I Do Not Advocate Revolution

John Tischer

“Common sense is painful”

(paraphrase of Buddha’s first truth) 

I do not advocate revolution in the US of A

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate a national demonstration

of protest against a criminal government

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate assassination of any CEO of

banks, oil companies, Monsanto, leaders

of the Republican and Democratic Parties,

DOW Chemical, heads of the CIA, NSA, 

the Fed., or any of the other criminal 

institutions and businesses of the USA,

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate a boycott of all elections

by all Americans because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate that all intelligent Americans

that can see what's happening there with their

own eyes leave the country and let the bastards

that are left eat each other alive, because it

would put my life at risk. 

I advocate that individuals use their common sense,

and realize that there is no way those planes could

have brought down the Twin Towers... common sense

and the statements of hundreds of expert engineers.

Common sense is painful.

I advocate that people start using their common sense

about what's happening with fracking, domestic military

use, Wall Street robbery, media brainwashing, loss of

Posse Comitatus, and Habius Corpus, general erosion

of the Bill of Rights and begin to understand what's

happening in America.

I advocate that people start looking for themselves and

not listen to what they are being told....common sense....

which has been and is being as degraded as much as 

the environment we live in.

The Declaration of Independance says people have a

right to overthrow a corrupt government. You didn't 

hear that from me....I don't want to put my life at risk

for a populace that cares only for shopping, sports,

cable T.V. and their I pods.   It's ok with me if you're 

content to stew  in your own cesspool. Just realize

that I won't bathe in it with you.

(Courtesy of the author)

Cultural profile

     John Tischer (born in 1949, in Chicago, as a son of a German father and a Jewish mother) is a contemporary poet from the United States. He graduated the Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Chogyam Trungpa in 1972. In 2004 he settled in Tepoztlan, Mexico.

     John Tischer writes poetry since the 70's. A few poems from his vaste creation have been published in  “Windhorse”, a Buddhist literary magazine. He was also present with poetry on "Sleepless Nights", an electronica music radio show (KGNU, Boulder, Colorado), a dozen times in the late 1990’s. Some of his readings are available as MP3 on www.buddabomb.com

     Published books: Brownian Life (“Bibliotheca Universalis” Collection,  Ed. PIM, Iaşi,  2015). Books in progress: Café at the End of Time (a novel). Poetry blog (since 2007): Eggtooth Breaks Open, www.johntischer.blogspot.com

     John Tischer is an honorary contributor of “Contemporary Literary Horizon” from 2011.

(Courtesy of Daniel Dragomirescu)

See also: America Is No Longer A Democracy