pride
Too often we sit in silence
It is plane to see
In human history
That money talks
And the rest take head
7 hundred
And 37 reasons
To value redundancy
And safety regulations
I am fucking tired
Of "don't tax the rich"
"Don't regulate"
It makes them bitch
Like big oil
And big tobacco
Like Nadar
Had to tuss and toil
To get big business
To do the right thing
It is why they fixed
That jet plane.
END.. POEM
YES, I did replace the word "plain" with "plane"..... If anyone knows about aviation disaster history they will know what "Angle Of Attack" means.
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Slaugherhouse 12, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on META/FACEBOOK, and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Oh your ambitious asperations
Nurse or EMT, you claim to want to be
Name one of such profession
That would carry AR-15?
You cant,
You won't
You just wanted
To show off your nuts.
But you have none
You have only bravado
And ammo sold to you
By fucking assoles
The 12 didn't
Let you go
Because the all agreed.
I'd bet my life
Afew of them]
Ascribed to a solid degree
That it is better to let
10 guilty go free
Than it is to 1 innocent
Face the death penalty.
Kyle is a symptom
Of self entitlement
He can shoot and kill
And call it self defense
It does not matter
To of such ilk
It does not matter
To of such mindset
What matters to such kind
Is complete dominance
Logic left in the dust
Humanity will be lost.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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brian, our differences aside, the fact that you've kept up this creative output for so long...i can't lay claim to anything like that. keep it up, buddy.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
ditto post. ignore.
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I cant get the video to work on this venue, but if you have ever seen the movie "The Mask", remember the line "You love me, you really love me".
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Jews Will Not Replace Us, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and brianrrs37 on twitter)
Such fools, and lack of history
65 million years ago
A meteor
Allowed mammals to succed
Neanderthal
Got replaced by
Erectus
Then Sapiens
You selfish lot
You think that
The melinan
Makes you the dominate clan?
You stupidly think
Your geography
And history
Gives you the crown of humanity?
Jews will replace you
Not because they are Jews
But because humans worldwide
Dont live forever.
I will be replaced
All 7 billion humans will
It is the cycle of life
As to which is all our fate.
So skip your bullshit hate
And understand our common fate
The more we fight as humans
The more we shorten our ride.
I don't care whom servives me
I don't care about their country or creed
About being dominate
Much less a master seed,
I will be replaced
Because all humans die
Nobody escapes this
What matters is cooperation while alive
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Stop Diging To China, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)
Listen to me
My furry feline friend
I know you have to go
But you make a mess when you do
It is like a tsunami of sand
A volcanic eruption destroying the land
The litterbox empty
That I just filled
Dust everywhere
All over the room
Hasmat units
Called for the crew
Why do you do this to me?
It is some sort of protest
You want your litterbox
In reset?
I get it, I dont like
Being out in public
When some jackass
Doesn't flush the toilet
Only to come behind
And see brown
Jackson Pollock
All over the rim
I love you you little scamp
But can you be more tidy
Can you keep one and two
In the literbox I gave you?
I must be resigned
I do the best I can
But China seems to be
The goal you demand
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Stop Diging To China, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)
Listen to me
My furry feline friend
I know you have to go
But you make a mess when you do
It is like a tsunami of sand
A volcanic eruption destroying the land
The litterbox empty
That I just filled
Dust everywhere
All over the room
Hasmat units
Called for the crew
Why do you do this to me?
It is some sort of protest
You want your litterbox
In reset?
I get it, I dont like
Being out in public
When some jackass
Doesn't flush the toilet
Only to come behind
And see brown
Jackson Pollock
All over the rim
I love you you little scamp
But can you be more tidy
Can you keep one and two
In the literbox I gave you?
I must be resigned
I do the best I can
But China seems to be
The goal you demand
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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What Is The Big Sleep? By Brian James RationalPoet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter.
To the superstitious
And those who believe in the divine
They say "rest in peace"
When they lose a loved one in time
What is "the big sleep"
To the atheist
Who accept reality
The end is all we meet
The fear of not existing
Is of futal folly
Like not watching a sporting event
Or not watching a movie
There are sports I never watch
Movies I have never seen
I don't know all the humans in the world
In our in our species history
I have not met all the dinosaurs
That have ever lived
I don't know every cat or dog
That have ever been your pet
There is no "big sleep"
There is only reality
Like a plane taking off and landing
It is routine in nature's history
Why we really fear
Is very very clear
We fear pain
And losing someone dear
Death is a reminder
Of human mortality
It drives us to try
To keep ourselves alive
But there are never winners
The house always wins
The reeper owns the casino
Nothing lasts forever.
