There are snakes that eat birds, and there are birds that eat snakes.There are lives that serve death, and there are deaths that serve life.Life spurts out skeletons like a gardener plants tomato stakes, and on them we drape our blood tubes and gut tubes. Life spurts out skulls
Our weapons will be manufactured by corporations that have pansexual CEOs and Muslim shareholders.The bombers will be emblazoned with rainbow flags and flown by empowered women of all colors who will scream "YAAASSS QUEEN!" as the mushroom clouds arise.The desert sand will turn to glass in the blasts, and
People gather together at the zoo to pretend they aren't wild animals.People gather together in churches to pretend they aren't God.People gather together at the feet of the guru to pretend he has something they don't have.People gather together in movie theaters to pretend the real hero exists outside
A huntsman crawled onto my laptop and the screen crackled into rainbows and went white. Jet black shadows slashed across the walls of shapes I could almost remember."Let it all go," said the huntsman."I cannot," I replied, "for the people on Twitter are mean jerks, and Eckhart Tolle was just on
The old ways have failed us, and yet we keep trying to preserve them.We sit on the brink of extinction, as great a failure as a species can possibly attain, yet still we look to the past for advice.The ancestors built a system which rewards
They strip the earth of minerals to fill the skies with metal birds.Minerals drop explosive minerals onto organic matter with faces and feelings, and eyes are ripped from heads and fingers are ripped from hands and limbs are ripped from torsos and insides are ripped outside from bodies once cuddled and breastfed
While the whale songs get sadder and sadder, While snakefinger Hollywood operatives teach us to look outside ourselves for superheroes instead of behind our own eyes, While canned laughter pours from screens and forms whispering clouds over our heads which assure us that we have never been divine, While the pop songs
One rebel made dissident mini-zines in his parents' basement, and left them in laundromats, buses and trains.One rebel attended antiwar demonstrations for decades, getting arrested eleven times.One rebel carried a sharpie with him everywhere and wrote "the tv is lying to you" in bathroom stalls.One rebel left the
The network censors have pixelated your heart chakra and placed a thick black stripe over your third eye.Agent Smith bats dangle from the inside of your skull, saying "You are finite, Mister Anderson, and the world is exactly as it seems."Milky-eyed smog clones form long lines waiting for small
Okay, fine then. Pretend that you don't see the the flower in my hair or the fact that I am wearing my favorite tutu. I will pretend that I don't notice the tired sadness behind your chipper greeting and the tattooed Leonard Cohen lyrics that are peeking out your