Zelda's Inferno exercise: write about one (or more) of the following:
gentrification
creative ways to avoid our needs
postmodern patriarchy
organizational politics
This ended up a random disjointed thing, but in keping with Rule #1 of Zelda's, I have words on the page, so I win!
the creativity of excuses -
not just the ones we make to each other
but the ones we make
to ourselves
I don't really want that
Don't really need that
I'm sure those grapes were sour anyway
I don't care
Whatever
So there's no feeling of loss
You can't fall out of the tree you never climbed
Religion and politics and the homogenization and commodification of culture
Excuses for not looking deeply
For not seeing
"You'll pay to know what you really think!"
'Cause you've forgotten how to do it yourself
Specialized like an insect
"Eating food that will not fill it"
Empty calories for the mind, no vitamins, no minerals, no fiber, no complex carbs
Just gooey fat and protein, a bacon double cheeseburger served in a lard fried donut
Mental pathways as clogged as the arteries of the brain that thinks them
so this is the way it ends
not with a bang or with a revolution or with an invasion
but with a stroke
Yes, a fat and bloated Uncle Sam stroked out on the toilet
Trying to crap out the constipating intestinal blockage of modern culture
And as the world goes red and he falls into the space between the toilet and the wall
He wishes he'd eaten just a little bit better
But it was so cheap to eat that high-fat diet! So convenient! And everyone else was doing it!
They all laughed at the guy eating vegetables instead of steak, ha! The guy reading books instead of watching TV six hours a day, ho ho! The guy who meditated and looked for his own spiritual insights instead of getting them from a priest, what a moonbat! Freaks! Weirdos! Unmanly!
His last thought as his bowels at last, finally, emptied in the death-reflex: at least I kept my dignity by not becoming one of them!
Random thought:
one time I helped a Zen monk with his computer...