Pariah

Call me Pariah.
I have earned the name.

They would have killed me at birth
had they known then where I would go

I say what I will,
what I think,
what I see,

As I wander the outskirts and darkness of my former home

exiled

I am not welcome,
no place is set for me
no place is mine to sleep
unhindered

All this cement,
fields of grass
this grass and cement is worth more
empty and bare
than my life is worth.

I watch with my sight
through the bars,
prisoners eating

They eat well
compared to me

All the leavings and cast off foods
rot in their bins
locked
beyond my reach

I starve and grow stronger
I live
only to think

One day I will pay them
for the stones cast upon me

One day they will listen

In this wilderness of cement and steel and law
peacekeeper to clans I am not part of
I see Law that is lawless
Law that lies
Law that is different
for the rich and the poor

Seeing their cracked honor
I howl the rage that unrighteous persecution brings
bearing witness

I have earned the title Judge

As I have earned the dust
in my name



(this poem is still a WIP-
C. Taylor)

The way things are going....

Christ you know it ain't easy
you know how hard it can be...
the way things are going
they're gonna crucify me

-J. Lennon

We'll kill them off
take their land
and go there for vacation

-Z. De La Rocha

Ain't it funny how the school doors close
around the time that the factory doors close
around the time that 100, 000 jail cells
open up to greet you
like the reaper

-Z. De La Rocha

Good to see that RATM is back together, maybe we can support them, since they are still being blacklisted across the states.

A great story, the way of the new colonialism, and so much scarier than blankets - the Screwfly Solution

And my favorite book of all time I would say - The Lord Of Light
compare it to the original Stargate movie, 20+ years later...so many similiar plot elements, with a switch to egyptian instead of vedic/buddhist/hindu as a base.

and check this out

That's why you'll never see this amazing Zelazny book being made into a film, it was scooped up and used for a cointel operation. Hmmm. Might be worth reading eh?

This is a bit wacky, but I'm on a roll. I wonder if they consulted The Amazing Randi?
Kind of like that cool kingsley thriller.

Too much x-files, but I hear truth is stranger than fiction.

Like the pedophiles I've tagged in my life. The baptist preacher, the guy 2 streets over with "nieces" who didn't look like him (and always looked sad)...there are a couple more.
That was before I was 16. I got in a lot of trouble at the time for suggesting it (slapped in the face, exiled from "church", ostracized), but voila, years later I hear they each went to jail. Wierd. Probably just coincidence.

Want to read some really freaky scary stories for Halloween?
Try this woman's short stories - Poppy Z. Brite

In the anime scene I want to plug a matrix-telepathy mindfuck called Serial Experiments Lain
and Ergo Proxy, a sort of "beast within" thing
and maybe even a bit of the eternally recurring hero Karas and the machine-body parts with intelligent functions apocalyptica Texhnolyze

I really dig this dude
"thanks, for a nation of finks!"
If you can find any of his live readings, they've got atmosphere to spare...
and cigar smoke.

When I think of the concept of "groupthink" I'm always reminded of the Emily's in "Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang"

Always loved Blade Runner, especially Roy Batty's last lines:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain...
Time to die..."

And I'll leave you with something from Uncle Albert:

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

-A. Einstein