SWEET CHANGE

In bed within his sumptuous suite
his words within your ear so sweet
he swears he loves you best
of all those he's loved the rest
couldn't hold a candle to his flame
but he wonders if she could arrange
a threesome for future change

ONE TEDDY BEAR

If there be
but one thing
that is holy
then let that be
human life

Not gods
not the ground
upon which we stand

Not religion
or it's edifices
churches or mosques

Not for prophets
jesus or mohammed
not for teddy bears

But only for life
human life
of more value
than all the gods

One teddy bear
named mohammed
is not worth one life
or fifteen days
in jail

So much for
religious bigotry
ignorance and education

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AWAKE

All the holy books
none are of the gods
but the creations of old men
bent by high ambitions
and protection of their positions
for the herding and controlling
the anarchic multitudes

The holy books following are
eastern Indian bhagavagita
the Hebrew torah the Kabbala
the old testament of the Jews
the christian new testament
the Muslim koran
the book of the dead
the book of morman
dyanetics of science fiction
even the mafia have
their own ten commandments

All the above hold less truth
than the daily world news
the New York Times
the post intelligencer
the holy book less current
no less violent
the news offers you no prizes
beyond this world or any other
of impossible existence
but beware for they too
may offer you propaganda
may promote ancient mythology

CONTACT

Being alone
doesn't have to be
lonesome

It need not
be quiet
or silent

Conversation
is limited
unless you talk
to yourself

Today
the radio
television
computer
can entertain
you

Or drive you
mad enough to call
random numbers
on your cell
phone

Impose
upon a friend

In desperation
call the police

No don't do that
they might
accidentally
shoot you

Prior to verbal
contact

Don't anwer
the door
with your cell
in hand

It may be construed
as a weapon

LIES THEN WHOPPERS

Stop your crying
or the boogey man
will get you

Be very good
or Santa Claus
will pass you by

Don't cry
the tooth fairy
will exchange your tooth
for a dollar

Don't play
with yourself
hair will grow on your palm
or you will get zits
then everyone
will know

Go to church
and pray
or when you die
you will find yourself
in hell

In your twenties
the evil dictator
has the bomb
you must destroy
that monster

If you don't
go to war
we will watch your ass
and the rest of you
as a suspect
as a possible traitor
and that may
not be a lie

GIRLS & BOYS

Girls will be girls
and boys will be boys
to play with each other
as sexual toys

Some girls would be boys
some boys would be girls
to try with each other
for sexual joys

Girls will be girls
and boys will be boys
to seek with each other
to be sexual foils

PAST TIME

The forever so
called gods do go
though their demise be slow
as future years will show

The priestly class alas
shall then be history past
but who then will feed
the irrational their need

The mystical the magical
for all questions unanswerable

TRUTH & IGNORANCE

Faith or belief
is not the truth
it is second hand
it can only entrap
and another's truth
can not truly
be your own
you must seek truth
for yourself

Ancient truth
may not hold true
to current truth
for it may be based
on far lesser facts
or greater bias
or ignorance

Judge not a truth
on the desire of need
but only what can be
preferably determined
by verification
confirmed by evidence

Only truth can free you
from ignorance
propaganda and myth

MASTODONS

Stars do not care
if we survive
nor do stars care
our small ruin
those long gone
shall no more
return to see
the breath of earth

Neither great nor small
once gone gone forever
without return
and so shall we
and the mighty disappear
to become the very
dust of earth

BEFORE AND AFTER

Men often masturbate before hand
so they may longer sustain
women should they not attain
do so afterward by hand

OF GREAT CONCERN

Oh! humankind
disturbed to find
he has left it up
and she has left it down
has it not occured to mind
that she could leave it up
and he could leave it down
in order that they might find
a lasting peace of mind

The great debate
as of this late
is as to whether
the toilet paper
should go over
or under the roller

IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

I dream the seemingly impossible
that war shall be no more
while war wages on

I dream with diminishing hope
that nations shall no more
produce weaponry of war

I dream of a hopeful possible time
when no nation shall violate
even one life of any citizen

I dream of such a future as when
compassion shall rule over greed
when the least shall be no less
than the greatest of these

I dream admittedly it must seem
the most impossible dream
when religion is separate
from each governed state

SYSTEM CHANGE

Vote for the one
with the smallest fund
corporations have not paid
that person to run

Vote for women
until half our reps
are feminine gender
vote for any member

Agnostics atheist or secular
or every shade of color
asexual or regular
for ethical order

Fearless of god
and nonsusceptible to fraud

FAIR SHARE

To you
who would walk together
and share my fare
we work together
or apart

I hold no desire
to take upon myself
the burdens of others
let those who will
have them and always
they will find
others to burden
them

GOD CREATION

Man decided he needed a god
and his women decided
not to be left out
that she needed one also
to protect the pots and pans
and the soufflé'

