Stuff

Stuff

Stuff we take for granted
May not remain always so
Accustomed tastes
Like showers in the morning
Or a cup of hot qophy
Music, books, intelligent chat
Hop in the car, jet 2 the store
Disappearing into the void
Of contrasting value

Americans enjoy
Running off at the mouth
Saying words to shock
Howard Stern’s mother
Yet when solace comes
We tend 2 lie 2 ourselves
And tell each other “it’s okay”
When it’s really not

Now the world checks our lies
Watches us cannibalize each other
Because that’s the way it iz
Round world in a square box
Capitalist mentality of get more stuff
Without regard to yin or yang
No new frontiers left to conquer
Same old games we play

... Where is the independence
Where are the heroes we once held dear
When Thoreau is civilly disobedient
How can we fold to group think
mental gymnastics required
Usurped by the talking heads
Blathering nonsense
Pray to the dollar, that it not slip
As euros grow and gold gains
Handwriting on the wall
For all to see and most to ignore

So, where to look when seeking truth
It must be there, somewhere
Waiting to provide a beacon
For those wishing to harvest light

Look inward, search outward
Under rock, in gullies, between streams
Riparia and the mountain tops
Where lichen like and fungi ‘shroom
silence screams loudly calling
Patterns of biology,

structures of chemistry
Gravitational physics,

natural law, All there,

out there, being and doing

Fictional over-structure imposes
Linear reality in a dimensional world
Pushing life in continual chase of
Her own tail, never succeeding
All consuming, regardless of
Cycles and symbioses

Follow the path of a water molecule
To investigate the diversity of life

Models stand to explain
Terms in images we comprehend
But trying to understand
When definitions fluctuate
Parameters of change yesterday
Assumed constants today’s
body inflexible builds
Lemmings follow paths of
Least resistance, assured doom

Quietly pull the plug on illusion
The matrix doesn’t reach Armageddon
Change Requires thought
Thought requires understanding
Understanding requires consistency
Consistency requires truth
Truth requires reality
Be seen as reality
The curtain of nature pulled back
Reveals paths of greater promise
Than the stuff we take for granted

lemme howdt - 2006