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One Horse Town
Lucky it’s a one-horse town: it cuts down on the horse-shit; but watch your walk, you’re bound to step in some. And any fool can tell you there’s no trick to finding trouble; it comes up on you ugly, mean … Continue reading
This Place
Everything about this place just tends to bring me down; I look into the mirror and see one more hopeless clown. The people on the street have a sad tendency to frown and no one wants to be the only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged communication, depression, disillusion, fear, isolation, small towns
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Lowdown Existential Blues
Just like everybody, I try to get along; but I can’t win for losing, things always turn out wrong. Need to have a membership, but I have an objection to the dues. I’ve got the feeling non-essential, clearly quintessential lowdown … Continue reading
Just Like That
I wish to communicate. Alas, fate does not desire that we should speak today; instead it blocks our way with fire, which we perceive as brute force. It’s not, of course, merely smoke; but feel – its flames do not … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged anger, awdl gywydd, communication, distance, time, Welsh verse forms
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Speaking in Tongues
Speak to me in ancient tongues as if in my subconscious mind the threads of some genetic past can be rewound around a lingo neither you nor I now know; or better yet, just make it up as you go … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged communication, deities, glossolalia, gospels, hypocrisy, inspiration, nonsense
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On the Professional Diarist
There must be something more to it, some sense behind the scenes, a glimpse of meaning not quite shared, or else my mind’s not keen enough to understand the point of merely keeping track of each new day’s minutiae; the … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, diaries, journals, living, pointlessness, relationships, writing
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On South Park
First, it’s a situation comedy. A situation comedy that deliberately offends some in order to humor others. That’s not really so unusual. It’s not really “teaching us to be tolerant,” however. The majority of comedy has always been (since Euripides, … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, free speech, obscenity, reviews, South Park, television
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