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Deep End Abilities
You coughed, turned your head, said are my eyes still red? Some mornings I just can’t get out of bed; feels like I’m sleeping with the dead. You laughed, rolled your eyes, then you cried about the suicide. Some mornings … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, apathy, dependency, failure, independence, relationship, word play
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Perigoric: a bestiary
It has strong legs and sturdy wings, and for them both has need; although the legs grow weak with age and will get cut and bleed. Two wings, then, of the standard sort: half butterfly, half bat; quite useful when … Continue reading
On Milton and Dante
To each their own: let others speak of hells where self-damnation wreaks eternal havoc on the mind and soul; its torments let their thoughts embrace, imagining some devil’s face. I will not heed such useless folderol. It should suffice that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged allegory, coersion, damnation, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, personal responsibility, religion, salvation
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The Secret Undertown Ministry
Once upon a time, although since as a dimension, time is a relatively unstable paradigm and cannot often be trusted to remain in the tense that one would expect, in a land far, far away [and distance too would seem … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged allegory, excerpts, novels, parables, science fiction
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The Siren’s Song
Like Odysseus, our great commander in chief (who likes his reports and his facts just in brief) has ordered himself lashed and tied to the mast, and in the ears of his councilors, wax plugs made fast so he can … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, allegory, America, George W Bush, Odysseus, politics, Sirens
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