Five Things I Wish They Taught In School

FIVE COUNTERINTUITIVE TRAITS OF HIGHLY EVOLVED HUMANS

Oblique Strategies

OBLIQUE STRATEGIES

To improve the world
You try to change the others
There’s another way

Our Best (26a)

OUR BEST

We struggle
Gamely, unobserved
Not often
Successful
Still there’s always tomorrow
Until there isn’t

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Shadorma November

Pledge

PLEDGE

Full of beauty
Full of wonder
As this earth is
Then so shall I also
Strive to become

100 Degrees

180 DEGREES

Attacks are in fact
The sign for asking for help
Now it’s up to you

Way Station

WAY STATION

A happy heart is
Always welcome but then it’s
Upward and onward

Not The Real Thing

NOT THE REAL THING

Fearful egoistical manifestation
Engenders armorial inflation
Leads to superfluous titivation

Over time astute observation
Advises timely disintegration
For eventual emancipation

Bien Sûr

BIEN SÛR

Here’s to tomorrow
Recalling bien sûr

That the sole change
We are capable of

Is the seed we plant
In this current moment

Asleep At The Wheel

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

This identity
Determined to improve things
So full of itself

Please

PLEASE

I beg you
Brothers
Sisters

If you have yet
The will
Unblock yourself

Overcome
Your unexamined
So-called patriotism

No more than a convenient
Comfortable and safe disguise
Masking a barely unacknowledged fear

Feel that fear a moment
That fear – Of the Other
– Of the Unknown

Of all them those Out There
All Them those out there
All Them in here

Breathe in
Breathe out
Release

Breathe in
Breathe out
Release