You step outside for some fresh air. The crowded room has been polluted by agreeable dreams enough to choke on, sweet and addicting enough to go broke on, so to clear the air, you step outside. You rushed ahead, still holding your glass. One last attempt at saving, strategy or cowardice frothing in your cup. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Modernity’
A Little More Poison
Posted in Poetry, tagged America, city living, Fesh Air, Health, Modernity on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Rider
Posted in Poetry, tagged Modernity, opinion, writing on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Turning the corner we see a rider hanging moments before an altar we spent with his face wiping his dew drop mirrors as they run down his quill and onto sheets hanging an echo to put clean linens on. It is our turn to reflect on the water bed surface where we used to float, [...]
Our Myth Part I
Posted in Didactic, myth, tagged Egoism, Humanity, Justification, Language, Modernity, myth, nakedness, philosophy, Poetry, sophistry, truth on August 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The unfortunate truth for those who hide themselves behind ration relativism is that what they are really looking for is justification, for ethical orders, for a completely irrefutable fact amidst a sea of turmoil – they are looking for truth. Oh sure, like the sophist they can speak around this issue but they cannot hide [...]
Said the Explorer -
Posted in Dialogue, Didactic, Poetry, tagged Children, Exploration, fiction, forgetting, lies, Memory, Modernity, truth on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I do not forget the ill affects of such mistakes I merely let my brain filter out Aztec pitfalls and much of the year spent with malaria. You see a life is not spent in history it forsakes plain facts in favor of context and narrative. The mind makes pilfering into excavation using the same justification as [...]
The New Immortals
Posted in Poetry, Sonnet, tagged age, death, Immortality, Modernity, Poetry, Sonnet, youth on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watch the clockwork children play, two pupiled place holder eyes long for the path of the freeway that their forefathers criticized. At night, they sleep, without fear of snakes and monsters under the bed. Mom’s comforting prayer “You can’t die if you’re already dead.” Bravery is only a virtue if you have something to lose but [...]
Said the Judge, in review of case 3712, after having been presented with overwhelming evidence supporting the allegation that a severe policy violation had occurred on the eve of Saturnalia in attempts to directly challenge the already arbitrated disputes between the once Universal Institution and the Current Establishment as outlined in the Immanuel Act of 2007, to the movie store clerk
Posted in Didactic, Eulogy, Poetry, tagged Didactic, Eulogy, government, Humanity, justice, Modernity, Poetry, sentence on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In line with protocol seven, two, four, two, three, In the light of evidence presented to me, and the congregation of equals assembled here, by the power invested by the supreme and austere, His Eminence the Executive, so endowed by the equal citizens In reference to the God they once worshiped, I sentence you with removal, with no [...]
Curse of Glass
Posted in Poetry, tagged generations, glass, History, Modernity, plastic, Poetry on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some things are made out of glass Like old man clinging to pointless life Having been replaced by a plastic class Both cheap and disposable. Flower vases on the sill remain Feeling the window’s pane Transparent, fragile, made to show The roots of life which in water grow Burdened by this fragile caste Two lovers [...]
