Storm Ramblings...
2000 © Storm Beatch
Raptorial

Crainfly

While Douglas urinated, he was distracted by the bizarre, buzzing plight of the crainfly. This train of thought was whistled ahead by one particular insect which had made its way into Doug's house through an open window, attracted by the lights inside no doubt, and now buzzing around in the porcelain dish of the bathroom sink. Repeatedly, it bashed into the sides of the sink head first... slam! ...slam! ...slam! as if it was trapped in a lidded jar. The fly seemed incapable of visualizing the open air just centimeters above its tiny head.

"Do you even realize why you hurt so much?" Douglas asked aloud, not really caring if the air would translate his vocal vibrations into mosquito language or not. "You're sustaining multiple blows to the head thanks to a poorly conceived flight plan."

Doug zipped up his pants. "Talk about the school of hard knocks... no wonder you bastards only live 36 hours."

Having said that, Douglas contemplated the evolutionary scheme, and his 'privileged' ranking in it. He felt proudly superior to the buzzing creature in the sink and leaned forward to address it.

"Hey crainfly!" he said slyly, almost in a whisper, as he held up and showed off his hands.

"Free digital grasp!!"

If words are seeds planted in fertile minds,
then let 'evolution' grow
let 'revolution' grow

About Vitality

Many brilliant people who ought to know better
Waste their valuable time on Earth talking 'bout the weather
Now vital times they come and vital times they go
We could be in vital times, instead we pick our nose.

Wonder Estimate

I see the work faces
I hear the work questions
I learn the work language
I feel the work is relentless
Who wonders?
I don't wonder

I see the commerce exchange
I hear the register bells
I learn the language of economy
I feel the dollar addiction
Who wonders?
I don't wonder

I see playtime approaching
I hear it's just a reprise
I learn to live with its brevity
convinced there's no time for ease
Who wonders?
I don't wonder

I see Gaia's slow slow death
I hear the bickers and blame
I remember all this was preventable
I feel guilty and ashamed

I wonder why I don't wonder why

From sea to shinging sea,
Stupidity pours forth as if from the glands
Enshrining us in mindless conformity
Like glass from the melting sands

Please, my fellow Americans,
Do not join The Voluntary Stupidity movement
With its offices all across the land
It's gone trans-national, I understand...

Humans create pollution. This is indisputable. Pollution is poisonous and, therefore, can kill. More humans = more pollution. More pollution = more death by poisoning (a slow death that usually comes in the form of cancer).

This is true unless humans become smart enough to stop polluting so much. More intelligence = less pollution.

If we increase our intelligence while simultaneously decreasing our human birth rate, we have a chance to decrease the level of lethal poisons that surround us daily.

Seems fairly plain to me.