What to Do Next

An instructional printout seems to know.
Consider the importance of sequence

To the communication of a skill.
Consider, despite reincarnation

Beliefs, it seems everyone’s a novice
At human life. A recipe would help.

That’s all any of the confused ask for—
A reliable set of directions

Arranged in fixed, inflexible sequence,
Free will in the act of following it.

Restrain the Old

Older people are not going
To help you. You won’t accept this
Until, too late, you’re older, too.

The older seem innocuous
From sufficiently great distance,
But they will replenish themselves

With the end of everyone young.
You only fail to notice this
When the young are busy breeding,

And it seems like the older folks
Are just dwindling and receding,
But as soon as the young relax,

The old begin to outgrow them,
Converting every one of them,
Recruits to the ranks of the old.

Restrain the old! Don’t indulge them.
Don’t encourage longevity.
Practice population control

By assigning a cut-off date,
Not for the mandatory end,
But one past which one must be old.

Whenever someone makes the cut,
One of the oldest old must go.
Don’t let their going fast fool you.

Water runs fast over a dam
But pressure continues to grow.
Drain to restrain, or it all goes.

A Bad Poem of Great Righteousness

There are the good and the righteous,
For the good are rarely righteous,
And the righteous are rarely good.

The good are better for knowing
They are not righteous, the righteous
Worse for knowing they must be good.

The good simply don’t feel righteous,
While the righteous feel very good,
And best when they feel most righteous

And most likely up to no good.
Of course, there are also the bad
Who don’t care, but face it, they’re rare.