The Great Gardens of El Paso

Mountain Herding Guard Dog

Imagine

Imagination is free, it's cheap to dream, just as hope is another idea, fraught without a profit near.

Yes, Today we can live in imagine, and think like the pirates; ready to savor the constant supply of edibles, from our own island of delectable fruit and nut trees.

It's all just a walk away for many; a walk out their front door as they slip into an arroyo, instead of a car seat, to tend the gardens of the present and the future.

Where is this wonder of the world? Is it a dream? "El Paso" destined into a property crammed outlay, has persisted as a wretch for the world to see. Another badly planned city, one that has no consciousness other than selling land to profiteers. Profiteers that build monstrosities so grand, that the mountains themselves look piteous next to them.

As man shows off his riches, burying his fortuned self within millions of years of barren rock, called Trans-Mountain; the others can only wait for another rich token of a male, to gesture them into work.

Little by little, the beautiful opportunity to make a gorgeous El Paso, has piffled into just houses.

A trance over the people, that the houses with very little amounts of land; are going to supply them with a life purpose.

As they lay their heads down each night on their pillows, with new bills acquired, knowing they can only continue on tommorrow; as the drones they've always been. Festooned, to survive their mortgage and carry themselves into retirement, hopefully with at least a hint of a smile.

Meanwhile, a garden dream is brewing. A collossal dream of a garden, so vast; that the barren desert itself, is pushed away from infiltrating our minds, with a fresh sting from the sight of another cactus.

A garden rich with fruits, nuts and dreamy flowers, a garden that tames us into the oblivion, of success.

How now? When all we see are houses?

There still are a few nooks and crannies, a few possibles where a giant pine can rise from the depths of an arroyo. A pine so tall, that the houses finally shadow away under it's shade.

"Plant more, you bastards!" yells a woman, as she quickly drives away from El Paso, forever. "What a lazy bunch of people, who didn't green their mountains!"

Possibility Lurking

"I see an arroyo over there, with no house slabbed into it! Perhaps it could be ours, another space for the garden."

How sporadic this garden placement must become, with each little desert alley, "demanded into the job", of bearing fruit for a kingdom of people, here and beyond.

When 5000+ sq. ft. houses have been built just for a woman to click around in her high heels with puffy feathers.

"What peasants out there," she thinks to herself, "to even want a garden."

As her ridge house just took up the destiny, of at least: 30 Olive Trees, 20 Apricots Trees, 50 Pines, 50 Grape Vines, 40 Fig Trees and 10 Date Trees.

Tear down those houses! I say, as another, "sot of an ideal", runs through my head. Of course! We could just tear them down, and make those "designed by a famous architect" builds go away forever.

Let's take back our mountains! Take them away from the filthy rich that waste away their idle hours; just thinking of how rich they are, ready to point their noses up, even higher.

"What drivelling swine", the house mistress says, "Clamouring for a garden arroyo, under her pedicured feet."

Taking Back Our Mountains

Well, the hope lays heavy, that at least one of the opulent is going to heed the warnings of the global call. That at least one of the 650 Billionares has heard of El Paso; and is ready to sway opinion, towards this city rejuvenating into a new "Garden Forested City".

A place where every inch of city property, along the mountains and the arroyos of its volcanic creation, become the "rightful belongings" of the citizens, known further as their "Gardens of El Paso."

Decades ago, there was a chance for a "fertile velt" that would have wrapped around the mountain, snuggled with it's own delicacies. However, now, we can only settle for a few inner-city desertified arroyos, and pray the land above the houses can still become "Ours".

Yes, and "Ours it is", the land belongs to the people of the city.

A takeover this grand is not only in our imagination anymore; it has a budget sheet of 4,000,000 trees (sd/sm/md & lg), 20,000 acres, with only $160 Million as the start-up. $32 Million each year, thereafter.

If more than 3000 people are hired in the first year, it means a requirement for a few more million. Dependant upon: the ability of El Pasoan's growing 1.2 Million of their own trees from tiny young seedlings, like the suppliers. Saving 3 Million dollars for more gardeners.

