a bed
2012-04-02
An ancient artwork, rediscovered
2012-02-25
Stand by for some music.
i have a new favourite poet
2012-02-02
Bunch of poems quoted on Metafilter, this one resonated with me the most.
True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions but convinced
it had to happen this way – in reward for what?
For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn’t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.Look at the happy couple.
Couldn’t they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends’ sake?
Listen to them laughing – its an insult.
The language they use – deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines –
it’s obviously a plot behind the human race’s back!It’s hard even to guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who’d want to stay within bounds?True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life’s highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn’t populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there’s no such thing.Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
2012-01-26
The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.
The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
what a drag it is getting old
2012-01-17
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done
It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They were happy they knew me. We made it a little less boring.
Indeed.
2011-12-01
Research indicates patterns. Patterns improve predictably. And as statistics can be shown, our programming proves your worth in helping us help you temper your aimless movement.
Life takes work. Death takes self. Being Not Dead takes Self Work: reflective examination, self interrogation and the guts to gash the bites and suck out the poison—all your conflicting thoughts and uncooperative emotions.
With the direction of You Are Not Dead: a Guide to Modern Living and the determination you give Self Work, knotting the ties that bind and answering for your signs, you will:
Learn to resist trifling complexities. Recognize the paths that are deceptively easy and those unnecessarily hard. Be mindful of delusion and mean to do something about it. Be open to closure and sew the wounds shut.
honesty
2011-11-28
Don’t always protect people from your truth. It won’t make things right
One of the day-to-day reasons that relationships between human beings become so screwed up has to do with this well-intentioned deception. We protect those we interact with from the negative aspects of our feelings about them, because we want to be nice and foster goodwill. And we do it so fricking often, without even thinking twice about it! (“oh, it’s nothing”)
The problem is, it’s dishonest. It’s not authentic, and it misleads people who interact with you about how you really are.
untitled poem
2011-09-12
i thought i saw a tear at the bottom of your eye
but it looked like crystals as i got closer.
or sparkles.
The other ‘9/11’
2011-09-11
Following Allende’s election, the US Ambassador cabled Washington: “Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first country in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly.”
