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Happy New Year: an acrostic
H ow many times must we repeat the same old lines, a nd with conviction try to p rove that our broken and misguided p olicies provide us with medicine and not poison that y ou and I so joyfully … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, #LewisTurco, acrostic, daily poems, poetic forms
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Nominus umbra
It’s only just a little thing; you’ll barely see it there along the route of the parade, the worse for wear and tear. Not much at all to look at, hardly worth a second thought; besides, how much could it … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged grandeur, illusion, insignificance, quanta, time, unimportance
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If Privacy is Power
If privacy is power, then our public-facing selves are palimpsests of who we are; and that which we pretend to be (that hides our truest form) has more in common with a mist than blood, muscle or bone. If privacy … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged mob mentality, power, privacy, public exposure, sharing, silence, social media
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I Think Therefore
I think; therefore I am whatever in here gives a damn and whatever lays inside the lines that separate me from my mind. I think; therefore I am, at least for that brief moment’s span until I stop and think … Continue reading
The Secret Undertown Ministry
“FROM THE DARKNESS, A VOICE SINGS OUT: I disagree, I disagree – I cannot understand at all; Which doesn’t mean I cannot understand it if I tried to understand it but I cannot stand to stand and understand it when … Continue reading
Americans Undecided for Apathy
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM A CAMPAIGN SPEECH WRITTEN BY GRAVITY PUSHMAN AND DELIVERED TO THE ‘AMERICANS UNDECIDED FOR APATHY’ RALLY HELD ON DECEMBER 12, 1994 IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. THE SPEECH WAS DELIVERED VIA AN ANONYMOUS TAPE … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged apathy, history, parody, politics, The Secret Undertown Ministry, voting
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16. Philosophize Only By Accident
Despite what you may think, and what they themselves might to try to convince you, philosophers and other professional think-o-logists for thousands of years have tried to answer just a couple of basic questions. These are often hard to recognize, … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged being, existentialism, philosophy, positivism, Sartre, Success Motivation Institute
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