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Poetry || SubmissionsSeditious LibelBy Yosh I’m getting armed. education to drop silence on my sweet surrender to the law either way, things must be done and done there’s always more. violently overthrow your self and stop telling your self today’s lies you will definitely create a new mess yet you still have to clean up the house I learned the other day that I was so worried about copyrighting everything that I forgot all about the First Amendment and what it means to me I forgot about Schenck Gitlow and Brandenberg I forgot about Whitney Tinker and Hazelwood and the Pentagon Papers and Ginsberg sometimes I spew radical bitterness an obvious detraction for religions that I perceived have done wrong, for politicians that I perceived have done wrong. one could even say I have philosophical turrets never holding back and just releasing what is on the tip of my lip... and once again I try to violently overthrow myself and remind the re to mind. I started doing research. checking in and checking up. i found that thru a prophetic use of capitalism we’ve created such an imbalance that rascism isn’t even the big -ism anymore... we are poorists, age-ists, uneducatists, and economicsists. we are constantly caught between making as much money as we can and giving away anything we can afford we are republicans and democrats (only a few votes apart) american media slavery told me what to think last week, and I listened to it intently wondering if there would be no end, no beginning to the madness of the hook I am assembled with. I want that quarter pounder with cheese for 99 cents, and I want it now. Why do they advertise if they dont deliver? I would never go into mcdonalds, but right now, right here on this couch, I testify to the amount of desire that last commercial made me feel. I want to consume til my doom, and never run out of money. violently overthrow yourself. and stop telling your self today’s lies. think capitalism sucks? well too bad, cause it ain’t going anywhere, you gotta deal with it cause it’s America to stay. and you wonder why I want more and more. I grew up believing in the 1st thought I could say how I felt and no one could stop me. I gave poetry to police officers and there was nothing they could do. (unless I advocated the violent overthrow of the government.) Violently overthrow your self and stop believing your own lies. I tried to stop believing my own lies and started listening to the sounds Birds Chirping, People Singing, spiritual libel being preached. I heard oral sex was illegal in 46 states. I heard that the reason we were told to eat from the 5 basic food groups, had something to do with economics of depression, and how U.S. farmers were going out of business. I heard Phish and Dave Matthews, DMX and Tupac Shakur, Jerry Garcia and Roger Waters, Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder. I heard Shaq and Kobe, Jordan and Pippen and something about how the “Big O” was the best player ever. I heard, "I am the greatest fighter who ever lived" from Ali. I heard, "I am totally crazy-like" from Tyson. And then Art and Paul, described the sound of silence. so I sat. and listened. ©2002 by Yosh ...thoughts and comments always welcome.... YOSHMAIL@aol.com More poetry by Yosh at http://www.yosh.net/ More poems by Yosh at Ariga Today's Situation
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