editorial / Notes From a Bum

When You Judge

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When you judge is it with wisdom or ideology; a punishing, judgmental ideology based on ancient theocracry?

With your convictions, are you certain of the deeds and thoughts of others; so much so that if you were a local sheriff in a small town at the height of the Covid pandemic you invited vigilantes to patrol main street because the evil in the hearts and minds of everyone was worse than a punk with a gun?

Did you get your authority through lies, cajolery, chicanery, duplicity in the name of your theocracy masquerading as morality; you who affirm their is an ultimate judge, even he who gave you freedom for yourselves and your families; freedom, which you take from the poor because they are wanting? The very things you deny them, you and your extended families can obtain at a cost.

That is your morality.

And any Supreme Court judge, or any member of congress who claims not to have an abortion in their extended family is going to turn out to be a liar.

Published by R. Jay Hoffman

Ronald Hoffman is an artist and poet from West Michigan. Under the pen name Barnabas Collins he is the author of the chapbook of verses called The Ballads of Barnabas Collins. His art is illustrative of the human condition as told through Jungian archetypes and can be seen at www.facebook.com/rjhoffmanart. He hails from snowy West Michigan. As a songwriter and player, also under the pen name Barnabas Collins, his music project, Roaming Snyder, produced a self titled hard rock instrumental in 2013, as well as the lp Autumn Years in 2015. “I see the child as father of the man, and as a fifty year old can see the symbols of my youth writ large upon my theater of reality.”