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September 14, 2006
2001
Truth is something we all want. Like opportunity, its something you have to be ready for to recognize it.
In my opinion, people "now" take clean water, electricity and their feeling of safety for granted. If they leave the city in search of fresh water they first have to make the realization that fresh water is a problem. It's much easier to demand someone else owes you fresh water than it is to leave the lifestyle that made it bad in the first place.
You must realize that why people are fighting is more important that what they are fighting with. The conflict was not about taking and holding ground it was about order and rights. They were betting that people wanted security instead of freedom and they were wrong.
Do you blame yourself for not taking any action right now to "save" people living on your streets or suffering from poverty and disease?
Posted by tony at 10:54 AM
September 13, 2006
I Want To Be The First To Have That New Disease
Head down and still say hello. Not paying attention though. Forgot you lived 2 doors down. Sincerely ask how life has been. Walk away and wonder if I was insincere.
Smile at the dogs. What kind of dog? Talk to the new mothers in the elevator. How old is the baby? The dogs and the babies can both piss anywhere and there won't be a care. They are going to live the life we didn't. They are the future.
They are indeed the future. The rest of you aren't a present though. Unwrapped. Old. Tired. Bowties are cute. Will always smile when a woman wears a flower in her hair. Again, it is the flower. Not the person.
Keep looking down. Keep smiling. Keep walking ahead. Want to make eye contact again without being harassed or asked for something.
Back to the elevator again. Step inside my jail cell apartment. All five locks on the door.
Heart is still beating. Want to eat again. Go through the motions again. Turn on the tube. Turn on the computer. Maybe go for a jog. Maybe get a dog.
Wake me up if this a lovely dream.
Posted by tony at 4:49 PM
September 7, 2006
Trimming Hedges
Look around and see all the lights flashing and the lines and the rules. Seeing the faces and wondering what they will do when it is time to evacuate or when the majority decide there are no reasons to follow them.
Who will stop to help? The officers will start to walk away and go back to their own families.
There will be guns on the ground and cars that have run out of gas, abandoned on the streets.
You will hear crying and screaming and if your ears are not deaf from the sonic powered ringing from the anti riot devices then you will become immune to all of that.
It will be survival of the fittest once again and people will accept it until the recovery.
I laugh at everyone who gets distracted by events that really make us uncomfortable to discuss and care about in our freedom society. And now I laugh at myself because I'm going to partake in this ritual and watch the football game.
Posted by tony at 5:08 PM
September 1, 2006
Folic Acid
Does it get easier the second time around? For birth? For death? For life?
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I am overdue to write a book here. Or a long story. Or some long stories.
I am almost inspired. Almost there. Hope I can make it.
Posted by tony at 12:00 AM