Then, 1000+ gardeners are hired in the years thereafter, for ever more. Obviously, for the first 160 Million, we could ask suppliers from afar... for a longer term pay-off of 3 -10 yrs.

No! Not so fast, a Bio-Diversity & Sustainability project is interesting, but will there be something charismatic also?

Yes! Draft Horses will live within the gardens, and be our helpers, as the trees are planted. Later on, the horses will pull our harvested fruits and nuts to their storage barns.

Yes! Large Mountain Herding Guard Dogs will watch over the gardens, as they tend a few exotic Brebis sheep from Corsica, while watching the hens as they also will be roaming free.

The Brebis will even nibble away the weeds & the lower branches of some of the trees; so you won't even need to prune those. Is this heaven? As their Fertile Dung, freely finds the soil.

Imagine, the bees & hummingbirds as they dart around gathering pollen and nectar, from Organic and NON-GMO fruit and nut trees.

Imagine, the birds building a nest, with a chance to test the delicious fruits. Yes of course, "we share", that's our Utopia; to share the pleasures, that our fruited & forested earth has to offer.

Hurry, and seek out a hidden arroyo, or a mound of a mountain, and claim your find, for "The Gardens of El Paso". For you, Mr and Mrs. El Pasoan, are the keepers of your own garden destiny, and no one else.

Spreadsheet link:

"The Great Gardens of El Paso, Tree List and Budget"

Starting an Edible Garden for Desert Arroyos

My Hillside Arroyo

It's a small arroyo, but heading towards being a forest garden;
where many edible plants and fruit trees can survive.

The planting routine; which could be implemented on the many desert arroyos already within the city of El Paso; by creating tiers.
Tier planting has gone on for "Thousands of Years", & there's no reason why El Pasoan's couldn't join in like the centuries & centuries of others.
From Italy, to Portugal to Greece to Spain's heavily touristed desert islands, some of the most illylic places on this planet, boast their beautiful agriculture for the natives and visitors to gawk at.
The City of El Paso has no right to forgo such an obvious attraction.
Not only Pleasing to the eye, but a sustainable agriculture within it's own city.

The Technique

The original hillside rocks are moved away with a shovel and a small hand-held fork trowel; Making huge planters, the sticks & straw trap the soil and rocks; & then drip irrigation waters the trees.
On a large scale, buried piping, so the deers don't trip... could hold also the drip lines.

Creating the Food Forest

The Pines & Cedars are simply Innerspersed with the Fruit Trees, providing cover and lowering the under canopy temperatures.

My arroyo so far: eldarica pine, arizona cedar, cherry plum, pomegranate, variegated lemon, blood orange, olive, figs, & a non-edible oleander, all starting out with a some new soil and manure.
Work time: 3 Days of work for 1 vegan woman (me, myself & I).

What the "Non El Pasoan's" must be thinking by now!

It's completely embarrassing, that the citizens of El Paso & the El Paso City Government have not been able to accomplish this undeniable fact of beautification.
Greening the desert in an Arroyo town; not only provides a supply of local food. The native specialties such as olives & pomegranates from the El Paso Region could be admired from afar also. "Better hurry or Dumb Nums will be your names forever."

Reducing the War Machine

This War Machine fellow
is to be avoided!

War Machine Reduction on an International Scale

Government Implementation:

(The Spreadsheet Chart shown below; contains the same info, yet may be easier to understand.)
To Eliminate the 3 types of International Wars;
1. Single Dictator Regime,
2. 2 leader-run groups w/internal fighting,
3. Indigenous "New Countries", primed for takeover by a neighboring regime.

The Answers to follow

#A.) 8 Country Vote by the "Global War Judiciary";
on the specific country (yes votes of 5-8, proceeds to #B)
#B.) The Stop Phase: Sanctions, No Trade or International Commerce,
no Financial Market participation.
#C.) 1, 2, 3 from above:
1. The Dictator
1.a. The vote of the 8 countries with a majority.
with the message of sanctions.

Reaction:
1.b. The Dictator accepts defeat, and turns the government over to a democratic vote for a new leader. In some case his imprisonment may be required.
1.c. After diplomacy and several months of sanctions has become exhausted, & The Dictator does not remove himself from office, refusing to comply. Then, if at his "kingdom headquarters"; a basic assassination* is required in order to oust the single tyrant leader; thus saving the many.
*The 8 countries will all take part in the official kill, due to the fact he refused to leave command , even after all the International pressure.

