I despair at the plastic people – all those girls with their pouty lips, eyebrows and plastic faces like Barbie girls! So sad!
Plastic People – Frank Zappa
Meet The Clones
Meet The Clones
Meet the clones,
The mindless majority,
Those who have lost their minds.
Meet the zombies,
Who follow orders,
Without a thought.
Meet the termites
Supporting their leader
Selflessly giving their lives.
Study the machine
That feeds the fake news;
Dispenses propaganda.
See the system
That uses brutality
To impose its lies.
Meet the elite
Who prosper from
Exploitation and control.
Opher – 3.3.2022
Not enough people question what they are told. They follow like sheep and allow themselves to be controlled and manipulated.
Without the mindless zombies of security forces no tyrant can hold on to control. Their armies, torture chambers and secret police kill and brutalise without question. They are like termites feeding their queen.
So Putin orders his zombies into the Ukraine and they do what they are told. They kill for a lie.
Poetry – The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness
We’re all busy consuming.
It’s what we’re taught to do.
Buying and throwing away
Is the nation’s glue.
We’re using up the planet.
Making lots of people rich.
Destroying the thing we love.
Ain’t life a bitch?
The pursuit of happiness
Is to be found in ownership.
The more you have the more you are
All that matters is blue chip.
Some have much and some have none.
That’s the way it has to be.
We’re living the life of luxury
In the land of the free.
What good is having everything
If everyone has it too?
If money doesn’t buy us happiness
What are we to do?
Opher – 28.3.2021
It seems to me that we have lost our way. We do not have lives full of meaning, wonder and adventure. We live in a world where the only things that matter are status and fame.
It’s so empty.