I’m going to do one more poem based on the quote that Lourdes Mint sent me.
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
–Niels Bohr
Science and Politics at the Redneck Bar
It’s easier to talk than think,
especially when you’ve had a drink
or two or three or six or seven.
That’s when you’re sure you’re going to heaven.
And anyone more liberal
is surely going to go to hell
along with those who worship God
with rituals that you find odd.
And even worse is all of those
in turbans, robes or hippie clothes
who don’t believe in God at all.
They’re destined for the biggest fall.
Transsexuals and the profusion
of folks with sexual confusion
need to get their heads on right.
or be removed from good folk’s sight.
Those who pontificate in bars
sport redneck slogans on their cars
and are so sure that them and thars
will live with God up in the stars.
Creationism is a fact
and scientists have made a pact
with one below who waits for them.
to come and make their home with him.
and they don’t even need to think
beyond what they next want to drink,
They’re so securely in the know
because the Bible told them so.
They do not need to feed their brothers,
or provide health care for the others.
Planned Parenthood’s the devil’s scheme
and Right To Life’s the savior’s team.
Woman should bear what she has sown
and raise the product all alone.
It is her punishment for sex
this guilt for children she neglects.
Society should never pay
for lowlife children such as they.
Society should close its doors
to the progeny of faithless whores.
Retribution is the thing
Obamacare neglects to bring.
Cutting welfare’s the best way
to insure they pay and pay.
If you were smart like them, you’d know
this scheme is how the world should go.
First remove birth control and then
make sure she has her spawn of sin.
Do not provide for them at all.
Then you’ll begin to see Eve’s fall.
What she brought Adam to she’ll see
and be punished endlessly.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
‘First remove birth control and then
make sure she has her spawn of sin.’ This rings so horribly true, Judy… scary!
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Judy, any comment on this has to be subjective but I agree so strongly with the main ideas in this poem that I would rate it in your top three that I’ve read. I watched a live TV debate on American TV a few days ago about homelessness and why it is not dealt with as it should be in NY that I actually put up a blog on the subject called ‘Pins and Needles’ yesterday. It was a heavily edited version of what I really felt and almost wish I’d binned it because I know and like NY. But the blind arrogance of the drunks in your poem today made me glad after all that I said something! Fortunately I have enough American blood relations not to feel that I was attacking one of my favourite countries in any way at all, but as you have shown, there really are some terrible people among us. Thanks. Ciao. Anton
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Judy, any comment on this has to be subjective but I agree so strongly with the main ideas in this poem that I would rate it in your top three that I’ve read. I watched a live TV debate on American TV a few days ago about homelessness and why it is not dealt with as it should be in NY that I actually put up a blog on the subject called ‘Pins and Needles’ yesterday. It was a heavily edited version of what I really felt and originally wrote. I almost wish I’d binned it because I know and like NY. But the blind arrogance of the drunks in your poem today made me glad after all that I said something! Fortunately I have enough American blood relations not to feel that I was attacking one of my favourite countries in any way at all, but as you have shown, there really are some terrible people among us. Thanks. Ciao. Anton
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I know. I thought about not postimg my poem because I didn’t want it to be an anti-religion rave. What I hate is people who profess to be religious who go against all the true tenets of the religion they profess to be representatives of. I know many sincere Christians and Muslims who know that religion should first and foremost bring peace and acceptance, not war and proselytizing. But, like my other poem long ago that adopted the personae of a misogynistic male, I wanted to display the true hatred and small-mindedness of what seems to be a larger and larger part of our world society. Or, perhaps the coverage and reporting of such evil has just got better. Probably the latter is true. Hope so.
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This one is not a poem. This is an epic I would say. Beautiful flow and words just fit where you put them.
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Wow! Look at what one of my favorite quotes has cut loose! I agree that this is not (just) a poem. Funny (as in scary), though, how gleefully one might read it if it fell into the hands of someone sitting at that redneck bar or — LET’S FACE IT — MANY BARS that would never identify themselves as such. I wish this thinking belonged solely to “rednecks” who’d had too much to drink, but I’m starting to see that it’s strolling quite soberly down the aisles at Whole Foods too, sipping coffee a few doors down, joking jovially with no one in particular in some random elevator about things many would not find funny (because they aren’t ;)), mistakenly assuming everyone around is of the same mind.
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Sigh. Too too afraid you are right. Wish the truly religious could wrest the power back into their own hands. Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect–Unfortunately the really dumb are too dumb to know they are dumb and so they act as though they were very smart…Works right in to your quote!!!
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May (or may not) have heard of it, but have seen it in action for sure! Checking it out.
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