I know it wasn’t questioned but looking back I want to clarify one line of rhetoric, for my own peace of mind:

Brad, i know u dig the colorful ides

I’ve seen your pics & pans & jibes…

& known a bit of what you’ve sighed…

Into the air ‘round your vibrant rock rides

But these dayz it’s roundabout life in general

Far far removed from most things chemical~~

Either that or leave my children to the lions…

That the educators & ad campaigners would…

willingly hurl them into [cryin’] on behalf of the…

Old rusty machine & its fackn moot damn Zion’s….

This was not meant in an anti-Semitic way.  People are people, …how they seek higher ground spiritually is their bag, certainly.  I was aiming for irony…or  blunt cynicism towards any one system of beliefs whose captains call themselves benevolent & yet legislate to build walls between themselves and a people they consider lesser by birthright & belief. 

Religions & walks are never the issue in my sorrows towards people.  ONLY the more damaging effects of the worst that all hierarchic notions bring out in man’s inhumanity towards man.  The most judgmental usually being those most seeded within one religious sect or another.  Love thy fellow man, etc., …unless she/he does not comply with said’s understanding of A Book of parables/oracles, …my view is THEE view, God’s view, period…they might be overheard saying.  Here’s where the bullshidt of religious speak becomes one of the great banes of our times, [IMHO], because it’s wisdoms interpreted by people…but called the word of a/the Supreme Being who’s name is only as common as the language that speaks it.  & how many different ways by how many different walks…&, yet, there are single sects who claim to own the keystone.  Single sects who will wipe-out or cage-up a ‘lesser’ civilization as a means of teaching them good manners & proper worship.  Single sects who will, in the name of their Creator, deny everyone with different eyes the doorways to their vision of heaven/paradise/enlightenment, solemnity notwithstanding.  It’s a paradox.

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So I was using my melee-eyed verse to retort about one people throwing another people to the subjective lions as entertainment, pacification, &/or power-trip.  Incas, Romans, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Confucians, Voodooists, Atheists, Heretics, Trolls, Orcs, yes & l’il furry hobbits in the plushest comforts of the comfiest of hobbit holes…with certain power & callousness born of doubts & fears…& a really big book, …& it just so happens that the heart of the torn

earthly issue has been in the NE Africa/Middle East regions historically forever, with those beloved ex-Whig wearing cowboys throwing-down whenever applicable and there’s…gold to be gotten. 

The whole dogma-political clash of the boardroom titans; meshing of money & theology in a greasy-slick marriage of the morose minds. 

I didn’t mean “damned”, I meant damn…in the colloquial form.  Although “damned”, as a generic term, works for all who use-up lives & livelihood in malign ways for personal/regime gain.  But, with nuclear proliferation pretty much gone greed-insane & hog wild across the entire globe, I suppose were all in a world of schidt now.  So next time you illustrate Earth Paradise, …better make it look like Fat Man or Little Boy…with a splaying of tyrants & kings sittin on it like grade-schoolers on seesaws…grinnin ear-to-ear & swinging ugly sticks to the four winds, …if you want accuracy. 

Here’s to the benevolent intellectuals with wherewithal and the courage of the ages, who are taking steps to surface an enduring deliverance of humanity out of this quagmire of prevailing man, if at all applicable. 

[Folks who perhaps view a movie like Man of the Year  between the lines…like it’s meant to be watched, & appreciate the notions; not as a comedy but a cutting little think piece with a few laughs for levity & heart.]

//\ whoops, didn’t mean it to get so wordy.  Hey, such is the rhetoric. 

FWIW, probably not much...& so be it.