Tag Archives: Poetry

A.I. Wondering

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay We can be sure that everything that encourages our participation on the internet today is somehow contributing to the development and further refining…More

That Thing on the TV (a short short short)

Simon: Dammit! This thing is smithereens, now. Don: Well, quit messing with it! Why was it so important in the first place? We got to go! This’ll be good for you, too. Simon: There was something on the news, something about colona– Don: Colon! Now that’s not newsworthy! Unless it’s mine!  Dr. Hawthorne always have…More

It Is What It Is

For MarkWhen I look up to the sky nowAnd see the lines between the clouds,Fractal lines, giving each cloud its shapeAnd identity, think for a moment I see themColliding into one another soundlessly forming largerClouds or departingFrom one another,Getting smallerAnd smaller, until I realize that larger cloudIs something else than the smaller,That each has its…More

Nota Bene

A truth that doesn’t dance around with scandal, with falseness and error, is nothing important.More

The Breath of Meaninglessness

The breath of meaninglessness comes as easily, as unaccounted for, as graciously as the breath of meaning, both like a breeze across the damp swamp, a breeze that suddenly gives to the stagnant air life, direction, energy.               What else do you want out of this, she asked.  When she said the words it was…More

Cultures of Thought

Each thought, and the cultivation of that thought, has its proper time.  Without cultivation, a thought may visit, may inspire, may suddenly illumine, but chances are it will not form the basis of a culture, a practice, a labor.  Labor not only in the sense of work and craft, the honing of skill and the…More

not going back

Normal, new or old…is a disaster. This video captures the heart beating inside us in May, 2020.More

Zwischen

        For Monica Geers-DahlWe meet and you tell methat you are a visionary.Now the visions plop downfor our inspecting gaze,or like a plaything, for usto play with and fondle,or like a maze to explore,or like a door to enter,or like a trembling child,we have to console herin her shivering, or likea mild breeze we feelcoolly…More

144,000

Before that world ended, our project as some of us called it, we felt the horizon closing in on us at first as some distant foreboding, an event we had calculated, could imagine, make plenty of blockbuster films about, but that seemed so distant as though it could never possibly arrive for us, the safe…More

In praise of stupidity

In praise of stupidity.  Stupidity is not always to be looked down upon, even by philosophers, perhaps especially by philosophers if they want to leave no stone unturned, if they truly want to be lovers of the plural and ever-multiplying manifestations of human and other things.  Sometimes it is precisely stupidity that carries with it…More

Cosmic Dance – A (Short) Dialogue

A: Why are you dancing around the subject– B: I’m not dancing– A: Yes you are, you said that life is meaningless but that we are not meaningless, how can that– B: Let me ex– A: No! You called it an “explanation” before when you said that even though life itself is meaningless, we can…More

Some Day – For Martin

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin To be black in the United States during the holidays is already a trial. Traditional expressions of these holidays seldom involve black families, as most American media and imagery are already graded low when it comes to diversity. The holidays celebrated…More

Soaring ignorance

Soaring ignorance.  The problem with the problematization of other perspectives is that it takes too much for granted the knowledge of our own.  As though we are quite certain of ourselves!  As though we already discern, and have a clear and steady grasp of, our own boundaries!  As though we are not ourselves full of…More

On Forgiveness

Even when we have been hurt, even then we are to forgive the one who hurt us?  We were gathered around him as a flock gathers around a post–hungry or pensive.  The desert heat was mitigated slightly by a gracious cloud overhead which, instead of simply passing by and leaving us with unshielded fire, kept…More