prayers for peace

 

While the Putin cats away

 Maybe the mice should play

And make pussy cat pay

for what he does to the Russian people.

Wishing safety to all the human beings subjected to the wrath of an old baby.

I wish I knew how to rid the world of tyrants

Cry baby cry

 

You’re old

enough to

know better …

well maybe not

we are in the middle of a pandemic, you selfish old man. 

What is alive?

 I think everything is alive.  I don't parse it.  It makes things a lot easier to understand.

I was told that viruses do not have a brain, are not considered alive and I wondered if theirs was a sort of collective brain, working as a sort of spooky action as a distance in a cloud.  Or maybe there's an airborne myecelium..or! haha! they dip into the collective consciousness?  

I found this article asking the question if viruses are alive.  Since I think rocks are alive, I think ions are a sign of life, this quote peaked my attention:

A rock is not alive. A metabolically active sack, devoid of genetic material and the potential for propagation, is also not alive. A bacterium, though, is alive. Although it is a single cell, it can generate energy and the molecules needed to sustain itself, and it can reproduce. But what about a seed? A seed might not be considered alive. Yet it has a potential for life, and it may be destroyed. In this regard, viruses resemble seeds more than they do live cells. They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.

The seed example made me think of the seeds of men and eggs of women.  I think everything is alive.  I also think everything should make their own decision.

Are viruses parasitizing us to survive?  If we humans want to survive, what can we do to discontinue the virus' survival.  It survives, by spreading from one host to another.  Thus we should stop the spread.  The best way to do that is the mask.  Vaccine or not.  It's the mask.  Are we smarter than the virus?  Are we going to continue it's bidding?  

Parasites are considered alive.  Viruses act parasitically.  What direction would virology take if we considered viruses alive?

Anchoress Away!

Book board diptych

Teenage Anchoress

I gave up my life to pray for you

gave up my pretty clothes too

I didn't want to marry my betrothed

an old man from an old throne

I ran away into a cell

I was kept with nothing well

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this

cuz I know I'm not havin it

What did I think of all day in 

my one person room?

Sometimes an anchoress never 

leaves and it becomes her tomb

Mostly I think of food,

but I also keep in mind the common good

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

I was there at my death ritual

now my life is habitual

pray, eat, pray, teach

pray, eat, pray, I don't preach

I'd do it all again to retain my own power

living autonomously in my miniature tower

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this 

cuz I know I'm not havin it

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

just sittin, lookin out into the wild world