Write Handed XVII

Emotions and feelings cannot be controlled, there like the weather, they just happen. Joy, grieve, laughter, tears, humor, anger, love and lust, it's all a whirlwind of the human condition. Pause, breath and think before unfiltered responses wreck havoc amidst us all.

Suddenly, everything has become so clear, easy to understand. Mental illness and cerebral chaos cannot be controlled either, but arrowed words, tantrum's and outbursts can be caged. Just now, I've grasped perception and have realized my knowledge is shallow, my existence a mere blip in time and only more reading can cure my unspoken woes.
                                                                              Izzy Schurr, aka Mark Schurr

Photo of Nebula, the galaxy past Andromeda, from the young adult book "George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt."  
                                                                             

Time...A 'Twilight Zone" Episode Review

Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in a fraternity of dreamers whose passion is the printed page, conspired against by his boss, his wife and a world full of tongue cluckers in the unrelenting hands of a clock. (Rod Serling)

"Time Enough At Last," the 8th episode of Rod Serling's TV show, "The Twilight Zone" marvelously transformed writer Lynn Venable's short story from the 1953 magazine "If, Worlds Of Science Fiction" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last into a compelling tale of imagination, intrigue and frustration.

Acclaimed actor Burgess Meredith (1907-1997) portrayed Henry Bemis, the focal character in 1959s "Time Enough At Last" with aplomb. Bemis is an avid reader to say the least. His reading causes problems at his banking job and with his wife. His boss and his wife do everything they can to thwart his reading.

The minor mistakes at work and Bemis getting reminded by his boss that a voluptuous women complained about him because he was looking down at her chest, but Bemis was not being a typical male eyeing a beautifully breasted women, Bemis was simply trying to read her election button to see who she voted for.

Writers Venable and Serling cleverly conceived a way for Bemis to be the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust with an abundance of food and water. At first Bemis is lonely, even suicidal until he discovers a vast collection of undamaged books from a rubbled city library. Bemis excitedly makes countless stacks of book as he prepares his days and years of which books he's going to read until he drops and breaks his prescription reading glasses. The end.   
                                                             
                                                                             Izzy Schurr, aka Mark Schurr

Insane Politics

What your seeing and what your reading is not what's happening President Donald Trump said on July 25 in Kansas City, Mo.

That's good, because what I'm seeing and reading is that Trump is a racist horny old burger goblin who literally steals children from poor people, Stephen Colbert said. The above statement by Trump was addressed to many of his cult followers at this year’s national Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. The Late Show With Stephen Colbert also pointed out that president Trump has reduced international relationships to a fight between two 14-year-old girls in 1988.

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me old, when I would never call him short and fat. Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen! A Nov., 11 Trump tweet about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Politician John Kerry said on Real Time With Bill Maher that Trump has the maturity of an 8-year-old boy and the insecurity of a teenage girl.

A tweet last year by North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un stated that he has a nuclear button is on his desk at all times. Trump tweeted back; I too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my button works!

How wonderful to live in a world with leaders possessing nuclear weapons who brag and argue like petulant children. Welcome to America and the rest of the world, which is a fiasco of futility and a ludicrous reality TV show. Real news is shown in bits and pieces, if at all.

Across the Atlantic sea in the Middle Eastern lands, the raping of very young girls and women is legal. Several years ago, Rawan, an 8-year-old girl from Yemen was forced to marry a man approximately 40-years-old. Rawan died of internal sexual injuries after spending her wedding night with a husband five times her age. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/09/bride-aged-8-dies-internal-sexual-injuries-wedding-night-_n_3892892.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_cs=jAmXkuJT-efMs-TkiMuxeg 

A Huffington Post article in May, 2015 stated that about 95 percent of girls in Somalia between the ages of 4 and 11-years-old undergo Female Genital Mutilation, a practice that involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for no medical benefit. https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/somalia-may-soon-ban-female-genital-mutilation_us_55bfaf59e4b06363d5a2e560 FGM is also a common practice in the Middle East. George Carlin said it's so women in these countries will be less likely to cheat on their husbands because having their clitoris forcibly removed vastly decreases sexual pleasure. 

Earthlings tend to be a bunch of narcissistic numb-skulls that fail to adhere to the Bible's commandment; thou shall not kill. In August, a U.S. backed Saudi Arabia led coalition air strike hit a school bus in Yemen that killed 29 children. All the children where under 15-years-old. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/dozens-dead-in-yemen-as-bus-carrying-children-hit-by-airstrike-icrc

Since March, 2015, 60 percent of child deaths in the Middle East have been from air strikes by U.S. backed coalitions with Saudi Arabia, according to the United Nations. Nearly 1,500 children have lost limbs or have been maimed by U.S. drones since March 2015.  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-war-the-girl-forced-to-marry-at-11-whose-story-exposes-the-conflicts-toll-on-children-a7125151.html  

In the 90s drones where called smart bombs, which the government still fools the masses into thinking these insanely priced bombs only kills military enemies. All the money spent of these sadistic weapons of war could end world hunger and  provide a free four year college degree to tens of millions of people, do the research! The words peace and harmony are shrouded in death and destruction. Mankind is not so kind.     
                                                               Izzy Schurr, aka, Mark Schurr