Don’t step on bread
You will turn into a monkey
Avoid number 13
It’s very unlucky
Don’t wear black
It’s for funerals only
If you forget to thank God
After taking a shower
You will remain dirty
My mother told me these things
And I was a child
I believed her then
I didn’t know much better
I grew to be a teenager
And I thought to myself
These all are
Superstitions
Clergy said
God is watching
Don’t masturbate
Don’t drink
I had questions
He said just trust,obey,don’t think
Innocents died
He said it was just a holy test
Soldiers sacrificed he claimed will be blessed
Injustice increased and watching god seemed absent
He blamed everything on men,and advised us to be patient
The god punished us rewarded evil and never made sense
Houses of god got bigger at our expense
I grew older and I thought
These all are
superstitions
Do not cross the red light
even if there is no traffic
Do not smoke
Have sex before marriage
Or drink
Pay your taxes
As everyone has to pay what is owed
Says the government
said the law
Or whomever ruled
And they did not pay what they owed
Printed money and stole wealth through inflation
And left us no room
For expectations, or compensation
They said don’t murder
Unless it’s a foreigner soldier
Or you are in police force
And your brother
A demonstrator
They said don’t steal
Unless if it’s arrange
By banks
As loan, interest, action fee,
Or a new policy
By a lawmaker
They set cameras everywhere
In the name of our safety
And scammers walked around freely
And when teenagers complained about government
They Disappeared easily
And I ran away
And thought to myself on the way
These all are
Superstitions
I got access
To information
Education
Search ability
Without limitation
And all the world
Was a bad copy past
Of the same shit
Approving or disapproving
Each other
And I seemed to be
An outsider
A stranger
I got a tab of LSD
Roled a j
On my balcony
And I saw everything
And nothing
Simultaneously
In my absence
And I tried
Tried really hard
To see myself
And I failed
Then I thought to myself
Maybe
The idea of the I
Also Is nothing but a big
Superstition
.
John the Outsider ( HK)
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