The point of living
Isn't to live forever
The point to living
Isn't to be clones of others
It isn't about
Working 24 hours a day
It isn't about
Power always having it's say
Heros and enemies
That the world takes note of
Nature still has
Complete control of
The billions of unknowns
Whom never take the global stage
In every nation, friend or foe
Are still on the same page
Stop talking about "the big sleep"
Stop saying "rest in peace"
Care for empathy and compassion
Now, before the reaper takes your last chip.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Nothing To Be Said, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Nothing to be said
You couldn't say before
4 billion years ago
Before you were born
5 billion years from now
You will be just as silent
Just as remembered
As a snowflake that has melted
Humans are conceted
We think we are an apex
Some how still stuck on the Church of Galileo
And our self importance
Humans are full of compassion
Full of empathy
The ability of kindness
And unfortunatly cruelty
But that meteor
That killed the dinosaurs
It isn't a matter of "if" but "when"
Another will hit our home
If not that,
Then by our own hand
Fighting over resources
Fighting over land
I am tired of the gods
And the mythology
Tired of global politics
That divide humanity
I've been on many a jet
With first class, and coach
And those
Stuck in the back
On interntional flights
I see all kinds of tones
Different skin colors
Different shapes of bones
Different means
Anyone can tell
Someone with lots of wealth
And others scraping by, just to get home
That pilot's job
And that of the crew
Isn't to decide
Who gets by or who dies
In an emergency
In a disaster
Human beings
Have a natural nature
If on your deathbed
No matter the context
If all you can think of
Is power and money
You are not
Of humanity
You are missing
Human empathy
There is nothing to be said
About before and after
Both are the same
It is now that matters.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Unseen By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter.
In the allies, on the grates
Freezing weather they step over,
In the ward of the state
Locked away, a miserable fate.
Look at their faces
Deep into their eyes
They come from the same backgrounds
As you and I
They are not roaches
To be chased away
They are not pests
In any way
They are your teachers
Your former neighbors
Your parents, your kids
And everything else
You see the abandon
You ignore them
Because the reality
Is to real
To real to think about
That from your stable life
You can be
Tossed about
Out on the street
Stepped over and ignored
Or become a ward of the state
Never to be heard
I am writing this
Because I am now broke
The corporate wolves
Will take me to court
They don't care if I live or die
They don't care if I can survive
The corporate wolves
On greed do thrive
In a month and a half
I went from a retirment savings
To indenterd debt
For merely getting sick
Those bastards are cruel
And should be brought up charges
Put in prison
So they cannot harm us.
Sit on your Yahct
Brag about your status
But your on the same boat
As the rest of us
You too
Will face your mortality
Regardess of your mansion
Regardless of your status
Your lack of compassion
Is poison to the world
Toss them out like garbage
The weak get purged
I' do not envy you
Nor do I want to be like you
A bully, a coward, a exploiter
Using and spitting out another and another
Then you blame them
For the society you built
The adictions, the desperation
And even just bad health
You are the face of evil
You deserve no respect
You talk about valuing life
But it is just that, all talk
Spare me your charity
It is fake and a con
All to excuse your glutney
And it is a fraud.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Unseen By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter.
In the allies, on the grates
Freezing weather they step over,
In the ward of the state
Locked away, a miserable fate.
Look at their faces
Deep into their eyes
They come from the same backgrounds
As you and I
They are not roaches
To be chased away
They are not pests
In any way
They are your teachers
Your former neighbors
Your parents, your kids
And everything else
You see the abandon
You ignore them
Because the reality
Is too real
Too real to think about
That from your stable life
You can be
Tossed about
Out on the street
Stepped over and ignored
Or become a ward of the state
Never to be heard
I am writing this
Because I am now broke
The corporate wolves
Will take me to court
They don't care if I live or die
They don't care if I can survive
The corporate wolves
On greed do thrive
In a month and a half
I went from a retirment savings
To indenterd dept
For merely getting sick
Those bastards are cruel
And should be brought up charges
Put in prison
So they cannot harm us.
Sit on your Yahct
Brag about your status
But your on the same boat
As the rest of us
You too
Will face your mortality
Regardess of your mansion
Regardless of your status
Your lack of compassion
Is poison to the world
Toss them out like garbage
The weak get purged
I' do not envy you
Nor do I want to be like you
A bully, a coward, a exploiter
Using and spitting out another and another
Then you blame them
For the society you built
The adictions, the desperation
And even just bad health
You are the face of evil
You deserve no respect
You talk about valuing life
But it is just that, all talk
Spare me your charity
It is fake and a con
All to excuse your glutney
And it is a fraud.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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What's Your Pleasure? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter.
