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Shaded Lamp Aug 2014
They walk aloof among us
Three percent of the population
They reluctantly dine with us
Quietly, stifling their frustration
They don't look back as you pass
They don't want your conversation
Empathy is just an alien concept
They focus only on self preservation

But here's where it gets strange

We worship them with huge salaries
We beg them to lead us the way
We ignore their blatant deceptiveness
We hand them our hard earned pay
If they say bail out the banksters
Or send your kids to a dubious war
We offer them our kids and cash
Knowing that they will ask for more

Stranger still

Our history has been sculpted by them
We raise bronze statues proudly in their honor
Through our plain idleness and cowardice
They can reduce this planet to a nuclear goner

"How did this madness occur?" We question
Why do psychos run banks and governments
Checking world history offers a suggestion
To why we (the population) are slaves for rent

We are simply afraid of those
That successfully navigate life
With reckless irresponsibility
Unchallenged by others strife
It is those destructive characters
We plead to take political risks
In return for obedience and cash
To buy more power and obelisks
I do like an obelisk, but rewarding  those lacking any moral compass  because they can perpetuate the continued *******  of  the many by the few seems like the lunatics are indeed running the asylum. Or am I mad?
Mao
wrote a
Little Red Book

an
at the ready

inexhaustible
arsenal

of
quotations

instant ammo

for bandoleros
of correctness

flinging barbs

more deadly
then a cocked
AK

virulent
vanguards

of screaming
proletarian
heroes

whippin em out

to shout down

the running dogs
of capitalism

sprouting
reactionary
bourgeois
schemes

a
sure
quive­r

of razor
sharp

ideological
stilettos

appropriate
weapons

of
respo­nse

for the
heated
struggle

against
incorrect
ideas

instant
revelations­

of carefully
selected
corrections

uncovered

by fevered
thumbs

*******
dog eared
pages

the
indexed
platitudes

uphold
the sacred

holy
dogmas

of convicted
minds

firmly
convinced

in the
comfortable
certitude

of their
derangement

In college
we carried

our
Red Books

in frayed
pockets
of dingy
flannel shirts

but
Lennon
unlike
Warhol
didn't
like
Mao

so we
dropped
Lenin
and
listened
to
Dylan
tracks

hysterically
laugh­ing
tickled
to death

with
Marx Brothers
Horse Feathers

Down
on
funky
Broadway

we
traded
our
Dashikis

for
coo­l

Che
emblazoned
tees

a weekly
special

at the
Silk City
boutique

whom
the
capitalists

cleverly
omitted

breast
poc­kets.

leading us
to displace
our Red Books

forcing us
to adopt

the
revolutionary
logos

of store front
entrepreneurs

Teabagger's
have

a little
red, white and
blue book.

They call it
the Constitution.

Its more of a
totem

a convenient
fetish

the Koch
Brothers
believe

empowers
them

to
pursue

the liberty
of

an unbridled
id

and the
freedom

of banksters
and oil companies

to swallow
anything

that they

can sink

their

insatiable
fangs

into

laissez faire
tolerance

for their
gluttony

is codified

by the grand
celestial
ledgers

of a greedy
God

down with
capitalism

Qadhafi,
has a
Green Book

he holds
it like
hand
mirror

peering into
his vanities

infatuated
with the
beauty
of terror

the
perfect
reflection

of his heinous
malevolence

the fiat
of his
ad hocracy

the
repressive
rules
of totalitarianism

are all
spelled out

the gory
details of

corporal rule
and capital
punishment

suggestively
enforced with

the stern
mutterings

of dictatorial
diatribes

the certain
cruelty

of whip
and stick


Morning Joe
has a book

the incessant
suggestions

of righteous
Reaganisms

a self serving
rhetoric

a stirring
oratory

of narcissistic
prattle

the banal hum

of feigned
wisdom

egoistic
affectations

cuddled and
encouraged

by star stricken
Mika

the critical
thesis

its first rule

thou shall not speak
ill of any other
republicon

the infallibility
of potentates

is always
self evident



Oakland
2/27/11
jbm
Moonbeam Dec 2016
Where the hell is humanity
All I see is insanity
Focusing on wars and vanity
Speaking up gets people mad at me
Nothing on this planet is flattering
People starving and freezing; teeth are chattering
Police taking blankets from the homeless
Even in the places where snow is
People are so violent and shameless
Is there even a way to tame this
Or do our efforts further inflame this
It's time to collectively claim this
Look at all the problems that we make
By blindly following the side we take


