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michael-stenson-grund
I don’t even write. I simply waste more time, I feel like smoking *** sitting, enjoying this moment, and watching the world burn bright and beautiful. I don’t even want to write. I am nihilistic in this sense, and also self-effacing, masochistic. And nothing satisfies me, so I am like the Buddha, and relinquish my rights to the great systemic pattern. Killing time and hoping for the apocalypse to move the broken record that skips and repeats. Why waste more time writing the things that have been said? Why express the inexpressible? I wish to forget the meanings of all the words and pen bleak and esoteric paragraphs in universal grammar. As I slowly begin to forget even what I was thinking of a minute ago, that thing that prompted this new but white opaque letter. There is nothing more to say than that and why spend more precious moments contemplating the inevitable. I have digressed to a state of vague generality so profound that all meaning is lost. And I can only wipe the spit from my lips and experience the thinking slow and bored perception. I am complicit in this great shadowy game. The game that is me and that is you but also both of us together, as a whole and my tacit approval of the state of things has lead me to a deep and darkened valley, a slippery slope of mud meant for clawing fingernails in desperation. And I, like the rest of my generation have perfected the bacchanal and reverie of the leisure life. Soaking up the romantic narratives of a primitive past to accept the fate of indecision, and construct meaning from the meaningless. Picking up the pieces of a shattered ghostly mirror only to rearrange them in the likeness of a persistent and inherent logic, which can only be shown and never understood; my own computational meat sack ever deteriorating, or perhaps growing, to the ecstasy through entropy. I have yet to find the great rut! On the brink of a new n’other I am blinded by choice. And I’ve yet to find my voice! And proof of purchase is another thing entirely. My misery is self-imposed, and understood as only frivolous trash beneath the hooves of trampling centipedes of mars Because I looked into the stars And I stared right at the sun And felt the rapture in the wake Of the wave I meant to break
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 4:31 PM UTC
The Clock Set in Motion
I don’t even write. I simply waste more time, I feel like smoking *** sitting, enjoying this moment, and watching the world burn bright and beautiful. I don’t even want to write. I am nihilistic in this sense, and also self-effacing, masochistic. And nothing satisfies me, so I am like the Buddha, and relinquish my rights to the great systemic pattern. Killing time and hoping for the apocalypse to move the broken record that skips and repeats. Why waste more time writing the things that have been said? Why express the inexpressible? I wish to forget the meanings of all the words and pen bleak and esoteric paragraphs in universal grammar. As I slowly begin to forget even what I was thinking of a minute ago, that thing that prompted this new but white opaque letter. There is nothing more to say than that and why spend more precious moments contemplating the inevitable. I have digressed to a state of vague generality so profound that all meaning is lost. And I can only wipe the spit from my lips and experience the thinking slow and bored perception. I am complicit in this great shadowy game. The game that is me and that is you but also both of us together, as a whole and my tacit approval of the state of things has lead me to a deep and darkened valley, a slippery slope of mud meant for clawing fingernails in desperation. And I, like the rest of my generation have perfected the bacchanal and reverie of the leisure life. Soaking up the romantic narratives of a primitive past to accept the fate of indecision, and construct meaning from the meaningless. Picking up the pieces of a shattered ghostly mirror only to rearrange them in the likeness of a persistent and inherent logic, which can only be shown and never understood; my own computational meat sack ever deteriorating, or perhaps growing, to the ecstasy through entropy. I have yet to find the great rut! On the brink of a new n’other I am blinded by choice. And I’ve yet to find my voice! And proof of purchase is another thing entirely. My misery is self-imposed, and understood as only frivolous trash beneath the hooves of trampling centipedes of mars Because I looked into the stars And I stared right at the sun And felt the rapture in the wake Of the wave I meant to break
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Sometimes I wonder if there is any line between poetry and prose, or prose and story. Where is this line? What is the difference? Is it some kind of structural difference? The problem with this is it becomes difficult to define where the structural lines are drawn. Is it some difference in the use of language? Anyone who has read Burroughs knows there is very little difference between his language in poem and prose. It all comes down to that old bald thought experiment. If we were to remove hairs from a man’s head, one by one, at what point would he be bald? It must be the context. This is a poem because it is presented as such. The thing about it is I don’t really give a **** The thing about it is that I’m just looking for something that I do not know. And I get a kick out of pretending And sometime something something I’m a little bit high now folks Because sometimes I need something too / all the time And Some might say that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them But at this day and age that’s becoming less and less clear for most folks Including myself And that’s pure Thompson May the great decadent castle topple down! And I, like a noble captain, Will sink with her I stand with hunched broken back On the backs of millions Pondering lifelessly I smell something. I can’t really know what. It’s horrible. I do not know if it is me or someone around me. A woman in front of me has a dark line around the back of her neck. As if that crease her skin collected some errant dirt and she never washed it off. I don’t know but it may be her. Or I may be a son of a ***** because she is pretty fat. And that’s empirical. And I know it’s not her fault, but I may have some sick bias against fat women brought on by repeated social direction. I remember when I thought of myself as undesirable. I did not wash. And I didn’t shower yesterday. And really I don’t know if this line here on her neck is really dirt, but holy **** that smell. It’s killing me, and even distracting me from the gripping narrative of the American sedition laws during WW1. Honestly it is probably me, but why is it so persistent? Wouldn’t I fall victim to scent saturation blindness, or whatever that affect is called. The point is you can’t normally smell your own stink, and none of us even notice our own stink. I think there is something in that somewhere. I can’t smell my own stink, and so I blame this poor girl.
