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MUCH NEEDED AMERICAN RANT:

There are no books
that you can't read online

My father e-mails me

I am bombarded with commercials for things I do not need

This country is so wealthy that we advertise for things we do not need
like a four magic bullet set, dog-sweaters, pill cutters, flavored water, and
wars in the desert over oil.

We have a bumbling uneducated President with a "think tank" whose ideas get progressively more abominable by the second.

We have hungry, homeless, lazy, governmentally dependent citizens who choose to not know, not vote, not learn, not try, and only enforce randomized blame and then expect reparations for things in history they have never studied.

My knight in rusted armor

with a broken sword and untouched courage

a broken connection

survives everyday through memory

struggles to exist on the surface

I do not want tears to be flooding my eyes

when I look back
on my life
and my loves

What bluff have I fallen from?

I used to be able to fly
no matter where I fell
I have squandered my talents
buried them in shame
and visit them everyday bringing tears and roses soaked in regrets

I wish my waking life
were my dreams.
Then that tornado would just
take it all away
and I would have to admit I can't save anyone
not even myself.

I used to trust my ground
I step test it now
make sure it will not break beneath me
and force me to swim in the crust of the Earth

I find sunlight no where
not even on the surface of the sun
My elation is absent
My struggle is king

Everythin is so non-sensical
and extinguished. Cemented over by
this driving need for a million products this country doesn't need.