Art and Music

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Art and Music

Art and music

Dance and poems.

Death and agony,

Prayer and omens.

Dispensing justice

Arbitrary pain.

Extracting a price

For every gain.

Maladjusted monkeys,

Psychotic apes,

Believing they’re superior

Reality gapes.

Dressed in gladrags

Sipping beer,

Pretending sophistication

While despising the queer.

Welling in confusion;

A jigsaw of mad;

Good and bad – black and white,

No sanity to be had.

We create. We destroy.

We elect the very worst.

We wander. We love.

But all we do is cursed!

Opher – 27.12.2024

Once again I am struck by the dichotomy of our nature. We are capable of great love, wisdom and creativity yet spend our time in destructive viciousness.

We make high art, ballet and write astounding novels them bomb babies and slaughter the wildlife.

We are demented, psychotic apes with brains too unstable. Our intelligence is our greatest strength and our biggest weakness.

I suspect it will lead to our downfall.

Weird Stuff!!

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I am weird. There’s no doubt about it!

I am a bag of chemicals, suffused with electricity, that thinks and is aware of itself; that can move around, see, feel and hear and is aware of his own precarious state.

I live in a vast vacuum so big that it has no boundaries. It never began and it will never end. There are zillions of lumps of rock and clouds of gasses in this vacuum. They came from nothing. They are going nowhere. They spin around in this vacuum trillions of miles away from each other. We see them as specks of light or mysterious glowing orbs. We’ve often worshipped these rocks.

I ‘live’ on one of these rocks. It is hurtling through the vacuum at incredible speeds – hundreds of thousands of miles per hour – in a complex spiral imposed on a spiral, yet I appear to be standing still and everything is serene. How weird is that?

I share this rock with zillions of other bags of chemicals who are aware of themselves. Some are green, some are pink, some hairy, some scaly, some black, some brown and some very brightly coloured. All are as amazing as me. We all originated billions of years ago from one strange bag of chemicals and electricity.

One bunch of these bags of chemicals thinks it is superior to all the other bags. It has become psychotic and demented. Inflamed with greed and selfishness it has turned unpredictable and violent. It seems intent on destroying all the other bags of chemicals and the very rock we all survive on. It seems to believe it will live forever on some celestial rock in the sky with some super-bag of chemicals/electricity that it believes made the vacuum, the rocks and all the bags of chemicals.

Help!!

If there are other highly advanced bags of chemicals out there who are not psychotic and are capable of reaching out; please rescue me!

(PS – I extended this from a reply on Pooj’s blog.

Marooned

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Marooned

Marooned on a rock

                In the midst of an endless sea

With a bunch

                Of psychotic apes!

No help in sight!

Aggression and greed

                Fuelling a relentless feud

From which

                A dark chasm gapes!

No help in sight!

The whoop and wail,

                Fuss and fight,

Full of

                Macho belligerence!

No Help in sight!

Spawning destruction,

                Pain and death,

A recurrent

                Occurrence!

No Help in sight!

No hope of rescue

                Barbaric stain

The cavalry

                Are nowhere in sight!

No Help in sight!

The disease spreads

                Like a plague of scorpions,

A toxic

                Pernicious blight!

No Help in sight!

Opher – 4.5.2023

I seriously believe there is some great genetic flaw in human beings. It makes us irrational, aggressive, violent and dangerous.

We seem to enjoy fear, pain and cruelty.

We are plain nasty.

Sometimes I think I am alone, stranded in the midst of these deranged psychotic apes!

We Have War

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We Have War

We have love.

                We have art.

                                We have music,

Architecture,

                Literature

                                And dance.

We have war.

There’s the spirit.

                There’s the sea,

                                The sun

                                                And nature’s

                                                                Poetry.

There’s war.

We have life,

                Philosophy,

                                Wonder and awe,

                                                Guiding us

                                                                To what life’s for.

Then we have war.

Opher – 31.3.2022

Mankind is capable of great things yet while we have war it all counts for nothing.

There is violence, there is hatred and there is war.

War negates everything.

We build things up, nurture and create and war reduces it to nothing.

Death, rape, trauma and agony. War and violence is the greatest flaw in our nature. It feeds on greed and the lust for power.

Kill to Liberate

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Kill to Liberate

We come to liberate!

                But our brothers hate us!

Sent to save them;

                They abuse and bait us!

It’s not a war –

                A military manoeuvre!

Ridding neo-Nazis

                Could have gone smoother.

Ungrateful people

                Don’t want saving.

Call us fascists.

                Say we’re enslaving.

We’ve had to bomb them.

                Kill them, rape them!

That will teach them!

                We’ll liberate them!

Opher – 31.3.2022

Putin told us that this was merely a military manoeuvre to liberate the Ukrainian people from neo-Nazis enslavement.

He rapidly discovered that the Ukrainian people did not want ‘liberating’, indeed they saw the Russians as enslavers. The resistance was ferocious. The ungrateful population took up arms and fought the invaders off.

The Russian superpower proved to be impotent. They were killed by the thousand. Their tanks and planes were destroyed. The war rapidly turned into a disaster.

Frustrated, the Russians took to long-distance destruction of Ukrainian cities, to deliberately targeting women and children, to raping and killing.

Kill to liberate.

Kill to liberate.

War crimes galore!

To Kill is a State of Mind

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To Kill is a State of Mind

To kill

                Is a state of mind.

Pull that trigger.

                Fire that shell.

Send the enemy straight to hell!!

Hate the enemy!

                Justify the act!

They deserve it!

                That’s a fact!

Be heartless

                Callous

Empty and evil!

                But full of malice.

To kill

                Is a state of mind.

Pull that trigger.

                Fire that shell.

Send the enemy straight to hell!!

Opher – 31.3.2022

Are death and violence learned?

Do we learn to hate?

Do we demonise people who are different?

Are we capable of being better?