Numb. 1068 In The Beginning

Commemorative of our first edition. 

“Rhyme For The Day”

Monday, March 6, 2017

Poor little Donald.

Oh, how it stings.

Barack taps his wires.

Vlad pulls his strings.

Spicey complains.

Conway “explains”.

Mikey waits in the wings.

(Who knows where the time went?)

Numb. 1067 Over The River

With every other predator species

we wish their numbers controlled.

While with our own — depending on skin tone —

the goal is forever increasing the fold.

Content, we contend making more of us

will clean up the messes we've caused.

What is this purported exceptionality 

that we feel frees us from natural laws?

Created by God, evolved to be “best”,

or invertebrate-inveterate, hubristic pests?

Numb. 1066 GOP Coalition: Traditional Conservatives

We deplore the sun's setting, 

despise its arising,

abhor all things not of our devising.

We oppose destabilizing

a status quo we find energizing.

Numb. 1065 Wishes Aren't Horses

It is fiction that virtue will manage.

Virtue, in fact, performs below average.

If you are looking for an advantage,

chances improve if you go savage.

It is not likely we'll “save” the planet.

It's foolish to think that we could.

If we eke out a year or two more,

then we can say, “Damn, we done good!”

Numb. 1064 On In Lightening

The Western conception Buddhist Enlightenment 

is irredeemably flawed.

Understanding is not a bolt of lightning, 

more of a nearly heard drone or a plod

which can culminate in a EUREKA! moment 

if years of hard work coalesce,

if, in a second, things fall into place 

if, for a moment, it all makes sense,

if delusions dissolve, if confusions collapse,

if you can take comfort in a perhaps. 

Achieving Buddhahood is not the norm.

If you have heard otherwise, you've been misinformed.