A Short Day There's a shock in being old, not necessary in getting old, but all of a sudden being there, standing on a corner, and just becoming aware that you are old, that just a short while ago, you were thinking, maybe even saying "I'm getting there...
I'm getting old (not older but old)...
" where in essence, you've been there for awhile-some folks never stop kidding themselves, and say: "You got to think young, to be young" -be that as it may, but you are still old, like it or not.
In my book, that's called pretence, or kidding yourself.
The positive part of this poem is this: you can say to the rest of the world: "Look here, I made it," because most of the world today, will not make my age, they will die in wars, from disease, car accidents, hospital runs, and fighting, and house fires, and drowning, and farm accidents, and factory accidents, and plane crashes, and heart attacks, cancer, and alcoholism, and overdoses, and...
and...
you get the picture; in any case, if they make it to your age, that in itself is a great feat, because like it or not, we all have a short day coming, due us.
Even Hemingway knew it, and Elvis knew it, and all those rich and famous people that lived before you and me, knew it, and those who will live after you, will be due it, due this short day also.
And God said "Look, do you see anyone from...
they're all dead...
!" He was telling somebody this to wake them up-time is short, like flicker in a fire.
The question that comes up to me is this "What will I do tomorrow, if I still have a full day?" No: 2716 ((6-9-2010) (prose mixed with poetry)) "Where was God, Gentlemen?" ((The Beginning of Globalism) (a short cut story)) Part one Globalization In times yet not here, long after I am dead, and buried, someone will write: "In those days, those far-off days of the turn of the 21st Century, the disturbances were quite different, but real nonetheless.
Antarctica broke of large chunks of ice sheets, sent them down the Atlantic towards the mainland continents.
You may not think possible, but the Pacific Ocean heaved up catastrophic storms that brought havoc from Alaska to Cape Horn, likewise into the Indian Ocean.
And the snows from Canada to New York to the whole Eastern Coast and Midwest stopped the whole human race, made people stare out their windows for an intermission-day upon day.
This was the time of many active volcanoes, blackening the atmosphere, stopping international travel everywhere, from the shores of North America across the Atlantic to and throughout Europe; and destructive global earthquakes took place, some killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Furthermore, the killing of whales and dolphins by the thousands took place.
And when it came to oil conservation, as well as oil drilling, everyone was slightly puzzled, only happy in the sight of the car, and the oceans were filled with oil spills, killing much life in the oceans as well as deadening wildlife and plant life along the coastal areas, and parts of the Amazon forests were indexed for obliteration, as well as the jungles of South East Asia; all dealt a great blow to their ecosystems.
Thus, the food and medicine chain was depleted, and many species of plant life and animal life became extinct.
This was the time of many side wars, wars fought by proxy, with little countries, to satisfy the amusement for big countries, because of the potential danger in a collision between nuclear equipped nations.
This was a time when everyone was saying, 'Where is God, Gentlemen?' This was the beginning of Globalism.
Part Two The More than Great War "It was-of this old time I am talking about, likened to two great iron trains, I don't think they had intended to do what they did.
And it wasn't for material gain, perhaps for principle, maybe for honour denied, in any case, the deeds were done, not for the end to something, but rather for the sake of dong something, other than doing nothing, but the ultimate came to proving nothing, save the finality of the world order.
Those who saw it, lived it, hid in the little spaces which were still available on earth, even trying to hide their shadows, coming from everywhere, having and needing to hide from these two massive iron trains ready to smash into one another.
And the great war of wars began with this human sight in the fury and wailing of the humanity's global population.
Everyone saw it before it took place, before it happened.
They just didn't see exactly where.
But they knew it was going to happen.
Part Three How it was? "I suppose you could say, living was not dull back then, stupid, but not dull.
Back then you became slaves to plastic cards and bought everything you wanted and the nations of the world went broke.
And in America you grew up in houses that weren't ever paid for, and cars that were seldom paid for, and when they were, they were no longer worth driving.
Men and women married, just as well as man to man, and woman to woman, it was all the same, and it was never forevermore and the children were free to do as they pleased, often taking charge of the family, and the family being unconscious to the fact.
Most everyone died quietly and was buried quietly and they buried their dogs and cats with them, and thanked God for nothing.
That's how it was, you see-any questions?" No: 622 (6-8-2010)