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Nov 5, 2014
Nov 5, 2014 at 12:47 PM UTC
Leisure and Willful Ignorance are the currencies of the Grand Finale
Sometimes I wonder if there is any line between poetry and prose, or prose and story. Where is this line? What is the difference? Is it some kind of structural difference? The problem with this is it becomes difficult to define where the structural lines are drawn. Is it some difference in the use of language? Anyone who has read Burroughs knows there is very little difference between his language in poem and prose. It all comes down to that old bald thought experiment. If we were to remove hairs from a man’s head, one by one, at what point would he be bald? It must be the context. This is a poem because it is presented as such. The thing about it is I don’t really give a **** The thing about it is that I’m just looking for something that I do not know. And I get a kick out of pretending And sometime something something I’m a little bit high now folks Because sometimes I need something too / all the time And Some might say that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them But at this day and age that’s becoming less and less clear for most folks Including myself And that’s pure Thompson May the great decadent castle topple down! And I, like a noble captain, Will sink with her I stand with hunched broken back On the backs of millions Pondering lifelessly I smell something. I can’t really know what. It’s horrible. I do not know if it is me or someone around me. A woman in front of me has a dark line around the back of her neck. As if that crease her skin collected some errant dirt and she never washed it off. I don’t know but it may be her. Or I may be a son of a ***** because she is pretty fat. And that’s empirical. And I know it’s not her fault, but I may have some sick bias against fat women brought on by repeated social direction. I remember when I thought of myself as undesirable. I did not wash. And I didn’t shower yesterday. And really I don’t know if this line here on her neck is really dirt, but holy **** that smell. It’s killing me, and even distracting me from the gripping narrative of the American sedition laws during WW1. Honestly it is probably me, but why is it so persistent? Wouldn’t I fall victim to scent saturation blindness, or whatever that affect is called. The point is you can’t normally smell your own stink, and none of us even notice our own stink. I think there is something in that somewhere. I can’t smell my own stink, and so I blame this poor girl.
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I had to say something My skin was starting to crawl again And the backs of my eyelids were itching Everything was deconstructed And I saw infinity there Well really I saw infinity everywhere As if it were a forgone conclusion They managed to make my heart pump In my ears I had never known there were men on mars Training in esotericisms like philosophy and Art And did I mention I made a lot of this up As some kind of joke on you Because I’m far too Oh! So terribly concerned That I will fail And Oh! How embarrassing Reputation is the only currency we have Now that privacy is gone But there’s still money And don’t we all just love her
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 12:56 PM UTC
Sometimes I Get Bitter too, But I try to Find Beauty Even in my pointless and Destructive Tendencies
When watching a zombie movie, did you ever think we are the zombies? Did you ever think we are the shambling dead? The listless mourning, past its prime The rotten apple, left to rot Everything gets better and we feel worse Our project, nigh finished, and here we sit Only complaining, and waiting I think and I spit On the ground (I heard that’s illegal in Singapore) As I am just another falling leaf In the autumn of an empire I sit with the TV on mute Hoping for some lateral inspiration From kitsch I am born of kitsch, of product placement, and buyer’s remorse And I have no shame for it I am another product Built by a combination of complacency and incompetence Incompetence in one place and competence in another And I sold the world And it made me a nice profit But then there was nothing else to say And nature reared her mighty head Hubris led you years ago, and now does shame An experiment that drew no conclusions And only drew on time just a bit longer, pulling film across the projector And inventing for just that brief moment All that we held dear
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 12:52 PM UTC
Trying to Capture
