One Viewpoint

Life has a way of twisting us 

into shapes we cannot see 

from the inside out, 

so we assume we appear 

as we were 

before the twisting began. 

We can ask what’s wrong  

but never receive 

a satisfactory answer 

for no matter how hard we try 

we can only see ourselves 

from the inside out.


* * *


What we think is normal
isn’t normal at all,
but we keep plowing down
 a crooked row,

planting seeds of discord
wherever we go
then wiping beads of shame
from our brow.

Tipping Point

A nation in question, 

a city locked down and glued 

to the manufacturers 

of fear and speculation 

and if this isn’t what we want 

than what do we want? 

After all, we certainly love it
  in the movies and on TV. 

Mostly fictional of course, 

but when do the scales tip
and it all just becomes
too much?

* * *

I think the uncle got it right, just a couple of losers, monsters no doubt,
but if the news media can pin it on some overseas plot
than we can all return to our abnormal sense of normality.

Sad-eyed, the President said,

"it was a shameful day for Washington"

but wasn't it really
just another normal, disappointing day for Washington?

Fact is
these arrogant fools are just fools
and the real shame is upon us
who follow and vote for these fools.

Wisdom Lost

Mother says to her bullied son, 

"if you hit them back, like them you'll become".
Father says nothing

and the world moves on 

and all the perpetrators write memoirs, get richer, 

and hold tight to the illusion of power.

Sacred Cow

“Hey!” the Pres. said, “I'm not agreeing with them,
I'm just compromising with them 

and let's face it, 

a three-legged cow is better than a dead cow”.

* * *

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In the Deep

We live in an age of consequences 

but many still think it is yet to come,

yelling ‘whoa horse’ mid air, too late, 

falling they fall into the deep 

where laws are made after the facts 

and precautions are taken too late for show 

and there they all go again,

drowning in the depths of their solutions.

In the Dark

In a cave dark and foreboding 

god emerged to save us from our fear,

so we decided to stay in the dark
lest our god should disappear.

* * *

I never thought I’d live 

to see the day 

an armed guard’s presence 

 the only way

to save our children from ourselves.

Seems barbaric, a step back,

a Nazi solution 

for the peace that we lack.