CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

If one was well enough to do everything one needed to do, to get relief one sought,

then one wouldn’t need the help he needs in the first place, would he?

Life is Catch 22 of the universe

He said, “I don’t understand why you insist on helping him,”

“I want to,” I said, “It’s a feeling I have and want to.

What difference does it make to you?”

While we waste time on bullshit,

Epiphany strikes suddenly, a new sight, an oversight

The answer to the question to make evil disappear

warnings served years ago come into play with global warming

Ignoring criticism about forefathers back in the day of humanity

Helps me glimpse the truth that we’ll never get away

Now technology makes it impossible to hide away

Know our religion, know when we pray

Tracked by GPS, our cell phones, credit cards tracked, petition signing

Usage tallied and compiled daily

Threats to control humanity

Spread the word today

Trickle down abuse flourishes

Foster peace in a world of abuse

Propagate hope, knowledge widens the scope,

Many see trickle down abuse encompassing earth

Come see, you know whom I mean!

They ~ the big they, you know who they are,

They will not give us back this glorious great land.

They fight for coin and silver.

Slowly we go to slaughter, 

Like pigs, goats and cows,

We kill ourselves in their sham.

Forced to pay more than our share of taxes

It’s only paper you know, 

No more gold in Fort Knox.

All the gold owned privately

Who's in charge of our government?

Symbols lurk every place you see

Small, insidious, devious concerns surround us, 

Controlled by society, daily news, 

TV, our jobs families, forget our conscience

Our desires prevent our seeing

Facebook and twitter rule you can’t see

Enough to spin your head, dizzy,

Can’t comprehend why Facebook

Warns you not to add more friends,

You can only add so many each night

Isn’t adding friends a boon to Facebook?

Every day it becomes more difficult

to understand the world I’m living in

They are not going to give our land back

If we don’t fight for our rights,

if we don’t take earth back from the usurpers

who have stolen our planet,

We can’t inherit the earth by common assent,

agree our land is not sold for gold,

this land is god’s gift,

is not ours to give or buy,

but to love and care for 

like we do our children …

This land is your land,

This land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

DO YOU REALLY THINK I’M CRAZY?

The electromagnet sitting on the fridge makes me bigger

Carrot juice makes me stronger

Zinfandel makes me grow longer

Broccoli to make muscle mass leaner

I've grown two inches taller since you last saw me

Did I mention ginger burns fat?

I'm 20 pounds thinner in only 2 months.

Ginkgo biloba makes me smarter

All other species of Ginkgophyta extinct

Gingo biloba only one left

Use many herbs to cure my numerous ills

Quicker ills pop up faster they disintegrate

Garlic cures infections inside and out

I'm superwoman, you're a has been

No justice at all.

Need rulers to tell us what to do

Followers need leaders

Like Peter Pan and Benjamin Button

we never grow older

Like Benjamin Button,

every day  grow younger

Soon we won't exist at all

No need to hire anyone for work

Do everything ourselves

Super powers in our brain.

Self-sufficient towers

Of humanity

We"ll be better every day.

Poor, downtrodden humans will survive
Hopefully we get what we deserve

Please hep me somebody... hep me please - please - please

Ladder of Years 
by Anne Tyler 

Joy Leftow's review

Aug 05, 2016  ·  edit

This novel is amazing.

Recommended for: Everyone, young and old, any age male and female, any age who can read and understand the words.

Read in August, 2016 , read count: 1

I like to read poetic, witty, and unsettling work make to make me consider who I am and where I stand in the lives of people who know me or are close to me. I've read several of Tyler's books and always want to consume more. Her words and the way they flow in "Ladder of Years," feeds my desire to know - to know why I am the being that I am - to know how I betray this I am - and how to consider changing the I of who I am. We can be another I, not the I that we know and are familiar with.
With each day we live - every choice - no matter how meaningless each choice seems, makes a difference in the next step we take. Literally, like children, we create and recreate ourselves every day in different ways and that is what Tyler's emphasis is in her portrayal of Delia.

I read because I want to know. I want to know what other writers write and how they think. I want to be me expressing who I am through my writing. Reading other writers makes me a better writer. I read 75 percent of what I read to enjoy myself. The other 25 percent is to learn various things I want to learn and need to read to learn.

This book exemplifies how much of ourselves we hide, just like Delia. We ignore the things we want to say. We try to avoid hurting others or changing too much so we can stay where we are. And just sometimes, we feel a glimmer of hope and we take that first step to see and explore ourselves. It brings me great pleasure and glee to watch Delia do all the things I want to do. I want to just up and leave my life and start over, just like Delia.

Strangely enough, this review reminds me of the movie I just watched on iTunes, "Bird" directed by Charlie Parker. The movie and the book both gave me thoughts on food. I know it's supposed to be food for thought, yet for me, it is thoughts for food because the food is in the meat of the novel or movie. 

CRAZY IS AS CRAZY DOES!