Cops at a coffee shop, Talking loud about being cops, Trying not to listen, But cops have a way of demanding your attention, Coffee sips, a rarity for me, It's the great cup of consumption, It's the juice of far away lands, Hand picked by brothers; slaves to economy, Now the cops are talking about getting drunk. Maybe it's the coffee, Maybe it's the money, But i sure feel like I don't belong here,

On public schools

In the first place, the infiltration by soda corporations into public schools should have sent a clear message that the government is not holding class to enrich our children's lives, but to exploit them. And again with the national shift to charter schools, of contracting our children's education to the low bidders, a practice that was implemented with little regulation and has led to a situation where a large minority of charter schools have failed to meet educational standards. Education is perhaps the most crucial process in a culture's evolution. If the government sees it as a program that can be operated on ever shrinking funds and teach gross misinturpritations in history then we should lift the burden from our government and the associated tax requirement to the citizens, and educate our children in the community. An important question is should education ply the role of indoctrination? Or should it life the pupil to a heightend perspective to better choose their path free of the present pitfalls, such a indentured servitude/college debt. There is promise in many alternative schools, where the indoctrination is absent from curricula. They cry for more funding is made in the next breath after we order our beer at the restaurant, or request a color for our new cars, or blindly drive circles for fourty years consuming distraction and instant gratification. In the grandest view, there is indeed a scarcity which means the irresponsible consumer lifestyle we all at one point or another acknowledge, has in fact reached the threshold.

Same sex marriage

It is far easier to write new laws than change existing laws. The term "marriage" seems itself to be the problem. Let it stay a term defined by religion, and let a new term be created, so that a more liberated form of civil union can show clearly, the evolution of our society. Hold the state to its separation from church and withdrawal from the bigoted debate about same sex "marriage" and demand an equal sanctioned union for any consenting adults wishing to live together in support of one another. Let us not force either side to change in ways they feel denies them of their human rights, or religious rights.

Could

A dark cloud, dripping rain So beautiful. Bigot lovers, complain they deserve better. Drugs for children, and toys for dad. Kids slip into uninspired existence, anything is better than a child; mother thinks. Breast feeding is disgusting; mother thinks. No time to be a mother; mother things I don't care; father thinks. I don't feel; father thinks. Lining up for commodities; blinded by hope Building distractions and fill holes with green antifreeze Summer is coming, just wait and wait Tanning beds are waiting, waiting. New dogs will make your heart beat Small Business is good for Africa War is good for democracy Work is good for slaves On love: Reaching for the un reachable with invisible arms, Leaving reason on the floor Ignoring the dirt, the beauty scent of the body Covering up the love; the pig as a god child in titled to the world of pigs. Leaving love to the sun.

On Funk

There was an energy to music back in the seventies, an energy from which issued forth expressions of particular depth of soul in jazz, rock, country, and folk. This energy, in pure form is what funk was in the beginning of the seventies until its execution by music business producers by the short lived disco era. But funk is, and still to this day, a manifestation of the evolution of the primitive urge to creat rhythmic sound, or, music. As a funkiteer, one who was weened off of non self expression through the electric bass in a funk band, I submit this episode of the Gandhiflower blog as a testament to the power of funk. It has been some years since I've committed funk on a stage or street corner. Last I remember, it was in Pahoa on the island hawai'i that I had a bass in my hands. On stage at an open mic with a Seattle MC, we explored total improv funk, which is as real as music can get and the point where jazz became a style of transcendence. Our sets were about 70% successful,in that we would find a groove that would grow and flow freely without having to search of a sound more than half the time. Other times it was be what became of funk, contrived disco like grooves that to the average listener are fine, but to the average soul are less than uplifting. And funk is indeed uplifting in its usage of repetition and heaven rhythm. The effect of free style funk is unparalleled. Jazz is funk but funk is not jazz. Funk is the thing that exists in the space between; beats, dancers, ears, hips. As where jazz is an approach to music, funk is an origin.Funk is not a rehearsal but the meaning of the play, it is live and free. Funk can be played in nearly any genre, but it is an essence of expression like blues or klezmer. Unlike blues, it is not a reaction to oppression, but a free expression of being ness. There is a discussion here, not a decre. Funk is the closest thing to primal music in a sophistocated world there is in the body of music. There is evidence in the effect free funk has on nearly every audience.