having a designer doesn't put us at rest truth is not as important as good behavior

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. -Edward Gibbon

(1776)(Chapter II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines.—Part I. Second Paragraph)

                  fellow mercurians lend me your resumes  

took to practice

      busting match heads

with alice

we all want the same thing

friend to man

    the in group

tall to stand

three pages a day

and forty eight pages behind

               early morning

stamps

self addresses

the curls make smiles

         that make waves

upon a working man's things

time isn't up

    but it's filling the cup

and that is almost enough

         leaves leaf

   leath wreath

complete

when you play only longshots

         you will win big

                 just a matter of when

and the long in-betweens

the quintuple spaces

the lip line traces

      and the lack of motivation

to solve anything beyond

    laziness

and temporal concerns

      the heartbeat is learned

not fated

           or earned

like anything else

and unbeknownst to itself

here's one to your health    

                         your wealth

       in the end

you were a punchline

you were the fat man

you were a joke

            my curse against them

is that i believe you

       my curse against them

  is hope

don't know which one

of you was

   lying

and i don't care how much

            you stole

i give it to you for trying

                    here's what i know

the metal has a memory

it knows just the way you bent

           and it's waiting to go back

like you're waiting to go back

i knew the catch before i saw the movie

                   they told me 'rosebud' was the sled

i heard what it really meant

                     yeah

  i heard what it meant

did you run out of future did your future get used up did you run out of time                                                                      orson

 or just run out of luck

it was armistice day           opening day

i was sorry but we needed you   on the twenty third floor

and if they can't find you

 they can't hate you     anymore

or at least that was the plan

                 until the greatness of CAN

don't confuse success with love

and don't believe in luck

 it never did me any good

it is nothing but

       a slave-ish kind of worship

        your          government

   is        calling  it

faith based

          like that’s a good thing

roosevelt called upon god   god

all opposed

      stand

and nod

the real issue

              is the theft

of anything    that can be dollar signed

Photo by Charlie Waters