Wise

Mindful monarch, make monopoly forbade

Domination the assassin of invention

Wise republic, infrastructure lavish-laid

Only by trade, prosperity made

And beware the bureaucrats of big gov

Stagnation suffocates all we love

Common-Law Emergency Contact

Here we are babe, we made it

We beat the odds, we cleared the bar

They said it couldn't be done

They said we'd never get this far

But love's a mysterious power

Love's a miraculous beast

Love can move many mountains

and there's hope for the middle east

Coz here we stand in our fuzzy slippers

for all the world to see

That i can put up with you

and you can tolerate me

The calendar says it's true

I think your mom had a heart attack

Here we are, me and you

I'm your common-law emergency contact

When you're by my side

how the weeks do fly

Other lovers fade so fast

Do they really even try

For love's a mysterious power

Love's a miraculous beast

Love can move many mountains

and there's hope for the middle east

Coz here we stand in our fuzzy slippers

for all the world to see

That i can put up with you

and you can tolerate me

The calendar says it's true

I think your mom had a heart attack

Here we are, me and you

I'm your common-law emergency contact

Is it love or laziness

that keeps our lives entwined

We're not getting any younger

I might be the best you'll find

People ask us our secret

What it is between you and me

We tell 'em it's one part humor

And three parts apathy

For love's a mysterious power

Love's a miraculous beast

Love can truly move mountains

and there's hope for the middle east

Coz here we stand in our fuzzy slippers

for all the world to see

That i can put up with you

and you can tolerate me

The calendar says it's true

I think your mom had a heart attack

Here we are, me and you

I'm your common-law emergency contact

Stupid City

We say pass away, we don't say die

Euphemistic language makin' me cry

Sliding the slippery slope to Stupid City

We say animals, but don't mean us

We ride the arrogant, delusional bus

Sliding the slippery slope to Stupid City

Unceasing self-serving rationalization

We convince ourselves black is white

We don't care who cries or dies

Same old song, might makes right

We're so impressed by coincidence

Numerology, astrology bile

Sliding the slippery slope to Stupid City

We think the universe sends us notes

and god has us on speed dial

Sliding the slippery slope to Stupid City

Your fake humility makes me wanna puke

If god were real, she'd drop the nuke

Proud Boys call the world fair

No sexism or racism out there

We get bug-eyed by coincidence

but the galaxy don't circle the sun

Your imagination mighty meager

Your messiah ain't the holy one

Numerically brain-dead monkeys

Our knowledge of probabilities nil

Aunt sally's call wasn't a miracle

Stop your silly self-serving swill

As the Beatle said, ain't it a pity

So much shitty in our nitty gritty

And that's the end of this dainty ditty

'bout Stupid City

Fetish Eyes

I'm so vanilla, hopelessly vanilla

I want vanilla sex all night through

Vanilla sex after lunch

Then a quick nap for an hour or two

Vanilla sex at sundown

Vanilla sex in cars and tents

Vanilla sex at the funeral

It's just good common sense

But maybe i have one fetish

Maybe i've just one kink

People who have a fetish turn me on

Is that a fetish, whattaya think

Urophilia lactophilia zoophilia too

I'm turned on by somnophilia, how 'bout you

I dig breeding kink and praise kink and electrostimulation

I wish i were a member of kink nation

