Smudge away the past
Start fresh, born again
Into the body you had yesterday
As the sage fills your nostrils
Your wrongs leave the body
Tomorrow you get another chance
Your friends won’t tickle your ears
So imagine the lion within
The dignified ruler of his pride
Provider protector discipliner
Love guides and love loves
Tenacious in litigation
Frugal and wealthy
Proximity to power
Ideas need influence
Rushed and guilty
Running’s not how
I measure myself
Feeling the love
Gone is the fear
Gonna dream big
Gonna get strong
The sky is my art
Words are my drugs
I breathe in some peace
I breathe out a song
Relax for a second
Another close call
Change the rules
Walk away
Prepare for the worst
Compassion
Is the burning through
Of bright sunshine
Piercing cloudy grey skies
The surprising warmth
You did not expect
And did not deserve
The smile in a sea of scowls
Why strive for more than average?
What’s wrong with the simple life?
Ignorance is bliss
Meager or eager?
What makes us reach for the stars?
Is it life’s greed for life
That we think we must strive?
Believe we can change, grow, rise above
With the strength of our will
Live one more day
In hope of a miracle
Why do the hearts of men
Relish beauty, fantasy,
And stories of the gods?
Do we miss being among them?
Or are they bedtime stories that keep us alive?
This peace I held today
So close to bliss
So far from fear
My bills paid
My stomach quiet
I could live and let live
When people felt
As random to me as the weather
Now on to unconquered territory:
Those I love.
Forget the media
And the lies they promote
Forget the weeds they plant in our heads
Forget the ads for so much trash
The rich are selling us a world we don’t want
Don’t buy it
Or meditate for a moment
On their storylines, hook, line, and sinker
We’re all suckers
For eating the garbage at the bottom of the lake
And we end up fat and ugly
When we should be alive and victorious
Everything is coming together
Even the scientists are finding
The interconnectedness
Of ailments, of energy
That’s why I love astrology
It’s all related so beautifully
You couldn’t make it up
The way a beating of wings
In China affects us here
Babel, it’s all babble
Until you zoom out
Plastic people
Glossy retouch
Andro sprinter
Bulging biceps
Crest whitestrip
Invisalign
Break your bones
And grow them longer
Ultra tan
Ultra thin
Maybe money
Maybe fame
Mostly just
A cryin’ shame
Balloons and cookies
Frosting in pastel
A big white cake
Cute little hat
Blue flower placemat
Pinwheel spinning
Blow leisurely
Head rests on folded arms
Car insurance is needed because cars often cause expensive property damage, and sometimes expensive bodily damage. If you don’t want to pay for car insurance, you can take a risk that you won’t get in an accident, or you can sell your car. You can pay a fine if you get caught without car insurance.
Health insurance protects us from getting sick. This is more complicated. A person may be born sick, or have greater risk of getting sick due to genetics, age, exposure to pathogens or carcinogens, income level influencing food choice and sanitation, or simply from making poor choices or forming terrible habits or addictions.
There is life insurance, home owner’s insurance, gap insurance, even wage insurance and debt insurance.
How about crime insurance? Some people are more prone to commit crimes than others. From parking tickets to homocide, wouldn’t this be an interesting idea? Perhaps we would care more about prevention and healthy living if we all paid into a crime insurance pool.
Like George Carlin said, "These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools."