afford a moment

why are we paying attention?

isn't it a bit expensive for our tastes?

there is a definite illness

that happens when we sample

music and call it our own.

there is an illness when we download

books off of pirating sites written by authors

who can't afford the covers they commission.

there is a profound illness when we expect more, 

but want to pay less - when we're put off when the

'more' that we buy is actually less because it lasts

half the time.

there is a sickness in the world when we conform to

our government rather than having our government 

conform to us.

there is a disease happening all around us, but we're

too sick to put up a fight and pay our way out of the debt.

there is a virus, so deadly, that it has rendered us useless. but we don't have a problem paying for bullshit we don't need.

we don't have a problem looking the other way when we see someone living on the street. we don't have a problem mocking each other and being bullies to smaller bullies than us.

we don't have a problem not asking questions of ourselves to better ourselves to make ourselves more attractive to ourselves.

we need a better plan, a better idea of where we're going. a better solution to an old problem. a better life for living now. a better environment to leave behind when we're gone.

a better today for a better tomorrow. a better way to pay attention because the one we have is no longer affordable.