Someone Did That

Somebody Hired professional ekskavators

And somebody paid the doggy caretakers

And someone designed the pillars above benches

And someone dug cup holders from dirt trenches

And someone needs the lawn chair for back-alley smoke breaks

And someone changed the sign of the roads you will take

And someone stuffed fro-yos in brittle dead branches

And someone put out a plastic bag of matches

And someoneleft a teddy at a fatality sign

And someone gifted the bear bin with a half bottle of wine

And someone got the mangled rabbit off the road

And someone painted a card with the money they owed

And someone gave a kiss to their babe on that corner

And someone abandoned their freshly repaired horner

And someone bought those kakias to feel better dressed

And someone lived on that block where their hands were impressed

And someone devoured that tubby dog from that tray

And someone caved for that bakery window cake

And someone carried Nashville Skyline in that black plastic bag

And someone heard the crack of the crow that couldn’t be saved

And someone touched the toyota that cried in alarm.

And someone needed Peter’s to recall their mom’s charm

And someone turned an eye on that peg-leg musician

And someone else danced to his rhythmic transitions

And someone walked the shadey side on a sunny day

And someone bought their skis at a sale in late may

And someone chose Suess instead of Bukouski

And someone played gypsy punks while their coffee brewed slowly

And someone took home that dog they found on the reserve

And someone found the stage was the only place where they had the nerve.

And someone cared deeply that you cared a lot

And someone’s responsible for all that you’ve got

Someone did this

And someone did that

It’s nice to know that someone

Laid every brick and bent every hat.

By Sarah C Louise

Erik Johansson – Arms break, vases don’t (2008)

Stop Fucking Around

We are completely crazy!

Mental!

We know all the solutions.

We’ve heard Mary Poppins cry “anything can happen if you let it”

And Patti Smith encourage “stay healthy and be happy”

And one hundred pedestrians repeat “your only real enemy is yourself”

So it’s very simple!

So what the fuck!

How is it that we can let the netflicks countdown to episode 20 or season 3 get in the way of what we want?

How can we buy white roses for glass vases and simultaneously eat white rice from styrofoam for weeks?

How can we trap our animals in basement offices to attend parties where we share all the funny things our little prisoners did that week?

We can because we are totally fucked up.

We make nooooooooooooooooo sense

And now more than ever we are told two hundred times a day to appreciate the small things over facebook news feeds

And reminded that we’re not alone through iphone notifications

And compelled to hate Monsanto and Stephen Harper and other grand-scale fuckers by the urgent urging of active activists through graffiti statements and gulf-spill protests and global strikes

But everything crumbles

Around and inside us

And still we’re doubting

And still we’re ill

And still we’re insecure

So let me repeat what is often said:

Anything can happen if you let it,

just stay healthy and be happy,

and remember:

your only real enemy is yourself.

Stop fucking around.

By: Sarah C Louise