Chain Reaction

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  1. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Chain Reaction

    Crap falls from the sky, and rolls downhill!
    Whilst the bullshit flies, in every direction,
    Making it difficult to say which way is up,
    And compelling an incendiary chain reaction!
    Flames flying in every direction!
    Explosions going off everywhere,
    Fingers pointing, in any direction,
    Uncertain whether to laugh or cry!
    Some jokes, shouldn't be repeated.
    Lowbrow, Three Stooges Slapstick!
    Indignant protests fall on deaf ears,
    Endless Pointless Personal Bullshit!
    Roosters strutting, around in circles,
    Hens ducking, bobbing, and weaving!
    Panicked by even their own shadows,
    Torturing all the small-fry,half to death!
    Trying never to forget who to peck next!
    Looking for the most, challenging fight!
    Blaming God, fate, and fickle lady luck!
    Blaming one another, and Mother Earth!
    Blaming others while asking forgiveness!
    But our crap never stops rolling downhill,
    Rock bottom is every day, if there is no up,
    If nobody wants what keeps coming round!
    If nobody wants to hear anybody’s bullshit!
    I’m from Missouri myself the show-me state,
    Where a chicken is still legally a walking vegetable!
    Because, we never did buy everyone’s bullshit!
    Having all too often, been sold down the river!
    By our own politicians and redneck neighbors!
    Driving their own children from their churches,
    Dodging taxes doing business from their pews,
    Using their church pulpit, for political stumping,
    Promoting their, Libertarian Paradise by the sea!
    Using their churches for recruiting KKK members,
    Preachers competing for the most vitriolic sermon.
    Fundamentals, have the worst social records of all,
    In the entire country and civilized developed world,
    Blame everyone else in the world for their problems,
    Whilst, forcing their very own Libertarian politicians,
    To even pass a law, against voting for Mickey Mouse!
    You can’t fix stupid but no one ever lost money trying.
    You can’t teach an old dog new tricks when he’s dying,
    Jesus can’t save people who refuse to save themselves!
    Jesus can’t save those who keep demanding to be saved.
    When studies done by, even the evangelical Bana Group,
    Indicated those who regularly used their own two hands,
    In humble service, to the welfare of their own community,
    Lived up to their own personal, religious moral standards!
    Using their own two hands they remain in touch with God!
    Proving that crap rolling downhill presents an opportunity!
    For yet another kind of incendiary, chain reaction altogether,
    Acknowledging for ourselves, we are the world, we are children!
    And becoming vulnerable reaching out to each other is who we are,
    A good Samaritan helps their own community to become more loving.
     
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  2. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Whoa, this was a difficult poem to write, not because it required a lot of work, but because I never in my life ever thought for one second about taking on fundamentalist churches and Libertarians. I used to attend fundamentalist churches sometimes, just because they can be great people to hang around with, if you go to the right church. The Holy Rollers tend to often have a complete rock-n-roll band and a good friend of mine, who is atheist, used to play pipe organ for several churches. As for Libertarians, I'm a military brat and many of the people I know, love, and respect are all die hard fascists. The issue for me is not what people believe, but what they know to be true for themselves. I'd say the finished book will be anywhere from around 500-1,000 pages long or more, but I'd prefer about 350.

    With any luck, this poem marks the beginning of the end of the poetry for my book. I'm pretty sure I have enough poems now, maybe 240 that will go in the book, to cover all the basic philosophy, linguistics, and physics. I have perhaps 8 chapters that are all but finished, and have to write perhaps 3-5 more. This particular poem is one I spent weeks working on and that grew to be many pages long, almost ten years ago when I started writing the poems. I had to set it aside when it became obvious I just didn't have all the required metaphors.

    You could say my poetry expresses the emotional process and rudimentary emotional-logic involved, speaking to the subconscious mind, while the chapters cover the details and connect the dots bridging academic philosophy with physics and Pragmatic Taoism. Going back and forth between the two, I can present them both as expressing a single enormous multifractal equation that is self-consistent, nontrivial, and demonstrable. That might sound strange, but I can literally look at almost anything I want to read and immediately tell what kind of equation it expresses and where the author made serious logic errors, all without having to read anything more than maybe the title and first paragraph. Its really handy when skimming through endless technical data to just be able to view every word as gibberish.
     
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    The Way of Ignorant Virtue
    Table of Contents


    Big Bang
    Ignorant Wisdom
    Everybody’s a Comedian!
    What Was The Question?
    A Watched Clock Will Never Boil
    Ancient Child of the Valley
    Pay Attention to the Cartoon!
    Chickenshit Chicken Thieves
    Another Brick in the Wall
    The Well of Souls
    The River So Deep
    Affordable Peace
    Mindless Masses
    Money Brains
    Red Rain
    Only the Good Die Young
    Everywhere You Go There You Are
    Rainbows of Beautiful Words
    Humble Pie
    Just Say No!
    Pearls of Wisdom
    Poetry Pets
    Vaguely Contextual Fuzzy Indeterminate Bullshit
    All She Wants To Do is Dance!
    Existentialist Nightmares
    Now and Meme Frumious Bandersnacth
    Timeless Forgotten Truth
    May The Road Rise To Meet You
    The Memory of God
    Ignorant Virtue
    Singularly Ignorant Elegant Simplicity
    Best of Intentions
    Forever Young
    Now and Zen
    Eight Keys to Heaven
    Rock of Ages
    Higher Love
    They Call The Wind Mariah
    Its Alright If You Hate Me
    Politics is the Personal
    Inner Child
    Mindless Rhetoric
    Freedom From Sorrows
    Quantum Peek-a-Boo Logic
    Amazing Grace
    Shadow Blind Vision
    Oblivion Changes Everything
    Alice in Wonderland
    Bliss Bunnies
    Choose Not to Choose!
    Baby Velvet Jesus Saved By Rhinestones!

