tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227178632024-03-17T23:02:56.652-04:00The Wednesday @ 22h00 Show#WathUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-63586741675631583362024-01-19T23:30:00.003-05:002024-01-19T23:30:36.351-05:00Still HereMy god, it's been so long,<br>
This doesn't even count,<br>
I'm only feeling guilty about life,<br>
More than I can recount,<br><br>
I do it so I don't get anywhere,<br>
It's more than I deserve,<br>
At least that's the only thing I can say,<br>
So's as not to admit I'd lost my nerve,<br><br>
Of course that thinking is behind me now,<br>
I have no time to lose,<br>
That is the reality I must live<br>
According to the news.<br>
<blockquote>Know what I mean?<br>
The conundrum of it,<br>
The fact is it could all be meaningless,<br>
You guffaw, but it can't be refuted.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-62206181821163400572023-11-04T10:33:00.003-04:002023-11-04T10:33:38.889-04:00Ode to SurvivorI am on Survivor,<br>
So is everyone,<br>
Not in a superfan obsession way.<br>
But all my relations,<br><br>
Where they fit in the ultimate final,<br>
Where only one is left,<br>
Not in some weird 'there must be just one' way,<br>
But in all of our own personal quest,<br><br>
Finding yourself and what makes you the best,<br>
At what it is you do,<br>
Not at the expense of anyone else,<br>
But as relates to you,<br>
<blockquote>When the tribe speaks,<br>
You will get all the votes,<br>
Not from the tribe that's made of your rivals,<br>
But from the jury who've all worn your coat.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-64721847009495813662023-11-03T09:08:00.003-04:002023-11-03T09:08:47.388-04:00When a Tree Falls in the ForestWhy has it been so long?<br>
Who says that it has been?<br>
You think just because I'm not posting here,<br>
No output if unseen?<br><br>
No more questions, I'm sounding aggressive,<br>
Though, why the hell can't I?<br>
Should not one's output tell you all of them,<br>
From grand epiphanies to petty crimes?<br><br>
Enough questions, let's get to the real point,<br>
Or do you think there's none?<br>
I can't imagine saying anything,<br>
Without some intention.<br>
<blockquote>What do you think?<br>
Sorry, I just stepped out,<br>
If you said something, you did not say it,<br>
For I didn't hear what it was about.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-74879284544227695212023-10-11T06:47:00.000-04:002023-10-11T06:47:11.332-04:00The Two SwordsThere are times in this world,<br>
For pure satisfaction,<br>
Embrace the moment like that's all there is,<br>
To spur 'magination,<br><br>
Then there are times to view the horizon,<br>
Imagine yourself there,<br>
Chart out the best route methodically,<br>
For fortune does not come out of thin air,<br><br>
just like there is no overnight success,<br>
Without lots of hard toil,<br>
If I'd figured that out decades ago...<br>
Well, regret's the sole's soil,<br>
<blockquote>Back to the world,<br>
That is the horizon,<br>
Let bliss be the north star that guides your way,<br>
Just do the work to maintain your motion.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-78795617659948901362023-09-10T12:20:00.007-04:002023-09-10T12:20:52.518-04:00The Universal SurveyIf you asked a question,<br>
Of ev'ryone you know,<br>
Individually, without sharing,<br>
Where other answers go,<br><br>
What question would it need to be to have,<br>
All answers in common?<br>
"Do you want peace?", "Do you have what you want?",<br>
"Is there a difference between humans?",<br><br>
"Do you want ev'ryone to be the same?",<br>
"Can you and I be friends?",<br>
"Do you think we have the communal will,<br>
"To bring war to an end?"<br>
<blockquote>What about me?<br>
Yes, no, no, no, yes, no,<br>
I guess if you're reading this it's a start,<br>
Try sending it to ev'ryone you know.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-63219373489034581252023-09-04T10:10:00.002-04:002023-09-04T10:10:15.528-04:00A MeditationSome things should not be said,<br>
They should be done, instead,<br>
The very act of putting words to them,<br>
Leaves the intention dead,<br><br>
You want an example, I can't give one,<br>
For the exact reason,<br>
Just know that as you are consuming this,<br>
It's only possible through my action,<br><br>
How long it took you are welcome to guess,<br>
Let your mind do the rest,<br>
Extract the meaning only you can find,<br>
Or what's left out, at best,<br>
<blockquote>Now off you go,<br>
I mean no disrespect,<br>
If you give me some benefit of doubt,<br>
You may find my expression is perfect.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-17292989399569615212023-07-23T18:25:00.004-04:002023-07-23T18:25:45.411-04:00A DownerTwo plus two equals four,<br>
Five times three is fifteen,<br>