Quirophilia klismaphilia autonepiophilia too

Agalmatophilia for folks who dig a sexy statue

Impact play temperature play and wax play as well

But don't use normal candles, as the pros will tell

Kaptoptronphilia katoptronphilia

maybe my favorite of all

Let's look at ourselves in a mirror

while we're having a freaky ball

I have a fetish for people with a fetish

Come to my place and turn me on

A fetish for people with a fetish

You're so weird, i wanna meet your mom

I wanna pet your pooper pet your pooper pet it

But i don't have a fetish

Tickle your pooper tickle your pooper tickle it

But i don't have a fetish

Oil your pooper oil your pooper oil it

But i don't have a fetish

Spank your pooper spank your pooper spank it

Hmmm

Urophilia lactophilia zoophilia too

I'm turned on by somnophilia, how 'bout you

I dig breeding kink and praise kink and electrostimulation

I wish i were a member of kink nation

Quirophilia klismaphilia autonepiophilia too

Agalmatophilia for folks who did a sexy statue

I dig impact play temperature play and wax play as well

But don't use normal candles, as the pros will tell

Kaptoptronphilia katoptronphilia

maybe my favorite of all

Let's look at ourselves in a mirror

while we're having a freaky ball

I have a fetish for people with a fetish

Come to my place and turn me on

A fetish for people with a fetish

You're so weird, i wanna meet your mom

Vegan No More

Rich people are like squirrels, hiding away their nuts

Nuts in the attic, nuts in the beach house, nuts in the account offshore

Nibble nibble, rich people are squirrels

Rich people are like ticks, sucking the blood of the poor

Sucking up money, sucking up land, sucking more more more

Suck suck, rich people are ticks

Rich people are like sharks, pooping out the weak

Pooping the indigenous, pooping wimyn, pooping out the poor

Poop poop, rich people are sharks

No more, no more

I can't be vegan no more

Gonna eat me some squirrelticksharks

Coz i can't be vegan no more

Squirrels!

Ticks!

Sharks!

No more, no more

I can't be vegan no more

Gonna eat me some squirrelticksharks

Coz i can't be vegan no more

Across the Sea

If i rowed across the sea would you turn and walk away

If i showed you all my need would you have nothing to say

If i shared all my sorrow would you shut your sight and flee

If the world ended tomorrow would you share tonight with me

Too weary for greed

Too sad to feel shame

Too lost to beg and plead

Too broken to play the game

If i rowed across the sea would you turn and walk away

If i showed you all my need would you have nothing to say

If i shared all my sorrow would you shut your sight and flee

If the world ended tomorrow would you share tonight with me

Legal Tender

If tenderness were legal tender dr. king's dream would be here

If tenderness were legal tender we wouldn't freefall in fear

If tenderness were tender the gods of greed would go away

If tenderness were tender you'd be here today

If tenderness were legal tender we'd heal the hurting hearts

If tenderness were legal tender happy homes wouldn't tear apart

If tenderness were tender the demons of need would go away

If tenderness were tender you'd be here today

If tenderness were tender i'd fix all the hurts i've done

If tenderness were tender we'd all sing our songs in the sun

If tenderness were legal tender we'd never take our own life

If tenderness were legal tender we'd swim from this cesspool of strife

If tenderness were tender the gods of greed would go away

If tenderness were tender you'd be here today

S.O.P.

