it doesn’t mean anything. but it says a lot.
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I’ve been reading more poetry lately (thank you, Multnomah County library!), so you’ll probably see more posts with poems that struck me. The following should be thought provoking for most of you…
What We Believe
Charles Harper Webb
Jesus was not the Son of God. He was a yogi
who tranced out on the cross– a fanatic like Jim
Jones or David Koresch, with better publicity.
President Kennedy was killed by the Cubans,
the Russians, the C.I.A.; Lee Harvey Oswald
was paid to take the fall. A group of evil
scientists created AIDS to wipe out Blacks,
dope addicts, homosexuals. Drug companies
quash cures to keep their profits high.
God is a Big Man with a white beard who sees us
when we’re sleeping, who knows when we’re awake.
There is no God; There’s just Physics, which couldn’t
care less if a sparrow falls. Ours is the greatest,
best-governed country in the world, and needs
a top-to-bottom overhaul. Rodney King was high
on angel dust when the cops beat him.
He’d learned, in jail, a way to leap up
from the ground and break a cop’s neck instantly.
O.J. Simpson was framed by the L.A.P.D.
Laws are made to keep the powerful that way.
Religions are all superstition except ours.
Democracies and dictatorships, coups and counter-
coups are smoke-screens. Corporations rule.
The letters in our names control our lives.
A New Mexico army base hides the remains
of crashed space aliens. They have large heads,
small bodies, glowing eyes. They’re linked
to human evolution, ancient Egypt, the Flood,
Easter Island, Incas, Aztecs, Mayans, and the Deficit.
Their ship is made of silvery metal impervious
to any force on earth. They want either to save us
from ourselves, or to destroy us utterly.
Everything worked better in the Golden Age.
Ha - that’s great! Thanks for sharing it. I’m an avid reader. I read everything, but I hardly read any poetry! This makes me feel rather guilty, and I’ve been thinking I should get into it.