Way Gone

Chain-saw beheadings, abducted children, train wrecks, plane crashes, welfare birthers of multituplets, this is what folk want to know about. Rapes, robberies, beatings. The gorier the better. This is what captures people's interest. Does anyone wonder that this is not Hell?

Being, knowledge and bliss once were interwoven. Now knowledge is peddled as a way to get ahead (whatever that means). Don't gimme no bliss with knowledge, just the cold hard facts. And no bliss with being either. That's a bunch of old hippie crap.

Just give me my ipod and cellphone and facebook and blackberry and let me twitter and tweet and text message my latest bowel movement and never come up for air.

What is that stuff over there? It's dirt and grass and sky and birds. You remember those don't you? Stuff not manufactured by humans. Rivers and clouds and daffodils. Waterfalls and air and lightning. What? That? That's the moon. Yes, you can see it during the day.