Spikes or pillows, accident of birth

The meritocracy myth on Mother Earth

Spikes or pillows, roll of the dice

Here comes nasty, there goes nice

Spikes or pillows, luck of the draw

Who's your mommy, who's your paw

Spikes or pillows, a family plan

The heiress is horny for the pool man

People who play on pillows

Too comfy to care 'bout unfair

People who suffer on spikes

ain't gonna get out of there

Do you have a trust fund

Do you have connections

Did you get a free pass

in the dance of death and erections

Sunflowers or weeping willows

Spikes below, don't plummet from pillows

Weeping willows or sunflowers

Bye bye sun, here come showers

Spikes or pillows, what'll it be

It's pedigree, family tree

Spikes or pillows, i wish you luck

The palace perfect, the sewers suck

Party People

Alone in my room tonight

i hear the partiers on the street

I hate them, i hate them not

I hate them, i hate them not

I hate them

Sometimes in my room alone

i dream of being you

Just like you

I'd kill myself

if it were true

Don't joke, don't laugh it away

Don't deflect, it's not okay

Everything's wrong in our song

I don't go along

Alone in my room tonight

i hear the partiers on the street

They're going nowhere

They don't care

Leave me alone

Wordz

Words are manipulations, stop realigning me

I'm not the instrument of your insecurity

Nap your babble-rap, i already agree

Words are manipulations, stop realigning me

Words are manipulations, stop colonizing me

I'm not your 2.0. i ain't no mini-me

Abbreviate your bloviate, i already agree

Words are manipulations, stop colonizing me

Words are manipulations, stop gaslighting me

We're all so full of shit, i do not think you see

Gulp your pulpit preening, i already agree

Words are manipulations, stop gaslighting me

Words are manipulations, don't puppet master me

You season your biases with hypocrisy

I'm not some shadow puppet, even if we agree

Words are manipulations, don't puppet master me

Words are manipulations, stop auto-correcting me

Sing a song, i'll sing counter-melody

Stop singing mi mi mi, i already agree

Words are manipulations, stop auto-correcting me

A Good Man

A good man is never gonna ask you out

A good man is never gonna try

A good man won't ask you out

A good man would sooner die

A good man is mortified

by what men have done

Degradation, dehumynization date rape and brutalization

If you want a good man

You gotta make the first play

If you want a good man

There's only one way

Take his hand and show him

what to do and where to go

Tell him what you need

He'd really like to know

But if you want a bad man

they'll make the first move

If you want a bad man

with a trophy triumph to prove

If you want a bad man

they're gonna chase you down

While the good man just looks on

One more lonely clown

A good man is never gonna ask you out

A good man is never gonna try

A good man won't ask you out

A good man would sooner die

A good man is mortified

by what men have done

Degradation, dehumynization date rape and brutalization

If you want a good man

You gotta make the first play

If you want a good man

There's only one way

Take his hand and show him

what to do and where to go

Tell him what you need

He'd really like to know

Fragile Creatures

Men are fragile creatures, we pretend we're not

'Cause we're big, big and afraid

Tell us no, or tell us to go

We crumble

Men are dense creatures, we don't bleed

We don't see consequence, we toss our seed

Consequence we don't need

We don't bleed

Most men are rotten and the worst look like the best

Entitled charm, damsels to disarm

Most men are rotten and the worst look like the best

Rape then rest, rape then rest

Erase ego and pretension

Take away male lies

A naked man without fear

wants you to see babies in his eyes

Men are fragile creatures, we pretend we're not

'Cause we're big, big and afraid

Tell us no, or tell us to go

We crumble

Pumpkin Eater

Peter peter pumpkin eater

had a wife and couldn't keep her

But that was a long long time ago

when piggy piggy men ran the show

Today poor peter eats alone

in his sad sad sad lonely home

He didn't grow up or get a clue

He only slurps lonely pumpkin stew...

She Cries

She smiles when she sees an old friend

She smiles when things go wrong

She smiles when she wins and loses

She teaches me how to be strong

But then at night she cries, she cries in her sleep

How i weep when she cries in her sleep

She smiles when guests overstay

She smiles when people run away

She smiles when the world is unfair

She smiles at my sexy underwear

But then at night she cries, she cries in her sleep

It makes me weep, she cries in her sleep

I don't know why she cries

or where her dreams are at

But i hold her so so close

thinking about all that

She smiles when i screw up

She smiles when i do great

She lifts the room with her love

She carries all the world's weight

But then at night she cries, she cries in her sleep

It makes me weep, she cries in her sleep

Babymaker Ballet

Why'd you do it, why'd you do it

You don't even like 'em

Why'd you do it - "i was horny"