Politics and money are one in the same
Why must we think life is all about fame
We have so much more that we can do
Like question why the sky isn't blue
What are those lines that expand all day long  
Is questioning their safety so ******* wrong

Everything on this planet is basically toxic
And people wonder why we're all so sick
Plastic, chemicals, metals, and poisonous water
Feeding processed foods to your son and your daughter
When the aquifers are empty, what will you think
You're going to rely on toxic water and oil to drink?

I swear to God you need to look around
In the sky, at the world, and what's underground

Did you know that bees are life and so is clean food
If the elite continues to rule, we're all ******* *******
False flags, terrorism, furthering their plan
For a one world government, that rules all the land
We're already slaves, but it will get so much worse
If we continue to forget that we all come first
Nobody should get left behind or feel like they're stuck
Let's show each other love and actually give a ****

Selfishness and narcissism run rampant in our world
Walking around like we own the place, our lips slightly furled
Looking into each other's eyes but there's not much there
I see shallow complacency, that infamous fluoride stare

The world is going down, unless we turn it around
Look at Syria, Palestine, and all areas that surround
Fear, violence, and terrorism is life
No husband is safe, no child, no wife
They're eating the grass
And rotten food from the trash
Starving and freezing throughout the winter
They can't even leave their towns, they're stuck in the center
They've been targeted by rulers of this sick twisted place
The banksters are evil they don’t belong in our space  


How can they be so far removed from the rest of the planet
If anything benefits us they make sure to ban it
LSD, mushrooms, cannabis, and DMT Anything good for cancer: B17 and CBD
Essential oils are what's next on their list
I swear if they take my lavender I'll be so ******* ******


Alternative energy is more than suppressed
The need for clean energy should be more vocally addressed
But when it is, someone intervenes and hides great inventions
Laws and patents are created to stop our intentions
For a clean world and a safe place
The elite couldn't care less about the lives that they waste
They build on the dark side of the moon or possibly Mars
They're preparing themselves a new world, while they **** up ours

I only feel solace when I look into space....
Why must it be so hard to save the human race?
Matt Jul 2015
Woe, Woe Woe!

Woe to you
To those

With heads held high
Full of pride
So proud

You are rich you say
You have confidence
In America
And the American dollar

America can never fail

To those who have forgotten
Their fellow man
Who are cold and uncaring

Who delight in wickedness
Whose hearts are filled with hate

Woe Woe Woe
To this nation
This nation
That has aborted millions

This nation
That fights wars
Where it does not belong

Corrupt banksters
And politicians
Who serve the needs
Of the corporate elite

Repent, repent
Repent
On your knees and repent
If you are smart

I am a miserable sinner
And I repent
And so should we all

I pray that the Lord
Will destroy
This nation soon

The blood of the innocent cry out
The saints cry out, "How long must we wait, O Lord?

He is Merciful, and time has
Been given to repent

They have hardened their hearts
And delighted in wickedness
They have turned their backs
On you, oh Lord!

Repent while there is still time, please
jeffrey robin Jun 2010
so lulled to sleep,  i can't  say any more!
oil out...oil in!.....we are too poor

to even notice we are almost dead
we  don't  criticize police brutality

or  complain when banksters so simply steal
from us all our lives and pack them  away

in the enslaved environs of their choosing
so sleepy i struggle to awaken

let us not by our fears be weakened
into thinking that we might be mistaken
Matt Jul 2015
Those with proudful hearts
Those Americans

Who are wealthy
And boastful

Who commit ****** sins
Sodomites
Lustful
Who mock God

The corrupt
Supreme Court
That has legalized

Abortion and gay marriage

Americans elected
This president
That disregards
The Constitution

Corrupt banksters
And corporations

Congress serving the
Interests of the corporations

Worthless currency
Equivalent to toilet paper

The youth obsessed with
The self
Lustful, prideful, and arrogant

The Lord is rigtheous
This country has turned
It's face away from the Lord

He will destroy this land
He will be with the Christians
With those who love Jesus

