Ignorance by David Bowden


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Ignorance
by David Bowden

Album: Mute


Ignorance is a curable disease.
A self-injected cancerous machine
Dismantling mind pillars like Samson,
slaying one thousand unique ideas with TV jawbones of donkeys.
Now we quote movie lines and family guy
Replacing spire spike skyscraping giant poetic rhymes
With box office blockbuster blog post latest BS entry
I call it suckling at the tit of industry.
They just call it social acceptability.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Empty lives void of thought forced to think trough prime time schemes.
Sedentary couch sediment steeped in hot water broadcasts like weak American teas.
When legs are just an extension of the floor,
planted like two broad oaks growing up to bended knees,
falling upon sharp sitting hips
on candy cushions,
which is just an extension of a tortured torso,
lengthening out to that north pointing arrow
of an arm holding the holy grail
of a controlled reality remote controller high beams.
I call it wasting dreams.
They just call them television screens.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Praised Paparazzi Polaroid's flash like Crazed pseudo-Nazi asteroids,
entering your eyes atmosphere in the form of
cellulite bikini stars on store shelf Magazines.
These tabloid tabard taxers
spend millions for private jet flights,
to private room nights,
claiming private pop rights
on lavish lacerations
on poverty locations
to provide worthy vacations
run by the under paid Balinese.
I call them greed's infomercial celebrities.
They just call them golden globe nominees.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Bills get passed or smashed based on cash
opening locked doors with Exxon Mobil keys.
Snobby Hobbyist Lobbyists blood-sucking tax cut fleas,
robbing kid classroom teachers the fees to teach their ABC's.
Highest bidder auctionees,
wolfing sleeping sheep from welfare checks and amnesties.
I call it circle jerking with vulture lurking Wall Street companies.
They just call it the White House board of trustees.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Here, the man says, take two of these.
History books where truth is a tease,
Justifying shipping different colors across seven seas.
Running Reds out of beds with
small pox comforter life squeezing abductees.
Chopping off heritage hair creating cultural amputees.
Still we want to stretch our limbs flying
Trump Tower stairways to heaven
stinging humility in the tongue like big business bumble bees.
I call it following a false god of mind slavery.
They just call it manifest destiny.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Humans reside in cold-bricked castle-gated communities.
The poor polish the crowns of guiltless success for middle-class kings,
Enthroned in western rights draining worlds with ease.
Buying bigger SUV's
while ravaged African women suffer from ramped STD's.
I call it hypnotized libidos, prideful to seize.
They just call it the American Dream.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Under the rug over the seas
blood suns rose in the 1960's and 70's.
Untouchable napalm and
unsearchable jet bombs dropped by presidential Kennedys.
From JFK's Green Berets
to LBJ's Tonkin Days
to Curtis LeMay's 'We're gonna bomb them back to the stone age!'
We wage chess war pulling puppet strings behind UN screens,
Hearing 4 million screams seen through N.B.C screens
penetrating ears such as these
leaving it up to college age revolutionaries to do something.
I call it pre-meditated murder in the first degree.
They just call it the history of the Vietnamese.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Boys and girls sign death certificates at the age of 18.
Lock and Load cold blue
flash white spray
red bullets out of uncle Sam's banana clip magazine.
Giving life and
taking life
to get out of poverty
with scholarship blood money
turning the sociably needy into modern war mercenaries.
I call them lost ones trying to provide for endless needs.
They just call them enlistees.

Ignorance is a curable disease.
Running up like a Roid-raged Rambo into third world countries.
Killing Civilian Children Billing Millions for
radioactive tissues waiting for one Al Qaeda sneeze.
Taking up bomb shell
bullet hell residence where
innocents sleep.
I call it collecting oil with human life interest fees.
They just call it spreading democracy.

But.
Ignorance is a curable disease.
If you only listen to all of those
Unpackaged Poets and
Imprisoned Prophets
jamming re-thought siege rams through billboard blockades
tossing compassion grenades
into ideological crusades.
Blasting shrapnel battles, boring into
snoring thought foxholes.
Mushroom clouds rise like five-finger love fists
sky writing among consumer clouds.
Echoes of our empty clips
strapped tight upon our gun-less hips,
Reverberate sounds of justice
from brown bag alley-clad sucking warm liquorice
all the way to every rounded corner of the oval office. We are the many appendages of social reprise.
We believe she's are just as important as he's.
That those can't be judged off the basis of these.
And that peace can be won, without making veins bleed.
I call us free people changing our world for hopeful dreams. They can just call us whatever they please.

Ignorance is a curable disease
And know,
that what never can slave us can only make us free.


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