Why'd you do it, why'd you do it

You don't even like 'em

Honk honk

Nature has all the sights, nature has all the smells

Nature has all the whistles, nature has all the bells

Better run run away

when babymakers play

Nature will trap you, nature will trick you

Nature will sap you, nature will stick you

Better run run away

when babymakers play

Get that vasectomy, snip snip

Tie those tubes, don't be a pip

Wear three condoms, that's my tip

Beware that baby drip

Baby poop ain't sexy, sleepless nights ain't sexy

Monogamy ain't sexy, money fights ain't sexy

Better run run away

when babymakers play

An ovulating womyn's voice drops

Sultry and smoky, please stop

An ovulating womyn's face changes

A prettier picture nature arranges

Pheromones put down the phone, nature don't play fair

What's that smell over there, stop inebriating the air

Better run run away

when babymakers play

Nature has all the sights, nature has all the smells

Nature has all the whistles, nature has all the bells

Better run run away

when babymakers play

Pillow of Tears

Does she love me, i don't know

Will she stay, will she go

I gave up on normal

A long, long time ago

Another night of hopes and fears

Another pillow of tears

If i let you get away, i'll regret it forever

If you stay, i'll be happy never

If you stay, please stay, run away

You don't deserve me, i don't deserve her

That's how we play on planet Earth

Another night of hopes and fears

Another pillow of tears

You don't deserve someone who don't deserve him

Games we play on the galactic rim

Another night of hopes and fears

Another pillow of tears

Does she love me, i don't know

Will she stay, will she go

I gave up on normal

A long, long time ago

If i let you get away, i'll regret it forever

If you stay, i'll be happy never

Another night of hopes and fears

Another pillow of tears

Shitshow

We summoned infinite arrogance

Suffocating self-indulgence

The lessons never learned

in the empire that burned

Bottomless greed expanded

Onto slaves we branded

The lessons never learned

in the empire that burned

Brown, black, yellow, red

Empathy ever dead

Daughters raped and battered

Goddess dreams shattered

The rich got fatter then fattered

The poor never mattered

Lessons never learned

The empire that...

Devastation boom boom boom

Deprivation deliver doom

Devastation making noise

Deprivation erase girls and boys

Devastation gets the press

Deprivation soullessness 

Devastation apocalyptic sight

Deprivation eternal night

You swallowed the lies, you closed your eyes

Ignored the injustice, shut out the cries

Now the shitshow burns around your ears

A bullet to your head as you search for water

Blood flows red, with worse for your daughter

The shitshow burns around your ears

The sum of our fears

Torrent of tears

The sum of our fears

Millionaires buy guards, billionaires buy armies

Hear 'em marching, rock n' rolling

Millionaires buy fences, billionaires buy walls

Into the fortress they're strolling

Millionaires rent people, billionaires own 'em

Hear 'em marching, rock n' rolling

Millionaires buy love, billionaires buy death

Smart monkey made too much rope

Bats and bees never had hope

The lessons never learned

Burn monkey burn

Dark Beauty

Exquisite dark beauty in thee, eviscerating darkness in me

Exquisite dark beauty in me, eviscerating darkness in thee

Greeting cards can't capture my rage

Wedding vows can't digest thy disgust

Bucket lists can't contain our bile

Eulogies can't encapsulate our mistrust

Burn it down, burn it down

Burn the false world down

Exquisite dark beauty in thee, eviscerating darkness in me

Exquisite dark beauty in me, eviscerating darkness in thee

Empty eyes of disempowerment

Alienation zombies roam

Self-sedated sheep to the slaughter

Hapless hobos howl for home

Burn it down, burn it down

Burn the false world down

Part plunge pulse, i need healing

Part plunge pulse, i need to hide

Part plunge pulse, i need shelter

Part plunge pulse, keep me inside

Exquisite dark beauty in thee, eviscerating darkness in me

Exquisite dark beauty in me, eviscerating darkness in thee

We prance the predator polka

in hatred born of self-hate

Crack the shell of artifice

Plunge in the primal state

Burn it down, burn it down

Burn the false world down

APB

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

Sometimes i forget that i'm me

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

I wanna fuck unapologetically

I want to fuck almost every womyn

and the ones i don't, i want to cuddle

And half the wimyn i want to cuddle

i probably want to fuck too

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

Sometimes i forget that i'm me

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

This ache to erase reality

Sometimes i think i don't like people

But i know that's really not true

I just don't like people who pretend

and pretending is the only thing we do

Have you ever met me, well i haven't either

So so sad but true

Have you ever met me, i bet i'm swell

I just don't know, do you?

