Tag: Poem

America

I read a passage by Ben Franklin.
Some wise words.
He said not to come to America
If you wished to be a patron of the arts.
Not to come, if you live luxuriously on land estates.
Not to come if you wish to attain public office.

More importantly, not to come if you're a writer.
Americans are valued based on our abilities
To work on cars, or smith, or tailor shoes.
America is valued for the farmers
The blue collar workers
And being industrious in a trade
And earning a small living
Where there are neither abject poor
Nor incredible wealth.

I find this is the modern struggle
That there are gentry born from California orchards
And Southern Cotton Fields.
There are politicians making obscene money
And neither working, nor doing anything
But profiting off of their positions.
For, Ben Franklin said that didn't happen in America.
And surely, Americans remember it in our race consciousness
That it was true at a time,
That American politicians were not rich.

But, more on that
Where is my place in this economy?
America's founder said this was not a land for poets.
Europe was.
And I have not the money to move to Europe.
Nor do I have the skill to do anything
Beside write arcane poems about politics and psychology.
God forbid I ever be a governor.
But, I'm born with a mind that understands human nature.
I offend people with it---
Surely, there is an argument with a woman
I am having, which presumes to be that I am stupid
For seeing exactly what I've always seen since a child.
But, there is nothing in this country to reward that.
For it is dead.
Our country never needed it
A mind like my own
For we were mechanics, tailors, farmers,
Cobblers, smiths and coal miners.

With that said,
I ought to have heard it from Ben Franklin himself.
I am unwelcome in my own land.
My talents unnecessary.
However, it is all I am capable of doing. 
I wonder what he would say about it.
 
If this poem seems critical of the United States
It is not.
Rather, hearing it from one of our founders has given me great peace.
Though, it has also shown me that I am incredibly useless.

Evidence

They will say, "Where's the evidence?"

I remember having a discussion
With a militant atheist
Who wanted Religion to be classified as a mental illness.

One of his cohorts came on this blog
And when confronted by this fact
Told me, "There is no evidence that this conversation ever happened."

He'd be right. 
I whooped the man so bad that he deleted his profile.
But, now we recede into the truth of this century
That evidence is being destroyed
And then it's being asked, "Where is the evidence?"

I suppose that the pictures of Babylon and the Tel Dan Stele
Isn't evidence enough?
I'm sure tons existed
But they've scratched the inscriptions off the stones.

Of course Babylon existed. 
It's preserved in Words written by ancient historians.
Yet, the evidence is being destroyed
So I can point to less and less.
There was a documentary on YouTube
About how Hitler broke down Church walls
Destroyed stain glass windows
And tore down crucifixes.
And, the evidence doesn't exist.
It is forgotten.

The evidence now exists in our conscience
Knowing this is not how the Earth is supposed to be.

Politeitics






At the Arby’s he sat at the drive-through window. He ordered the Chicken Salad Sandwich, but they discontinued it. So, he ordered a Reuben, and curly fries. He drove to the window, and heard music. It was using every swear word in the book. So, he asked the man at the window, “Do you think that music is appropriate?” The man looked back, and said, “It isn’t even mine.” Shaking his head in disapproval, masking a hint of reverse racist scorn— Even insinuating the music were inappropriate was racist, as was assuming it was his. 





A few months earlier, there was a man listening to similar music. He asked that same man, “Is this your music?” The man said, “Yes.” So, he said, “Do you think it’s appropriate?” The man said, “No.” 





Perhaps remembering the previous time it happened—that the man at the window were the owner of the music—it inclined him to ask without the formality of finding out whether he owned it. But, being that the second attendant was offended by the mere suggestion of his music being offensive, said, “We’re a laid back generation, and we don’t give…” To which, he replied, “What if a family drove by here, and their children heard that?”





Of course, it was racist because it wasn’t “his music.” To which, making a man an offender for a word, is itself a form of racism. Insinuating he were racist, when four months previously the same question was asked. Perhaps the polities were missing. To which, it was impolite, maybe. But not racist. 





And the Reuben was alright. He forgot to ask for Horsey Sauce.

	


	



			
				


			

			
A Letter to Nazis
		
	
	

		

Dear,
Nazis

First off, don't call yourselves Christian.
Jesus was Jewish. It's a Jewish name.

Second off, you probably don't understand your own beliefs.
There were common myths in Europe that an "Aryan Race"
Distributed their insignias throughout all the Earth
And then the belief became popular through a pseudo-Anthropologic 
Movement, that suggested all of the innovations in human history
Were created by an "Aryan Race."
This race, they say, ruled over India
And carried their culture throughout the world
And they believed that all of the mythologies and innovative religions
Such as Egyptian, Vedic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon,
Greek, Roman and yes, even Christian,
Were artifacts of this mythological race.
However, if one studies history,
It was the Persians who migrated to India
Became mixed with the Indians,
And thus called themselves "Aryan"
And hence, the reason why it seems so.
Because from the cradle of civilization
Persians carried artifacts from the surrounding areas---
From the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia---
Into India, and certainly carried them everywhere else.
With the help of other cultures, such as Egypt
Or Greece, or Rome. Thus, the white race of mythology
Is actually the Persian race of reality.

