Numb. 1115 Data Day Decline

DATA TODAY grows exponentially.

More than enough each day for a century.

This explosion of disinformation,

disconnects effect from causation.

Everything's changing and everyone's leery

and tends to believe in conspiracy theories.

My fact to you is pure fiction.

As you'd expect, this causes friction.

Monster abounding 'neath all of our beds

force us to Reynolds Wrap up our heads.

You seek resolution? I'd not hold my breath.

The likely solution? A duel to the death.

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Numb. 1114 0 Man!

WOULD NOT it be best for the rest of “Creation”

were we to just to disappear?

That our “contributions” amount to subtractions,

news perused daily makes perfectly clear.

Hamlet says we're a “piece of work”,

though his intent, I expect, is ironic.

The Prince is, himself, a bit of a jerk.

Unlaconic. (Plus messianic.)

Good night chronic pests of little distinction.

Retired fleets of jets wing thee to extinction.

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Numb. 1113 How They Gonna Keep Us Down On The Farm

MANKIND EVOLVED to live in small groups.

A family, a tribe, or a clan.

Cities, towns, not even villages

were ever a part of the plan.

Nor was living among other animals.

(Where we would all share diseases.

Bad enough that “cousin” next door

never covers her mouth when she sneezes.)

It was unheard of to live in herds of

tens and hundreds of millions.

And crazy nuts to give up our huts

and pack ourselves into pavilions.

It's as if some single-cell master

noting how ants took up “farming”,

said, “What the hell, we might as well

gather these critters (delicious and warming),

pack them together so we can inspect them,

tighter and tighter so we can infect them

and when we're hungry we can select them

to feed upon and breed upon,

be they breathing or carrion.”

This may not be true, but I am suspicious.

We could be the livestock in their agribusiness.

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Numb. 1112 Lines Must Be [With]Drawn

WHAT IS THE POINT of having borders?

What do lines on a maps mean?

Okay, they may mark mountains and waters,

but, if they don't, they cannot be seen

as anything other than arbitrary —

something to note in obituaries:

“a lifelong resident of this or that place,

a credit/demerit to this or that ‘race’”.

(Another mistaken classification —

imagining an ephemeral “nation”.)

Yes, there ARE differences which are really real,

but things like these are not a big deal.

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Numb. 1111 From The Aynie Randy Handybook

WE DO NOT CARE what happens tomorrow.

Except at the end of the quarter.

If profits are up over previous year's,

that is just how things ought to be.

When they are not, it IS NOT our fault.

It's lazy workers and government meddling.

Each of us is a piece of John Galt,

we shrug off defeat and demand “happy endings”.

Aynie assures us we are the best.

How can anyone question her genius?

She couldn't be better, we guess, unless

in secret she grew a penis.

Not, of course, that we've read her.

At least, not since high school,

Reading! Come on! Who has the time?

(Except for Forbes, the Capitalist tool.

For a whore spanking, THE paradigm.)

Have a quick fuck. Make a quick buck.

Let tomorrow bring on whatever.

Just stack the deck, then say it's luck.

Admit being modestly clever.

Cheating's allowed. (DO NOT say that out loud!)

Everyone does it. (Or they get plowed.)

Never do good when you can do well.

NEVER be celibate. Celebrate hell.

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