The slot machines, the day trading
The mudslides, the tan and onyx
Burning the spoon, tightening the hose
Around your arm, the vein exposed
Your frontal lobe
In disorder
The pleasure center
You beg for more
No prison needed
Youre on death row
No call from the Governor
To stop it now
Hey Jack and Jim
They're taking your shot
Doc's giving you the perscription
Untill it runs out
Did you get up this morning
And make your bed
Did you take a shower
Did you feed your pet
Is there a place
To keep you dry
Or are concrete and steam vents
Where you pitch your tent?
You are the greyhound
Who chased the rabbit
Forget about family
Feed your habit
The merry go down
Round and round
The ichy skin
No fix to be found
What is your pleasure?
The myriad menue
The poison desert
Your brain sold you
You're chasing lines
That of chalk
A toe tag awaits
It won't be long
The promise of comfort
Just one more please
The jolly "friend"
Cares not that you scream
Organs ravaged
Relationships destroyed
The cause to forget
Drives you for more
And lack of empathy
Many do display
"You did it to yourself
No one else is to blame"
I hope these types
Of this mindset
Never have to face
What many are trapped in
The lives you judge
Didn't start out that way
They are your neighbors
Co workers, family and friends
And skip the issue
That of class
It is a monster
That faces all of us
When your brain is held hostage
By an evil chemical
It can make you drink
It can make you gamble
Ciggarettes you've smoked
For years and decades
Cancer and emphysema
A casket awaits
Don't look away
Don't vilify
Don't judge
Don't demonize
Slab food
You've become
This refrigurator
Is your new home
They crack you open
And weigh your lungs
Examine your liver
Kidneys and brain
It matters not
How dimise makes it's entrance
It matters not
How you make your exit
Until you are in it
You cannot know it
You cannot defeat it
With simple slogans
Will is a myth
The brain is real
The pleasure center
Can go off the rails
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Recipe Of the Ages , By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
The single in twilight
Beyond ripened vines
The decaying fruit falls
On soil death dines
Wrinkled skin
Mushy flesh
They cannot save you
To make another dish
They toss you aside
As to where they cant see
The bruses you have
Fallen from the tree
Gravity cares not
On the ground you'll rot
The bystanders make pie
And others make chutney
Marmalade and lemonaid
You might become
Before you're invisible
Stowed away then gone
In a pantry
Beyond it's kill date
Still hanging around
For no one to see
The storage unit
You live in
Dust collects
On everything
Mason jars
With faded labels
Contents discolored
You get discarded
But not to worry
You still have friends
Grab bar in bathroom
Walker gets you to bed
The risen seat
Above your throne
You don't have to fall
Or break a bone
But how empty
Is your phone
No messages left
You're on your own
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Cold Sanctuary , By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37)
The corpses dance
Before they are dead
But we cant interfere
Or else Ruby Ridge
Their horrible logic
Perpetuates the epidemic
Buy more toe tags
The morgue will need them
Her young eyes
Forever traumatized
Her young ears violated
By the screams of ending lives
But who cares
It makes for better sales
After every major event
The shops open their doors
Welcome one
Welcome all
I'm profiting off
Your downfall
This is uniquely American
To give an object rights
As if
It were living
But in reality
It's all profiteering
Off of the fears
Of demographs changing
She hid in the fridge
But that ain't stopping
The easy access to terrorize
Those for merely shopping
200 miles
This one drove
Took advantage
Of our patchwork laws
And the real crime
According to that side
Is that the sane want to avoid death
And stay alive
10 more
And for what?
To coddle the insecurities of the few
The crimson river flows
200 miles
This one drove
The evil echos
Of El Passo
Tucker touting
Replacement theory
Info Wars
Sit on the jury
And still
Ultimately
A supermarket fridge
Her only sanctuary
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Betrothed, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter.)
