Month: March 2018

Pale Quartet

by any1mark

My demons don’t ride houses

Greed takes its sweet time to arrive

Anger glides on bolts of lightning

Fear slinks about in the shadows

Apathy must drag itself upon thorns

The quartet move me with the wind

The four horsemen need not humans

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FFAW – Man and Machines

by any1mark

This week’s photo prompt is provided by Enisa. Thank you Enisa!

“You are in a running zone! You must run!” The mechanical voice yells staticy words.

“I’m lost. The street entrance was blocked….Someone left gate open.” I realize I’m trying to hold conversation with a tape recorder with a brain.

“You are in a running zone! You must run!” It snaps back to life suddenly.

“I’m trying to get to the entrance. You piece of junk! Get me a human, damn it.” I start getting edgy. “Second rule, man will lead the machines. You must follow my requests!”

“You are in a running zone!” the static blurs the words “Are you second ruling me? You fallible clump of blubber! I’m a security unit. I could fry you where you stand, if my video failed…who would find out.”

“Just tell me where the damn front door can be accessed! Or I’ll piss I your circuit breaker.” I loosen my temper.

“Typical human. Can’t read a sign. Can’t follow a direction. Go back out to the left.” The voice has different sound. “Or run as you are in a running zone!”

“Your mother was an answering machine.” I smile back.

189 words

Stealing thoughts

by any1mark

Butterflies wings stir

Dust fallen from dreams

Sparkle what we think we see

Smoke what we know we see

Pieces of yesterday viewed tomorrow

Our thoughts free

Nothing ever lacks chains

Beholden to beliefs imagined

Ties that bind choke their captor

We are only blind to truths we need

My belief breadcrumbs

Dust fallen from dreams

Contrived shattering illusions of now

Shallow answers of life’s questions

Depth of feelings skin deep as well

Wordle – My Reflection

by any1mark

Week 183

1. Malice

2. Gangly

3. Find

4. Misery

5. Hardhearted

6. Lens

7. Imperative

8. Orbit

9. Inchoate (adj.)) Not yet fully developed, rudimentary, lacking order

10. Helminth (n.)) a worm especially a parasitic worm

11. Mask

12. Glide

Use at least 10 of the words to create a story or poem

The words can appear in an alternate form

Use the words in any order that you like.

Tag: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and Wordle

I find the lens of malice, rather than misery chooses my mask. My hardhearted aspect may endear other helminths. Self awareness leaves one inchoate, orbiting my own gangly reflection. Self preservation is an awkward imperative.

March for Our Lives – A rant

by any1mark

The tiny town of Payson, AZ where guns outnumber people, there still is movement about gun law reform. Here we have open carry, meaning I am free to walk into Wal-Mart carrying my pistol on my side id walk about the wilderness much the same. There are a few places like government buildings that are ‘no carry’ zones. But the sense that guns have a responsibility with their use seems to be understood.

Then the crazy thought comes along. Which guns are safe in the general publics hands. I’m no hunter, however, If you need a 30 round magazine and a high powered rifle that can remove while chunks of the animals hide coming out on other side of it…. Well, that doesn’t seem like hunting.

I digress. If you need a license to drive a car, maybe you need something to own a killing machine too. I’ll argue a handgun, rifle, or shotgun is a totally different armament than an assualt rifle. Part of the problem is the Congress & the NRA.

Currently, the agency changed with finding out of a gun is owned by someone is called ATF (Alcohol,Tabacco, & Firearms). The ATF investigates as crimes involving guns with multiple fatalities, covering multiple jurisdictions, or involving sales or stolen merchandise. They are prohibited from having a database on gun sales. They have to comb through paper records to chase a guns history of sales. The NRA has argued the government could remove all your guns if they know when you purchase them. So if we can’t trace any gun purchase by computer, does this explain the power of the NRA.

5 million NRA members control the gun safety of 330 million in US. They believe any gun reform is taking away from their 2nd amendment rights (which discusses the right to bear arms & establish militias). They also pay congressmen that support imposing laws that reduce 1st amendment rights when it comes to protesting. Interesting strategy involving freedom. They have dished out hundreds of millions in cash to ensure the gun markers can flood the market unrestricted. People aren’t the only contributors here. Gun markers like selling things too.

These high school kids have to clean up their Grandparents mess from out of date laws & a society that no longer values safety in schools or public.

Requim

by any1mark

Not in loss

Just a fading away

Rock solid memories

Bound by times misty echoes

Tangible In name

Cloaked by yesterday

The dreams I can taste

Hopes never leave just hunger

The sunlight reminds

Calendars drift tirelessly

My hold chain for today

Forged long past in the missing