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Let Those Who Would Reform
Let those who would reform the world desist their feeble mewlings at the citadel that those they choose to fight built to resist more legions than the gods themselves could quell. Let others beat to useless, bloody shreds their fist-clenched … Continue reading
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Tagged change, evolution, illusions, pointlessness, reform, revolution, violence
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Sisyphus
At each new dawning of the day, our shackles turned to dust, we rise from bed and check the door in case it’s turned to rust; and finding perhaps a loose hinge or screws worn down and stripped, we throw … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, accomplishment, pointlessness, Sisyphus, struggle
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Numerology
When I reach the age of Elvis crucified, two years and small change from now, I shall have been 33 years a missionary: singing love songs to the deaf; painting pictures for the blind; copying manuscript parts to hand out … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, commitment, Elvis Presley, expectations, omens, pointlessness, purpose, writing
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What It Isn’t
It’s not about learning to draw a clearer picture of the ruins It’s not about taking a sledge hammer to the ivied hallowed halls It’s not about the trash you can talk about those who disagree It’s not about undercovering … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, change, individuality, pointlessness, problem-solving, responsibility
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A Meditation on St. Sebastian
What is the secret hidden behind the veiled innuendo that hangs its tapestries of heavy corded cloth on these rotting temple walls? I pierce your flesh with countless arrows, yet you fail to die; beheaded, in a pool of cloying … Continue reading
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Tagged deities, illusions, martyrs, pointlessness, Saint Sebastian, saints
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