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

Sometimes i forget that i'm me

Sometimes i forget that i'm not somebody else

No one asked who i want to be

Calling out an APB

Someone stole my sex from me

Too pure for the poison of patriarchy

Someone stole my sex from me

Calling out an APB

Too sweet for the sin of patriarchy

Wouldn't play that game willingly

Someone stole my sex from me

Calling out an APB

Calling out an APB

Matrimountain

I want a womyn who wants three men, a womyn who knows her power

I want a womyn who wants three men, i'll swim in her golden shower

I want a womyn who wants three men, maybe even four

I want a womyn who wants three men, more cock more

I'm alive, i'm alive

I'm alive, i'm alive

I want a womyn who wants three men, she doesn't apologize

I want a womyn who wants three men, her heart is twice my size

I want a womyn who wants three men, maybe even four

I want a womyn who wants three men, more love more

I'm alive, i'm alive

I'm alive, i'm alive

Bring back the matriarchy, men are fucking fools

Bring back the matriarchy, we need her rules

Part plunge pulse

Part plunge pulse

Part plunge pulse

Sexual Patriot!

Hello my ebony goddess, would you help me heal the USA?

I'm devoted to the healing of this country

And i think the way is DNA

So here's my plan, i hope it don't stink

Here's my plan, please tell me what you think

Here's my path for the red, white, and blue

Nine seconds for me and nine months for you

We should try try try try try try try try try try try try try

Try try try try try to make a baby

We should try try try as hard as we can

And if we don't succeed we should try again

'Cause y'know, patriotism

Hello fiery mamacita, would you help me heal the USA?

It's time for this land to live up to its ideals

I've seen the future in rainbow baby squeals

So here's my plan, i hope it don't stink

Here's my plan, please tell me what you think

Here's my path for the red, white, and blue

Nine seconds for me and nine months for you

We should try try try try try try try try try try try try try

Try try try try try to make a baby

We should try try try as hard as we can

And if we don't succeed we should try again

'Cause y'know, patriotism

Hello sweet asian angel, would you help me heal the USA?

This country's got demons and anger issues

But look at these adorable baby shoes

Here's my plan, i hope it don't stink

Here's my plan, please tell me what you think

Here's my path for the red, white, and blue

Nine seconds for me and nine months for you

We should try try try try try try try try try try try try try

Try try try try try to make a baby

We should try try try as hard as we can

And if we don't succeed we should try again

'Cause y'know, patriotism

Hello indigenous princess, would you help me heal the USA?

I know i'm not worthy to carry your corn

But let's watch some lovely feminist porn

Here's my plan, i hope it don't stink

Here's my plan, please tell me what you think

Here's my path for the red, white, and blue

Nine seconds for me and nine months for you

We should try try try try try try try try try try try try try

Try try try try try to make a baby

We should try try try as hard as we can

And if we don't succeed we should try again

'Cause y'know, patriotism

We should try try try try try try try try try try try try try

Try try try try try to make a baby

We should try try try as hard as we can

And if we don't succeed we should try try try try try try try try try try try try again

One Day

My heart has always known

you were out there somewhere

My heart always prepared

for the dream we'd share

My heart was always ready

for a love without compare

I always knew i'd find you one day

but one day never came

My sadness always brightened

dreaming of you

My load always lightened

imagining you

I knew you'd understand

'cause you were waiting too

I always knew i'd find you one day

but one day never came

One day, we'd sing our sweetest song

One day, we'd be where we belong

One day, you'd come to stay

One day never came my way

Staring at the shadows

where you should be

Howling at the hellfires

of eternity

Knowing i'll never be

the best version of me

I always knew i'd find you one day

but one day never came

Why I'm Not the Father of Your Daughters

1)

