Emphysema

I was 33, when I lost my gumption
I was 33, when I lost my nerve
Almost 34, know nothin' 'bout free lunches
Almost 34, and I know all 'bout free dinners

And there ain't no prayer,
and there ain't no gospel.
I'm feelin' scared,
the whole entire world seems so hostile.

And there ain't no jewels,
no celebrity press.
Just a bunch of girls,
walking around with no breasts on their chests.
Life's a short walk to a hospice.
Spend your whole life,
looking for an accomplice.
Then pause, look back_
_what did you accomplish?
Did you get around
to doin' dat thang?
--Don't worry none, if you didn't.
Something looks a lot like nothing,
Naked emperors don't need no cloak,
sometimes when you're alive,
the only way to keep breathin'
is to smoke.

I don't fault you any,
for the spaghetti in your lungs.
I don't begrudge you,
for all of those drugs.

Sometimes, you just gotta feel_
    _purple.

Sometime, you just have to float.

Because the body, it wrinkles, fades, & can
    bloat.

You gotta coat
this shit filled Twinkie 
with sugar
'cause shit don't sparkle.

I know I'm gonna still miss you tomorrow...

But I'm 33 and I've lost my nerve.
I'm 33 and I've lost my gumption.
Don't know nothing 'bout any free luncheon,
but I'll eat that free dinner, if you care to serve. 

Tree Topper - (short poem)

Patty, I don’t mean to sound ungrateful and I know what you did was dear,

And that your intention was to give a memory full of yuletide cheer,

I appreciated the trip to the pine tree farm, very much,

At the garden of olives—it was an ideal lunch

And I don’t mean to be, such a bother or a bore

But what you have given me is just another task, another chore.

While he’s off watching fool’s ball,

My hands will be quite sore,

Besides, the needles are already browning

And I’m already frowning

At the hours this phantom limb is demanding

Unobtrusively ever green and reprimanding…

So as I don’t mean to be mean,

Patty, I don’t intend to sound ungrateful or queer, and I know what you did was dear…

…but could you perhaps, maybe, not get us a Christmas tree next year?

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The other blog post on the agenda was supposed to be written in October, as it will center on all the hypocritical "tricks" that abound in America during this spooky month.  For instance, October is not only "Breast Cancer Awareness Month", it's also "Domestic Violence Awareness Month", and also is host to the "Mental Health Awareness Week" - oh, the irony.  In the meantime, feel free to read this post by Elizabeth Plank on "Why Breast Cancer Awareness Month Is Actually A Huge Insult To Women".   

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How The Facebook Page For 12 Year Old Rapist Memes Just Became Munchausen Syndrome's Facebook Page

So...it all started with this article by Mary Elizabeth Williams called 'The War On 12-Year-Old-Girls', it has since ended in the film 'Eden'.

I'm currently reading 'What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire' by Daniel Bergner and this is after reading Peggy Orenstein's 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter' while endeavoring to get through 'Gulp' by Mary Roach.

During this recent reading journey what I've come to realize is that the ceaseless cries of manufactured males, screaming frat house catch phrases at each other and putting Revenge Porn on the internet, is a culture war, this is a knowledge war, yet we are in the midst of a Communications Revolution and we can literally just MAKE our own culture, we don't have to buy it any more.

I decided to retaliate against 12 Yr Old Sluts because grown men calling children sluts is not okay.  It's not something I could personally condone.  Something in me, perhaps a higher calling of maternal instinct kicked in (which is how a childless woman can still be an asset to society) and I lashed out.  I made a 12-Year-Old-Rapist-Meme Facebook page hoping that by pointing out the irony of being completely unable to identify a twelve year old boy as a rapist, raped, or promiscuous is impossible to discern in a glance or a once over but why do so many males do that with such a sense of correctness to us?

You're either too old, too young, too overweight, too crazy, too smart, too loud, too emotional...too much or not enough of something to earn his complete respect let alone a wedding ring.  So many males seem to just stop seeing their multitude of flaws, the same eyes that see each imperfection and short-coming of every aspect of our being.  We have men who are political/religious/media leaders blaming women in the workforce as part of the collapse of the American Family Unit, while they demonstrate more person-hood to a fetus than an actual person who's already here on the planet, who like to judge the so-called welfare queens for expecting handouts, where we are told having an abortion makes us more susceptible for breast cancer, we are paid less, underrepresented and OVER sexualized in the media (to the point where spell check keeps asking if instead of sexualized did I mean serialized) , office boardrooms, and politics--all while more households have a single head whom is a woman.

When did men start to think it's okay, even funny, to bully, taunt, cyber-stalk, and commit a thousand other sexual slights to our mothers, daughters, sisters, maybe actually to you?--has it always been?--will it always be?  Why has feminine energy been reduced to sex and motherhood with a thousand frivolous vanities?  And why are so many females compliant to just go along with it?  Are they that ignorant of reality?

But back to the topic at hand, the updated FB page, none of my memes on Rapist 12 Year Olds after the first few days were true to the page's theme.  I didn't promote it a lot, only had three likes, and all my comments were from angry males insulted by the page that found it difficult to articulate as to why.

This blog gets far more steady traffic and I wanted to share my collection of articles and pictures with you, constant reader, thus retiring the tittle of 12-Year-Old-Rapist-Memes to Munchausen Syndrome.

The preordained kyriarchy we are enmeshed in is a Munchausen syndrome that needs to end in this generation so that other generations may live harmoniously instead of in the hellish discord we've been experiencing.

Thank you for reading.  Please, feel free to visit the new Munchausen Syndrome Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Munchausen.Syndrome.Zizzer.Zazzer.Zuzz and share what needs sharing.