    Shine On You Crazy Diamond!”
    Karma Chameleon
    Lost in the Crowd
    Standing Out
    People Are Strange
    Just Call Me Ignorant
    The Beat Goes On in the Country of the Blind
    Dark Siren Voice
    Wu Li Master Bullshit
    Curious Characters
    What All Hold Dearest
    A Miracle to Believe In
    Childhood’s End
    Who the Fuck are You!
    Demons
    Stranger Than Fiction
    Crusty Old Salts
    Ride the Fractal Dragon
    Happy Idiots
    Cartoon Logic
    Behind the Curtains
    Sublime Lime Jell-O
    Fruity Tootie Bananas
    Sparkling Wonderland
    Color My World
    This Mortal Coil
    Wild Roses
    Tall Oaks
    Foggy Mountain
    Run With the Pack
    Fly Like an Eagle
    What a Wonderful World
    Silent Victory
    Silent Explanation
    Rainbow Stargazer
    In the Middle of the Night
    Personal Tragedy
    Weeping Willow
    Mad Shaman
    We’re All Big Babies
    Authenticity
    Waking Dreams
    The Swan
    To Thine Own Self Be True!
    Know When to Hold Them
    The Excluded Middle
    Seven Foot Barbie
    Fanatics
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!
    Limited Unlimited Truth
    Leading From the Rear
    Love and Rejection
    Antagonish
    Classical Motion
    One of Us
    Hardcore Commie Love
    Everybody Wants to Rule the World
    Anarchists
    Voter Denial
    Babylon Rising
    Building Walls
    Beautiful Words
    Suffrage
    Democracy
    Lynch Mobs
    Don’t Do The Crime
    Respect Kindness
    Common Sense
    Born Clowns
    Superstars!
    Pay It Forward Sucker!
    Questioning Answers
    Utterly Complete Scientific Nonsense
    Particle Man
    Objectively Subjective Objective Gibberish
    Rude Awakenings
    Comforting Bullshit
    Perfect Pratfall
    Bottomless Pit
    Unkind Bullshit
    Ooops!
    Simple-Minded Ignorant Fools
    Educated Tin Men
    Semantic Hairs
    Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters Deja Vu Amongst the Stars
    Ignorant Experts
    Cranky!
    Best Friends
    Toddler Charm
    Spring into Action!
    Toys in the Attic
    New Destinations
    Photons Sparkle Like Immortal Ugly Ducklings
    Salivating Liquid Crystallized Humble Pie
    Sensational Bullshit
    World of Confusion
    Continuous Bullshit
    Astute Agnostic Assholes
    Never Pushy
    Mindless Habits
    Morality for Love!
    Political Clowns
    Patriotic Rotten Tomatoes
    Gullible Fools
    Easily Amused
    Bullshit Trajectories
    Natural Born Clowns
    Humorous Crap
    Wannabe Standup
    Absurd Bullshit
    Silent But Deadly!
    Perfect Timing
    Oddly Absurdly Neutral Agnostic Attraction
    Bullshit Artists
    Vigilant Sarcasm
    Zombie Mockery
    Zombie Trolls
    Ignorant Agnostics
    Bullshit Management
    Important Crap
    Attracting Flies
    Obnoxious Bastards
    Shit Happens!
    Pointless Personal Bullshit
    Mean Fairytale Bullies
    Stupid Bullshit
    Humble Acceptance
    Ignorant Jokes
    Great Behinds
    Personal Fiber
    Overblown Egos
    Heavy Crap
    Unsatisfying Crap
    Outhouse
    Nothing Left Undone
    Toddling Along
    Ignoble Right Up to the End!
    Silly Seasons
    Gagging!
    Sadistic Memes
    Refined Shit
    Humpty Dumpty
    Wild and Crazy Guy!
    Enchanting Clowns
    Amazing Bullshit Artists!
    Nasty Bullshit!
    Bullshit Logic
    Bite Me!
    Happy Sappy!
    Lame Bullshit
    Silly Giggles
    Resistance is Futile
    Never Do That Again!
    Avoid the Meaner Shit!
    Avoid Gloating
    Starving Zombies
    Obnoxious Clowns
    Compassionate Clowns
    Witless Zingers
    Nobody Home
    Miserable Wannabe Comedy!
    Suck it Up!
    Fuck Off!
    The Art of Denial
    Asshole Regrets!
    Smooth Cuties
    Asshole Validation
    Blind Prophets
    Quantum Perturbations?
    Quantized Ugly Ducklings
    Priceless Comedy
    Castaways
    Adrift
    Burning Down the House!
    We Be Too Tired To Work!
    Still Waiting on Moses
    Knowing Only the Light
    Embracing Loving Words
    Chain Reaction
    The Greatest of Works
    Breathing New Life into Everything
    I may add another ten poems, but that's pretty much all the rudimentary analog logic required to describe nature as reflecting our own mortal fallibility, the collective unconscious, and yin-yang dynamics. Note that perhaps half a dozen of these are virtually the original lyrics to songs, perhaps another dozen contain significant portions of songs, and the only issue in our poetry is whether the words are popular and commonly used. I could add quite a few more popular songs, but limited them so as not to add any more poems than were actually required for the book. The songs I chose were all better than anything I thought I could write myself, or as good as I could possible do myself.
     
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