A little less depressing

I'm tired
of coffee-shop messiahs
telling me what an awful person I am. I'm

tired
of hearing the names of Third World countries
rattled off in slow,
laundry list
monotony--
one
two
three--
so I can tally all the people
who have it worse than me. I'm

even more tired
of that one special case,
whatever special case it is--
pick your country off the wheel
of poverty and join the cause of the hour.

I'm tired of trendy salvation.

Tired of
the official, Oprah Winfrey edition, one-hundred-percent-recycled-material pamphlets
covered in fair-trade coffee stains
being waved two inches from my face

while some girl who's never known hunger
tells me what utter dog**** I am.

She's right about one thing:
I don't know true desolation. But I'm

tired
of cookie-cutter, save-the-whales royalty
who think desolation smells
like the library on a saturday night.

Desolation smells
like burning flesh and **** you.

It sounds like sand and blood,

and tastes like ashes.

You may not yet be old enough to agree with this, but:

If you're under 25, and you're not a ravin' Lefty, you are not listening to your heart.

If you have reached the age of 40 without becoming a whole lot more conservative, then you are not listening to your brain!

Both views are important. Neither is absolute. Humanity is a widespread range of values.

Choose.

Originally Posted by: LordathestringsYou may not yet be old enough to agree with this, but:

If you're under 25, and you're not a ravin' Lefty, you are not listening to your heart.

If you have reached the age of 40 without becoming a whole lot more conservative, then you are not listening to your brain!

Both views are important. Neither is absolute. Humanity is a widespread range of values.

Choose.

Awesome, LORD - really couldn't have put it any where near that good!! :eek:

Jolly, think about it...the passage is very powerful however! Hats off to you.

Originally Posted by: LordathestringsYou may not yet be old enough to agree with this, but:

If you're under 25, and you're not a ravin' Lefty, you are not listening to your heart.

If you have reached the age of 40 without becoming a whole lot more conservative, then you are not listening to your brain!

Both views are important. Neither is absolute. Humanity is a widespread range of values.

Choose.

Well put, LATS! Didn't Churchill say something along those lines as well?

And Jolly, great poem, once again.

Originally Posted by: jiujitsu_jesusWell put, LATS! Didn't Churchill say something along those lines as well?

And Jolly, great poem, once again.

Yeah, Churchill did say that. And he was right. I am much more conservative now than I was twenty years ago. But there's still some Lefty in there. And Jolly, another terrific piece. I'm awed by what you can do.

Lewis black..I mean Jolly, I agree.

Good stuff once again, my friend. My favourite parts were as follows:

"Desolation smells
like burning flesh and **** you."

"It sounds like sand and blood"

"cookie-cutter, save-the-whales royalty"