2.5224 : 8/22/19 : Shut Down (The Experiment: 59/100)

I'd pay a fair price

for a shut down switch

because the inner voice

is well a bitch

and I am shooting

for a higher plane

above the grumbling crowd

above the stain

and I'd extend it

to society

the other-hate

passing for piety

failing the switch

I guess we sigh and fight

nobody said it

would be easy to be right

what

2.4493 : 8/21/17 : Medac

Even in a

perfect enclosed society

might get sick

might get hurt

no fear

Collectivized and

medac bots

will make sure

you don't lose your shirt

you could call it

a necessity of meritocracy

who could excel

under such a burden

I'm getting vicious

message creep

in my fine

day dreaming

I never could manage

to suck the herd in

what

2.3245 : 3/22/14 : Lobby

Who do I hire to lobby

what's the coin

is there a society

I need to join

these barracudas

these greedy sharks

circling to take a

bite out of us marks

who do I hire to lobby

on my behalf

where to apply the influence

where to spread out the graft

do I pay up with silver

will 30 pieces do

or could I skip the lobby

take this one straight to you

what

2.3000 : 07/20/13 : Save the World

You say that I can't save the world

because I'm not special

and I'm not that smart

You say it's just a complex

I've got that makes

me even want to start

Sometimes I think it

doesn't really need it

but there's so much bad everywhere

sometimes I just don't know

why I even try to care

I pick away at my

own little corner

and I hope somebody's got perspective

And I admit inside I still

think that I could give it a go

but I know that I'm not really objective

101 Curious Professions 45: Messiah

what

2.2481 : 2/17/12 : Higher Things

What is the meaning of higher things
is there really anything to it
but society and its tangled strings
wisdom and folly flank
the gates I heard tell
but I didn't see a sign of
either one
and felt like it was just
as well
Maybe the web of strings
is big enough to pass
something like the wetware webs
our monkey skulls amass
critical density does
it mean a thing
besides and then a
miracle occurs
somewhere north of
the visible limit
where very line blurs

what

2.1867 : 6/13/10 : Black Out

At times I day dream of a blackout
that doesn't end
if you don't think it could happen
to this society friend
you must not be paying attention
or perhaps you just prefer
not to heed the ugly options
what's the point of raising a stir
soon the batteries would run out
Soon we couldn't pump our gas
Generators getting scarce
who knows what would come to pass
I think about it when the lights go
well it always turns out right
So I suppose I'm like the rest
think nothing to turn on the light

what

2.1182 : 7/28/08 : Switch

3,373 : 18 ?

I’d like to shut my own damn

brain off like a switch

why keep on thinking thinking

never scratch that itch

God society and energy

space mind and death

blow it all away like dust

blow it with a breath

what

2.1178 : 7/24/08 : Dead Letters

One letter after another

the paperless society the piles

just get higher

and as easy as it is to

make things disappear

I miss sending the dead letters

into the fire

still chasing the false sense

of accomplishment

clearing the in box out

checking the little boxes on

the great big list

was that really what it all

was supposed to be about

get me a shovel these

stables are stinking

get me a river to divert

wow how I’d love to

wash it all out

if only briefly conquer

all the muck and dirt

what

2.1096 : 5/3/08 : Chef

I am the chef in this kitchen

watch this bitch that I’m pitching

high cuisine high society

don’t try to gauge my piety

by what I don’t cook with

don’t give me that look with

what you think’s experience

What you rate as prurience

I’ll toss in the stewpot

say what else have you got

You think you will shock me

distract and cold cock me

with some of your sick twist

but when you see my list

You’ll know there’s no stopping

this menu I’m shopping

what