Never Insane Enough

It's never insane enough

we need more phones

we need more drones

cuz it's never insane enough.

It's never insane enough

we need more dopes 

and a lot less hope

cuz it's never insane enough.

In Profit We Trust 

(haiku)

It rules the whole world.

A force to be reckoned with.

It's name is Fascism.

*

It fools everyone.

It looks like our only hope.

It rewards a few.

*

It slides like a snake.
It devours like a disease.

It shows no mercy.

*

Mussolini's dream.

A corporate government

where profit is god.

Misc. Haiku

I think I matter

if mattering is something

that really matters.

*

These are lying times.

Lies have become the ticket

to all locations.

*

If you lie to me
I will in turn lie to you.
Soon there is no truth.

*

If we're progressing
and you hinder this progress,
you are the problem.

*

Better them than me

is all a person can say

in this brave new world.

Simple Arithmetic 

(haiku)

One bad apple cop

shoots the guy seventeen times

then walks away free.

Six other cops watch,

do absolutely nothing

and make no arrests.

Okay, how many bad apple cops do we have?

What God Probably Thinks 

(haiku)

It's hard to express 

how thoroughly disgusted 

I am with this world.

So much potential,

so much opportunity

just wasted away.

In my name I think

they will destroy everything

I love and cherish.

16 Credits

Some people say you gotta get an education

You ain't going nowhere if you don't got one

You study all night and sit in class all day

Then you come up short when it's time to pay

You pass all the classes and what do you get

Another day older and a deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the college loan store

College these days reminds me of Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 Tons

  Bad Habits Look Alike  

(haiku)

I gave up smoking

for a number of reasons

but mostly because

I worried too much

about running out of smokes

or forgetting them.

Much like it must be

if you're hooked to a smart phone

you can not forget.

Always on your mind
like a monkey on your back
never letting go.

The Great Redefining 

(haiku)

'No boots on the ground'

really means boots on the ground.

You just heard it wrong.

*

'Zero inflation'

really means raise the prices

and no one will care.

*

'Holding a debate'
really means more prime time ads
and network profits.

* * *

No rarely means no
and yes usually means yes
if the profit's right.

*

I like to see things
as they really are and not
as I wish they were.

Burn the Witch 

(haiku)

The inquisition

has risen again today

minus the thumb screws.

The traitors seek truth.

They put her to the question.

Her truth is ignored.

Frothing at the mouth
they find the lady guilty
of what, no one knows.

Blurred Horizons 

(haiku)

Selling a product

and voicing lame opinions

is all that matters.

*

Morals and ethics

is just some people talking

out their friggin butts.

*

With no end in sight

the decline accelerates,

so tighten your grip.

Give Them Holidays, Games and Reruns 

(haiku)

Every holiday

is a commercial pretense,

a reason to spend.

*

No one remembers

the reasons we celebrate.

Just how much it cost.

*

When we are all spent

nothing new is created

but the same old thing.

Just Another Holiday

(haiku)

Labor Day folly.

Celebrate the working man

then lower his wage.

*

The working man's goal.

Work an entire life away

making others rich.

*

When the work is done

live on an entitlement

they yearn to deny.

*

Make it to the end

and you and all that hard work

just goes up in smoke.

*

Few will remember
who or what you even did,
least of all your boss.

A Looney Tunes World 

(haiku)

True Democracy

is when the people vote for

the best Oligarch.

*

Mid East new normal.

Blow up all antiquities 

and murder your own.

*

The General says,

'recruit terrorists to kill

other terrorists'.

If our enemies

can just hold on long enough

they can fight for us.

Days of Folly

(haiku)

In ring number one

all the clowns are gathering

to run for office.

*

Reality show

presidential candidates

sorta says it all.

*

I feel really proud

to be an American

in commercial land.

Hurrah for the Weirdos

The weirdos have stolen our pride,

redefined our love

and turned their dreams into our's

but

just so long I get my check

I don't give a crap

what they or anyone believes.

* * *

We've become a nation of weirdos
all consumed with this equality crap
that always excludes the rich.

*

Millionaires and billionaires
are minorities
who never whine about equality.

We should follow their example
after all,
we follow everything else they dictate.

Putting It All Back In Perspective

US Population 2013

72%  White  12% Black  

If you think they're taking over it probably means you're watching too much TV.

*

49%  Men  51%  Women

This is why Hillary can't win.  Women won't allow it.  

Women in general will never relinquish real power for fake or token power.   

*

4%  Gay   96% Straight

The only historic or amazing thing about their right to marry is how such a small
percentage of the population gained so much attention.  

Just say, 

'we're sending our troops in to train their armies'.

Just say, 

'due to some crisis we're jacking up the prices'.

Just say,

'there are always a few bad apples in the barrel'.

BUT DON'T SAY,

'We love making war!  We love the greedy
and whatever you do don't say what everyone knows,

a few bad apples rots all the apples!'

haiku

Now that we're 3rd world,

dummified with no way out, 

give us more soccer.

*

Give us more pretense

for nothing is real these days

but the lame applause.

*

Give us low incomes,

higher prices and more hype.

We love being duped.

Camel Update

The eye of the needle expanded exponentially

therefore, the rich can now buy passage

 and the words of that prophet are obsolete.

*

The last straw shrinks exponentially

therefore, the back never breaks 

and the end of the world never comes.

more haiku

Ad saturation

is a mind numbing evil

no one talks about.

*

We just accept it.
It's like selling a product
is our new gospel.

*

The long term effect

of commercialization 

is mass dysfunction.

*

The things we oppose

are now the things we favor,

soon opposed again.

*

You discover truth.
Then spend your life denying
what you discovered.

(two verse haiku)

Machines drive for us,

fly for us and think for us.

What have we become?

'Free', a salesman says.

'You are free to scratch your ass

and text all you want.'

Pundit Paradise

Out in the great dumb down 

they sit around

watching with eager anticipation

huge faces on huge screens
swaying every issue and decision  

and no one is the wiser.

 haiku 

Ad society.

Ads for every occasion.

Ads, our guiding light.

*

All this happiness

manufactured for a buck

is not worth a dime.

*

Making the absurd

a normal everyday thing

makes absurd the goal.

*

Serious no more.

It is time to just have fun,

whatever that is.

more experimental haiku

Life is glorious.
Every breath miraculous.
It's the world that sucks.

*

Stupid rules the world.
Crazy wants to take over.
Ugly comes in third.

*

When all our idols

are put in Hollywood graves

peace of mind might reign.

Sunday Morning

Meet the Clowns.  Face the Fools 

and finally at last, March Madness.

All brought to us by the usual corporations.

The Abyss Looks Back
(haiku)

Best thing about life.

Most things can be forgotten

in a week or two.

*

The kingmaker knows
people will fall for the sham
no matter who's king.

*

Construct an abstract
nobody can understand
then call it the truth.

*

Censor everything
and you won't have to worry
about anything.

*

In the wilderness
gods are 'few and far between'
so they made a god.

*

Best thing about greed.
It gobbles up it's own kind
then devours itself.