Regarding "Rulers in hiding", they will just lose their rule anyway,
so, simply put in a basic government in their "kingdom headquarters", as the tyrant has already effectually left office and is on the run. At some point he may be found, and would then be imprisoned.

2. Dual Regimes fighting within a country.
a. 8 Country Vote by the "Global War Judiciary";
on the specific country (yes vote of 5-8, proceeds to b)
b. The Stop Phase: Sanctions, No Trade or Intl. Commerce, no stock market participation.
Sanctions also go towards any country taking a preference to either regime, esp. if supplying weapons.

Since a block is on them to proceed, the block will be lifted when a fair democratic vote votes in another leader, a leader not from the original two. Advertising costs of the new democratic candidates will have to be paid for.

If it's a monarch under attack by a guerilla war-fare type, we will have to side with the monarch, if the monarch proves to be fair and just. Otherwise the monarch will also lose his/her rule and the country falls into democracy. Therefore, in most cases the 2 in the scuffle, will back away from being new leaders, and some leader-wannabees will need to be imprisoned.

3. Indigenous "New Countries", primed for takeover by a neighboring regime.
a. The takeover country is voted on by the "Global War Judiciary". If a "Yes", then proceed to b.
b. The Sanctions Blast"; (Intl. commerce, trade, financial market ) is applied to the takeover country, until they remove themselves & cease and desist.

If they're saying they offer better provisions for the people, that's still classed as a takeover and not allowed as their "new" business in keeping or concern. In this way the "indigenous country" does not have to build an army, the country is already protected by the 8-Country "Global War Judiciary".

War Reduction Chart via xls. (The same as shown in the above 3 images, yet downloadable.)

Carbon Reduction: A Simple Way to Start Powering Down Our Houses

Castle Tapestry
The Original Heavy Curtains

Heavy Duty Window
Insulation with
Pillows and Puffs

One way to start reducing your carbon footprint is to insulate. In this way Summer's are cooler indoors, while Winter's are warmer.

This blog is really only pertaining to windows that are not for day to day use. Rather about the windows in your home, condo, or apartment that are simply excessive.

Carpeting

For Centuries Tapestries have hung over a Castle's Windows, and this time is not any different. Area Rugs can be quite thick, which is key to increasing the r-values.

A single pane of .90 R (1/4 inch) can go as high as 3 with carpeting. (r-value .7-2.1 for carpets).

Cardboard

Cardboard is another method; covered by batting and fabric similar to a pillow. The r-value of cardboard is stated around 3-3.4, so with a typical thin quilt batting at approx 2 r-value; when rolled over 3-4 times. The r-value is closer to 5-5.4.

Results

So, you will get a higher r-factor from the cardboard method, however the carpet method is quicker and easier. (if you double the carpet, then you could increase the value to 6, the same or more than the cardboard pillows.)

Bonus Factors

Sound proofing from the outdoors is another plus, esp. for shy singers.

Instructions for The Carpet Method:

Another bonus factor to consider is... the reduction of ozone-free light, light direct from the sun itself; which can be very dangerous. Bringing UV radiation, skin damage, cataracts, skin cancer, weakened immune systems etc.

Second Hand Carpet:
1.) Cut to specs, (be careful with the carpet shears or knife), leaving at least an inch extra on the top or botton
If the carpet slips or buckles, double the carpet and/or use a wooden stick diagonally to prop it up.

Instructions for The Cardboard Method:

Window pillows in effect, though slightly thinner than a normal pillow.

The No-Sew Method:
1.) Tape the carboard together, then wrap the batting and tie with a string,
2.) Cover with fabric and tie the fabric with a string.

Find out your "Global Warming Footprint"

Carbon Process with Trees

Carbon Footprint Calculator

2 Metric Tons each per person per year is the ideal, in order to Stop Global Warming.
That reduction means:
All solar electricity including heating,
Limited car usage to none,
Self sufficient gardening with very limited to no grocery shopping,
No flights
No Mortgage or other loans
Reducing Insurance Costs to none.

