Some words of inspiration

Here is a poem I heard read earlier today by the poet Staceyann Chin.  The poem is entitled, "The Low Road" and was written by Marge Piercy.  I couldn't find a video of the powerful rendition of the poem so I decided I would post the verse and let you take a shot at reciting it.

The Low Road 

What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..

They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can’t walk, can’t remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you can’t stop them doing.

How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion

Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.

Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.

Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.

It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.

Peace to all the Nihilistic cavemen

Shout out to Lt. Headtrip for coining the above phrase.  What makes your head trip?  There's too much nowadays to try to solve everything or fathom everything at once.  Step by step, piece by piece I suppose.  If everyone does their part can things be better?  But then we have to figure out what everyone's part is.  We have to agree on what is "right".  Signing out before I fall too deep into my own rabbit hole.  It will occur soon enough and I will keep all of you posted out there in TV land.  Maybe the revolution will be televised, or better yet Youtubed.

-As always it is the Altruistic ANIMALLLL, Alpha-

I bid you adieu.

The Survivorvolution

We can start the Revolution just by walking up to them and saying.... Hello! Just some thoughts from Alpha the always anonymous yet analogous.