Up with gyros – Down with heros

Last year Black Friday truly lived up to its name in the United States of America. The Occupiers in US cities lost their darling status in the press, and were labelled haphazardly by politicians railing against the extreme Left, and by politicians trying to edge their platforms more toward the middle. Black Friday only further cemented the truths espoused by the Occupy cause. Materialism gone off the map! People getting bludgeoned and maced by others, all for the rights to a deep discount video game command center. What the fuck?

Meanwhile, China is happy to move closer to majority shareholder of USA stock. Will there be a whistle to stop the overseas investment momentum? Huh? I don’t think so! Everyone over here is already starving for some fucking credit, but the well has run dry. The job creation is turtling up the ramp. The baby birds are pushing their mouths to the sky. The OctoMom cannot even work her Octopussy to get her shit back in the black. Sorry Octomom.

You know its real bad. The interest rates wont let up no matter how hard you cry. The banks only have one ear open to the most diligent of homeowners searching for ways to dodge the black hole of foreclosure.Unemployment benefits run on and on and on, almost to touch triple digits. The potential disaster of the capitalist experiment is a natural one. I think so. The corporations don’t wanna pay taxes, forever. Costs them alot not to pay taxes. The tax leveling has been horribly tragic. The coffers are below empty. The states are most clearly united in empathy. Bankruptcy is common to them all.

Where the fuck do we go from here? Canada keeps our violence at safe distance. Mexico dumps bodies over the border, into the Mojave. Disappeared. Body by body. Eurozone again suffers, having fallen into the trap. Letting the dollar dictate the pace. Freedom in the middle east has wiped the meters back to zeros. Israel is almost completely walled off from the world. The free market whirlwind hits the young new freemarkets hard. Greed factor stresses the system. Independence is celebrated. But the dynamic nature of it all leaves economies prey to predators, globally. Infant stock markets are subject to crippling panic attacks.

Yeah, the world had good reason to turn curiosity toward free market capitalism into an enduring embrace of the system. The inflexible regimes in the mid-east were destined to break up into a thousand hard little pieces. The internet propped up a half-truth of noble proportions. The changes in the climate and the paradigm shift have all caused people to move toward life! Living life at one hundred percent. No more lying down to your reality. The internet told people they were not alone. Everyone wants the freedom to manifest destiny. And honestly, I don’t think most of them really see the cost…

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All (considered) east coasts of all continents felt ground turn liquid almost one year back, in thisour time of great upheaval.  Headlines were made universal. International. Headlines were extradited where  blueteeth failed.

Leader of L. for over forty years was left with a microphone, somewhere unknown, and called upon his supporters to cleanse the reasure city T. of L .  Anger made people say foolish things. Rage made people kill. Heat and friction made the earth move.  Meanwhile, the frightened ones placed  their hearts carefully down upon the silks and flower petals,  sealed off from light and touch. No sooner did the prayers leave lips, the roses their colors began to bleed and drip out from some sacred unshared place deep in the hearts once hidden behind militarized zones.

They came out on the streets of city C. of E. One of the origin lands, many believed.  The streets of L. in the proper and formerly most powerful E., mother of our current A. The streets of T. City of Islamic predominant I.  Some got shot. Others did the shooting. Others came out after the earthquakes, scared for their lives. Others came out because the internet encouraged them to unite.   Freedom! Others came out to celebrate and rape women behind the very same principle.

But the largest faction out in the streets of the world had no consensus. The witnesses. There can only be a few players. The rest count among witnesses. Most of them never had to even raise a finger, an eyebrow, agenda, or concern. Witnesses witnessing witnesses. Watching the broadcast of life on their dark screens made from bits of light, once cathode ray tubes, they say.

Some age old ritual played out in a not so new way on flat screens made of projections or liquid or other specially-defined limitation costing anywhere from an amount of currency up to what one could afford. And costing a whole lot more, like hidden charges you try but cannot find on any receipt. The cost. The cost of time. The cost of lost attention. The cost of distance.

The cost of witnessing. The cost was life. The programmers all over the world tried to communicate the magnitude. Tried to translate an earthquake so that the multitudes of this vast majority could feel something akin to a tremor through a screen. Then the censors of the world tried to make the shocking imagery almost digestable. A slightly displaced context holds the attention. Otherwise they would all go mad if the understanding was conveyed for what it was. In real life. Still, the average witness might say the whole experience Feels almost fresh.

