THE WORDS MADE ME DO IT

Fucking words
words spewing from everywhere
open car windows screaming ghetto anthems

npr goes on and on and on
everyone speaking gentle and literate

homeless drunks scream at phantoms
tv's give reality shows wrapped in deceptive words

dr. phil tries to save some obese soul
with shrink words-
-ignoring the fact that people get over crises quicker
if they avoid therapy
avoid words!

Why?
Because we think we talk our way into this
or that
state of mind
and the only way to get out of the mire
is to leave it behind

we calm ourselves
excite ourselves
masterbate ourselves
drink and smoke and snort and shoot and sniff ourselves
into certain sorts of being

words prop us up
crutches under our arms as we amble through the life

words create courts of impossible standards

words are redemption and condemnation
words pretend there are angels and gods
our idle lies of convienance
create false memories



some get their clues from bible words and rock lyrics and
the advertisers trying to create us by filling us with words
words that block out new information
words that make the intellectually ignorant
question evolution

words twist the histories
cover our tracks
excite and delight and spite...

words
reduce the mysteries
into something that fits into the logic of conversation
the rules of the word world
we lay over the real world

ying and yang, ying and yang...