media prostitution

i can't stomach prime-time canned humor

nor the hourly rehash of yesterday's news

the confessions of talk-show dummies

chattering away our lives

the insults of judges mocking

the sanity of the courts

it's a deduction of the senses

where sensibilities ought reign

the control of our appetites

with the abundance of choice

we're fucked up and over

by the frightened and greedy

envious partakers

of media prostitution

thank God for Hip-Hop

and its no-shit allegiance

being the paranoia we swim in

soothing o'er our scars

*If Death doesn't get you, something else will.

*"God" is not a narrow, little word that anyone can use to have or gain power over me.

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -...when he says,  "What, you see the mote in your brother's eye; don't you notice the beam in your own?"  [Mt. 7:3-5; Lk. 6:41-42;], it's not just a matter of comparisons.  That would simply mean accepting the mediocre wisdom of the world.  It seems rather that at the very moment the I judge someone else, anyone at all, I become blind, whether or not I'm open to criticism by others.  Those who judge others place themselves beyond communion.

  -...one who has reached some degree of self-knowledge wouldn't know how to judge anyone, because the same impulses live in all of us.

  -...morality doesn't exist for others, but only for oneself, a necessity because of a light that dwells within us.  People are not lost or saved by either their goodness or their evil but because of the attitude they have to their goodness or evil.  The just man proud of his virtue, of which he considers himself the proprietor, is far away from the kingdom as someone who seeks pleasure outside of its human context.  Law is the substitute for goodness for anyone who doesn't spontaneously turn toward the good; in general such an approach merely conceals envy and an absence of love.

  -In the Gospel no one owns anyone or has rights over anyone.