EVERETT   E.  ALLIE  AUTHOR, POET, PHILOSOPHER  

THE EVIL HEART

  I have often trod the pathway        

                                       Twixt the valid and corrupt,             

                                       And have wandered, watched and wavered,        

                                          And have quaffed many a cup.          

                                                Yet, I’ve never found a comfort

                                                     That would last beyond a day,

                                                For the norm begets delusion

                                                     And the truth can never play.

                                                I have lived the human struggle

                                                     That has been proscribed for man,

                                                And have watched the grand deception,

                                                     And its blight upon the land.

                                                I have seen each child infected

                                                     With the virus of belief,

                                                And its life thus misdirected,

                                                     To support the tyrant thief.

                                                For we all are born a captive

                                                     Of our culture’s evil heart,

                                                And are robbed of mind and body,

                                                     Shaped as chattel from the start.

                                                But there’s none to keep us captive,

                                                     Once we’ve set upon the quest,

                                                Of to know and keep the valid,

                                                     While exposing all the rest.

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We Must Be Taught To Believe

We are taught to Believe that we are right,

That up is down and black is white,

That half a million troops don’t mean we will fight.

We must be taught to believe we are right.

We Must be Taught to Believe.

We’re taught to believe what we are taught,

Regardless of how foolish the proffered rot,

And to question or reason, we must not,

For Belief would dissolve right there on the spot!

We Must be Taught to Believe.

We must be taught to believe, not to think,

To look to Authority, to evade and to wink,

To accept the system, and not to fink,

And embrace the servitude in which we sink.

We Must be Taught to Believe.

We must be taught, even tho it’s a lie,

The realities will be forgotten bye and bye.

The truth, were it told, ‘Authority’ would fry,

.           And the people, for their natural sovereignty, would cry.

We Must Be Taught to Believe.

We must be taught it’s the Gun that kills,

That to ban the Gun will cure our ills,

As we generate conflict and frustrate wills,

Instituting insanity that hatred instills.

Oh, We Must be Taught to Believe!

We must be taught to Believe in God,

That ours is the only true path to be trod;

That ours is right and all else is a fraud,

Yet expect to have peace as others we prod,

Yes, We Have to Be Taught to Believe.

While every untruth that has been set

Will send us in ways we will all regret,

And blind us to realities we need....And yet,

It’s somehow a relief to be fish in the net,

And Besides, We Were Taught to Believe!

Everett E. Allie, 2003

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 Do You Know?

 Do you know what you’re reading?

 Is it Right? Is it Wrong?

Do you care what you’re Thinking?

Do you just go along?

Do you sit on your ass?

Do you don’t give a damn?

Don’t you know what’s a brewing

In this God-Sick land?

Do you sit there a dreaming

With a Bible in your hand?

Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?

 

Do you like being told

What to think, what to do?

Do you want Law to tell you

What to eat, how to screw?

Do you go on believing

All the instituted lies,

That Dement and Prevent,

While your freedom dies?,

And rejecting the truths

While Integrity FRIES!?!

Do you know? Do you know?

Do you KNOW?!?

 Do you just keep a hoping

Thou you know it’s all a lie,

And you keep on believing

There’ll be Heaven when you die?

Do you love Big Brother,

Thou he’s got you by the throat,

And you feel like a sheep,

Or a sacrificial goat?

While the State and Religion

Always take the same BOAT?

 Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?!

 

 Do you know that Religion

And Authority are one,

That Religion gets you ready

For the Law and the Gun?,

That they teach you to believe,

Then you won’t dare to think,

And you swallow all their hokum

And you won’t even blink.

And chances are they’ll even let you

  Serve in the CLINK!

Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?

 

Do you think retribution

Is the answer to crime?

While it dehumanizes

 And is generating crime?

  Do you know that, for the Tyrant,

Crime is just a means to grow,

While it’s gaining power and systems

To suppress and overthrow,

And all the while it’s staging

For another jackboot show!!

Do you know? Do you know? Do you Know?

Do you know it’s a program

You’ve been running all along?,

That you’ve been set up

To sing ‘Authority’s’ song?

 Do you know religion teaches

To believe, not to think?,

To defer to the Tyrant;

To Obey and to Sink?,

And to serve and support

While we move toward the Brink?!?

Do you know?  Do you know?  Do you Know?!?

 

Do you want legislation?

Do you want more Laws?

Do you think that will save you

From the Tyrant’s Own Cause?

 

Do you know that the System

Is the thing that is wrong?

Do you know it’s a Criminal

You’ve supported all along?

Do you know what’s a’killing

All the JOY and the SONG?

 Do you know? Do you Know? Do you Know?!?

                                               Everett E. Allie,  2002

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