Prose of a Con

Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

Culture

E=MC^2

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Life is your economy

fueled by energy, empathy and economics

on this journey

the car is your economics

the passenger is your energy

the road is your empathy

if E=MC^2

then Energy, equals Mastered Condition and Consciousness

meaning that our energy,

is a product of our conditions and consciousness

energy- meaning our life

conditions- meaning environment and influences

consciousness- meaning our knowledge wisdom and understanding

so where we are placed,

and what is imposed upon us,

mixed with what we are and aren’t aware of,

create our dispositions, our mind state

because…

we are both the sum of our experience

and the manifestation of our thoughts

but like an old proverb, once you know, you can’t unknow

so once we realize and act behind the knowledge of-

our thoughts creatingh and driving our experience-

then we won’t just be a conditioned herd

there’s an African proverb which says,

“they don’t know, what they don’t know,

because they don’t know, that they don’t know it”

but once awakened, learned and liberated from unknowingness

then we can become empowered thinkers

capable of manifesting our own desired realities

and transcending our conditions

because of our enlightened and in-tuned consciousness

if we have a stronger connection to our metaphysical constructs

not being so attached to the physical

then we can will transmute our spirit’s knowledge,

to tangible life changes

which offer

prosperity

health

peace

harmony

and loving relationships in abundance

and we can begin to create for ourselves,

instead of solely accepting what has been created for us

being nothing more than consumers

only influenced, and rarely influential

because

“if all we desire is the inanimate objects,

then like them, we shall also decay”

our creativeness lacks in a reality where all there to be gained

is viewed as limited

and savagely competed over

therefore our beliefs will stretch no further

than our own understandings of abundance and limitlessness

“we foolishly believe our OWN limitations are the proper measurement for limitation”

but I say,

“we foolishly believe ourselves limited and not limitless”

no matter our experiences

we can be the most important imprint upon our own lives

transcending our conditioning,

by transforming our consciousness

getting away from thoughts anchored in

want

poverty

misery

failure

and defeat

instead of measuring ourselves up against others

we measure ourselves with others

not having to rely so heavily on influencers

but seeing ourselves as both art and artists

because like a quote from me says

“art thou both art and artist?”

see the creator and experiencer in yourself

contrar to popular belief, we have enough room for free thinkers

in that of being a free thinker,

you will begin to see your part of the whole

and the oneness of all

because E=MC^2

and if energy can’t be created nor destroyed

then all there is boundless energy around us that we all share

constantly giving and receiving

so who made up the word limit anyway

Societal Farmers

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Take a look at who you process

those innocent kids thrusted into

statistics

poverty

and trauma

then grew up

after coping with minimal help and understanding

but you did understand us!

At least enough to categorize us into statistics

before we had any choice in the matter

and yet you still sent us away

with extreme prejudice, without prejudice

throwing away the key

even though you knew where I’d be headed

you sounded no alarm

you shepherded me towards harm

I see, I was born to a farm

statistics was just me being forewarned

Changed the Same

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Reva Siegal created a term called–preservation through transformation–wherein white privilege is maintained, while the rules and rhetoric change. So all this crying out for change is no different than other times where laws and public consciousness seemingly changes for the better, but the unspoken rules of racism and status quo are still held in place.

Institutions are arenas of social control and indoctrination-silently enabling racism, while diatribing color blindness- then lower and working class whites-whom are determined not to be the bottom of American hierarchy-are pitted against urban peoples for resources and mainstay so racial sensitivities are stoked to give breath to self, race, and preservation at the expense of the lower class. Which so happens to be the largest percentage of “America’s” people.

Chained Change

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Prison is a unique walk

that is,

if you’re looking to grow and mature

because making it through should be an accolade of itself

it is the physical boundaries of self determination

and self actualization

versus

self sabotage

and self annihilation

and the walk of growth and maturity in prison

almost never happens in the beginning

you have to go through that obligation to darkness

to achieve that opportunity for change

its actually surreal

when the world sees change as a demand

which it constantly stifles

yet sentences you to its quarters

as if it is a cleansing process

all go through and inherit without strife or struggle

but in prison,

change is a reward of long, hard fought battles

that end in many personal deaths

manifesting itself for you in the illusively ending war

as a right,

and if you take it’s hand,

it becomes a matter of how much of you is there left

to even bother taking it up on it’s offer,

unknowning what you have to offer

or even how and where to start

after seeing the truth of humanity

all concentrated in one area

the cost of change comes with

disorientation

survivors guilt

and PTSD in here,

what does yours come with?

Vote: Biden/Trump

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Voting either or is better than neither nor

Because if we’re only spoken for

Then who will we be speaking for

The worst choice is no choice

The worst voice is no voice

No choice gives no voice

To those with no voice and no choice

Because that choice and that voice

Isn’t our voice nor our choice

So we remain voided and voiceless

Having no real choice hoisted, because our choices are voided

So it may be ideal to have the best of both worlds

Instead of being hurled at with either or’s

because we may believe in one thing while we’re may be leaving more

and when it comes to making answers then those maybe’s leave a sore

but if we only get two choices that cement our either or

we can’t choose neither nor

because ‘we’ is more

we can’t treason our seats of reason and freedoms every 16 seasons

because our personal grievance left us needing more

let’s make do with at least a few of the pieces we leaning towards

and bring to them more meaning and agreements we’re feinding for

we have to awake the sleeping and unleash the sleepless horde

not ignore choices to settle secret scores

passing right through change and achievement’s door, like cheating scores

choose the lesser of two evils, that’ll help us sheath our swords

because if we don’t keynote speak our peace then we’ll concede our choice

and may peephole see and hear the speed of war

therefore what we had may be taken and feasted on

while keeping us screaming and seeping between seams and teams of either or

until those seams are torn

boring a new lore of we is more and we or nor

let we be our north

because I get it, this world forces us to be either either, or

but we have to build up from reaping the floor to sowing new ceilings and reaching for doors

so even when we’re lost at sea, we’re high enough to see the shore

and after we’ve cultivated enough of this and that

we’ll be able to create a oneness of people with middle ground, that won’t leave or mislead you to either or

where maybe the eqalitarian equilibrium plea of three is born

because we have to be hands on like ouija board

and have a direction that will ultimately reveal the best of both worlds that silenced people been dreaming for

because right now, people like me can’t vote either for either or