The ultimate partner
To which all are engagued
Running wont help
It only delays
Handsome or pretty
It is all the same
The ultimate ugly
None can tame
Irrational fear
Irrational hope
Denial the drug
Leads to false comfort
You cant escape
This inevitable spouse
Time takes us all
Out of the house
But do not fret
Do not worry
Do not be
In a hurry
Just like a good book
Or a good movie
They too end
In time's flurry
Forever is not
To whom we're betrothed
The first class lands
Just like those sitting in coach
So enjoy the flight
Whereever it goes
Don't panic over
Things you can't control
We are a flicker
A mere speck
So lets all accept
We are ultimately all we have.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Motive, Motive, Motive, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Last week
A grocery store
Today in the Lone star state
A Killer took 18 more
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
The cable networks
Love "if it bleeds it leads"
Ex law inforcement
Their paid talking heads
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Don't tell me
That you care
Then sell firarms
Everywhere
They are not
Parishable foods
They have no
Experation date
A hundred and ten
Meet their fate
Every 24 hours
Every single day
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Having a bad day
Maybe a workplace grudge
Maybe you don't like blacks
Maybe you want a gun
No record at
Time of buy
Is not enough
It's all a lie
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
The worshipers
Of these deadly tools
Deeply brainwashed
By lobbist fools
It is sick
That sales spike
Every tiime
More of us die
Motive
Motive
Motive
STAP HARPING ON MOTIVE
This slpattered groundhog
Rince and repeat
Platitudes do nothing
The dead at our feet
We react
After the fact
When will prevention
Be America's pact?
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Held hostage
We all are
By a zealous minority
We never get far
Stuck with patchwork laws
From state to state
Bar of bloody Marys
Henrys and Kates
Susans and Latashas
Maybe your coworkers
May be your spouses
Every time you step out of your houses
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
365
They're no longer alive
The apologists claim
They'll just turn to knives
They wont obey laws
So lets not have traffic lights
Lets not have health inspectors
Just use that dirty knife
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
Insidious game
Of whack a mole
Excuse after exuse
To do no more
We know the script
Heard millions of times
Rince and repeat
Takes more lives
Motive
Motive
Motive
STOP HARPING ON MOTIVE
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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They're In It Together, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Far too often
I hear liberal humanists say
"I worship Satan
Because he is ok"
They claim
He doesn't hurt anyone
Just enjoy life
But your burning is never done
They're in it
Together
Just like Superman
Needs a Lex Luthor
Just as a Mafia boss
Wants protection money
If you don't pay it
His enforcer is on the way
They're in it together
Lucas is the God
Obi Wan, Yoda
And Aniken
Lucas created
Darth Vader
And Emperor
Palpatine
The protagonist
Needs the antagonist
Just like a rigged casino
Game
And Lucifer
Devil and Satan
Are the corrupt players
The dealer gives them signals
They're in it together
From the first page
Of that holy book until the last page
Of the book of Revelations
Adam Eve
And Job
Harden the Pharoah's heart
Kill everyone not on Noah's boat
They're in it together
God and Lucifer
La Cosa Nostra
We end up in a lake of fire
Threats of
Eternal Damnation
Make you want to
Get in Heaven
But what is there to do
If your only goal is to
Praise and worship God
Borring it would be for eternity
They're in it together
But don't you ever fear
Neither of them exist
Using you as poker chips.
But Jesus in the Gospels
Promised never again
To ever let his OT father
Ever beat you again
But that is the mind
Of an abusive spouse
In no way is that love
If you get punished for leaving the house
It is the mind of a stalker
Just like Hinkley and Jodie Foster
"Look what I did for you Jodie"
"I killed John to prove my love for you"
And everyone prayed for John
Who most certianly is in Hell
Because he dared to suggest
There are no celestial mission bells
Hitchens would agree
God is Kim Jong Un
And Lucifer is his
Mini Me
They're in it together
Like chocolate and peanut butter
But that holy cup won't save any of us
Stuck on this "remote speck of dust"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Murder On Demand, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Murder murder, on demand
Everywhere you go
Stop in and grab one
The shops will never say no
No recored
At time of buy
3 hours later
Kiss them all goodbye
Tulsa Tulsa
They all lie
Doctors in the morgue
From an easy buy
Murder murder
On demand
Easy access
Is their plan
Olympic sized bloodbath
Isn't it grand
To arm everyone
Throughout the land
Duck and cover
In the classroom
Just like in the cold war
Drill the kids some more
Murder murder
On demand
War zone teachers
From Rambo's plan
Replace the pencils
Focus on books
Ban the wrong things
Hey, that library looks good
For a target
Practice I will
Make you scramble
Make you shrill
Murder murder
On demand
Cant be our new normal
Blood in the sand
Box them in
Swings in the schoolyard
He's breached the door
You won't get far
Decade after decade
I write these prose
While the industry
Bodies dispose
Colateral damage
I suppose
The price of freedom
But everyone knows
Not about rights
Or safety at all
The shooting gallary
At your local mall
Murder murder
On demand
Tired of reading this
Well, here's the plan
Don't get distracted
By their bait and switch
Shuffle the same excuses
While more bodies twitch
To account
They must be held
No more of these massacres
To let them sell
Murder murder
On demand
Shouldn't be easy
To simply walk in
The bodies still warm
When I grab my pen
In a day or a week
Seems it will never end.
