That #@#$%! Season Again.

The Dunderheads are rising,
up on both horizons,
Left and Far Right,
leaving me fearing greatly,
this coming political season.

Ware the Dunderheads roaring,
their battle cries strident
against the soft words
the Centrists all speak,
drowning out intelligent thoughts.

This is the season,
when the political cyclones
gather in their names
to entertains a few,
and sicken the rest.

You know this season,
by the counter's ticking
as we log cases
of "Foot in Mouth"
and "Pants Spontaneously Combusting".

Sadly, this yammering crowd
takes to damned long
to thin out enough
for reasonable folks' work
to choose be easy.

Yeah, mock me, gang.
But really, I'm right.
The earliest contenders in
are rarely the ones
who survive to end.

So, hear my call
ye of the words,
mockers of foolish actions,
and sane society members,
and unleash the Sarcasm.

For they resist Truth,
prove lacking of Honesty,
lack all moral Courage,
and worst of all,
can't take a Joke.

So smack them around,
until they speak truth,
or bow out fast,
lest we really unload
with more than Sarcasm.

For I have loaded
Double Ought Truth Shot,
soaked in Sour Sarcasm,
and carried by sabot
carved from pure Satire.

And that is just the first rounds, the rest? Oh, much more psychically damaging to fragile political hack egos.
27March2015 - Dyfedd Rex

My personal politics prove problematic.

Too many feel I must toe

the lines of the Two Parties

or be just another apathetic voter.

This leaves me convinced others are

but fools who dance to drums

beat by demonic beasts who control

the world through their strange rhythms.

I rarely speak of them, lately.

Tired of ridicule over walking paths

others cannot see as valid beliefs.

But, they are my firm convictions,

not those of shadowy kettle masters,

who seek unison of oar strokes

to drive forward their own agendas,

making others feel they are theirs.

I hold that we have failed

the promise of the American Dream.

We lack the spine to choose

true servants to the Civil Order,

setting over ourselves a foul over-class,

Masters who speak with forked tongues. 

Mine is the way of Conservation,

of faith, not just petty wealth.

I am a social libertarian, and yet

I feel the need for accountability.

Mine is the view of few,

none out there hold many beliefs

that call me to a poll

to cast a vote for them.

Instead, being homeless, jobless, and surviving,

the path I walk is... detachment. 

Until one rises up as champion

for those things I have spoken,

none deserve my support, money, anything. 

I shall not defend this stance.

I see no need to, now.

Society kicked me one last time,

so I get the message carried

in that boot tip so wickedly.

You, America, are a failure, now.

And I should have stood up

long before now to say such. 

Now, I weigh my options, carefully.

Do I write off all people?

Walk off into the beckoning mountains,

never to walk amid such fools?

Or do I make a stand?

Pondering on this will take time. 

9June2014 - Dyfedd Rex, who is not dead, just been thinking. 

From the Warzone called the Streets.

I refuse to let folks have a pass on some things, these days.

Last week, Salt Lake City held a little "Homeless Solutions Conference", and where I usually sit at the library (where it was held) gave me a bit of a sideline seat, one that offered insight into issues of why these folks are so freaking clueless, so many times, about the real issues and how to seek answers.

I won't reiterate what I said on my rant blog, just advise folks to follow this link to it.

http://privislandkingdom.blogspot.com/2014/04/sweeping-things-under-rug-aint.html

Give me a few tries to make it work right, I am not an expert at linking, activism and all that crap, but....

When all it takes for Evil to triumph.... well, you know the rest of the quote, and I do view myself as a bad man with good intentions at least.. So, call me a Good Man, and realize, while I may not walk into such a meeting and unload both barrels, I do listen in, eavesdrop sinfully, if you must say it, and refuse to let somethings slide, when it's obvious you seek the "hide it under the carpet" approach, rather than seek a true resolution that might reduce the problem significantly.

Chalk it up to my allergies, if you must, but I must also make another quote, to warn folks I won't back down anymore, if pushed....

"No more running...I aim to misbehave." - Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of the Firefly class transport "Serenity" in the film of the same name.

Blinded by Their Own Agendas - a poem of the moment and streets

Yeah.... right.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56940960-78/homeless-lake-salt-chief.html.csp

I'll believe it when I see it...
as to fix things, you first must
open your eyes and look around you,
open your ears and hear what's said.
And from what I saw just today
that ain't gonna happen any time soon.

Out in front of the Library today,
with an incident already having two cops
at it, just right across 2nd East
I watched a Crime Scene Unit pass
a guy smoking dope in foil pipe,
with a tallboy passed to a buddy.

Yeah, right out in the open, folks.
With three cops in sight, kids passing
and other citizens noting all this activity,
looking around in total disbelief and disgust.
So, hold all the bloody press conferences
about the issues you think calm things
with the electorate you want, you fools...
...you really ain't fooling us about your failures.

I just hope the CSU at least called it in.
But I doubt it, given recent experience.

1October2013 - Dyfedd Rex in total disgust.
And, yes, I do have a clue who in power reads these...
---so wake up and bloody well do something.

Bad Limericks about fools in Congress...

I may be homeless
I may be jobless
but I will win the pool
about whose the lesser fool
against any member of Congress....


Take away Congress' pay
and when they holler hey!
Remind who really works
that most folk don't have "perks"
Then evict, cause they can't stay!


