A Prayer Against Despair

O Lord, please protect me
From my own stupidity.

What On Earth

Our abuse of the earth will only destroy the world

Her inability to accommodate us, the world

Will not be her destruction, merely ours

The earth will eventually evict the world

Before we ever destroy her, keeping our deposit.

Our Other Selves

Others are blamed for everything.

If only they would…

If only they wouldn’t…

If only they did…

If only they didn’t...

To others we are the other.

Reality Check

 

Scowl and stare

Glare if you dare

The world doesn't care

Whether it's fair

 

Worth or Value at a Price

If money grew on trees
Eventually there'd be
No more public property

Self Distraction

People who can't stand to be alone

Can't stand to be with themselves

Materialism

When the going gets tough

The tough go shopping

Prophet And Loss

What does it profit a man

To try to gain the world and fail

And lose his soul

Communication Breakdown

If people speak

Only when spoken to

Who would speak first

Greatness Declared

A great nation does not deserve great art.

A great nation produces great art.

If a great nation does not produce great art

It does not deserve great art.

Nor is it a great nation.

The above is based on a public radio announcement I repeatedly hear. I found it odd that a great nation (meaning us) were not to create great art because we are great but rather we are entitled to great art because we are great. If we are great our art should be a sign of it. If we don’t have great art that should say something about our greatness. And the fact that we feel entitled to something we aren’t doing says even more.

And who decides what is great art? Maybe we have it and the people running the ad aren’t great enough to see it. If we are a great nation there should be great art out there already and these people need to come down from their ivory tower and find it instead of telling us we are entitled to what we don’t have when we in fact already have it. Or admit we don’t have it and then rethink what it means to be a great nation and whether or not we are one.