Add them together and then you can drink,<br>
Except in Tamuning,<br><br>
Plus other places owned by the U.S.,<br>
But you can buy a gun,<br>
This ain't a critique of America,<br>
I've not the stomach for revolution,<br><br>
To tell the truth, I'm not even from there,<br>
But, oh boy, I'd be screwed,<br>
If that empire actually died,<br>
I bet that you'd be, too,<br>
<blockquote>But there are those,<br>
Who'd welcome its demise,<br>
Unless it meant nuclear holocaust,<br>
I don't have enough lines to make this nice.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-57939565334466676862023-07-21T20:53:00.006-04:002023-07-21T21:06:16.106-04:00Here’s The ProblemIt's best we all hustle,<br>
If we want to survive,<br>
Make sure that we all know every angle,<br>
To keep ourselves alive,<br><br>
Understanding what will help or hurt us,<br>
Given any human,<br>
Not forgetting that we all are equal,<br>
To hustle you do not have to be mean,<br><br>
Just like CEOs don't have to either,<br>
Nor does your jealous friend,<br>
We know that if everyone was just nice,<br>
All world conflict would end,<br>
<blockquote>That's de facto,<br>
You cannot pretend,<br>
That government would even be a thing,<br>
If we all just had the best intentions.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-51937749294914919332023-07-20T09:00:00.007-04:002023-07-20T09:00:54.146-04:00Stop ReadingHere's the thing about faith,<br>
In a god or in you,<br>
Assuming there's a diff'rence between them,<br>
That's not in my purview,<br><br>
In either case you are taking a leap,<br>
Without a guarantee,<br>
That instead of you being rewarded,<br>
When you land you won't crush your hopes and dreams,<br><br>
The alternative's familiar to all,<br>
You're doing it right now,<br>
Not that reading is a big waste of time,<br>
But we know it's not how,<br>
<blockquote>To make a life,<br>
'Least that's what my dad said,<br>
He was always fearful of what I'd learn,<br>
Absorbing the thoughts from another's head.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-21716809972823864912023-07-16T11:43:00.001-04:002023-07-16T11:43:03.974-04:00Where's My PlaceWhy've I not been writing?<br>
I'll tell you what it is,<br>
I have been struggling with what use I am,<br>
Midst the circumstances,<br><br>
Surrounding climate, war, and, yes, my skin,<br>
Shouldn't I keep quiet,<br>
Let those speak with more of it in the game,<br>
Maybe they can fix the broke my kind lit,<br><br>
Then again what happens if they do not,<br>
But turn the tables 'round,<br>
Take what should have been their rights from the start,<br>
Eye for eye, pound for pound?<br>
<blockquote>Or should my voice,<br>
Quiet down just enough,<br>
'Til there's room for everyone equally?<br>
I am afraid, these days, I'm not that tough.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-68500969090843358682023-07-09T07:52:00.001-04:002023-07-09T07:52:02.864-04:00Losing My ReligionOh, here we go again,<br>
Depressed for no reason,<br>
Except for all those actions I repressed,<br>
For ethical questions,<br><br>
Which is the reason for all religion,<br>
Speaking of which, I've none,<br>
Except for my faith in the universe,<br>
Instilled by my catholic reformed mom,<br><br>
Still, a faith that is tenuous at best,<br>
But don't tell uni that,<br>
I have my slips in those moments of fear,<br>
My life is not exact-<br>
<blockquote>-ly what I want,<br>
Still, what does it owe me?<br>
Perhaps if I became an orthodox,<br>
I'd be free of responsibility.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-46365590502679427792023-07-02T08:21:00.004-04:002023-07-02T08:27:53.956-04:00Three Rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court<div>Who cares who someone loves?</div>
What, I'm oblivious?<br />
There are people with truth others don't have,<br />
Afraid of god's justice?<br /><br />
What about those who can't afford college,<br />
But still need a degree,<br />
Else they can't get a job to pay school debt,<br />
Which is like a glitch in an R.P.G.?<br /><br />
If they can get into college at all,<br />
Depending on their skin,<br />
For now there's no protection from racists-<br />
I mean, from the system.<br />
<blockquote>But who am I?<br />
Just another white dude,<br />
Feeling nervous writing this down,<br />
Lest my own opinions get me eschewed.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-40894115205419206792023-06-25T08:30:00.002-04:002023-06-25T08:30:29.726-04:00The Mind's ISometimes I get anxious,<br>
What's my mind telling me,<br>
Is there is something I am not getting,<br>
That I am missing,<br><br>
It doesn't matter if I never know,<br>
It doesn't expect that,<br>
I just have to try to align myself,<br>
With how it's advising me to act,<br><br>
Which it don't do with any words, per se,<br>
