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Sep 2017
How do we save a world that doesn't know it needs to be saved from itself or even worse just doesn't ******* care to be, a world full of people who are more comfortable with the idea of living with fear and hate in their hearts than the thought of looking at the world through kind and compassionate eyes, people clinging to old ideas passed down for generations and the latest religious fade and diluted dreams of national pride were no one is really purely this or that but all a bunch of mutts whose grandparents ****** on all the different continents but since their parents ****** under some specific flag they want to believe their better than some one else because their parents ****** under some other flag and it gets all jumbled up and none of it really matters because the only reason any of us are here was because we got lucky when we won that first race of our lives after shooting out of our dads **** into our moms ****** and that little miracle should be enough for us all to go around high giving each other our whole ******* lives even if it was just blind luck because lets face it we had no idea what was going on when that happened but somehow we lose sight of how strange and bewildering and beautiful the creation of each one of us was and how lucky we are to be here and between the then and the now we somehow let the precious gift of time go to waste on things that have little to do with what life should be and somehow as we have the opportunity to make the world a better place, a more peaceful place, we are doing the exact opposite, we have the chance to learn from one another and about each other on a higher and easier scale than ever before but instead of communicating with thoughts and ideas and dreams we let fear drive us forward and we continue to spread hate with lies and bullets and bombs and wars and there isn't any need for any of it but we stay complicit and turn the other way and we avert our eyes from the homeless and the hungry and the abused and the abandoned and we make ourselves feel less guilty by blaming the victim without bothering to hear their story because if we stopped to listen and stopped to look and see who they really are we might realize that they are more similar than different and that their lives matter as much as our own and we are all just a bad throw of the dice from life taking a turn for the worst and we forget that nothing in life is guaranteed, not its length, not its quality, not the good vs the bad, none of it, but we walk around as if death is on our side and we have all the time in the world and the world is crumbling before our eyes and we are at a war with stupidity and somehow we are ******* losing and all you need to do is look at the big orange baboon "running" America and the horrific people he's surround himself with and the hateful **** being spewed out of the mouths of some of his supporters... its nothing short of heartbreaking, I mean really ******* heartbreaking, from the tiki-torch carrying polo shirt khaki pant wearing white supremacist, who are easy to joke about but non the less dangerous, to the random people yelling at anyone who just happens to look foreign in a public parking lot, not knowing that their parents ****** under the same flag and in fact they have ever right to be here but you know why know the facts when its easier to hate and its all just too much to believe but here we are moving backwards instead of forward and I sure as hell don't know how to save a world that doesn't know it needs to be saved or doesn't want to be saved but for what it's worth I'm not going anywhere and I'm here for you or anyone else who needs to be seen or heard or loved because the ship might be going down but we were all born swimmers or we wouldn't be here in the first place so lets swim and remember how strange and bewildering and beautiful it is to be here and make the most of what little time we have left because a day or a year or decades will all pass in the blink of an eye and if we can't put out the fires let the ****** world burn and dance in the glow of the flames
Akira Chinen
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Akira Chinen  122/M/texas
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   David Noonan
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