Because spiritually, i'm drowning. When i turned 40, some kind of biological clock ticked on. Since then, a huge percentage of my sexual fantasies have been impregnation-based. As time passes, those fantasies have increased, not lessened! It's some desperate primal imperative that persists, despite zero rational sense. I have the patience/gentleness/humor to be the coolest parent ever...unless the weight of it destroyed me! My life is constructed to enable me to create art that might save a world. I'm married to that art, and it might be disastrous to put something else above that.

2)

I'm also drowning because of creeping desperation over not having found the great romance of my life. Where the physical & emotional are complete and balanced. The wisdom and technique i've been collecting all my life, have pointed toward one great relationship in which i'll feel 100% PRESENT for the first time. Years turn into decades, and nothing. I know this dream is unrealistic, given how damaged we all are in this culture of alienation and possessiveness...

3)

I've also spiritually constructed my life to be essentially penniless. A noble choice, but one that makes me ill-suited to parenthood. My life is a rejection of capitalism's hoarding mandate. In a world of widespread, horrific poverty, i've never been comfortable with the thought of having more than i need. The financial demands of raising children might force me to completely restructure my life. Which again, might destroy a beautiful thing.

4)

I'm also intentionally poor, because i've spent a lifetime trying to refuse white male privilege (even though i know that in the most essential ways, i never CAN). As a youth, i vowed to never take a "good job" that might go to some womyn or person of color. Maybe i could have better served the world by embracing my privilege to become as rich as possible, then use that influence in a revolutionary way, but...can you tear down the master's house using the master's tools? So yes, very noble but...a womyn seeking a mate will only hear the words "intentionally poor".

5)

In some ways, i feel like you can't trust me at all! My desire is so overwhelming, i feel like there's NOTHING i wouldn't do or say to have you. The only thing that redeems that, is that "having you" means protecting you more wildly than anything you've ever known.

6)

Should you even be flattered by my desire? If i'm not tapping into some universal-goddess mandate, all i'm left with are psychological/biological motivations. And the simple fact is that you press almost ALL of my deepest attraction buttons (natural/open/fertile/non-white...). You just couldn't be better-constructed to spark a pavlovian thunder-strike in my heart.

7)

It's also possible that on some level, i'm just using our relationship as inspiration to write songs! Since i've forced myself into a radically open emotional state (which brings more pain than pleasure), i should at least USE that for artistic inspiration, right?

8)

It's also possible that on another level, i've allowed myself to experience and express these feelings, only because i know there's almost no chance you'll respond! It's a "safe" way to express feelings i've never had before. Is my seeming-bravery only a form of cowardly emotional adventurism?

9)

I'm a teetotaling vegan agnostic! We have to laugh...

"Caste"

(The Origins of Our Discontents)

2020

-by isabel wilkerson

Through detailed comparisons of nazi Germany, classic India, and America's jim crow south, "Caste" deconstructs the function of caste in a society, and breaks down its elements. It contrasts caste with class, a fluid hierarchical tier in which anyone's status and wealth can (hypothetically, at least) rise or descend. Caste can exist simultaneously with class, but unlike class, caste is never fluid. If one is born into a caste, that is where they will live and die.

One anecdote refuses to leave my brain. In 1934, the nazis had ascended. They wished to enact laws that would codify the jews' status as second-class citizens. They sent a law student to America, to study the legal codes of the south. At the Reichstag meeting where the student gave his report, even the hardline nazis were stunned by the severity of the anti-black laws.

The nazis found America appalling.

Do you?

The depth of research in this book is simply stunning. Isabel's achievement stands alongside any work of nonfiction ever written, in essential understanding of America.