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I Bleed for This

 · 5 years ago

  

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                             "Jane's Addiction" 
                 Appreciated by Snarfblat and Jason Farnon 

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                                 Article I 

     Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or 
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or 
of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to 
petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 

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To the Mosquitoes, 

     We have more influence over your children than you do, but we love your 
children.  Most of you love them too, very much.  You want what's best for 
them.  Consider them when planning the future.  Right?  Oh, mother, father, 
your blindness to our most blessed gift, NATURE, leaves us with the 
overwhelming task of correcting your utter mess.  It also proves that you are 
no judge of art, nor of beauty.  We learn from you how to become ideal 
adults?  There are subjects that you've passed over.  Or maybe they are too 
painful to speak about? 

     Nature and art-what could be more breathtaking? 

     I used to wish sometimes that I was a black man.  I listened to the way 
black men spoke when they spoke about freedom, justice and human rights.  And 
in the way they spoke, I was sure they were speaking the truth.  At the same 
time there was a faint buzz spreading to all of us the suggestion that the 
black man was not to be treated equally.  For this I envied the black man 
because it gave him a passion for his living and a cause to die for. 

     Would you ever have imagined there would be children swinging in 
polluted playgrounds? 

     Do you have children?  Do you see yourself in them yet?  Do they do 
whatever you tell them to, or do they question authority?  Do you take the 
time to explain things to them, or do you blame the rest of the world for 
their mistakes? 

     I used to wish sometimes that I was a woman.  A woman is the most 
attractive creature nature has to offer a man.  Why then is it such a shame 
to see her unclothed?  I feel more shame as a man watching a quick-mart being 
built.  How complementary a woman is to a man!  Their giving of love is 
fearless.  Nature did right in tying the infant to the female.  Yet they also 
carry a sense of sadness.  Quite like a premonition of danger they hide but 
can't shake from their minds.  I understand why they want to protect their 
children, but for their own good, let me point out though you may have to 
explain subjects to your children that you perceive as wrong, it is better to 
have the freedom to explain it in your own words than be silenced under a 
government that has the power to squash anyone who opposes their views.  It 
may one day evolve to be your child that stands as opposition.  Who opposes 
the faint buzz that suggests to all of us that women are beneath men.  Women 
have cause to live and reasons to die with dignity.  This was not always the 
case. 

     Try to restrict our freedoms and we will fight even harder to preserve 
them. 

     Mothers and fathers, grandmothers and fathers, great-grandmothers and 
fathers, great-great-grandmothers and fathers, you are responsible for more 
destruction done to this planet in the last one hundred years than in all of 
mankind's history combined.  You've invented weapons capable of destroying 
every form of wild animal and vegetation.  I am not sure what condition the 
world we are inheriting is really in.  I just have a fear of smokestacks, and 
I don't trust the men who feed their flames. 

     The paper these words on also contains the music of Jane's Addiction. 
The music is original, the cover is not.  The original cover is as colorful 
as the music.  It is a daydream of the music, made tangible.  It will take 
effort to get, it is being sold, but we are having difficulties.  There is an 
invisible force, the same one you have heard faintly buzzing all your life. 
This time it buzzes much louder.  I myself have felt it's pain.  When I 
looked down at the spot where it hurt, I saw a very small mosquito.  A bug so 
old, it was known to Confucius as the "intellectual mosquito." He sucks off 
of you and he sucks off of me. 

     Sometimes to realize you were well someone must come along and hurt you. 

     I have grown to become proud of myself.  I have aligned with all those 
who have been stung by suppression.  As heirs to this planet, we must 
maintain, honor and enjoy the gift of freedom.  A cause to validate 
everyone's life?  Indeed. 

     The world looks to America because we are the beautiful. 

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