Attitude is Ace.
Content is King.
Context is Queen.
Grammar is Jack.
Who Am I?
I am a white, heterosexual, cisgender male. Some might say this makes me an oppressor.
I am the son of a working-class family, the first to go to college. Some might say this makes me a bootstrapper.
I work with my mind and a keyboard is my most valuable tool. I enjoy learning, thinking, the arts, and the sciences. Some might say this makes me part of the elite.
I served my country, in the way that I could.
I am a husband, trying to be the best that I can.
In my genes I am a neither a father nor a son, but I am both in my heart.
I am a man.
I am a human.
Star Tripping
Someone thought it was a good idea
To send out into space,
A golden map of where to look
To find the human race.
On top of that it also told
In a hundred fifteen languages no less
That we are completely disunited-
A multicultural polyglot mess.
It told about our resources
In pictures, graphics, and sound.
The more I learn about this Voyager,
The more mysteries abound.
“Through adversity to the stars” it says
In Latin- English Morse code.
The adversity likely starts when THEY
Follow it back to our abode.
Sagan called this message in a bottle,
Our planet’s cosmic hope.
That in fact may well be true
Until our overlords say “Nope!”
History says that the ones who travel,
Be that upon waves or celestial seas,
Are the one who rules the others
In their colonies.
So please don’t think it an evil whim
When I say, though they may travel far,
I prefer that, rather than being found by Them,
Both Voyagers smash into a star.
Engraved
Are you a replaceable part of society
Waiting to fall into your grave?
Or are you a philosopher and writer
Excavating Plato and his damned cave?
Pain
I’m writing away
The pain tonight
About something
I can’t explain.
About a man
That tried to do
The right thing
Long ago.
His actions then
His actions now
Will never ease that pain.
I’m writing away
The pain tonight
But the mud flows
From the rain.
I’m scrubbing hard
But nothing’s loose.
It won’t remove the stain.
I can’t remove the pain.