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Strange Days, Indeed (Other) by Bachus
Strange Days Indeed;
Magazines, commercials, vacations, infomercials,
credit card -- saviors, flashing electronic billboards
flickering in every corner, America⦠Almost buddy,
try the better half of the cultures -- on this planet.
Here's a thought, currently on the planet
Earth not only can you  still find indigenous tribes
4 feet tall that are half nude, live to only their mid
40's, and hunt monkeys with blow guns, but also;
Less than a hour flight away, individuals that
make 500 billion dollars extorting the hell out
of every possible thing nailed down, or not,
from a cell phone, or laptop. Now thatâs some
serious evilution. Perhaps Darwin did have a
touch of the Devil in him after all for defining
such a prospect? How's that for separation of
church and state? Do we even need wonder
why Bigfoot has been in hiding?
With so many things to be deathly afraid of
yet seductively enticed by, it would be a lie
to say some 'thing' wasn't happening, and
happening quickly to our world. Do you realize
we were still riding horses, and other pack
animals as transportation up until 90 Years ago,
HELLO!? Now we're shooting rockets to Mars?
Did I miss something? Did I fall asleep at the
wheel? Is my Tasty beverage spiked with
peyote buttons? The laws of Physics state
every action has a reaction, but some how
I can't find the original action of this
phenomena for the life of me, or can I?
Okay, so let me get this straight. We are
flying around in propeller planes and then all
of a sudden, after World War II, Tada, the jet
engine, and mach 1? What the F%#@! was that?
Alright, I guess Iâll Try to pretend WE REALLY
DIDN'T find anything at Roswell, New Mexico.
No aliens, no ship, nah, couldnât have been.
Why would we ever want to study alien
engineering? We're the nice guys, we're the
good guys, weâre America. We wouldn't
sell that information to other countries that
would in turn use those same weapons against
us, would we? Look their goes a monkey, get
it with the blow gun we borrowed from those
Indians we 'accidentally' Small-Poxed into
oblivion! If we wing it, we can sell it to a
zoo or just stuff it as a trophy.
Oh, here comes my Architectural Digest in
the mail. I bet I can find some guy with more
money than the entire population of Haiti
(If there even is a Haiti in a year)
building some remarkable declaration of
sublime aristocracy. Yes, here's one now,
Sir Bingo Gar, it says here Sir Bingo
(recently knighted by the queen of Whateverland)
plans to build himself the biggest castle ever
seen on the smallest Island he can afford.
It's going to cost 100 million, and is
being furnished by Martha Stewart herself
from a satellite phone from her prison cell.
Yippy, and we all get the supreme privilege
of witnessing it with him, vicariously,
Isn't that the cat's widest meow to date?
On tv this week? Absolutely everything you'd
never want to watch: Priests that bugger bugs,
children the fiddle priests, Jesus reflected
off of a donut glaze in Prague, a new electric
car that kills you before on coming traffic can,
and a new dating Show were everyone finally whip
out machine guns and get the love F%$#@$# over
with first. Before boring us to death with current
events from their home towns of Asshat, Idaho,
and Lapsnorkle, Wyoming (Where the president
goes to get his ten gallon boots and hats). On
the radio more of the same. On the internet,
ditto, but with extra tit pills and penis pumps.
Henry David Thoreau, and Monty Python were
right to âRun away, run awayâ, but once Osama's
caught? There will be no safe place left to run
to, and we will be forced to build rockets of our
own, in our garages and basements, secretly.
In fact, I purpose bomb shelters are a thing of
the past. But Solar powered solo rocket ships?
The next step in being fashionably brave yet hip
and politically aware. Now, If we could only find
a way to get some insurance on them, we'd be
in business. Until then, one can still always
pray that somehow GOD is in control. Look,
I mean if G.W. Bush has enough faith in him,
along with two third of our country's Christians,
things can only get better in Jesus?
I'm sure I'm just over-reacting, crazy, or
being paranoid. What's the worst that could
happen, besides the end of life on this planet
as we've barely come to know it?
A few more Nukes sold here, and there.
A couple more high altitude stealth bombers,
and we should all be about as snug as some bugs
in a rug. I don't Know about you, but the middle
of no where is starting to look highly appealing.
Head shrinkers or not, I'm about to take my
chances 'way' out 'there' with the Indians.
At least until they discover Tide with Bleach
and a million different ways to cook a fish
in under 15 minutes.
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