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Pagan Comm(unity)?
About two years ago, I participated in a discussion group that included a number of relatively famous pagan “elders”. There was some scuffle regarding some relatively unsavory behavior on the part of one of the members, a leader of a … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged community, discord, elders, ignorance, illusions, paganism, unity
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Stupid War
The first draft of this song dates from 1975, when I was ten years old. I subsequently revised it in about 1985. I read in the papers ’bout the war today: we’re going to die from an overdose of moral … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged commercialism, ignorance, mass media, pointlessness, spirituality, war
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Intimations of Idiocy
From early childhood until now I’ve spent my life immersed in earnest pantomime of games adults will feign to play: the forging of relationships through love, business and war; the chaos that somehow surprises all when facades fail and underneath, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged banality, childhood, commercialism, dreams, ignorance, regrets, sleep
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The Loss of Art in School
There is no good in writing it, for no one cares to read; no point in baking word-filled pies, there’s no one here to feed. There is no point in singing it, for we have all gone deaf; besides, no … Continue reading
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Tagged art, culture, education, ignorance, learning, loss, public education
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Stirring the Pot, Part 2
As if the little things were not enough: those trivialities that chafe and burn like tinder when it’s dried and raspy rough, that seem so insignificant you spurn the notion that beyond them is the truth. It’s just that they … Continue reading