Good Luck in your Tally...

or Try the Calculator at their site

Stopping The War Machine

Windsor Castle, from my ancestors.

As each day passes, there is the chance to reflect, make a change, or ignore.

Those that ignore are effectually pushing the wheel of the war machine & allowing it to continue.

The war machine itself; in this day and age of 2020, is simply each and every factory that already creates munitions and planes.
Whereas the other factories, setup to look as a fruitful economy for shoppers;
are also part of the plan of warfare; containing buildings and sets of machines therein ready to be flipped into the "War Effort".

The Industrialists who own the warfare-making factories, all around the world; buy and sell to countries on the premise of fear. Fear of attack by others, leading to the "have-to" purchase of war products. Those buyers parading in advertie that they've brought security to their country.

On this day I am still Cold War exhausted, even after it officially stopped decades ago. However, the recent rise within China by 19 major corporations, from Steel companies to Renewable Power to Construction Banks'; to adopt Communism as their way forward has become too much to be believed.

A new rise from the "Satin" of the past. These large companies are making fear of the cold war prevalent again. Where that fear; will only ready the need, for further purchases of war equipment.

In this way, the people lose, as they pay-out each paycheck towards paying for the new fear..."of a cold war on the rise". They lose, as governments prove that this fear allows for no other alternatives, aside from war-item purchasing.

The only direction the Industrialists keep honing towards is further warfare & the ongoing wargames conducted during times without an "official war". These Industrialist buyers are running the Governments of the world.

The People Cannot Lead Their Future

The people have proven for decades that they cannot vote these, "International Warfare Games" away. The people are just defenseless voices against their Governments.

The people have not been able to say, "No more" and actually have that happen. The people are merely talking into the wind.

Stating demands; "No more purchases from these 19 companies that are teasing us with a return to Cold War Communism"; does not make it happen. Even loud groups of people and their voices wanting to oust Trump from his Industrialist Reign; does not make it happen.

The Providers of the War Machine

In the look for answers, you have to look at the providers of the War Machine.

The first providers are the people,
citizens have allowed for the Industrialist's to grow into the extents of World Dominion, simply due to their excessive shopping habits. The people have proven they do not only want to shop for food and decent housing, but they have proven they want to shop for decadence. Making the "rebuy something new, again"; personality, which is is nearly everyone's next door neighbor. The addage of "Keeping up with the Jone's" has suited the Industrialist to a tee. Bringing them untold wealth and power. Power that writes the direction of the people; putting us into a world where votes really do not matter, when the almighty fear of war, is lurking on the agenda.

Each one of our angers independently or on mass means has amounted to nothing in the end. All of our wishes & wants have become fool-hardy efforts, only known as lost conversations where nothing was ever accomplished, bringing the people into the truth that they've no participation towards their Government. Small participations might exist, to assuage, but they are small and change from political party to political party. So, the boat of a future towards Utopia, is essentially sunk.

The Rise of Utopia?

The rise can happen, we are looking at 2 major principals of need & want for the people.

Sustainance; including Food & Accomodation; easily provided for whether by self sufficiency or other.
Education; easily provided for with the advent of either the Internet and/or books for learning.

I'm not bringing the pre-paid wage into these principals, as in reality, it's not really a necessity, rather a form of a decent economic structure which can be afforded to all the people, along the way towards a true Utopia. A true Utopia should not require money to exist.

The Starvation Answer

Now, that the Industrial Complex is in charge of our future like a leech we cannot remove, the only way to kill the leech is to starve it out.

By starving out the Industrial complex, we have to starve out their income, "obviously". Their incomes arise from each and every shopping journey; that's above and beyond a person's needs. (Trump's Gain as an Industrialist, started with a shopping journey to his Casino and Hotel.)

The only answer is to eliminate our wants of further decadence.
Where existing decadent items, already filling the majority of our homes,
are to be further known as... "The final purchase's from the Industrialists."

In this way, we bring "Armageddon" to them. & Yes, they melt away, into the crowds of obscurity, too powerless and too penniless to continue their wrath of ownership over the people.