The enemies of America
Will descend upon her

Obama will be
The last president
Matt May 2015
15 miles
Of unprotected border
Not one guard to be found

We are cutting way back on border patrol
ISIS set up a camp there
Along that stretch

And the open border is near an airport in Mexico
The Mexican drug lords help them come right in

Open borders
For the terrorists
Our government helped create

I suppose it won't be long before they have
All the materials for a nuke

Our country is susceptible
To an attack on the grid
We do nothing
Nothing to make our country more secure

Decimated middle class
Government and banksters ruin our country

Gap between rich and poor
Widens each day
Huge corporations control the politicians

I just want to make a living
To be able to rent a small apartment
I'm afraid it's not going to happen

Might be living here
For a long time.....
Seán Mac Falls Oct 2012
Is the world insane?
Casino banksters rolling—
Die, while we watch by.
Matt Jul 2015
Retirement Planning

hahah

Americans don't get
To retire
Anymore

At least people age 30 to 50

Maybe if you are older
And worked your whole life

This country is so *******
And a debt
That is unpayable

Corrupt banksters
A nation that aborts millions

America is going to be
Like a third world country

I'll be lucky just to get enough
To eat

Not to mention
Water scarcity

And the population in CA
Just keeps going up and up

And every family
Wants to have 3 kids!

The earth can't support
All these people

In the end you know
It will big just one big
**** storm

A free for all
They will be hauling
People off to FEMA camps
For mass killing

The globalists
Want a big population
Reduction in this nation

How badly do you want
To survive?

Forget about a decent job
Or a wife
Or some type of life

Just make it through
The next day
In this struggle to survive
Matt Jun 2015
On Sunday
I observed the lawn bowling

An interesting game
The ball breaks just like a golf ball
It looked quite difficult

And these older women
Appeared to be quite skilled

One showed a beautiful smile
As she walked

I sat and observed the people relaxing
In the park
On a Sunday in June

Quite Idyllic

And as I approached the putting green
Located not far from the lawn bowling
An old man helped
An even older man into his car

The older of them may have been
In his early nineties
He had a beautiful smile

I practiced putting for a while
And in the far distance

A familiar sight
A twosome pushing pull carts

With sun umbrellas in their hand

The American flag flowing in the breeze
America, America

This used to be a better nation
Although never perfect

Involved in too many foreign wars
A nation in debt
Corrupt banksters and politicians
There is no future in this land

Maybe this classic American Sunday
Will be a thing of the past soon
John F McCullagh Jun 2013
At the present we've a POTUS
who is of a "sharing" mind.
He'll "share" whatever I have
with his  voters of like mind.
So it strikes me as peculiar
that wealth disparity still grows.
That the fabled one percent
keep looking at us down their nose.
The Banksters stole our Billions
yet not one spent time in jail.
Do you think they told the President-
"The check is in the mail"?
Those high hogs keep getting fatter-
the buffet has them in thrall.
Just like hogs they'll be surprised
when the slaughter starts this Fall.
Income disparity is approaching the levels last seen just before the French Revolution. Cue Madame Lafarge
Matt Jul 2015
Why are you still rooting for America?

I'm not rooting for American sports teams

This corrupt and wicked land

Corrupt banksters

And politicians

I separate myself

From this wicked land

He sits in front of the television

For hours each night

Don't you have better things to do

What a waste of time!!
Matt Jun 2015
Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum

Isn't human life fun?