(END)
Normally I do not write my poems for songs. BUT, I was looking at this, and thinking if anyone wanted to put it to a thrash metal, Metallica style, but with a female lead singer, I would love to hear what people come up with. Only thing I would ask is that I am given credit for the lyrics and beat, still open to tweeking of course.
The beat would go something like this....
Dunt dunt, dunt dunt
Dunt duntAA DAAAAA
(for the "murder murder, on demand" sung by the lead singer)
This is important. If you are fucking sick of seeing this shit in the news every damned week, get this message out there. I am fucking tired of writing about this subect.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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No Rewind, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
You're in traffic
During a rush
You get pissed
Someone cut you off
Music too loud
You knock on their door
They won't turn it down
So it turns into war
Your partner
Talks back to you
Hate being insulted
Says "we're through"
You left it out
Kids want to play
You say "don't touch"
It doesn't work that way
You always claim
You know what you're doing
"It won't happen to me"
Listen to what you're saying
Once it leaves
At that speed
Hits human flesh
The dead don't speak
If you survive
It's PTSD
A lifetime of fear
Never going outside
Check your pride
Check your pride
Once it leaves
There is no rewind
Don't you buy
That mythology
"Nothing bad
Will ever happen to me"
Check your pride
Check your pride
It isn't what you think
It's your insecurity
Once it leaves
At that speed
There is no reset
If out they bleed
Shattered skull
Shattered lives
A morgue's best friend
The count will rise
Check your pride
Check your pride
When it leaves at that speed
There is no rewind
It isn't breathing
It has no rights
Much more important
Are those alive
It can't attack you
By itself
Sure that's the case
But there is something else
That lax mindset
Is what makes it worse
In the blink of an eye
It's a ride in a hearse
Check your pride
Check your pride
When it leaves at that speed
There is no rewind
Your loved one's mourn
Over your grave
Insisted on keeping your wallet
It didn't save
You hit your target
Every time
In reality
It's all in your mind
There is no "oops"
Or, " I didn't mean to"
The patriot's folly
Does not hold true
Check your pride
Check your pride
When it leaves that fast
There is no rewind
Don't make it a fetish
Don't worship it
It is dangerous and deadly
Is how you should think of it
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Factory Boss, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Oh lucky us
2 trillion galaxies
So you can
Confound us
And how clever
Are you
Rittle a kid with cancer
Just so humans can glorify you
And isn't covid grand
Black death
And other infections
Wiped out many a land
Oh no you say
He's just testing us
But isn't there
A better way?
Silly me
I thought a test
Was what you took in school
To get a job and nothing more
It is my punishment
Is that what you say
No, it is an act of revenge
When you cant get your way
But you love me
That is why you do it
Submit out of fear
Is that all there is too it?
This house you made us
Is rife with danger
Death is chasing us
At every corner
I am sorry
But if I needed a baby sitter
I wouldn't hire you
Not once, not ever
I am the mad one
Your followers say
I am just angry
Because I don't get my way
This factory boss
Of such you claim
Hardly efficient
At his manufacturing game
His competing unions
Murder over the interpretation
Of your clever asembly manual
Written by man, not a super hero
So ambiguos
Nothing gets done
Exept the bloodshed
You watch and have fun
You treat us like lab rats
Props and mere toys
Logic and reason
Always get's destroyed
5 mass extinctions
In 4 billion years
And only 1% of all life
Is still living here
Such clever
Efficiency
To base one's life
On old mythology
The factory floor
Always drenched in blood
All to please you
We'll sacrifice our sons
The only good thing
About any of this
In 5 billion years
Humans won't be missed.
No one around
To be remembered
Frend or foe
To be dismembered
Maybe it's past time
To ditch the notion
There was a divine power
Who set this in motion?
Maybe it's time
To accept our capacity
To be compassionate
And display great cruelty
Maybe it's time
To accept
Nature isn't magic
It is simply what it is
Both good and bad
We make our choice
As a species
Of bad claims we divorce
And see the world
With open eyes
The wonder and pain
In which we all we get by
Without fear
Of Ahoritarian gods
Whom will beat you
If you run
If you run
To that of reason
If you accept
There is no pleasing
The ruts of the past
Get passed down
Through the generations
Hard to break those bonds
That ocean beach
On a calm day
Yet a rip tide
Can drag you away
Oh I know
You need that army
To defend a God
Who shouldn't need any
But you have to
Protect that factory
It manufactures false hope
And that keeps you happy
The real boxes
Are always empty
There's nothing in them
But it sure is plenty
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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