She reconsidered and decided
that she needed at least three
so he decided not to be undone
that he might need a dozen

She as some wives being dominant
told him to get out there
and create as many gods
as they might ever need

so he took up some clay
and from this clay he created
a multitude of gods
they were not permanent

He was not satisfied
so he made some of wood
made some of bronze
and he even made some from gold

They prayed to them
and the crops failed
even the soufflé' collapsed
and that year was a bad winter

They even prayed some more
sacrificed two young virgins
and the next summer
there was a bad drought

So life just went from bad to worst
so they decided they needed
an imaginary god
perhaps in their own image

She thought god
should be a woman
and he naturally
thought god should be a man

They fought and argued
for many years until the decided
that god should be imaginary
neither he or a she

Then others came along and said
it is not one but three
and threw in Mary to make it four
to confuse it more all the saints

People still pray
they don't sacrifice virgins
just the funds of their labor
nature has not changed

Some winters are still hard
some summers are dry
some live some die
their is little change
in human nature

GENTLY

To my new love
I shall be gentle
as a warm summer's
evening breeze

Gently I shall
touch her
as gently
as the touch
of morning dew

Softly I shall
wisper my love
letting each caress
fall like warm rain

TRUTHFUL LIES

What truths
would you wish to hear
come sit by me
I will bend your ear

Open your mind
as cloudless skies
then I will tell you
truthful lies

THRESHOLD

On the edge of oblivion
I stood held by fright
yet I felt no fear

I laughed
and laughter echoed down
into abysmal depths
re-echoing
until all was lost

I was left alone
in mesmeric trance
to wonder onward downward
into the abyss of darkness
that envelopes
infinite time

I listened heard my laughter
resounding faintly
in the distance die
I saw a smile
cross an empty face
the vacant face of time

SINGLE

No expectation
but your own
lay back in your chair
there is no one there
no one there to say

This very day
I have a hundred
chores for you to do
you have promised
you would do

But all alone
you can ignore what's due
let only thirst and hunger
move you from the comfort
of your favorite chair

The chair that can
warm massage vibrate
even entertain you
with music and the news
when there is nothing
you wish to do

With no expectations
but your own
when you are single
and alone

WAR

By the land
I've seen the night
bright with the killing of war

I have seen
shattered bodies
of old and young

I have seen
people building homes
out of the ashes

I have seen
young women selling their bodies
in Manila Yokohama Shanghai

Because there where families
or no families
because there was no other way
because war made it profitable

Because there were men
tired lonely men
buying forgetfulness
buying love

ONE

One blade of grass
grows in the light
another dies in the darkness
and we die together
for we are one

We are the force
that urges mountains
to push their heads
above the plain

We are the rains
that cut mountains
into the hills
and into the valleys

We are the wind
that blows a quite sea
to turbulence

We are the sea
the stars the heavens
the galaxies
a moment of eternity

As with the twinkling
of the stars
we are the momentary
the eternal

The rock
the flower
and we tomorrow
share the essence
of each other

EVOLUTION

Life crawled
out of a primal sea
unto a bare desolation
where it found
naught to love but itself
out of its self love
it multiplied and changed
and eons passed
out of this
came all that grows
and crawls and flies
and from this
came man

PRODICAL SON

Your life is yours
to do with
as you please
a table has been set
before you
the fatted calf
is slaughtered
wines flow
in your favor

Go however
if you must
but remember

There shall be
no lamenting

If evil
and wrong find you
and hard times
beget you
come not home
to me as a beggar
for only the lord
shall have mercy

SEA WAIT

Waiting drives
some to drink
some men to madness
words
fists
knives

For a time
the long monotony
is broken

some look
for revenge

On a dark
moonless night
a shuffling of feet
a splash------

Then only
the throbbing of engines
the throbbing of hearts
and over the side
only the phosphorous sea

SACRILEGE

Flesh unto flash
god is with us
he shall set up a table for us
before our enemies
you shall drink the warm blood

We shall reap our enemies
upon the spear of fear
and eat the putrid meat of disgust

This is the meat
this is the blood
this is holy communion

We set your shame upon an altar
we offer this to you
that the word may be known

We bow down and pray
and thank thee
that we have made thee

In our image
strong and victorious
above thine enemies

LOST LOVE

When I no longer have your love
I shall no longer need your body
then should we pass each other by
it shall be as unknown strangers
who pass each other in the stream of life
toward our individual destinies

THIS IS IT

This is it
a not to solid earth
skies that change
water that flows
the air you breath
time from infancy
until infirmity
perhaps a century
with fears of dreams
or highs or lows
the many lovers
the illusions
and the delusions
the joy and pain
the loss and gain
what you touch
and what you feel
what you see
and what you hear
wihtin the now
and what is near
no mystery here
no gods no demons
no guiding stars
only friend or foes
and what of earth
you learn or get to know
what you love
what you appreciate
makes this great
love it or leave it
this is it