3-22-2022

What will "they" tag this to be?

Chuckling here. Yeah I'm still around.

Watching all the moral(e) imperatives - operatives
...play...
the consonance like shattered masonry
and fractured lives
- with no "wayback" machine to reDO.
There ARE places where even the "roaches" fear to tread.

Chris

This is NOT a rant,

nor an "adjustable" memory.

General thoughts on the day:

Ukraine?

So few ask -

"Where do we bury the survivors?"

but ...where?

Pause and think about  -

what I asked.

And your answer.

Your life,

my life ...

their lives?  How do we mark our ways?

And who is "they".

Social consequence

- moral terpitudes...

The Church of Our Sanctimonious Belief...

gutted, shattered, burned-out rubble -

our home of years ...for some - decades.... 

second pile to the left.

And "potholes" suck! - goes without saying.

Whose bodies will fill them in?

Can you comprehend just how many

15,000 is?  In 23 days?  

Perspective?  And we "lost" four Marines the other day 

in a training exercise - four...

And nothing about the "other" side...

Civilians?  Families?  Children?

And towns and cities like yours... ours...

where the "roaches" are humans - parents and children

scurrying in the open', through the rubble - 

searching for the offal that - may -

give them ONE more day - just one?

And "roaches" are ALWAYS stepped on...

The scale - 2,500,000 - arrived to a border

but how many ...didn't, couldn't, won't?

Here...

You had a nice looking car huh?

Good payments too, not quite back breaking ...got gas?

...oh, you still have the payments anyway

...nothing changes... except - everything.

You got money and empty shelves...

wait - you HAD money...

to bad about your IRA.

Well, they did shut down the bank

- before you got there.

They don't update the ATMs...

if the printers work - they'll show what you had.

Memories hold the rest

'til there IS no one to remember...

memories.

Ever wonder as you lay in the dark

who killed your parent(s)?

But it seemed like such a "nice" and caring

...home.

Why do Hospitals lie to your face?

The doctors don't KNOW -

but they do ...know...

and some care ...in the sleepless dark,

and no one ...listens...

but

everyone hears...

and does their damnedest to not go there

...for themselves and theirs.

"Keep on moving, nothing here to see."

People collapse - but the line continues... "Next..."

Masks WORK!  But the Rotisserie Chicken smells wonderful?

"Safe and Effective!"  Millions DEAD.

There are no vaxx injuries - the doctors say so

all is an untimely coincidence - millions of them.

A fourth Booster will continue what the first three didn't.

And a fifth, sixth...

Media doesn't lie - they just omit ...some "minor" things.

Language is a fluid concept -

words have whatever meaning someone else assigns.

it doesn't matter anyway - who has "Standing"?

For some reality has a stench -

especially in the days and weeks after,

BUT

so do dreams... and all the years after -

and daymares a draw unlike any other...

getting a splinter HURTS... but bleeding out - surcease.

Hungry isn't a choice of what you HAVE...

it's what you haven't...

and the "pain" is real

and the little "you's" don't understand...

but neither do you.

"Energy is neither created nor destroyed."

yet, the mysterious "they" turn off electricity

and that they can quantitatively assign a "value"

to what passes through your "home" and 

returns to whence it came.  Cold is not a state of mind

-just a state of being.

Ever notice - most everyone can shiver?

Chris

Author's Note

Say what you will

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

this is one of the fascinating bits of writing i have read/stumbled across in quite some time. from the line, thoughts of the day. Ukraine? it was like scales dropping away from my eyes as I sensed so much of what I internally rant on, but hadnt yet found a way to articulate as fully as you just have.

Ken

[Chris]

It seems our "memories" aren't all that short after all... just ignored. "Come on in, the waters fine!" he said - as the shark swam in his front "lawn" - a reference to video from Florida during hurricane Ian.

[KateH038]

I love this, Chris….I was absolutely immersed!

[Carola]

wow, a very comprehensive poetry news article.
agree with about the media, they & politicians are professional liars & obfuscators.
cheerio carola

[Chris]

Do you notice how it seems we have more and more people to miss each day now? Just sayin'. Life has this way of happening regardless of people's wants or whims. Thank you for your thoughts and pausing with me. You ARE always welcome.

[Relic]

There's a tremendous amount of emotion in this. The world seems to be crumbling before our eyes. Numbers of the Ukraine dead seem like just that...numbers. But there are people attached to those numbers. There are pictures of people not here anymore.

Covid, mass shootings, a divided nation, high gas prices...I'm waiting for the day we come out of all this, but time itself is in no rush.

[Chris]

Life just seems to happen at whim... but who's whim? Thanks for pausing and leaving some thoughts behind.

[gram linski]

great thought process on the down fall of man and society as we know it, the anger and absurdity are palatable, I really enjoyed the rhythm and the vibe, great poem

[Chris]

Reality has a way of touching regardless of our desires. Thanks for pausing - the silence gets "heavy".

[Lisasview]

Hope is the only hope we have in continuing our lives adventure.
Lisa, 11am in Spain

[Robert Haigh]

Interesting thoughts on a changing world! We always hope it will be better for our children and grandkids, but... it seems a forlorn hope sometimes!

[MomzillaNC]

Powerful conversation in your prose. There just aren't enough words, are there.

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'2-22-2022'
Chris,
Honest, forthright thoughts with explanation. This above writing was so refreshing. What ever happened to freedom like this. It read as many of your pieces do. Which are what I needed to take in right now. Media is not the be all and end all of reality. Human beings are capable of making intelligent choices and decisions. This piece showed the ongoing chain of cause and effect and taking what media feeds us and then we-you thinking are own logical thoughts. Nasty time we've been in. Thank you for addressing what I am sure many wondering, questioning too.
Bless you as always,
Kathy

[Chris Shaw]

So I am the first to comment on this post which has been on the board for ten days now. Pleased to read your thoughts, Chris, many of them the type of stuff which filters through my own mind. We live in a fragile world, we can't be sure what the truth is anymore. All I know is the longer I live the more I realise that my childhood and younger days were far more pleasant. We have more material stuff, but it counts for little when kindness can be in retreat. Good to see you are still around.

Chris