I still say, take away their paychecks folks.... If I was this irresponsible, I'd get sued by the company as well as fired.

I Have Political Opinions Too - A Poem and Challenge to the Powers That Be.

Glutton for pain and punishment.
Note: If you don't like poetry, skip to the bottom of the post for the meat and potatoes, but this is how I take a stand... with words, and followed by actions

Despite it all, I keep trying.
Each day I wake up groggily,
short on sleep from my situation,
not able to trust most folks.
But still trying hard to hold
my head up without cynical tilt.

Walk out into the cold mornings
and wander until the library opens
then come in, check my email,
praying one will say "your hired"
and always suffering that crushing disappointment,
as that dream never comes true.

But I slog through the darkness
where the spirits of others break
and my own determination is tried
with each round of applications sent
suffering for the sins others commit
as my allergies fire off daily.

I am the shadow of unemployment
not on the registers of officialdom
denied benefits, denied opportunity, losing hope;
but still driving on from stubbornness
for I am not giving up
but may change goals before me.

Others get benefits from ruinous policies
taking their stands with arrogant pride,
never paying the price of fools
passing that bill off to me.
But not for many more days.
My patience, like God's, has limits.

Hear this warning cry from me,
as I wander Homelessness' dark desolation,
you who sit in your suits
amid the halls of governing powers
your days of setting your compensations
may now considered to be numbered.

I am taking a final stand.
Listen well all who visit here,
for this voice will not stop
until "We the People" have power
over our elected employees at last,
and set their wages and benefits.

If you have a "Brass Pair",
I challenge you all to stand
here around this hobo of chance
and speak loudly of your discontent,
with one demand to haul reins
and tell the politicians firmly... "WHOA!"

Heed the call from the wilderness,
to make the politicians heed us
by calling for a Constitutional Amendment
that requires they come to us,
every four years, on bended knee
for their bread and daily pay.

But you never will do so,
for you fear the sworn retaliations,
forgetting we are the ultimate force
the trunk the branches grow from
with those three large, powerful words...
"We the People" now must act.

I will not be shut up,
I will no longer stand down.
This man is tired, beaten around,
but no longer has any forbearance.
I will no longer pay you
if you act so damned irresponsibly.

I will take all the abuse
the shutting out from any jobs
to achieve this one last goal,
and this I will truly pledge
having no fortune, only my liberty
and a life to dedicate now.

For I am a Punishment's Glutton,
the man who keeps getting up
no matter how you beat me.
Willing to fight this dark battle
against the idiotic Powers That Be
to remind them who is boss.

Stand with me, if you dare.

5December2012 - Dyfedd Rex/David Neely
Yeah, I'm mad enough now to force the issue. I call on all who read this to share it, show me you have the guts to stand up, and reign in the biggest waste of all in government. Paying for non-performance and incompetence of those in office, be it Federal, State or Local. Take back the power and spread the word...

Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America:
"As those we have elected have proven incompetent by policies of ideological brinksmanship, it is hereby resolved: Congress shall forfeit back to the People, not the States, nor any other body, the power to set their compensation and pay. Such will be determined by a plebiscite of the People, in the form of a vote with the Presidential Election Cycle, allowing the people to choose an option of a decrease of ten percent, a decrease of five percent, no change, an increase of three percent or an increase of five percent.
"Congress shall no longer set the benefits of elected or appointed officials. The People shall decide on each issue independently from each compensation of all types, whether such compensation is allowed, and all future changes shall allow the above options and one more: that of NO to the benefit.
"Further,  if Congress fails to finish the process of providing the final budget before October First, those in elected and appointed office shall bear the cost, by receiving no compensation or benefits until finished. The officers of the People shall continue perform their duties still, meeting and moving forward. No retroactive pay shall be given for the period of the delay, nor may any part of their offices be funded during that time period save from their own personal funds. All funds in their and their parties election funds shall be considered forfeited to the People for sustaining the defense and protection of the people first and themselves only after those they were elected to serve.
"And, as those we have elected have proven incapable of acting in compliance with the laws and ethics codes of the land, Congress, and all other elected and appointed officials, shall forfeit their granted immunity to prosecution while in office. Nor may this privilege ever be granted back to them by any means, for the People have learned to hold this power in their hands from past misdeeds of those they entrusted with power."
If anyone wants to change this, it better only be to make it more ironclad, not make loopholes. I reserve my right not to agree with changes proposed, as I am not here to promote anarchy or totalitarianism, merely true "Common Sense".
And no, I am not a member of the Tea Party, Occupy or other movements. Nor do I desire to be. I merely am a centrist, who is tired of ideological stands of the Left and Right ruining the country... learn to compromise, or I will stop compromising with you.
-D. Rex.

Admissions and Denials - A poem of life

There are things you never admit
like what you think of others
if their outfits really interest you
or being lost in familiar settings.

There are things you should admit
breaking wind in very confined spaces
that you have some vile habits
and knowing where you are going.

Then there are things totally unknown
even to your self when seen
for they slide by under stealth
like BO and other such things.

There is a lesson here folks
never admit to having an opinion
for any who disagree with you
will call you crazy or ill.

But never admit to being stubborn
ignore that mea culpa with everything
for being muleheaded about things leads
to losing friends or voting foolishly.

(15May2012 - Dyfedd Rex)