Tag Archives: philosophy

The mirror

Posted on 26 November, 2009 by

The mirror of my mind reflects only badness. The good resides here in this room as a vampire, without reflectiveness, and though my mind searches as if for shells, it finds only sand. My mind is like a mud that … Continue reading →

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We sweet Orpheuses

Posted on 11 October, 2009 by

The Columbia has abandoned us, the Willamette, too; and the Guadalupe; and San Jose. And Portland. We’re abandoned into history. We’re run aground on a little island, but it isn’t really a little island — it’s a sea monster. Verily. … Continue reading →

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For a country as a number

Posted on 11 May, 2009 by

Lasting contributions of our fathers to mankind: iPods, and high definition flatscreen televisions; Bluetooth headsets and hybrid gas & electric automobiles; iPhone apps, and dual-core computer processors… As if we would die were our fingers to stop; as if the … Continue reading →

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Posted on 16 March, 2009 by

Philosophy is an examination and attempt at understanding of the multitudinous aspects, characters, and realities of existence, and poetry is an expression of that which philosophy examines.

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The whole point to humanity

Posted on 9 March, 2009 by

The earth is some glass bottle spinning eternally in the cold and roiling waves of the sea of the Universe.

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We go so fast

Posted on 22 February, 2009 by

What are we paying for? There is traffic that halves a man’s life, that puts a boy in a vise. There is convenience, convenience stores of storied convenience, inconvenient continental breakfasts in the lobbies of multi-storied antiseptic hotels. Expensive motels. … Continue reading →

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Drunk song

Posted on 19 February, 2009 by

Everything takes on a wistful luster when I’ve been drinking, as though I’m not watching the present but a gay past be born. I say to my love, “This is what I imagine when I imagine life in Cambodia.” We … Continue reading →

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Unfortunately Hitler

Posted on 2 October, 2008 by

[a poem borrowing from statements made by my philosophy teacher cobbled together into heavy-handed non-sequiturs] The problem with us socially is turning into, unknowingly, the classroom. But you’re not supposed to say that’s not right. As Nietzsche predicted. Relativists have … Continue reading →

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