Third thing, White people are incredibly barbaric
If left to their own devices.
Without Jewish thought, they'd be succumbed to savagery
As is seen in World Wars I and II.
As, the Vikings pillaged Christendom for centuries
And as was the two front war fought for many years
Between the Northern Barbarians
And the civilized Arab and Persian empires to the south.
Meaning, civilization came by way of Jewish and Greek traditions
Not Norse or White traditions.
Hence the term "Greco-Roman."
In fact, the whole entirety of Western Thinking
Is rooted in dark skinned peoples.
The Jews and the Greeks.
Whites were tribal and barbaric to the Romans;
And posed a threat to civilization for many years.

And I think that is sufficed enough to say
That just about everything you believe is a lie.
It has been Western Empiricism and Christianity
That has improved the lives of so many.
The first invented by the British---who are a superior culture---
And the second invented by the Jews.
Which, it makes sense you subjugated Celts and Jews
Because they were, in all technicality
Superior to you in every way.
So, your own inferiorities
Made you lash out against prosperous peoples.

Hence I've made my piece,
And if you can still be a Nazi despite it
Then you are very much like the Nordic Barbarian
Whose only innovation was blood and violence.







	


	



			
				


			

			
The Cycle
		
	
	

		

Mencius said that civilization is like a cycle.
There are periods which tyrants reign
And silly conversations take place
Because of unrighteousness.

Then, a noble Sage rises up
And strikes a balance by establishing
The traditions of long ago.

What's interesting about Mencius
Is that he was a student of Confucius
And Confucius was a student
Of the ancient kings.

Who were those ancient kings?
Were they not ideations and glorifications of the past?
Yet, from studying those specters
From studying those archetypes
Confucius and Mencius forged a happy civilization.






	


	



			
				


			

			
Light
		
	
	

		

What is seen, is that our geniuses have been forsaken
And intellects which are inferior are trying to piece together
The tapestry of our design.
So, not grasping fully the principles of the past
We move forward, trying to alter them.
Yet, the truths aren't understood
Therefore, we abridge them and distort them
To a point where the grand serenity of our Golden Ages
Is forgotten, and it soon follows that men grow less wise as years pass on.

	


	



			
				


			

			
Imagine Our Earth Were A Book
		
	
	

		

Imagine our Earth were a book.
And imagine God were the author of that book.
God wrote the book.

And, isn't a book something different
Than our three dimensional world?
It exists purely in thought.
It cannot be accessed
Except by comprehending what the words on the paper mean.

It's the difference between our four dimensional space
And pure imagination.

Now, imagine everything we could experience
Were like that book to God.
And God were like we reading it.
How silly would it be for the characters
In that paper to use the events in that book
To comprehend the man who wrote it.

Such is with Genesis,
That if you authored a book
And edited it
It would look different
Describing the edits you did
Than it would if you read the events
In chronological order within the book.

For we and our history are like the book
And the Bible contains a literal history of 
How it was written;
It catalogs all of its edits
And presents them to us chronologically
In the point of view of God's Eternal Present.

	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
Our Fetishes
		
	
	

		

The Pigmy in the forest
So I've heard
Found a glass bottle.
The bottle he found, he worshipped.

The tribe turned the glass bottle into their God
Bowed to it, worshipped it,
Set it in its wreath of fine leaves.
It turned their whole village mad.

I look at the fetishes of our culture
How the bottle is almost like our ideas.
They unite us, they divide us,
They disrupt the continuity of the sound mind.

Good ideas---
Well formed ones---
Are free of fetishes.
It is not Post Hoc Ergo Proptre Hoc
But the distilled singularity of the notion
That it will save, redeem,
Bring some awful power into existence
And manifest the miraculous comfort we adore.

Religion is not the same as fetishism.
Rather, fetishism is some abnormal mental defect
Brought on by an object being placed
As the sole foundation of our reason.
If placed there, whether science, race or holy book,
It produces in individuals the divisiveness
Of all of its defects.
For, even the Bible becomes a fetish
To some Christians---
To not understand its sense
But rather get bogged down in the literal interpretations.

For, the chapters of war in the Bible
To my humble intelligence
Are there to ease the conscience of a soldier
Who has done abominable things.
Not a how to guide on war.
And stoning the homosexual or adulterer
Is much the same, that we've all been degenerates at some point in our lives
And must live humbly with the fact that we deserve a lot worse
Than what we get.
Or, the most ridiculous one
That Genesis must be taken literally.
It must be that the earth was created in six literal days
As you ask anyone educated
It's just not something we can literally believe.
Even myself. 
But, if you cannot still believe in Jesus
Despite that, then you hadn't really known Him.
As, it's just the fetish you've created
One which will be destroyed in the end.