Youth and truth have been on my mind this week.
-My offspring and their babies will be drastically impacted if the monsters of the right and their know-nothing minions achieve their aims
-Young people are dying needlessly all over the world
-Education in this nation is in as poor a state as it's been for 50 years
-Is there a lawyer who can tell the truth in this country?
-Where are the new thinkers?
Tell me I'm wrong! Somebody! Please?!!
Reward for Failure
(The American Parenting Fallacy)
In America, when you fail your parents
As a teenager
And those parents are indulgent, middle class
And white
It is only natural that they will punish you
By indulging your desire
To live on your own in a fully paid for
Environment
Without ever lifting a finger
Or making amends for
The initial failure
On your part
This is based on the, as yet,
Unproven theory
That repeating the same action
Repeatedly, somehow
Magically turns lead
Into gold
Or is it
Chickens?
© CJ Campbell August 2012
Bliss n Eso, Aussie rappers who say it better than most:
Words Fail
I asked to be excused from the case
Citing mistrust of the system
Which enriches only the greedy
Forty percent hucksters
Until the smooth sincere Cutter
Called and said “We will only deduct
A few dollars of out-of-pocket costs,
Several bucks. There's
The reason why I agreed to join
The suit. I signed the papers,
Urgent papers, needed in a week
But no! Three months go by
Then six, then twelve with nothing
Then a letter with the same offer
No contingency, only out-of-pocket
Am I dreaming, an honest lawyer?
January, here's the letter with the news
Our costs come to this: “WE LIED”
The liars intend to send me 10%
Out of court awarded judgment
Some fast accounting here proves
Once more that greed is the driver
Of the American legal system
My faulty pacemaker really doesn't care
Naturally I told them to keep
The entire amount. Clearly they need
The money more than I. The contract
Is broken and I am free to talk publicly.
The irresponsible manufacturers:
Medtronics and Sprint-Fidelis
The thieving attorneys:
Kershaw, Cutter and Ratinoff
© CJ Campbell January 2012
Dinner Party Subjects
In former days a dinner party
Was a reason for a gathering
Of people of similar tastes
In food and wine
And also diverse opinions
About art, culture, religion
And dare I say it
Politics of every stripe
Post prandial conversations
Were often heated
Always stimulating
Never reasons for standing
Up and leaving
With spatula in one hand
And Southern Comfort in t'other
The new uniforms
Of the Gators cheerleaders
Don't advance discourse
Much
© CJ Campbell August 2012
Add your own tonight.
Peace
CJ