John Tischer
“Common sense is painful”
(paraphrase of Buddha’s first
truth)
I do not advocate revolution in the
US of A
because it will put my life at risk.
I do not advocate a national
demonstration
of protest against a criminal
government
because it will put my life at risk.
I do not advocate assassination of
any CEO of
banks, oil companies, Monsanto,
leaders
of the Republican and Democratic
Parties,
DOW Chemical, heads of the CIA,
NSA,
the Fed., or any of the other criminal
institutions and businesses of the
USA,
because it will put my life at risk.
I do not advocate a boycott of all
elections
by all Americans because it will put
my life at risk.
I do not advocate that all
intelligent Americans
that can see what's happening there
with their
own eyes leave the country and let
the bastards
that are left eat each other alive,
because it
would put my life at risk.
I advocate that individuals use
their common sense,
and realize that there is no way
those planes could
have brought down the Twin Towers...
common sense
and the statements of hundreds of
expert engineers.
Common sense is painful.
I advocate that people start using
their common sense
about what's happening with
fracking, domestic military
use, Wall Street robbery, media
brainwashing, loss of
Posse Comitatus, and Habius Corpus,
general erosion
of the Bill of Rights and begin to
understand what's
happening in America.
I advocate that people start looking
for themselves and
not listen to what they are being
told....common sense....
which has been and is being as
degraded as much as
the environment we live in.
The Declaration of Independance says
people have a
right to overthrow a corrupt
government. You didn't
hear that from me....I don't want to
put my life at risk
for a populace that cares only for
shopping, sports,
cable T.V. and their I pods.
It's ok with me if you're
content to stew in your own
cesspool. Just realize
that I won't bathe in it with you.
(Courtesy of the author)
Cultural profile
John
Tischer (born in 1949, in Chicago, as a son of a German father and a Jewish
mother) is a contemporary poet from the United States. He graduated the
Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Chogyam Trungpa in 1972. In 2004
he settled in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
John
Tischer writes poetry since the 70's. A few poems from his vaste creation have
been published in “Windhorse”, a Buddhist literary magazine. He was also
present with poetry on "Sleepless Nights", an electronica music radio
show (KGNU, Boulder, Colorado), a dozen times in the late 1990’s. Some of
his readings are available as MP3 on www.buddabomb.com
Published
books: Brownian Life (“Bibliotheca Universalis” Collection, Ed.
PIM, Iaşi, 2015). Books in progress: Café at the End of Time (a
novel). Poetry blog (since 2007): Eggtooth Breaks Open, www.johntischer.blogspot.com
John
Tischer is an honorary contributor of “Contemporary Literary Horizon” from
2011.
(Courtesy of Daniel Dragomirescu)
See also: America Is No Longer A Democracy
