emily jones

I dont understand how people can not care about what they are putting into their bodies. when did it become uncool to be healthy & why is it the first assumption when someone chooses to be that they are radical? eating has become such a social expectation? pleasure? engagement? that people no longer eat to live, but rather eat when they arent even hungry. how has it become that we dont know & have no real control over what we consume? there was a time not so long ago when people were completely self sufficient & movements were erupting promoting & protesting for reform of the governments push toward capitalism & commercialism. these people knew exactly where their food was coming from & that is wasnt traveling for more than a hundred miles to get to them & therefore not being sprayed with chemicals to appear ripe or being injected with hormones to make them fifty percent larger, fatter, unable to function. why do we wonder why we have the highest rate of obesity when we are the laziest country in the world? now all we have to do is get in our cars & order at a drive thru. most people no longer walk to a bus stop to go to work everyday, use manual type writer or hand write instead of sitting in front of a screen, get off the couch to change the television station. all of these burn calories that we have no need to use anymore. so many times I have overheard people saying how shitty they feel after eating shitty food. but then they dont do anything about it. it is more expensive to buy a locally grown organic carrot than it is to buy a hamburger at a fast food joint. & we still dont get it. there will not be any change until the big boss companies see the demand shifting. what we buy is what we support. big companies want to provide what consumers want to purchase. by choosing one over the other we may slowly we able to make change. otherwise they see no need to alter what is working. fast, big, cheap; lather, rinse, repeat. the government is protecting their investments, finances, businesses over its citizens. would you rather spend thousands on medical bills or choose the three dollar peaches over the 99 cent taco? & they want it this way. they want us to know nothing of it or else we would all be boycotting. why else do industries like smithfield or tyson refuse to be interviewed & resist filming inside their factories? it has gotten to the point where people squirm or gasp when they see the truth about americas meat industry but think nothing while finishing that last bite on their dinner plate.

you will lose it unless the line is pulled in slowly.

so ever until now I always automatically have been of the anti baby mindset. people with their influences have had me thinking my life would turn to dust if the unthinkable occured. people make their impressions that ethically it would be wrong. but now that I really think about it, the whole deal is absolutely incredible. two people fit together, in more ways than one, & everything from there is up to chance. they have no more control over the outcome & are forced by nature to wait & prepare for what may be a miracle. then for months you are growing a person inside of you. someone is being created in your body from your body & part of another persons body. then out comes & develops this new being who most likely will continue this chain of reproduction. & think about how long this has been going on. of course I do not at all in any way want a baby but I just realized how remarkable it is. if I ever did eventually change my mind though, it is going to be so weird to go through with it. to think of them in a good way. in this amazing way.

What are people creating anymore? It is all for nothing. We make art & sound, but it is abstract & unyielding. We are wrapped so tight, bound to useless meters of meaningless matters. All of it is what we are safe with. But really what else is there to care about when the willingness to thrive is overcome by the capability to more easily stray? Do we just become slanted towards being settled because that is what we have been known to do? There must be challenge & enlightenment. Something would be wrong even worse than before, even worse than the problem if everything came to us effortlessly. What is the point? There is torment & turmoil that we are able to ignore, but that doesn’t mean we should. Just because we don’t have to make change or dream large doesn’t mean we cant. Is honesty a privilege? Is relativity the enemy? This makes sense when you have the fire on your fingertips & can feel the sun in your freckles.

“sleep is for dreamers”

take me back to when memories = scars
where the people are used to looking into cars
getting in trouble because they don’t know where we are
even though they knew we could only get ourselves so far
we did do pretty well on our own
saw all those temples & his majesty’s throne
the whole time without a phone
while creeps like to stare at your every bone
take me back to the dirty, spicy, & cheap
I was so ready to take that leap
let myself sink into the whole spirit pretty deep
from here the climb seems not-so-steep