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BOYS’ TOYS
airplanes, trucks and cars spaceships designed from mars PLASTIC swords mimicking REALITY electronic, robotic, remote CONTROLLED laser gadgets and What have you got on your HANDS??? dirt-bikes, skateboards, stainless steel army switch-blades AND m-16’s can’t get much more real than THAT fast cars, hard LIQUOR, power, money and sex CONQUESTS all from A GIRL who goes by the name of pearl . . . these are boys’ toys Less Refined Filler give me your jibberish your socks your throw-away lives or so the pyro lady might exclaim from her pedestal were she from the wasteland like we are tape recorders talking to tape recorders and the performance is spectacular just like the muppets and jesus for fame makes for nonsense to make sense and now i sit extracting meaning from the mouths of fools and of myself Mask Wear the mask with the smile on the lips And pretend everything’s fine Believe the lie, ignore the truth And don’t ask me any Questions about you ...and if i said i wasn’t who you were what would you say? i can’t even be myself [whoever that is] how could i be what you wanted? go ahead put me in a little box on the little shelf of your little mind if you must but keep your delusions to yourself. i have enough of my own about you. |
multicultural a swear word for the 90’s? i am of a third culture not white, not black/hispanic [asian, in my case] not quite where is this third culture? do we get our own island? [scholarship forms are a challenge] we don’t belong here not where you’re either/or i’m neither/nor like tiger woods? he’s chosen his own term we’re all given terms to belong...ethnically categorised when i’m here, i’m not exactly this when i’m there, i’m not truly that multiculturalism isn’t that another way of saying no true culture? Sorry What do you mean I can't use that word? Just because it's not proper What do you mean I can't talk about that? Just because it's too taboo I view the truth with objective eyes No, I don't condone it all But the truth is the Truth people will find out anyway Might as well learn the facts Minus all the hate and ignorance Oh, now I see your point Sorry, I didn't realise you wanted the sighted not to see And I didn't know you like to quiet disruptive people like Me Cope Don’t think This isn’t happening Don’t think This is for real Close your eyes and be someplace else It’ll be over soon Just lie down and be still |