Happy People

By Mory Keita

I hate happy people and their happy lives,
for they wear happy glasses--
Lens that makes them smile
while the neighbor's house burn.

When you're dying of hunger in the street,
these mockingbirds fly by you without a glance.
They fly, jump, sing,“Hooray life's beautiful!”

They read their magazines in the subway
while a mother begs for silver coins to feed
the tiny, innocent creature in her arms.

They fucking drive hummers aware that
earth's slowly dying of pollution.

Happy glasses are awesome!
with them life's mellow and rosy,
Illusions and reality blend
and all you see is happiness,
while sorrow gnaw your soul.

Oh sister, I am not happy
and will not be happy,
for these happy people, I have learned,
are but sad clowns wearing happy masks.

Damn be them happy people, fuck them all.
How can you be indifferent to the human condition
when there's too much pain and suffering in this world?


Oh Mr. Happy man, what will you do
when your happy glasses break?
When the weight of reality befall upon you?
When you find yourself in Mr Sadman's shoes?

Happy People

The jerk, a poem

By Mory Keita ( This is a revised version of the previous poem.)

He is the jerk, dreams of girls.

He is the charming prince in their reveries,

The bold superman who knows how to care.

They love him because he is manly,                                                          

And he loves them because they love him.

Yeah, he is the jerk, the man.

He is the one who knows how to woo girls.

He is one who makes them cry tears of love at nights.

Yeah, he is the king, the boss of their hearts.

He holds the key to female’s hearts,

And jealously keeps its secret with malice.

He walks like a star, and speaks like a dork.

Look! He is the master of the game.

The chess-player who has mastered mind-games;

Yeah, he is the jerk the best at his game.

He has learned that a girl’s heart his a chess game,

So he has become a dauntless chess player.

He deceitfully manipulates its 16 pieces like a "real man".

Sometimes, I envy the jerk and his jerky tricks;

Truly, he is a skilful master of psychology.

For, though he is a bloody manipulative “bad boy”,

He has earned the dreams of men : women’s hearts.

The jerk, a poem

The world as I see it now

                                                                  By Mory Keita 

The world, as we see it now, is the work of some visionaries.The absurd imagination of some crazy-old-fools who hundreds years ago, idly sat on their chairs to ponder upon humanity. They dedicated their lives to philosophy and sciences; then, scholarly came up with theories and system of belief to better mankind and eradicate its self-imposed misery.

Though, their philosophies are of unequivocal beauty, they are prone to change as humanity evolves steps farther. Ideas are but works of mind and the mind is but a conscious characteristic of the human race (the same can also be extended to every other race).  Mankind in its current situation, which is characterized by unceasing warfare and destruction, needs more crazy-old-fools and fewer vile warriors who undermine the power of intellect in pursuit of brute force. When we separate ourselves from our God given intellect, we became lesser than animals and return to the dark ages.

The world as I see it now is evolving towards an age darker than the dark ages itself. Some of you might qualify me as a pessimist, but if we analyze our history (as far as it is recorded), we will realize that , we live in one of its worst centuries. The twenty first century stunningly resembles the fictional world of Uqbar in Jorge Luis Borges short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (which can be found  in Ficciones,  his collection of short stories). Borges describes uqbar as a place where everything is pure fiction; by that I mean, in uqbar things are falsification of reality and the "reality" is but a part of a greater false perception. The similitude might perhaps not be apparent because, we live in an uqbar. We feign that we live in a peaceful world while we are not. We live in a myth created by a group of oligarch serving theirs egoist interests.

To summarize my thought, mankind needs more crazy-old-fools and fewer warriors. We desperately need more people-of-mind dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge to advance our common goal. I do not advocate for a utopian society, as it is unfeasible. I will elaborate on this issue in future posts. 

The world as I see it now

How did Nikola Tesla change the way we use energy?

Today, 02/26/10, while reading a new article from my favorite website HowStuffWorks, I found this fascinating article titled: How did Nikola Tesla changed the way we use energy?.As a Tesla fan, i was instantly  pulled to read  the article and  fully explore its content.

Thus begin the article, " When you flip a switch and a lamp bathes the room in light, you probably don't give much thought to how it works -- or to the people who made it all possible. If you were forced to acknowledge the genius behind the lamp, you might name Thomas Alva Edison." I must admit that I too  thought, for a  long time, that Thomas Edison was probably the greatest inventor of all time, I thought he invented the light bulb, the AC motor and others, until I unexpectedly  stumbled upon a youtube video with the title Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Wizard. The only forgotten genius (Wizard)  that i knew of  at that time was Robert Hook, whose ground breaking scientific works were undermined by Newton's achievements. 

Tesla's achievements are generally unknown of by the general public. ask a middle school student or high schools student and even High school teacher who invented the Radio, he/she will quickly respond Marconi;  wireless communication, he/she would reply that he/she does not know or maybe guess Edison. It is not astonishing to hear such answers ( i bet more than 95 % of the readers of this blog would have given similar answers).What make me mad, brain-sick is that the incredible legacy of a man who sacrificed his life, refused financial gains  for the advancement of science and technology, are being accredited to others. while I do not denied that both Marconi and Edison made significant contributions to science, I believe that it is immoral for schools to teach  students that they ( Edison and Marconi) achieved things that they did not. in fact, just after Tesla's death the united state supreme court ruled that Nikola Tesla indeed was the true inventor of the radio and wireless communication. Tesla also is the inventor of remote control, basic lasers, star war technical warfare , robotics and others.

In response to the question, How did Nikola Tesla change the way we use energy? I would simply reply that he invented and found new ways release gigantic amount of pure and clean energy at lesser cost for our environment and us.

To read  more about Tesla please click  here and here.

How did Nikola Tesla change the way we use energy?