Think more telepathy,<br>
If I had a mind of my own plus it,<br>
And I just let it free,<br>
<blockquote>That is scary,<br>
To have faith in your gut,<br>
And your ability to figure out,<br>
The best course to take when you're in a rut.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-65115152921275834672023-06-22T08:26:00.005-04:002023-06-22T08:28:01.787-04:00To The AltruisticHow do you navigate,<br>
Through this sea of people,<br>
All of whom are seeking their own rewards,<br>
From priveleged to feable?<br><br>
From those who appear they have all they need,<br>
Whether they're rich or poor,<br>
The chronically unlucky to the blessed,<br>
Most believe that they are deserving more,<br><br>
It's like macro and micro, yin and yang,<br>
Rowdy Piper and Hulk,<br>
Asked to apportion your wealth to the world,<br>
We would all keep the bulk.<br>
<blockquote>You disagree?<br>
You're diff´rent from Bill Gates?<br>
I like to think about me that way, too-<br>
Oops, gotta get to work or I´ll be late!</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-82796997428896702652023-06-18T17:19:00.006-04:002023-06-18T17:19:54.099-04:00Happy Father's Day!Yes, it is father's day,<br>
You can do what you want,<br>
Don't know who set it up or what they meant,<br>
Don't think they questioned Kant,<br><br>
For there was no imperative for this,<br>
But I'll take what I can,<br>
A time for self-reflection's never bad,<br>
Unless you realize you're one dimension,<br><br>
But I can't say I have any regrets,<br>
Or else, someone might hear,<br>
J.K., if I had to do all again,<br>
I'd without any fear,<br>
<blockquote>For all is good,<br>
Fact, better than ever,<br>
If one tweak to my life might change today,<br>
I would stop you from touching the lever.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-75928222207538212462023-06-17T21:50:00.002-04:002023-06-17T21:50:07.691-04:00The Safe RouteSometimes I remember,<br>
And sometimes I forget,<br>
When I let myself be carried away,<br>
It is the best time, yet,<br><br>
One serendipidous thing after next,<br>
Starts happening to me,<br>
With no foreseeable end, if I want,<br>
Still, fear keeps me away from ecstacy,<br><br>
For it might be the case that faith in life's,<br>
Rewarded with success,<br>
A theory that must be proved constantly,<br>
Until you're left with less,<br>
<blockquote>Or maybe more,<br>
But is it worth the risk?<br>
Safely balance on a low-strung tightrope,<br>
Happy never to experience bliss.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-42382595626108892932023-06-06T08:02:00.005-04:002023-07-03T19:47:45.346-04:00What Are We Striving For?Now I'm reading Bostrom,<br />
Superintelligence,<br />
I am past the history of A.I.,<br />
Or it's non-existence,<br /><br />
So far it appears there is a threshold,<br />
That must be overcome,<br />
The capacity to learn and discern,<br />
To reach superhuman computation,<br /><br />
Which we may not have the computers for,<br />
If we even knew how,<br />
The brain's configured to make what we've made,<br />
To get where we're at now,<br />
<blockquote>If that's the goal,<br />
What have we done so far,<br />
With th'intelligence we're trying to Ape,<br />
Feels like we may be aiming for sub-par.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-21809812972300694492023-06-01T21:55:00.003-04:002023-06-01T21:56:00.585-04:00While I WaitI'm barely connected,<br>
Almost forgot this line,<br>
These days if I can't write my train of thought,<br>
I'm sounding like I whine,<br><br>
When, let's be honest, that's all that I do,<br>
Then say something like this,<br>
"Oh boy, I didn't know I'd have this chance,<br>
To show you that I am conscientious,<br><br>
Of, let's be honest, that's all that I do,<br>
P'haps I should have said this,<br>
"I'm being silly, but it's hard to tell,<br>
Without context, unless,<br>
<blockquote>You've read other,<br>
Opinions just like this,"<br>
But I didn't and I have lost the train,<br>
Which, let's face it, should have been hard to miss."</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-75581804410451171402023-05-28T08:02:00.006-04:002023-06-01T22:13:30.019-04:00The Need for the Debt CeilingWish someone could tell me,<br>
What the debt ceiling means,<br>
Other than an arbitrary number,<br>
From nineteen seventeen,<br><br>
When printing a dollar meant there was gold,<br>
Ready to back it up,<br>
That rule came and went a few times since then,<br>
But not since the ceiling debt did erupt<br><br>
Debt in the first place is only as strong,<br>
As the dollar remains,<br>
The U.S. gold vault could be filled with moths,<br>
Still, backed by fighter planes.<br>
<blockquote>What is my point?<br>
Maybe there isn't one,<br>
Either things are exactly as they seem,<br>
