If you want a good laugh.....

If y'all want a good laugh I suggest you look at the following blogs:

http://whyidontdotjed.blogspot.com/

http://whatismattwalshwrongabouttoday.com/

I would totally try to debate all of their enlightening arguments, but that would denounce my afore stated deceleration of humor.

Civil War Poems

These aren't very polished:

DEATH
What makes this so
unusually grim?
If this was not so frightening
Horror would be unusually dim.
Some people think they understand
and claim if for themselves
Yet to truly understand
The hand that clasims a life
Must not be your own.
Then what makes war
so terrifyingly prone?
Why must this be the first thing we
choose to settle things
we can't settle
on our own?
What makes us so eager
to take a life?
Perhaps the same thing
That makes us want to
end an argument with strife
Perhaps for others
This is not so
Perhaps for others
They simply must go

Though war does not make
ethical sense
It is impossible to avoid
As much as we wish
this thing not to be toyed.
The more we wish
The less we realize
To understand death
We never ask God our whys
To understand death
You must realize this:
Though you'll wish they are there
though you'll desperately miss.
everyone dies
It's the killing we should fear
everyone dies
and God is still near.

Slavery
There was a man
who hung himself
which seems a terrible fate

There was a man
who was beaten and bruised
who had no family
and was horribly used
which seems a terrible fate

The answer to
The question you
 might be asking in your thoughts
can only be found
through the sound
of whipping and sobbing
chains clinking and reminding
that you will always be caught

Have you answered yet
the question of
whether the man who was hung
or the man who was beaten
had the worser fate?

The story must end
in explaining, my friend
that the two men
were the same.

We are Unjust
More than one slave
More than one injustice
If all was fair and equal
would this be known as bliss?
We have more than one right
More than one freedom
If oppressing is a right
why can we only oppress some?
There is more than one human
For humans are the same as us all
Would it be fair then,
if one was short and one tall?
There is more than one slave
Always, more than one injustice
How can we realize
WE are the unjust?


Ella Johnson