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Get Stoned, Vote Correctly, Love Everyone

A thought by Charlie d'Estries


By Charlie d’Estries

My friend,

How are you? 
Are you stoned?
Are you smiling 

Or frowning? 
Are you skipping 
As you walk, 
Smiling as you talk? 
Maybe whistling 
While you wonder or…

Are your shoulders 

Slumping Slowly? 
Are you tired these days? 
Or maybe it’s extreme 
And you just feel like 
Peeing on someone's lawn?

It is interesting, life is.
So I have a solution.
It’s radical and will 

Generate controversy. 
Here we go.

And don’t reject it right away. 

Open your mind and 
Pour in the info.
Ask yourself if anything

Else has worked.
It hasn't.
Are you ready?

I think the world, 

The entire planet, 
Should just get stoned. 
I mean the whole big 
Round thing. 
That’s right. 
Everyone passing the 
Bong so to speak. 
I mean really 
Passing the bong. 
Like, ‘here you go, 
Pass this bong please.’ 
Can I be any clearer? 
Right, I think you have it. 
Everyone getting stoned.


And because it’s global, 
It’s a really, really big bong.
I haven’t thought through 

How to make 
Such a large 
Smoking device, 
Since it has to 
Sustain billions of people. 
Maybe we can 
Make 4 of them. 
I don’t know.

Of course this would be 

For adults only, 
Since children are 
Naturally stoned. 
Really. 
When you think about it
It’s true. 
Pretty cool though,
Isn’t it?

I digress.
So, just for a moment, 

Imagine what might happen.

Blacks get along with whites. 

Religious walk with atheists. 
Jews and Arabs meet halfway. 
China and Tibet throw a party. 
Righties and Lefties respect each other. 
Muslim and Jew laugh together
And I mean really laugh,
Like when your stomach 
Hurts kind of laughing. 
Because when you’re stoned 
Everything is kind of funny. 
So nothing is taken 
Too seriously… except for
Our health and happiness.

People respect people. 

Finally.
Also, when one is stoned, 

One has immediate in-depth 
Knowledge as to who the 
Dickheads of the world are. 
So we would 
never vote them 
Into office again. 
Being stoned has 
Lots of advantages.
And disadvantages.

Sadly, because we have to 

Smoke the stuff, 
More people will 
Develop asthma 
And other illnesses… 
However, because 
We’re stoned, 
We are very 
Compassionate. 
Everyone would focus on 
Helping those afflicted. 
Entire societies 
Would fight to 
Race for the cure. 
Instead of 
Giant national budgets 
To buy huge fucking 
Piles of weapons to 
Blow each other up, 
Nations of the future 
Will have giant 
National budgets 
Devoted to fixing things.
Like people.

Imagine the world economy 

That would 
Develop if that happened?
No wars. 

No nucs. 
No deep earth bunker busting 
Really big bombs.
No AK-47s in 
Movie theaters.
No snipers
And gun nuts
And NRA

Just medicine for everyone. 

No more cancer. 
Diabetes. 
Obesity 
(ok, the munchies are a problem, so we’ll look into that). 
No more heart attacks, 
Multiple sclerosis, 
Parkinson’s.
No more starvation. 

Genocide 
(it’s hard to be mad when you’re stoned). 
Everyone has a roof 
Over their heads. 
No one is cold.
And no one is hungry. 

It is a pathetic thought, 
Is it not, to think with 
All the food thrown out 
Everyday 
Around the world 
So many billions 
Are starving every day?

We’re almost done. 

This is the big finish. 
You ready?

And love. 

You know 
What kind of love 
I’m talking about. 
True love. 
Unconditional, 
Face-licking, 
I-am-so-glad-to-see-you 
Kind of love. 
It would be everywhere.
Like clouds. 

And rain. 
And ants. 
Maybe not ants.

Stoned people 

Help those 
Who need help. 
Some will lead the 
Charge on teaching, 
Nurturing, 
Mentoring, 
Encouraging, 
Hugging 
And loving. 
Others will follow 
And help too.

If nothing else works, 

Consider this idea. 
Randomly rotate 
Seat assignments in 
High school cafeterias to 
Promote friendship and 
Bliss by breaking bread 
Together. 
There are 
Many options 
To this plan. 
It is the 
Secret weapon of 
Stoniocracy.

Of course there would 

Also be laws. 
Like you 
Have to be friendly or 
You’d be fined. 
You can’t be 
Mean to anyone, 
Especially those 
Less fortunate 
Than yourself. 
That would carry the 
Maximum penalty of 
Caring for the 
Hooch fields that is the 
Root to all this bliss.

It would be really cool.
So, that’s all I have to 

Say on this subject. 
What do you think?

Get Stoned, 

Vote Correctly, 
Love Everyone.

And stop being an asshole.
And if you don’t agree, get stoned.
Or go to a cafeteria and 

Sit in a chair you've never sat in.

The End.