I am a person- Anonymous

I am a person.

I am not a can.

I am not a box.

I am not a hair product.

Please do not label me.

I am a person.

I am not an essay.

I am not a performer.

I am not a cold case.

Please do not judge me.

I am a person.

I am not a terrorist.

I am not a dictator.

I am not a religious rival.

Please do not hate me.

Rest In Peace

She presses her cold hand over the mouth of our small suburban town.

Leeches flood the streets, whispering lies into our ear.

Drugs, they claim.

Depression, they claim.

But our eyes will never see reason.

Our hands will never hold the pure, blatant truth.

For our weak noses can only detect blood.

Nothing much greater.

Nothing much at all.

And we puzzle, and lower our flags.

Here in this town.

They Always Will by Morgan Bekker

Take their own body,

A softer pill

Manipulate others:

Know the skill

They did

They do

They always will

Hold hands on the rooftop,

Climb a hill

Any trespassers:

Be sure to kill

They did

They do

They always will

Hold each other tight now,

Two roles to fill

Leave truth behind

To pay the bill

They did

They do

They always will

Peace

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

-Albert Einstein

Politics

"You lie!"

-Joe Wilson, Republican South Carolina Rep.

Today's words of advice; when all else fails, sit down and think of a really good idea.

-Anonymous

Another quote

-A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

The Bottom of Everything by The Bright Eyes

We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books we have read
And to the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare.

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing.

And it'll go like this, alright
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun.
He says, "Death will give us back to God,
just like the setting sun
is returned to the lonesome ocean."

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We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole,
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul,
And to this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run.

We must hang up in the belfry where the bats in moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
And (in)to the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge.

And then we'll get down there,
way down to the very bottom of everything
and then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it.

Oh my morning's coming back
The whole world's waking up
Oh the city bus is swimming past.
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one.