Mr. B and friends,
I found a Rudyard Kipling quote.

"All the people like us are we,
and everyone else is they"

To which I added...
"And that's the way it's happening
to this very day."

Schuster added...
"And if 'taint clear who is they,
religion or race will find a way."

I added...
"Us and We or Them and They,
just who rules this country today."

I began to see it as a poem song. And this is s far as I've come. I need help, new blood who can work with We and They and Them and Us. Where ever your mind goes.

"You can't split them apart they're all one thing,
It's the Yin and the Yang that makes the world sing."

So if there's anyone out there who likes to play the couplet game send them to me at:

jpdietz@comcast.net

-- Phil

Kris e mailed and ask what a couplet was.  The dictionary sez...
A couplet is two successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or inclusion of a self-containing utterance,  i.e.,

His reply was..... like this?

"What you see is what you get,
and you ain't seen nothing yet"
-The Beastie Boys

So I see we don't have to stay to the we, they, them, us thing.  Just good couplets.

-- Phil

They say that we can't play this game
cause it belongs to them

But if we storm down the steps and play
are we better in the end?

For once our cleats are on that field
Our feet can't be told apart

From the cleated feet of those meathead elite
who've been tearing us apart

- J Langer

Just who rules the country today?

This land is split, it's easy to see between the them the us the we.
Now what to do is the question for Me, the question for us for them the we.
If they are everyone but us and we are them,well, what a fuss! together, together!
Somehow someway, for us for them for we and they.

-- J Taby

It doesn't matter, the Zen books say
We're, me, It's Them and They

-- R. Ricciardi

the business is isness
when in doubt,
take the garbage out
existence is a chance,
do you like to dance
It can't be denied
that some beans are refried.
the elephant in the room is impending doom.
no room for despair, anywhere
and just remember, you can't lose sight of the invisible....

--merce

"Us and We or Them and They,
just who rules this country today."
"Not You or I." said Dr. Tim naming boxes that
"YOU KNOW WHO" use to keep "US" safely in
So to play the game means it's sport
except for the lack of truth at center court

-- Ian

we are the ones others look to for life
we dance in the flames
they don't have to
from the edges we fall
and they watch
as we fly for their pleasure
but first .........
homage Pranksters.

-- Kirk T

us or them we or us, it is all the same
we are all tripsters on the nineteenth plane
divisions only split us hawthorn stokes the flame
what is important? loveandfunandgames
mysteries multiply umpteenth thousand fold
the storyteller stays for his friends not for price of gold
lead the children down a well forget them nevermore
treeofknowlage does it matter when they're fed so well?
food and friends and cigerettes dope balloons and games
filled with nitrous laughing gas, always been the same.

-- Feral

In space nobody can hear you clam
but lobster, that's something else
comin' up on the Atlantic
they got them claws but don't panic
out in the Pacific
they're less violence-specific
the claws take a pause
and drink one for the cause
I got the Tang if you got the poon
comin' over India
in a zero-g swoon
traded the poon
for some down home shine
did the loopy-loop at a quarter to nine
saw two earths till I closed one eye
saw breakfast comin' up
on a mackerel sky
cooked it into a tasty pie
wouldn't think on that I'd sup
up here up is down & down is up, Chuck
so pipe that in your put
and smoke it for luck.

-- Uncle Ray and KapnKen

 Hippy Dippy
Funky Rye
Eat some aCid, lick the Sky
KInd of tastes like pizza pie
I've partied w/ some prankster friends b4,
at the midnight show,
in laytonville log ago
screwed up the rolling of a joint
seems like i've made a point
and you know, it makes me wonder,
is down up or is it under?
If I had been around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal
Think I'll come back here again,
every now and then...
Sing to me, do your thing to me,
I'll meet you some mornin',
meet me in some morning
In the sweet by and by.

-- Chloe L

YET ANOTHER YOUTUBE

FATHER'S DAY 

 

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For all of you who have been inquiring about the status of my Vietnam novel, first, thanks so much for your interest and encouragement and support. I'm happy to report that I sent in the completed manuscript after extensive reworking with my good friend and editor, David Stanford, and now the book resides with my other good friend, literary agent number one in the New York publishing biz, Sterling Lord, who will be shopping the book this month of October, 2009. Stay attuned.

Well, he's still shopping it. 11-8-09
No news from New York yet. 12-9-09
Gadzooks, 1-4-10 and still no news
Patience is needed, 2-5-10
Wait is over, book is sold, 2-10-10
Contract signed, 4-22-10
Publication date: Spring 2011.

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