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Rant 3

Labels scare the shit out of me. Since the time we are born we get stamped with labels. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isaiah. Higher caste, lower caste. Small town, developed city. And the newer ones that always seem to offend someone or the other. LGBTQ and a few more obscure letters. A dozen different sexualities and a hundred different orientations formed from those sexualities. Feminists, menimists (apparently "menimists" hasn't caught on with the Google dictionary... I bet that will offend someone). What the hell happened​ to just being human? Or is the "man" in human offensive to some pseudo-feminists? Ooh! Another label! We pretend to unite for a cause by causing several more partitions. And what's more? We get offended by the mere sight of the opposing party. (I bet that offends the "neutral" or diplomatic population) We refuse to see and instead relate. Relate to our memories. Relate to our assumptions. Relate to our impulses, obsessions and emoti

Second chances...

March! March! Marching on! Trunks, massive and old; Wither and fall. Revs and rumbles Uprooting, trailing splinters. Yellow machines Reducing green to cinders. March! March! Marching on! Camouflaged steel; Crushing bony offal. Venomous microphones, Hateful cones. Dividing sheep and Making violent drones. March! March! Mar-! A wash of white! A sphere of plumes... Silence... Silence at last! But wait, look! Alas! A sky of darkness, Weeping on morbid dirt. Silence, silence, silence at last... A stillness, stiffness; A petrified past. And then they chose To rise again. A ray of hope, a heart-shaped green. A start over, with newer friends...