16,002. IT'S TOO DIFFICULT

IT'S TOO DIFFICULT

It's too difficult, getting through

this life on time, gauging the paring

confidentials of  both talk and time.

I walked through city streets with 

my tongue hanging out, sometimes

just hungry, sometimes just blind.

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I studied all those speeches and the

biblical cadences of more important

times  -  Lincoln's Second Inaugural

address was pretty perfect; MLK's

'I Have a Dream' speech too. They

weren't just words, they were pacings.

They sent the mind reeling a little 

more than did the modern day. 'Ask

not what your country can do for you,

 ask what you can do for your country.'

What the heck was that steering us to?

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The only thing the TV ever did was

set the streetcars reeling; turning the

towns and cities and people into mega

morons on the prowl. More to do and

less to do it with. If people ever saw the

realities behind the puppet-shows they

lived, we'd all be gone in a minute.

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It was too difficult  -  and still is  -  to

manufacture the self-deceptions that liars

live. It's just easier to take than to give.