That if we should, then yes we can

It’s the reach around

words that form meaning

donate dollars to support reason

buy some stuff to satisfy

the cravings of the care we need

back rubs for potential queens

talk show hosts shake their head

serial killers inhabit dreams

saving coupons for upcoming

gang bang groupons,

masturbate excerbate

five star service is how we rate,

telling you the truth is tired

high school teachers living wired

juiced up and plugged in

living off of VR sin,

order out and stay in-

cash flow clogged drains

the slow demise of

fruitful brains,

 

How can we be living free

when all the cameras see

what we can’t see.

 

Esoteric pig-pen

politics of staying zen

back and forth

do it again

decision making

painstaking

ex•ac•er•bate

masturbate

the common good

what was the use

when you said

 

that if we should

then yes we can

 

 

 

 

 

Shopping center

battle ground

murder in

a small town

infant scrollers

comment trollers

going viral, VD

mugshots on their CV

bottom feeders,

twitter feed

tweets from twats

is all i see.

 

Taught to question what I read

makes me wonder

about our democracy.

Should there be another name

for the game

that we are playing,

leading us to believe

that the given choices

make us free,

in this modern world of 

“it’s all for me – democracy”

 

all the rage cage fist fights

movie import insights

politican gaslight

educated suit and tie alt-right

insecure up all night,

the American scheme

is as it seems,

 

How can we be living free

when all the cameras see

what we can’t see.

 

Esoteric pig-pen

politics of staying zen

back and forth

do it again

decision making

painstaking

ex•ac•er•bate

masturbate

the common good

what was the use

when you said

 

that if we should

then yes we can.

 

Guardrails and guide books

selfhelp for the common crook

breadcrumbs for the glutten free

uber drivers of the monarchy

euro dollar system failure

stuff my face with natural fat

no job to pay the income tax

indifference broke the camels back.

 

Natural resource clear cut

talking heads don’t give a fuck

about the way that we bend

rock for light, till the end,

 

life lessons

give or take

slave labor

shallow state

while working

in a cesspool

of dirty water and dead flies

first responders wonder why

insurance costs way too high,

 

Hand out handcuffed

life of luxury looking tough,

see with your eyes

not with your hands

the bedtime story of this land

for when you fail

repossessed and up for sale

who’s got the money for the bail

a deeper debt to pay the fine

sell your home or do the time

hand out handcuffed

just staying sane

is getting tough.

 

 

Esoteric pig-pen

politics of staying zen

back and forth

do it again

decision making

painstaking

ex•ac•er•bate

masturbate

the common good

what was the use

when you said

 

that if we should

then yes we can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ordered before 17.00 delivered tomorrow, democracy

as if it could be besteld and delivered

by Bol.com

slid through the brievenbus

and achteraf betaald or

returned within 30 days

geen vraag.

as if it could be besteld and delivered

via Uber Eats

and placed outside my door by

some young woman who I saw

last singing in some electro-pop band

during the Popronde years before.

as if could be besteld and delivered

by the PTT or whatever company now

owns the post and has bumped the

cost of the postage so high that

to send something found

in the kringloopwinkel to a loved one is

just way too expensive to make it anymore fun

or

worth the while.

as if it could be besteld and delivered

our common sense in an envelope from the GGD

saying that regardless of the current virus issues

tha our mental health status is A-OK and that the blue

envelopes will be postponed for a brighter day,

hahaha no fucking way.

as if it could be besteld and delivered

a sense of common decency

an integral idea of integrity

the simple acceptance of living together

and voting past the issues of you versus me

and of realizing that we should be scared shitless of

the potential uitverkoop of this democracy.

 

Eventually we and

it will all go back to normal

and the sun and the moon will continue to do

the electric slide aroud us all.

Eventually we will go back to normal

and continue to eat the youth

so we at middle age

can continue to feel young.

Eventually life will go back to normal

and we will continue to have conversations

about eating our children

in the middle of concerts

and act annoyed when

the young people in the crowd

ask us to be quiet.

Eventually this will all go back to normal

and the streets will flow

with fake gold, imitation Gucci

full of middle aged madmen and

deranged women.

Eventually you and I

will go back to normal

but our appetites

may never be

the same.

Change the world today.

Change the world today by…

 

by giving the kid covered in acne collecting the shopping carts at the local supermarket a compliment.

by cleaning out everything you for so long have swept under the carpet.

by donating the spare change from inbetween the sofa cushions.

by no longer spending money on magazines that create a feeling of doubting your own self image.

 

Change the world today by…

 

by paying attention to the food we choose to ingest and waste and not upon our waistlines.

by thinking twice before posting some photoshopped selfie and bragging on social media about your favorite vice.

by conjuring up the common good while playing with a Ouija board.

by putting yourself to task before blaming others and the world for not giving you all that you ask.

 

Change the world today by…

 

by creating more free spaces for kids to skateboard upon.

by actually calling a friend to discuss how you think Grey’s Anatomy or The Walking Dead or whatever your favorite series is, will one day, eventually end.

by spending time alone and letting your mind ponder as you wander if today you woke up to be the person you hoped you’d turn out to be when you were only 13.

by fitting the circle and the square,

and by not being continiously caught up with your own agenda and by doing something that shows another that deep down that you, do care.

Change the world today by 

by being more concerned about listening to the answers that another gives than to the questions that you feel so compelled to ask.

by relating more to those struggling to survive on the streets of your cities or states than to those characters of fiction that we binge watch every night as our way of escape.

by learning how to see through, the put upon veil of unearned intelligence as only a mask worn by those terrified and in touch with their own sense of fear and of having been poorly educated.

by educating the individual about their overall responsibility when it comes to actually living as a collective.

by understanding that we are not only islands adrift in plastic seas but land masses of atomic bodies just barely afloat upon lifeboats taking in litres of water by the second.

by accepting the fact that we must act, in small and simple ways and in grand gestures that will make an impact upon healing this soiled ground that we use as a home.

by taking appropriate action geared towards sustainable living instead of living a life of emotionally charged childish defensive reaction towards that which we may have to give in.

by recognizing with open eyes the mistakes of our communal past and by working together, to figure how we as responsible participants can all work towards repairing the damage done and fufill the promises to our children and childrens children that we, stopped certain behaviors, corrected our cours, took action through motivation and proper discourse and actually did something to make sure that this planet, our world, will last.