So... when I say,"Stop Shopping & Close Down their Factories", I really mean it. It's the only way for us to grab hold of our direction again; by removing the blood-sucking leech of a War Machine, that's been obscuring our Future.

Chart for Bi-Weekly Payments for Mortgages

Windsor Castle, from my ancestors.

Bi-Weekly Payments for Mortgages

This is just a quick spreadsheet, once the correct dates, and basic monthly amounts, are set into it. It helps those on a set income, in order for them to pay their mortgages while saving. The bi-weekly is faster to pay off vs monthly, however it can be confusing as to when and if the savings will be there for those 2 extra payments per year. So, this spreadsheet just offers that information, while also allowing for a portion to be allocated towards the principal every month.

link: xlsx of the Bi-Weekly Payment Chart

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The Gaul: As the Bloodshed from their "Action" Continues

Windsor Castle, from my ancestors.

Getting Listy

Brave Heart AMAZON.COM ; I have a "TOP TEN" for YOU.

Sept. 6th: The Personal Residences are still on show for many sellers.

The Effects from this 1 wave of only a set of computer commands; "To Release the Sellers Residential ID for PUBLIC VIEW and GATHERING"

1) Public View to Anyone: Even Prisoners in Prison.

2) Supporting that Webcrawlers can quickly and easily obtain our Residential ID along with the Products held therein.

3) NON-Ecological Warfare Against our Planet, pushing PO BOX usage, thereby increasing Pollution.

4) PO BOX usage, drives up local & federal taxations further to all citizens, as we will have to pay for new POST OFFICES to be buiIt for the current tally of: over 3.5 million active sellers within the US; with 3000 New Sellers Per Day, this 2020.

5) Driving up city taxation for street and roadworks, due to the excessive “daily” road use.

6) Driving up our Home Insurance Policies, due to the increased risk of Theft.

7) Driving up Policing costs within our neighborhoods as we are on view, for any robbery gangs to monopolize upon.

8) Driving up car insurance & car repair costs for each seller who chooses to use a PO BOX.

9) As Paranoia for each Seller increases, Gun Ownership will also increase, meaning Amazon.con is supporting Gun Ownership, in lieu of fair and equitable business practices.

10) Increasing Medical Cost from the stress of "living without privacy"; given to sellers across the US and the world.

Forced Containment of Amazon.com

Enough said, Amazon is proving by this action to be an abuser; An Abuser not only it’s sellers; but to the citizens of the USA, and the Planet we live upon.

What a Business Monster: That has to be Contained, Controlled and Brought into the light of our current directive; "SAVE OUR PLANET from EXCESSIVE RESOURCE USAGE".

Where are the Fines Right Now! Today, being issued at Amazon.com by Governments around the World?

Citizens

Just play sleep until your dead "citizens of the world". Why care 1 iota more, aside from your own gather of materialism, why bother to care.

Hateful HUMANS, that deserve a COVID virus to wipe them out; off the face of this Earth!

As the Dream Falls Away: Online Sales

Windsor Castle, from my ancestors.

Under the guise of being personal,

I was just a woman who wanted to sell her artwork online.

The selected website, had all the trappings, ready for some type of income earning potential specifically for me. So, I signed up to Amazon.com about 5 years ago.

I re-organized by profit potential to sell prints of my artwork. All of which I deemed as normal procedure in order to garner an online wage. I ordered glass and acrylic to create frames around each print, even expensive black artist tape to bind them all together.
Then, by hand I put wire and loops for them to hang on the walls.
They've been ready for sale and online for over 4 years, & with not one bite.
I call this an attempted murder against me. An online misappropriation of selectivity that has brought me into further poverty and neglected me as an individual by not allowing me to sell my art fairly on the open market.

Today, I sent a wierd plea-type-of-note into their feedback machine:

"Why do you limit Artists?
Why do you only qualify RICH people who can afford a REGISTERED TRADEMARK in order to create a Brand Name just to sell a print.
For 4 years I've had 50 prints listed on Amazon, and not 1 of them has sold. No Brand Name in the search for them. Your company is too financially hurtful to me. Who are you people?
Are you machines that only allow Chinese products and RICH people with Registered Trademarks to sell?
Why do you want so may impoverished homeless people?"