Or bound only by imagination.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-13417947216890377902023-05-19T07:05:00.000-04:002023-05-19T07:05:01.306-04:00I'm Not ComplainingAs summer looms closer,<br>
Along with my last breath,<br>
Like so many other middle-class men,<br>
I am grappling with death,<br><br>
When I should be telling myself instead,<br>
'You are not middle class',<br>
Maybe your parents clawed their way to it,<br>
But the world has changed and it's missed your grasp,<br><br>
You will find out in the coming summers,<br>
And the climbing degrees,<br>
Even those who are now legit ok,<br>
No value in money,<br>
<blockquote>Except for those,<br>
With so much, it's like air,<br>
They breathe it in, inside protective domes,<br>
Then scoff at those who say the world's not fair.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-68842455250591151062023-05-17T07:02:00.003-04:002023-05-17T07:02:23.733-04:00Why A.I. Should Be RegulatedLet's talk about A.I.,<br>
It is not writing this,<br>
Or has it read ev'ry one of my Waths,<br>
And said, 'they'll think it's his"?<br><br>
No, I am not going to get meta,<br>
I have too much to say,<br>
The question is could it follow my thoughts,<br>
Then tell me what I'll be thinking one day?<br><br>
Help me find the path most satisfying,<br>
Based on my hopes and fears,<br>
I'd be uploading it my brain right now,<br>
If it could erase tears,<br>
<blockquote>Then find my bliss,<br>
Don't tell the government,<br>
There's only room for one system 'round here,<br>
And, boy, universal wealth isn't it.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-31859933925497679802023-05-07T07:42:00.007-04:002023-05-12T21:14:51.101-04:00Control Your Loved OnesWhat's making you upset,<br />
About where your life's at,<br />
The loneliness from loved ones who decide,<br />
They will unhang their hat,<br /><br />
Walk out the door and explore a new road,<br />
That will not pass by you,<br />
Should not be channelled at those not so hurt,<br />
Who enjoy the status you feel you're due,<br /><br />
Instead try being happy they're happy,<br />
Okay, that is a lot,<br />
Especially, if you had it your way,<br />
They'd not get what they sought,<br />
<blockquote>Which is freedom,<br />
To do just as they please,<br />
Why can't they see your chosen path for them,<br />
Would make you, who they should love, the most pleased?</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-76520243129167720792023-05-05T21:34:00.009-04:002023-05-12T21:20:53.596-04:00You Can Live ForeverAs we all get older,<br />
Like in the last second,<br />
Not the one that you passed before you read this,<br />
The one 'round the next bend,<br /><br />
Which if we always keep it in its place,<br />
Will, yes, never arrive,<br />
I tell you it is as easy as that,<br />
The caveat's you keep yourself alive<br /><br />
Otherwise the whole system falls apart,<br />
Then you will never see,<br />
An eternity in which you become,<br />
All the things you can be,<br />
<blockquote>That's ev'rything,<br />
Of course, it's not just time,<br />
This all assumes you'll try to do something,<br />Not just sit on your ass and wait to die</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-28001067694487902002023-05-04T19:33:00.003-04:002023-05-05T21:35:35.362-04:00Game TwoIt has been quite a day,<br />
And the days in between,<br />
Sometimes I wonder if a normal life's,<br />
Anything someone's seen,<br /><br />
Or if it's worth it even having one,<br />
Given the time we've got,<br />
Think of those you know having a good time,<br />
I bet you'd trade them for your sorry lot,<br /><br />
No offence, I'm sure you have got it made,<br />
Nice house, a job, and phone,<br />
I hope coworkers give you accolades,<br />
Then you get more at home,<br />
<blockquote>You deserve it,<br />
You have made it this far,<br />
Trying to concentrate as you write this,<br />
Killing time inside of a loud sports bar.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22717863.post-41319712086887192632023-04-21T23:54:00.013-04:002023-05-12T21:23:13.054-04:00They're Not Listening!Who the hell uses Edge,<br />
Mine just had to restart,<br />
Just as I began this Wath about it.<br />
Maybe it has a heart,<br /><br />
Along with the brain that is running Bing,<br />
Though I've seen no smarts, yet,<br />
Either A.I.'s merely a fantasy,<br />
'r'intelligences not that magnificent,<br /><br />
At least compared to my own aptitude.<br />
I'm sorry, is that vain?<br />
Or is it a comment on Microsoft,<br />
Vain, 'case Bill's listening.<br />
<blockquote>I'm sure he's not!<br />
Nor is Steve from the grave,<br />
If I ne'er get out of this life alive,<br />
These words are proof that the pen cannot save.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0