out on the Edge
February 3rd, 2007
we still stay out here
I’m in you
You’re in me
we don’t stick around lousy town
we don’t practice the old
sloggy routines
we create our own Paths
even if they’re
other way around
this planet is owned by bastards
who come and go as they please
and rub our face in
our inability to come and go at ease
that these All Time stealers do
they have a lot of Little Folk
down on their Economic
Esteem
Emotional
Social
Psycholoegoical
Future Dream
Knees
if ya haven’t noticed for half your life
they’ve been wantin’
to keep ya
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
endlessly running to the malls
and shop
Uptown
the Aulde Salvy
These bastards Live Off
and seek
to suck
Your Spirit ENERGY
Dry
that’s EXACTLY
how they FLY
and run All Round
Yer Home Ground
All over Your FACE
and yer HOME Place
while you
can’t even
motivate
and MOVE
in your deep
DARK
depression
This IS
their Secret
GAME
on YOU
Hey You
there ain’t any even fair minded rules
on this Playing Field
of the Killer
and Stealer of Dreams
You are the Puck
you schmuck
They’ve lorded it All Over You
and created In You
only a Pathetic
Pitiful
Little Half Life
to be bemoaned
and carted off to the Psychologists
and Psychiatrists
to be Prescribed Quantum pills
for your Little
Half induced stupor You call Life
with daily dosed
Psycho-Chemical Straight Jackets
for Your Choke Chain
That you WILLINGLY
Swallow and induce
on a daily
well timed
well dosed regimen
What SWILL this
Yeah you’re labeled
Your Brain is scrambled
and You’re CONTROLLED
so you can FUNCTION
in their prescribed and DEFINED
precisely
Lead by a DOG chain they call
“A NORMAL Life
and Existence”
So that you can FUNCTION
in THEIR carefully prescribed
“daily reality”
Hey Joe
Whaddya Know
Ya don’t know THIS
The GAME’S UP
on this CREEPY Paralysis
and post humous
cultural trance
you dance in your (Their) daily life
called Reality
THROW OFF THE MASTERS OF WAR!!!!!!
and the DEFINERS of YOUR LIFE
Say to Yourself NOW
and for the Rest of the NewBorne Year
This is my LIFE!
This is MY LIFE!!
This IS MY LIFE!!!
THIS IS MY LIFE!!!!
Over and Over
Til You Get It
INSIDE
and it LIVES inside your HEART
and Steers YOUR LIFE
On the StarBoarde Side
Now Partner
What Galaxy
and Universe
Are We Headin For
WELCOME HOME!
AHO!
by John Shumaker
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
eco~poet, peace activist, subversive and Bioregionalist
I really enjoyed reading this inspiring poem. I think the poem conveys a sense of underlying strength that each person can have access to if they take the time to think about it. It is certainly difficult sometimes to feel different from “mainstream” society, but I would agree that the challenge is worth it.