IF YOU EAT A PICKLE

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IF YOU EAT A PICKLE

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If you eat a pickle, or if you ate one yesterday

This affects me not at all

You can eat a pickle anytime anywhere

And my life will go on normally

Unless I have been brainwashed since birth

To think of pickles as evil, an abomination

Tools of Satan to lure unwary innocents

To the road to ruin

Then I will be offended if I see a pickle

I will be outraged if mention of pickles is within my hearing

I will judge pickle eaters as unworthy 

I will suspect my neighbor of secretly eating pickles

In the privacy of their home

And condemn anyone who stops in the pickle aisle

As minions of societal collapse. 

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TINY SEED

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TINY SEED

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Tiny seed

I wish you get a chance at life

Fall on fertile ground

Feel gentle rain, warm sun

Light breezes

I hope no hungry jaws

Careless footsteps

Droughts or floods

Hamper your growth

Tiny brave seedling

One day I hope you might

Reach for the sky.

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EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING

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EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING

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Somewhere between mercy and vengeance

Is the grey fogbank of indifference

The apathy that blots out the whole situation

The sharp sigh that cuts the tether

So we are free to drift off to new worlds

Of wonder

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GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT

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GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT

The Higher Self is the midwife that waits

To deliver the stricken lower self from the womb of obsession

To stand in the birth chamber of compulsion

And bring consciousness safely back into the light 

Heralding the rebirth of knowledge, inner strength and new purpose

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RULE-ETTE

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RULE-ETTE

Life is a great big casino

Each day we win and lose

But we can cash in our chips for wisdom

Whenever and however we choose

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STOP OR GO, YES OR NO

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STOP OR GO, YES OR NO

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A plan is forming

I can see its vague shape waitimg

On my potential path

Shrouded in the swirling mists of time

And probability

As I get closer, I will be able to ask

"Who goes there? Be ye friend or foe?"

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GOING GOING GONE

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GOING GOING GONE

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What if they don't "get it"?

Will never get it

It might be impossible for them to process enough new information

To ever get it

In fact anything that does not reinforce their world view

Makes them angry enough to attack

They are threatened by differences, alternatives, proven facts

What do we do with them?

We can't change them either by sweet reason or hard data

So we must change ourselves

Fortunately, we are capable of change

We can adapt, develop a winning strategy for a peaceful life

My winning strategy is to ignore them

While doing everything legal I can to thwart their agenda

I get out of their way, they are rushing headlong

Towards the fate of the unchangeables 

Those forever stuck in the concrete of their opinions

I don't hate them, but I have no hope for them

To see the same light that guides me toward inclusion

Fairness, equality and learning

We get it, and we get that they don't get it

And that they are dangerous in their rage to destroy anything

Different than them

We are different than them but we will prevail

Over time love, kindness and fairness is more powerful

More sustainable, more sensible - love bets and wins

Because the Divine is Love and the Divine is the House

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