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When everybody knows if they know anything… this is something old like old smells of day old sitting out prunes. Old like old has not seen the sun in a year.  Old and primitive. Like racism. Old and moving the whole being. Like tectonic plates grinding. The earth making love with itself deep below the surface of itself. Old like bread crusts become croutons. Hardly recognizable and can cut your gums if you don’t soak them in vinegar.

Where were you? Do you remember? I was right there among the ranks, ,myself! Drinking chrysanthemum teas my girlfriend gave me for my bronchitis. Worried about my own shit. Self-centered. Where were you? Did you witness the living life of the thing? Or did you witness those who were witnessing the living life of the thing? Through fragments of projected lights and added audio-visual tracks over some certain specially-defined, risen definition which had been plugged in and plugged in an overstated way for its ability to take you to the heart of the thing? Conrad might be heard from the depth of his grave, whispering through an timeline of merchant mariners before and after him — darknessss!

Last month it was the earthquake. In J. Around the same time we had twisters sucking up half of the methamphetamine corridor through the breadbasket of our beloved and despised A. Tone her down to a motherless child of sorts. Lacking both urban and coastal influences. Lacking continuity more and more, yielding less and less?

What explains the overindulgence of the areas’ population in diversions, addictive in nature or otherwise? Who can account for the adrenaline soaked endless nights without sleep of millions of our species?  Where was the antidote for a flat land and its sterile offerings of flat preoccupations? How was morality packaged neatly in tune with the fundamental religious rights,  mediocrity, and subsistence – levelled educators? Where had they gone? Some of the kindest sweethearts you ever did meet? And why could they no longer be found, not even in the guarded institutions  and Waffle Houses (of the world)?

I cannot recall the real food. TV does not taste. Had life been so incredibly delicious as my memory served up? Or was my memory in need of service?  Were we now Indentured to the common corn production? Predominantly specialized and sold to global corporations looking to cut costs on sugar? Was this that thing Shakespeare and others called fate ?

High fructose corn syrup for the soft drinks, the sodas. High fructose to the head. No better or worse than titanium steel. All of this was to remain in the subconscious. On the DL! Slipped into our ingredients — but don’t really make a big deal of it, in fact, pay off the media if they start snooping around. Pay them to look the other way. Maybe direct them to a slaughterhouse. Yeah. Only if they get really pushy. Only if they Won’t take yes or no for an answer. Maybe then.

The earth has been shaking where it doesn’t usually shake. So reports the unfeeling majority to themselves (by proxy of the master reporters). Unreported was any acknowledgment to the self-administered, cultural lidocaine treatment of the twenty-first century; causing numbness to one’s own existence. Like I was? Maybe you, too?

I wrote it off as another large body making intoxicated specialized moves on the dancefloors of the day. Generated on an eco-driven sugar substitute injection to the heart, between the sheets. I wrote it off! What should have been the second point of discussion in the roundtable meetings (conducted by some international house of flapjacks) to determine the safety measures needed for any and all columns of stone rising vertical into air (aka the monument to washington, george of A).Second behind how mass freon production might slow the damaging progression of global warming. Clearly our (species) trajectory was one so implausible not any old LSD-laced cerebellum nor absinthe-drenched liver could conceive. Over boysenberry soaked pancakes, nevertheless.

With hope we dared hope for the continued existence of hope herself (and the coincidental end of hopelessness, worldwide). Like brilliance conceived of itself in due process over time, irregardless of precedent or logic. The international gathering may have been witnessed on one of a few hundred cable channels on bits of light projected or not to interplay with our corneas or not, with passionate players tossing their political opinions into the chatred pit of despair (which all pretended was not there). Some cooked. others fizzled. Most were like marshmallows, starting off tabula rasa requiring just the proper amount of soiling to brown, before catching fire and torching to black.  Sensitivity was judged weakness, and thus alien to our cause.

Some witnessed the witnesses witnessing as much. Others knew not of such a happenstance. Still others demanded their adult swims returned to them, despite a constitutional incapability of keeping up with their bills. The corporate ear was tilted close enough to hear, yet far enough to ignore all cries from any individual direction.

All in all, the bright light of any idea might have  become extinguished or might have otherwise come across as a not so bright and possibly devoid of light darkness, fly by the eye, anywhere.

Clearly drowned in the high tide of competing passions.

Processed by the feelinglessness of most everyone.

Simply lost in a bed of kelp on the far side of the cove.