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"Anthony, you always make my day. Thank you so much.
You really get me thinking." : : : : - Ledjana Paja
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that people
would rather be right
than be understanding.
are those clever people who
can make the stupid
less stupid.
If there have ever been any
for stupidity constantly
cleverly
re-invents itself.
people will kill
for any reason
- except compassion.
but easily induces us
into believing that
we are.
is a machine
for telling half-convincing
stories
to consciousness.
(especially the French)
eat fish
like there's no tomorrow
- for the fish.
(in its complexity)
is much more inexplicable
than madness
in its simplicity.
Update your penis.
Replay your feels.
is birth
or breaking out of the egg.
The second miracle
is male erection
especially a mule's.
The last miracle is
death.
Add worship
to miracle
and you get
deceit everlasting.
is a sad substitute
for personality.
that my socks smell worse
on the twentieth day of wearing
than they did on the first.
You can make a market
out of anything:
love, justice, beauty, tragedy,
faith, hope and charity.
is squandered
by a single species.
I really do not care:
civilisation, it seems to me,
is just a dancing bear.
the transcendental
fulcrum
between the ephemeral
and the
ineffable.
just the politics
and economics
of superstition.
how people leave
forced pot-plants
to die in graveyards.
when I get up
because my shutters
squeak.
is a system wherein those who are active
constantly try to cheat each other
and those who are passive.
If this really is the least-bad system we can devise,
we are less intelligent than dogs or rabbits.
the loudest and richest
always win.
it's a little sad to enjoy
something more
when you share it
with another.
Great intelligence.
Little empathy.
of appreciating creativity
is uncreatively
unappreciated.
and superior
is our abuse
of our 'superiority' to Nature ?
Is the constant noise
of people talking
any more
than noise ?
is brought by words
and taught by language.
like humans
inhumanely,
animals can't live
as animals.
constantly
re-invents
itself
calling itself
intelligence.
- was I the only person in the world
eating cherries, drinking Gaillac
while listening to Schnittke's
3rd quartet ?
that a true poet wants to meet
are other poets - whether true or false;
which is why so few true poets
go to poetry festivals.
- a gay marriage
made in Heaven ?
thing that can befall a writer
is to be published.
prance and prowl
the shadows of our shame.
zombis
Some soon turn into
zombis
And most have
zombihood
forced upon them.
and the Poor in Spirit
there is little space.
Above, beyond the queue
the monitor
displaying every aisle
and every stand
within the store, revealing
all except the slight
shoplifter's sleight-of-hand.
culture, or civilisation
that cannot cope with suicide
is fundamentally defective.
is swapping credit-cards.
Love
if not forever
is just infatuation.
Real men drink piss
Real men don't shave
Real men do kiss
Real men don't wave
is usually more toxic
than the bathwater.
Physically wonderful
emotional lie
Memory goes backward.
In the Beginning
we were stories.
In the End
we are oblivion.
Is it because
life is such an outrageous
imposition ?
Or is it because
human consciousness
is a kind of
continual drowning ?
cornucopia
to
pharmacopœia,
we
are now thoroughly
poisoning
the sea.
and who is alive
is sometimes a matter
of opinion.