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The Heart of Beauty
When Beauty stands alone at last upon the wretched reefs of time and watches as her suitors sink beyond the pale horizon line where tied to masts of providence they’ve closed their senses to her charms and set their sextants … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged aging, beauty, coersion, illusions, loss, opinion, Persephone, regrets, relativity, slavery, time
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Sanity
Sanity is a funny thing. It often seems that the more you emphasize your own sanity, rely upon it as a sure thing, compare yours to others, the more likely it is that you are in fact not sane. On … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged coersion, communication, exclusion, insanity, madness, perceptions, religion, sanity
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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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Sometimes in Fits of Restless Pique
Sometimes in fits of restless pique I lose the will to even speak; and listening to voices lie reduces me to tears. I cry not for their souls in peril; no, but for a world that makes it so worthwhile … Continue reading
Celsius 488.33
What is the point at which the conscience burns and thus consumes the mind with thoughts to act, that in its darkest recess for truth yearns to separate illusions from the facts? And the externals that provide the fuel, that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged activism, coersion, collusion, cooperation, Fahrenheit 911, fear, ignorance, liberty
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W.M.D.
wealthy men decide worldwide military dependency whitehouse motives dubious war means death without meaningful direction wholesale media duplicity wanton mercenary demonstrations willful misinformation dissemination wrongful misuse doctrine winner molded demographics warped mission definition wholly moronic defense whitewashed mind denial well … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged coersion, deception, fear, George W Bush, Iraq, justification, mass media, war
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