{"id":4281,"date":"2018-09-26T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:38:31","slug":"hey-where-can-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/hey-where-can-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Where Can I Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

a poem by<\/strong>
\nm. boy anderson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hey;<\/p>\n

Where can I go?<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nOn the internet
\nWhere I don’t have to learn about
\nAnyone’s penis?<\/p>\n

Where they stuck it
\nWhere they tried to stick it
\nWhere someone said they stuck it
\nWhat someone said it looked like
\nWhat it really looked like
\nSomeone else’s penis in my brain
\nWhere can I go
\nTo avoid that?<\/p>\n

Where can I go?<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nTo read the news
\nWhere it isn’t reported
\nBy emotionally obliterated people
\nWho hate what they write about
\nAnd are paid
\nTo distract
\nAnd divide
\nAnd will die
\nAlone and afraid
\nAlienated and unloved
\nForgotten
\nDeleted
\nWhere can I go?<\/p>\n

Seriously, what the fuck happened to journalistic standards?<\/p>\n

Ethics?<\/p>\n

Hello?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey;<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nOn social media
\nAnd find someone
\nWho can rationally
\nAnd without condescension
\nOr insult
\nOr any alarming behaviors whatsoever
\nDiscuss
\nTrump
\n<\/em>(I had to whisper that)
\n“De-platformed”, you say?
\nSounds like the kind of thing
\nThat if it happened to a leftist
\nYou’d never
\nHear
\nThe
\nEnd
\nOf
\nIt<\/p>\n

But what do I know?
\nAfter all,
\nCensorship only matters
\nIf it’s happening
\nTo someone
\nWith whom
\nYou agree.
\nOtherwise,
\nIt’s a soft victory
\nWhich is still a victory
\nRight?<\/p>\n

Problem solved.
\nThey went away, the ones
\nWho said
\nThose things
\nYou disliked.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that all that really matters?<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nAnd enjoy what I choose to enjoy
\nWithout someone claiming
\nThat what I enjoy
\nA book
\nA movie
\nA piece of art
\nIs the product
\nOf degenerates
\nAnd rapists?
\nThere are parts of this world
\nWhere women are raped in the street
\nBeaten to death with stones
\nSold like cattle
\nDisappeared off boats into the ocean
\nMutilated
\nAt the very moment you are reading these words
\nAnd these
\nThese too
\nSo consider
\nFocusing your righteous urges upon that
\nInstead of alienating men
\nFriends
\nFathers
\nSons
\nBy subconsciously believing that all men
\nAre evil
\nWhether you are one or not
\nThat’s fucked
\nAnd no man wants to hear about it
\nWomen get pissed off
\nIf you imply
\nWomen are evil
\nSame shit
\nSo knock it off
\nAsia Argento basically caused Anthony Bourdain’s suicide
\nShe taunted him and cheated on him
\n“FUCK EVERYONE”
\n“You know who you are”
\nThree hours later
\nDude hung himself
\nLook into it
\nBefore you chastise anyone
\nJust because
\nThey wanted to see
\nSome Woody Allen film<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nTo enjoy that?
\nWhere no caveat is offered
\nNo court transcripts are cross-referenced
\nJust a movie
\nTaken at face value
\nExisting as it was made
\nLike a person
\nGuilty only
\nOf its own sins
\nNone imposed from outside forces
\nCriticized only with respect
\nAnd love
\nAs it was made<\/p>\n

Except\u00a0Twilight Zone: The Movie
\n<\/em>I’ll let you have that one<\/p>\n

Where can I go
\nWhere people don’t confuse wisdom
\nWith awareness of what they don’t like?
\nWho are these fuckers?
\nWhere did they come from?
\nThere are students
\nIn colleges
\nWho call Robert Crumb
\nIrrelevant
\nBecause he drew things
\nThey lack the critical thinking
\nAnd wisdom
\nTo properly process
\nAnd in the same breath
\nThey promote
\nTheir terrible
\nShitty
\nHalf-assed comics
\nAnd their Patreon page
\nAnd their DeviantArt account
\nAnd their Twitter
\nWhere they tweet
\nExactly what you’d expect
\nTrendy witch-hunts
\nFinger pointing
\nImaginary enemy punching
\nDesperate yelping
\nplease
\nnotice
\nme
\nplz plz
\ni’m evr so gud<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey;<\/p>\n

Where can I go?<\/p>\n

Does anyone know?<\/p>\n

Can anyone tell me
\nWhere I can go
\nWhere people can go
\nFive fucking minutes
\nWithout being a flaming asshole?<\/p>\n

Do you know?<\/p>\n

Does anyone know
\nWhere I can go?<\/p>\n

Nowhere, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a poem by m. boy anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,77],"tags":[3099,3098,1236,1223,3100,3049,30,1914,1328,2391],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-care","category-worst-of-all","tag-anthony-bourdain","tag-asia-argento","tag-donald-trump","tag-internet","tag-news-media","tag-poetry","tag-r-crumb","tag-social-media","tag-women","tag-woody-allen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-173","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4516,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/the-doors\/","url_meta":{"origin":4281,"position":0},"title":"The Doors","author":"MattyBoy","date":"01\/15\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The origins of the line \"It's better to burn out than fade away\" are somewhat muddy. 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