REASONS FOR LIVING

At this very moment, within a quarter of a mile from where you are sitting, crimes are being committed. Thousands of man-made satellites are orbiting earth; each of them, as you read this, is falling. Chances are really good you can't describe your bathroom floor. Chances are really good your life is saturated with petroleum by-products. In the time it took you to read this far, 20 to 50 cosmic rays have shot through your body and right on through the planet. Take solace in the knowledge that the worlds most powerful computer is not much smarter than a rat.
Tonight Lady Luck will leave some poor sucker for somebody else. Somewhere in New York City there's a man wearing only spike-heeled swim fins and a studded dog collar, posing for photographs. There are women who get paid to undress and there are men who get paid to dress up like women. Somewhere out there in the middle of America is a doomed hitch-hiker.
Tall buildings sway in the wind. The people who can't build a dependable toaster are building nuclear power plants. At this very moment your government is gift wrapping lies of the largest variety to surprise you with. So, go ahead, feel free to lie to the government.
Every morning in the United States, cars that are capable of 100 mph. crawl to their destinations on high-speed roadways. Right now, all across the country people are driving on the parkways and parking in their driveways. Over 60,000 of the man made chemicals that have been created since World War II have not even been classified, let alone tested for toxicity to humans. The US. and Britain have been dumping radioactive waste in prime fishing waters for 40 years.
All across the face of the Earth there are mountains growing like colossal black pimples and someday they will burst. Somewhere in Saudi Arabia importers are buying tons of sand from California. Arabian sand is no good for their swimming pool filters. If it wasn't for "bad" weather we would not be able to survive on this planet. Remember, the continents are constantly rearranging themselves. The Voyager space craft, which is now on it's way out of our solar system, could easily outlive the human race.
There are bacteria digesting your body right now, that's why you smell; you are rotting. No lie. If you do not devour other living things every day you will die. Your body will wear out before you do. We are paying farmers not to grow food. 60% of the ground water of the US. is polluted in some way.
There are still people on this planet living in the stone age. Cattle mutilations are on the rise. In the next thirty years the population of Earth will double. Artwork painted by retarded people is selling for five figures. At this very moment you are being bombarded with microwaves, radar, radio, and television, waves. If you can't laugh, you're not living.


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