I still hold my held high, but if my funds* run out, I'm ready for my death. I am not a child here with dreams into forever. Or living by some religious; "Help me, Help me, code". Their religious "GOD" response is even a further push towards getting out of this existence. Their push is so fake and bitterly false to me, that with each lie they spew I hate them even more.

I'm not able to commit to being homeless. Therefore, I will be one of those, that choses a death with dignity rather than a life left-over as a street victim, as a woman raped constantly and wrapped in her own filth. That's not a life to be lived for me.
Nor is it a life for me, to compensate my ideals and nod my head with the religious followers on their sainted path of, "We're all saved, loved and adored".

There just are limits, of the hurts and agonies one can feel, while still wanting to continue. Earning a living from my art prints was a step away from that direction, towards a decent survival. Where "I" like any other, do also require some type of "Pavlov's Cookie" in reward, especially, after all the work entailed.

This Amazon monopoly has just pushed me too far, where the essence of being a human that's allowed to earn an online living has been denied to me for too long. No need to yell, "Ebay" at me either, that's another needle in a haystack website for any art print.

Meanwhile, Amazon is of course pushing the "Masters", Van Gogh, etc., instead of those artists that are currently alive and living.

What's even non-funnier; are all my "Rich aquaintances" who "Love God", like a constant baptist church revival on crack.
Then, there's the other's; the "Too Rich" aquaintances, who live so snottily that even if I killed myself; they would only blink an eye for a moment and then go about their day as normal. I have the most "non-understanding of who I am"; as a set of aquaintances in the world perhaps.
They are possibly too mentally disturbed by their own wealth, or religious pastimes; in order to be able to communicate with them normally.

Then... I even released 50 online cd singles & mixed sets, with "Distrokid", with my cheap microphone; at over 50 yrs old, all arias. Yet, that online effort keeps hitting me in the face also. I especially loved the statement given that the arias held under that title or music composition have already been listed by another singer. Where only 1 singer is allowed to sing an Opera aria, and sell it online.

Before all the singing releases; I wrote over 7 books all on sale via amazon, with varied topics. Still no income. Truly unbelievable the disdain over my life, that has been thrown at me from amazon.

There's a point where, the online world has an ego so bound to a certain few; those who can afford Registered Trademarks and those who can afford to buy their artwork pre-framed; with the hope of a chance they might sell the printed canvases they've purchased; as they stack up in their "successful" garages.

Amazon has been evil to me, running its preferences to only Rich spoiled artists who can pay those Trademark fees.

It's not only Amazon either, every site I've attempted to make a living from has failed. society6; redbubble; zazzle; kindle books, shutterstock; 500px; and so forth. There's only so much 1 human being can do in the attempt to succeed. Thus far, it has only been a constant fail.

If you were in a constant online earnings fail for 5 years, perhaps you too would understand my current state of logic.
Meanwhile, major conglomerates, hire for minimum wage or even less, using their clout of price wars to become featured.

The amazon.com site supports them, the major corporations only. The little person cannot survive under their tactics of unfair business practices and greed. It's sheer Greed to ask for $40.00 a month from a single individual, and they know it. That $40 pays for more advertising, pays for buy boxes and pays for higher rankings for all their listings. $40 a month is $480.00 per year. A big company doesn't care, but the people like me who can only make a sell now and then, obviously cannot compete with them.

What a joke, where my eyes have been exposed to this constant drudgery of a computer and its databases, wasting the last years of my life, as a computer slave.

It's too vicious a life, against the individual.

*Financial Info: I am currently under $200.00 in my bank account. with $1200.00 set aside for my father's funeral costs.

I fully expect that each dollar I officially transposed away to the mortgage company for the loan held under my father's dear name; will be usurped from me. Regardless that I'm actually the known property owner and property tax payer with the state. Usurped from me, because I will not be able to pay the mortgage; due to amazon.com, and the other online sites of fail.

So, all my years of sequestered keeping of my father; as his caregiver, would be just that, with no chance of a financial gain. No matter the forfeits I have taken during those years by being entirely frugal. That robbery would be from the mortgage company; demanding me upon his death; to have a career worthy enough to re-qualify the loan. Otherly, that fast-sell sits on their wanting lips, within 1-2 months of my father's passing.

