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justin-ball
justin-ball
Canadian Justin Ball is a Canadian born writer. I'm a lost soul, wandering the world, erratically colliding with other lost souls who traverse the world not seeking monetary gain, but intelectual enlightenment, and dare I say some form of personal growth.
My growing disdain for any semblance of a productive life has grown far greater than I could have hoped. When once I embraced life with a wide-smiled, open-armed optimism, I have only been left with this inexorable malaise. It is a personal strife I endure ever day. My existential outlook has collided with the nihilistic propaganda force fed to the multitudes at an alarming rate. The functions, gatherings or otherwise diminutive events of the more fortunate seem to have subsumed the necessity for a more literate or enlightened future. The only way I see it fit to continue is routine. Routine is the leading most killer in human spontaneity. It also seems to be the leading most reason behind success. Not monetary success (although it can most certainly induce that outcome). I am talking about personal success, self-improvement, finding joy again in my most favourite and sought after past time. I assume it is within routine where I can find this peace of mind I am searching for. I assume this because my life has already been stricken by the deadly plight of a routine. One that has caused me to lose my footing. Rather than a routine of value and productivity, I have stumbled upon a routine of self-indulgence, disparagement, and an ever-growing urgency to carry out the most asinine tasks that no other would ever think to dwell on for more than a matter of minutes. My personal strife is my mind. My personal routine is my life. Because of this, I have forced myself into solitary confinement, where my ritualized routine of the self becomes a ritualized journey towards complete insouciance. We are the future, they proclaim.
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Jun 15, 2012
Jun 15, 2012 at 3:02 PM UTC
Something
My growing disdain for any semblance of a productive life has grown far greater than I could have hoped. When once I embraced life with a wide-smiled, open-armed optimism, I have only been left with this inexorable malaise. It is a personal strife I endure ever day. My existential outlook has collided with the nihilistic propaganda force fed to the multitudes at an alarming rate. The functions, gatherings or otherwise diminutive events of the more fortunate seem to have subsumed the necessity for a more literate or enlightened future. The only way I see it fit to continue is routine. Routine is the leading most killer in human spontaneity. It also seems to be the leading most reason behind success. Not monetary success (although it can most certainly induce that outcome). I am talking about personal success, self-improvement, finding joy again in my most favourite and sought after past time. I assume it is within routine where I can find this peace of mind I am searching for. I assume this because my life has already been stricken by the deadly plight of a routine. One that has caused me to lose my footing. Rather than a routine of value and productivity, I have stumbled upon a routine of self-indulgence, disparagement, and an ever-growing urgency to carry out the most asinine tasks that no other would ever think to dwell on for more than a matter of minutes. My personal strife is my mind. My personal routine is my life. Because of this, I have forced myself into solitary confinement, where my ritualized routine of the self becomes a ritualized journey towards complete insouciance. We are the future, they proclaim.
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Minute Michael upright sat, morningwise, donning the dayspring shine. A squint-eyed Michael flip fumbled floorside, unmeaningly frolicking through a sunstained daze. With armsthrough and torsocovered, a once morningshamed Michael, now shamecovered, left-footedly saunters kithenbound. Downfaced, Michael straightback bends, greeted legpurringly by Mr. Muffin, a furlined feline. Gentlefingered, fur runs digitthrough as the furlined feline gentlemews. Forced faceward, Mr.Muffin tailwaggedly tethers Minute Michael, led by stomachsnarls. Michael, now kitchenside, lefthandly prepares morning rations, as gentlemews quickpaced form to snivelshrieks. The hardpatienced furlined feline toothsharpedly and clawretractedly nibblebites Michael, indicating stomachsnarls his own. Airfaced ceilingside, Michael quietyelps, handgropped ankleward. Clearpointedly Mr. Muffin eyelocks Minute Michael. Rationpreparedly, Michael bowlfills Mr. Muffin with furlined food.
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 6:36 PM UTC
Minute Michael
I’ve once heard musings Of recitation reflecting an area Of negligence that should Never go forsaken. Now, it is through my dismay Which triggers my optimism To lead me to believe this Recapitulation has been Extricated through a Satirical voice. However, in the event That theses musings are In fact, coming from A discernible veracity, Then I have done to you The gravest disservice I would never Dream to impart. Allow this to act as my Expression of regret In this particular field Of verbal lavishing. Before the moment You were my salacious secret And preliminary to my yearning For parallel mutual devotion My capabilities of a Tactile sense of normality Were fleeting Forever consigned to oblivion Until the moment I Allowed the craving to coalesce With the collective. It was then that I realized The stimulus of my exuberance Was not a self-fulfilling prophecy. Rather, one brought on When we lay entwined Within one another. Further musings have been vocalized, Drawing sight upon the fact I am twenty-one grams lighter Than the commune. Albeit, these musings have Been satirical in merit, The inherent truth Is not controvertible. Thus was the preceding case To our amalgamation. You are the sole vindication I have a soul. If there has ever Been inequity In my necessity to Opulent you with My own verbal musings I do hope this Can act as verbatim If there should be Any negligence within This particular field of Expertise.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM UTC
Secret no more (Secret 2)
At this particular juncture You are my salacious secret. My impulse and my desire Yearn for parallel, Yet specious devotion. Regrettably, my insight forbids Integrating the desire with the Collective. Despite a substantial reciprocal fervor And prolonged vulnerability Which has led to my proficiency In an art form so intricate, My desire is transposed And I am ensnared and subdued By reality. For now, you will remain My salacious secret, Until I accumulate the Audacity required To allow for such A course of action. Within my reverie Is where I recede Where my impulse and desire Reign.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM UTC
Secret
They say the neon lights Don’t often burn that bright Splintered from my urethra Swollen in this hex Devoured by the Eve Brought to justice by the guilt And when they said That all I had to give Wasn’t worth a fitful look I’ve been duped by sedative The artificial power Has swollen in my head Wrapped around an ice pick Can be found my fleeting shell As our defunct cohesion Masticates my head Disintegration will lay me to my bed. That sweet nectar Lingers on my tongue An inebriated hour of reverie genuine A claustrophobic detainment Incarceration with power windows As your effigy is left behind These shiv grasped hands Awaiting exertion, transpierce my eyes Upon introspective re-inspections Ichor transmogrifies Necessitate me Remain vacant here As our defunct cohesion Masticates my head Disintegration will lay me to my bed.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM UTC
Quietus
Downward spiral In rejected denial Put on a duplicitous smile (the camouflage of conspiracy) Ruminate on whether or not This is some preconceived fallacy. Realize why all those Feelings have been encapsulated. Congratulations Assimilation into the crowd Has been instituted. Fed by lyrical persuasion, The line points down On this linear equation.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:09 AM UTC
X, Y, Z
The fragments of the sumptuous thirty-plus have been dispersed about me These shards, not merely placed here accidentally, rather having found their way through the hands of one who would have them for a night then repudiate them. That’s how it would seem to the hordes of eyes who’s business goes unattended for that sole reason. Now it is my duty to live with a title others who bear the plague of an unburdened dangling protuberance as a prerogative of the captivatingly covetable. Through those very eyes they exert themselves to live vicariously through your eyes. How foolish are the feeble minded. to so easily set out on a self cataclysmic odyssey. When viewed from the eyes of the sumptuous thirty-plus the perspective have been effectively skewed. The acclaim you were once engrossed in has altered. Transmutation has taken effect. Soon the communal cogitation of the multitudes will subsume the feeble minded Thus creating only one possibly point of terminus: solitary confinement.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM UTC
Apology