#1147 - what's the point?

 

1147

21.ii.23

4.52

what’s the point ?

or

priorities

 

what’s the point?

I hear this all the time

 

it’s practical, it’s existential to ask

 

never blame someone for asking a question

if that’s what it really is

 

what difference can I – can we – make?

 

o – hopeless, hopeless

world is fucked

 

the first words in the first language might have been these

and, before that, a groan expressed it

a pained look

did they shake heads then?

 

everyone likes to have a good wallow

partake of their poison

take their minds off of things

 

well, I have to ask you

 

what’s all this head apparatus for?

why bother being embodied?

 

‘bother!’, some say

and everything, good and bad, comes from this

having once bothered

 

how do you think we got here?

 

forget the why just for the moment

 

let’s just go basic

 

fire, the wheel, a roof overhead

 

what’s the point of a road if there’s nowhere to go ?

if it’s underwater half the time?

and the rest you’re driving through fire?

 

why have a house if it just burns down

if the roof blows off

if it washes away ?

 

what’s the point ?

can we make any difference?

I can feel the fat breeze of the cynical sigh

 

…

well where do you think the vote came from?

somebody stood up for that way back when

 

the government might not be great

but it beats having having thugs just break down your door

 

all that pesky safety stuff at work

it’s good having arms and legs, don’t you think?

and a forty hour week … and …

 

and glad I don’t live in the cholera swamp

asbestosis, silicosis

 

glad someone put on the old thinking cap

and cured a few diseases

 

don’t love big pharma

but glad for vaccines

 

but why call it air if you can’t breathe the stuff?

 

what’s the point of a river of toxic sludge

no fishing without the fish they say

 

you think you can buy your way out of this ?

 

just more and more and she’ll be right

like the graph of the market points up to the stars

 

remember – consume – be silent – die?

 

what’s the point of another dollar when all you can buy is filth

and you broke somebody’s back to get it

 

I’m glad somebody once stood up

seems like it’s time to stand up again

suppose it always has been

 

few things not quite right

you might have noticed

 

less of all kinds of creatures

less forests, less trees

remind me again – who makes the air potable?

yes, you guessed it –

more of us and our dozers and chainsaws

our pets and our bullets

 

less trees – there’s less to breathe!

 

ocean’s bung

your blood’s all wrong ?

 

what’s the point of a pub if there’s no conversation

cause all you can hear is the pokies

 

there hasn’t been respect, has there?

… for first peoples, for trees, for creatures, for truth

 

if we can’t respect each other then we can’t respect ourselves

 

what’s the point of knowing what’s wrong and how to fix it

o I see?

you think yll just bugger off somewhere

get a new world going ?

 

well let me tell you

Venus is a tad too warm …

guess they kept going with the poison

 

the years are too long on Mars

you couldn’t call it Spring on Jupiter either

that gravity’ll kill ya

 

I think this place is it

 

and you might well say

what was the point in the first place

 

the big bang and all that?

 

why bother with this world, this life ?

nobody asked to be born

 

but we’re here

look around

you’ll see

no Planet B

 

what’s the point of anything

next breath, you name it

 

why bother even knowing

who says the world is round?

 

let’s say

first things first

 

what’s the point of knowing what’s wrong and how to fix it

 

if you won’t stand up to say

if you don’t get up to act

?

written and authorized by Kit Kelen in order to save the world