Meanwhile, my only tactic left... is modifying his diet so that he lives longer. So, maybe by then, the mortgage will finally be paid off, and the mortgage company will not win.

Today, my latest question arises from myself to my father, "Is it time yet, to put you to bed in the living-room? Just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... So, during the upcoming days and possible years of your life remaining; you're not alone in your bedroom and just idly talking to yourself?"

Financially though, my luxury of time supposedly exists; yet it's an uncertain time, an undependable time, a time that sometimes frights me... that it may be over, as my father could very simply be another person known as "dead".

As a woman, I've resigned myself away from the relegated normal of enchantment with a male counterpart. While, trying not to see myself with: "visually unappealing", being their concocted reason of my exhausting celibacy. Luckily, existentialism does exist, and my yogi thoughts can go higher, without a spouse ever needing to be present.

Then, melancholically, I pester my Artist self again; "Should I draw", when there's no Pavlov's Reward? I hesitate another day, and the paper is still blank. "Why try?" begs the question. "Just to fill the alcoves of my closets?", For what reason, "Why, would I want to even give 1 ounce of myself towards the financial pockets of others after my life, when my financial pockets in the during have been so provingly denied. "

Amazing Grace from the Dead

Amazing Grace from the Dead

Today, as morbid has entered into the game of earning an income...

I speak not of a mortuary normal,
but of the mortuary of books on this dear internet of books gathered.
A salvage gain from each near-homeless person to garner a wage.
Gathered from "Death Houses", houses that still ramble, rattle & speak, the voices of the dead.
Young men and women of unfortunate circumstances, pushed into the estates for "look-see" and maybe a free book to claim.

Hurry, young Americans and ruin yourselves further into this economy called the Online USA.
Hurry and sweep the dust & cobweb's away, and "work to" remove those books from their clenched skeletal hands. Hurry, before the Thrift Store Trucks rumble near & swoon-in.

The Vampires

The Vampires in our midst, are the online book stores one-and-all.
Amazon as the keeper with the greatest call.
A call of fortune made quickly from the dead.
Where greed in acquiring has been their mechanism.
As the smell of death dissipates & more cobweb's are rifted through,
gains are further paid into Amazon & the thrift store's portions.

As the main price-maker of this internet has another toast,
"to propelling poverty further on", knowing full well when each seller dies, they will get even more than most.

Each seller's coffin will be filled & readily piled sky-high with books,
& this "New" Grinch doesn't even have to haul them away,
No, he has the pawns & peons, of the desperate poor,
pry books from sojourning seller's, that are discovered as dead.

What economy is this? One where "Unethical" is the biggest allow.

An economy where "New" can be sold fraudulently; as a 20-yr old book.
An economy where the seller cannot choose a higher selling price. Prices are blocked & higher prices are forbidden.
An economy where the chance of buying a used book to resell a book, means it cannot even be listed for sale. "The Amazon Price Alert Blocker", says so.
An economy where Canada was allowed to dis-embark 1/2 of it's trees, for the chance of being tossed-out, sponsored by the de-valuation by "Amazon's" thrift-store allow; where the pittance of .50 cents is their new "cash cow".
An economy that excites in only possibly buying a .50 cent book, and even that beleaguered price is too costly for most.
An economy that indentures servant China into being a constant shipping channel to forever destroy our natural world.

All the follower stores did it also; proving they could cheapen and destroy the book market down into the dust.

Is there a laugh here? As my garage empties out online; without any chance of a replace, and each one of us; can only look forward, to being... "the new forced minimal", with only the stars above to trust.

What a ruin to Florence and her Nightingale, as Amazon opens it's eyes each night, "What bounty, did I today so freely acquire? How many coffins in take, do I have more on this day; tell me the titles... so, that I may trend them away."

Only the dead can rattle thier chains out loud; This online economic poor cannot dare to utter a word against the vampires anymore.

What a glorious business model; "Blood-Thirsty Vampire's",
to each and every little seller that tries.

Let the prices fly and stop fleecing our lives!
& get your nose out of my coffin of books, besides.

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