Go here, Go there

And nobody seems to give a care

America, land of the debt slaves

Corrupt banksters, and foreign wars

America the Great *****! (Of Babylon)

I hope the Lord's judgement

On this nation soon will come


The American nation

DOOMED and DONE!
Matt Jul 2015
My body is unattractive
And women don't like me

Oh well

The body is a tomb
Anyhow

Sometimes I think
Life is incredibly dull

And what's the point
I can't seem to change
My situation

A changing time
A changing place
A changing name
A changing face

But it's really all the same
All the same
It's all a game

It's all a big matrix
A big matrix computer

My plain dull expression
In the reflection
Of my Kenmore fan

Reading articles
Hitting putts
On putting greens for
Hours alone

This must be
What it is all about

As our miserable nation
Teeters on the edge
A nation in economic ruins

Let it fail!
Let the whole thing fail

Lousy politicians and banksters

And all I have is this life
It's really nothing
To get excited about
You know

Heaven better be fun
There better be golf there
Or peace

And there better be women
There to give me a hug
And I better have good friends there

These are the things I want there

The body is a burden

I have become close
To an island

A lonely man
On his lonely island

Wandering wandering
Somewhere random
Banging hiking sticks
On the ground

And look at all the fancy cars
And all the well to do Americans
And aren't they so sure
So confident
In their worthless American dollars

Their toilet paper dollars!

Driving around
With important things to do

As I walk around
With my akward shoulder

Striking sticks against the ground

Hahaha

Is this place all
Just one big joke?

Seems like it I guess

Well I love Jesus
Just as much
As the next Christian

I should take
Some snacks
In a little army
Storage bag

It came with the gas mask
I ordered some time ago
Just for fun

I *******
Because women
Ignore me

Oh well

And why is earth
Such a bore

And maybe I'll go to the mountain

I'll just go to the gym
Again

Remember
Soon it will be
Every man for himself

To the globalist
You are just
A useless eater!
Matt Jul 2015
He never got a good body
Or the woman of his dreams

No money in his account
I guess I'm just a loser it seems

Oh well

There was never any future
For him in this country
Anway

College, and more education
What does it matter?

The American dream
Has gone away

Corrupt banksters
And Politicians too

They ruined this country
For me and you

Our ship America
The great moral monstrosity
Is going down

Separate yourself
From this corrupt nation
Or you will drown
John F McCullagh Mar 2017
How proud King Carlos must have been
as the Armada fleet set sail
He could not know that those brave men
would drown, and the invasion fail.

Charles Stuart thought his word was law
and swore the Puritans would feel regret.
Charles, who was  already short,
would wind up getting shorter yet.


Consider, too,the Bourbon King;
who married Marie Antoinette;
The guillotine loves royal blood too.
The Deluge came and he got wet.

Banksters lusting for their bonus
who really ought to be in jail
made us make good all their losses
because they were too big to fail.

Our nation teeters at the top
of a twenty trillion dollar debt
If interest rates creep too much higher
I think you know what happens next.
Matt Jul 2015
The day the banks shut down
Banksters are big clowns

Everyone wants their money
The banks have none to give

It is highly likely
It may happen
In the time period
In which I live
Matt May 2015
I am thinking of the days
When our American way of life has gone away

Jade Helm will be commencing soon
In this month of June

Armored vehicles on the streets
There rationing food now
They will tell you how much
You will be allowed to eat

The government and banksters paved the way
Amassing a monumental debt
They could never pay

Our economy teeters on the brink
Our economy will soon sink

They will violate our Constitutional rights

Now they're knocking on your door

History repeats itself
It is the same as before
Shades of Stalin and ****** too
Forced removal of citizens
It's what happened to the Jews

Some say, "It could never happen here."
Young people glued media
Clueless to the danger near

Give me Liberty
Or give me death

I believe in those words until
My very last breath
wordvango Sep 2017
Right On Mike!!

Here's a strategy
Surround yourself with Generals
old glory and the anthem
Pick fights with ethnicities you don't like with twitter rantings
Trump is an Emperor there is no doubt
A self absorbed narcissistic caricature born of empirical arrogance
Government is no longer in entity that needs to be studied
All you have to do is run it like a business and reject the proclamations of Jefferson and Madison as mere *******
Banksters become Patriots creating wealth on Franklin's printing press with interest
While Paul Reveres ancestors boo the players who protest
White privilege never ends
White privilege never sacrifices it's position
Instead deflects by omission creates hallowed traditions
Calls it history or sacrifice
ghostly heroes
rise from the dead
Gory glory hallelujah
Congress raise your fists
Your purple stained fingers plugging your ears
Social and economic justices
fell behind and now are in arrears
And there is hell to pay
In this American way....
Written by Angstrom to a comment by Mike Marshall on a comment on a Daily!

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