a poem is a sermon
I think I will 1) stop writing and reading on FB altogether, and only post to it from my blog, 2) communicate directly with people I wish to interact with, and 3) acknowledge that written messages between persons without shared understanding of the other’s intent are almost always misinterpreted, particular when one party is trying […]
Conducting one’s life outside the immediacy of meatspace is ALMOST as exhausting as if one had to actually physically travel to conduct conversations with one’s geographically far-flung “friends” in the flesh. I’m so tired of the forced interaction and the need to constantly be entertaining, provocative or at the very least annoying – but once […]
I don’t believe that we have met, and yet, you know my name and act as if you know me well, at least enough to speak informally, as if to say what protocol exists you can brush quickly to the side without a second thought. I don’t believe that we have met; I surely would […]
Must I explain it once more? Try hard to fight the boredom that most likely will ensue the moment you think useless any viewpoint but your own, and on your cragged and stony field, let germinate a seed of mine. I am not pleading with you; I have friends enough without you: fine and tougher […]
Continue reading "Speech Between the Fallen – a cywyyd deuair hyrion"
We reconnect through wireless means – no strings attached, just memories like wisps of smoke we can’t inhale without a self-accusing stare. Like ghosts, we shuffle wall to wall and watch as life unfolds somewhere, where we could be, on different paths, some roads less traveled, others not. We fondly look in retrospect at days […]
It’s all exposed online, you understand. My life is more or less an open book: my birth, my education, then my work, and shared, too, all too soon, sickness and death. The details that might make my trip unique are no more poignant, pithy or sublime than those comprising your own story-line; if you want […]
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 and dumb. The world ain’t too much different from one small place to the next; […]