Corner Stone

Chp. 1 remix

       
     their are many things we learnt in chapter one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book the Great Gatsby, although we know nothing about the great Gatsby & what makes him great  but we do know the narrator, nick who has come home from the great war, only to find it doesn't really feel like home anymore, Nick moves out to a neighborhood know as the east egg, where his dilapidated house is surrounded by mansions, his neighbor is, the Great Gatsby. On his first day there he goes to go eat dinner with a distant relative, whom he barley knows, upon arrival we find that there's a lot more to them than what is stated in the book, subtle inclinations are implied though the dialog , which makes the book a lot more realistic, we get to form our own opinions about the characters as we view them through Nicks stream of consciousness, this book is brilliantly written & wasn't written just for the sake of writing it was written to be a great story & that's all it is, simply a masterpiece celebrated in the literary community, it has even been remixed in a movie that I have yet to see, but nonetheless I look forward to see how the plot unravels & I'm excited to finally meet the Great Gatsby!

A CROW THAT I KNOW.

I looked out the window the other day

& noticed a bird, perched on the roof.

I imagined it was me

I knew it was me

me, but in a different form

I was flapping my feathers

trying to dry them,

it was raining,

but still the weather was ideal

the winds carried my wings I felt free

free to be me.

I was looking for a tree

one that was just for me

one free of other birds

I wanted to be alone,

left to hear my own words

maybe id find a worm to eat,

id swoop down & catch it with my feet.

theirs a little crunch to it, 

so I swallow the poor thing whole

 my kind of funeral.

I really needed a snack

to fuel the restless wings on my back

it seems us birds have a knack

for surviving on just about anything.

tonight id try to shut my eyes

hold on tight

 and hope for a new day.

RESPECT THE LIVING.

       There are those who believe that humans have dominion over all, that we've personally inherited this world. we must take into account the delicate balance between the habitat & its inhabitants. we have grown greedy,  stabbing Mother nature gaining from her pain, leaching from her veins, we've tainted her streams with pollution & gouged her land to create massive cities & factories & slaughterhouses that abuse, torture & murder innocent sentient beings just to feed our bottomless bellies. what has happened to our humanity? We have been deceived, we were taught for the very start to be selfish, they take away our unity, our empathy & therefore our power. They force us to spend our life energy on menial goals, they have hacked the minds of the common man by manipulating the pleasure & reward system in our heads. The thing is we really arn't making any kind of considerable difference were too caught up feeding our own desires, when we learn to care about the prosperity of others we regain our humanity & learn the feeling that coincides with generosity, love. this love is true & there's no greater feeling than knowing you helped somebody who didn't have the means or opportunity to help themselves. If we can simply uplift our fellow human one by one than, in just one day we can change the world...