“I spent the rest of the day smoking joints and listening to music. There was very little else that I had going for me. I was left hungry for something I could not put my finger on so I wondered the streets until dawn. With my head down I tried to feel confident but could only manage to fake it. A cloud of thought grew out around me, only broken by the introduction of some new stimuli as I walked. And very little stuck with me on my journey unto dawn. “ I read that in a book. I think it’s Joyce. But that would be convenient wouldn’t it? “Tell me, do you have a better idea?” I wonder, is there one Or are we all just products? such a tired cliché… I’m the miser’s purse Dionysus Something Something, we don’t care, You and I, Where this goes. Do we? Have a drink on Bukowski though Despite my lack of common tact I do have dreams you know. And where were you when Burt and Ernie told us our Sponsors And Images with discreet meanings rested in our hearts? We Don’t need to read ****** “If you won’t stop screaming I’m gonna have to call security.” She said to him. His glare ****** her way. “Secure this,” He said. He ****** his hand into his coat producing from it a photograph of dollar. He handed it to her asking “can you break this?” She looked at him in fear and confusion “Sir this isn’t legal tender.” “well I say it is” he said. But that was it, as security immediately burst into the room and the scene devolved into panic and screams. <div text="He perceived an abrupt break in the energy, an ebb, stagnation. Everyone appeared to know where everything should go from here, But pretty soon he saw realized they were all talking out their ***** and he turned to leave."></div> When we’ve reached that beautiful peak I want you to throw the radio in the tub. element.style { mood: toska; languge: english; background-position: -40.7127 -74.0059; why-am-i-doing-this: IDK; }
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 12:52 PM UTC
How Do I know When We’ve Reached That Peak?
“I spent the rest of the day smoking joints and listening to music. There was very little else that I had going for me. I was left hungry for something I could not put my finger on so I wondered the streets until dawn. With my head down I tried to feel confident but could only manage to fake it. A cloud of thought grew out around me, only broken by the introduction of some new stimuli as I walked. And very little stuck with me on my journey unto dawn. “ I read that in a book. I think it’s Joyce. But that would be convenient wouldn’t it? “Tell me, do you have a better idea?” I wonder, is there one Or are we all just products? such a tired cliché… I’m the miser’s purse Dionysus Something Something, we don’t care, You and I, Where this goes. Do we? Have a drink on Bukowski though Despite my lack of common tact I do have dreams you know. And where were you when Burt and Ernie told us our Sponsors And Images with discreet meanings rested in our hearts? We Don’t need to read ****** “If you won’t stop screaming I’m gonna have to call security.” She said to him. His glare ****** her way. “Secure this,” He said. He ****** his hand into his coat producing from it a photograph of dollar. He handed it to her asking “can you break this?” She looked at him in fear and confusion “Sir this isn’t legal tender.” “well I say it is” he said. But that was it, as security immediately burst into the room and the scene devolved into panic and screams. <div text="He perceived an abrupt break in the energy, an ebb, stagnation. Everyone appeared to know where everything should go from here, But pretty soon he saw realized they were all talking out their ***** and he turned to leave."></div> When we’ve reached that beautiful peak I want you to throw the radio in the tub. element.style { mood: toska; languge: english; background-position: -40.7127 -74.0059; why-am-i-doing-this: IDK; }
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Reading an art magazine and Jason Goes to Hell is on in the background, I cannot really get anymore satisfyingly pretentious. The day is softly leaving me now and I don’t really see much point in being so cryptic, as some people might like to do. I have found that I reuse a lot of words. I wonder what that means. They come in waves. I’ll use a word over and over and then drop it. Sometimes I will make up words and use them for a time. This movie is god-awful but I can’t seem to get off the couch. So to the keyboard I roam, the path to corporeal transcendence. As is above, so below, as the saying goes. And I stand between with my machine. Ting Teting ting Teting ting Teting ting I’ve found that I’ve come to be blessed by the Thing And I Ring! and I Ring! and I Sing and I Sing! For the courage counter-culture creature torture Sold for sport I have a dog his name is brady Ugh. stop already maybe There is nothing you can do there is nothing you can do are we permanently stuck here?
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 5:49 PM UTC
Just Plain Bored
My bastardized hand trembles at the sight of its own reflection Revelation Understanding the unknowable I am cut and pasted
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 1:27 AM UTC
A Rendition of a Great Mind
I am near permanently enraptured by all that is In a way like only two youngns’ alive and ravenous Libidos ******* everyday can be and do I have all the meanings of all the ancients wrapped in my skull Shadows of memories that are not mine On the brink of the precipice-come-project Along with other vague metaphors that are so trod Upon that all we have left is the post-modernity of antiquity Scrapped together to make a semi-legit piecemeal rendition Of narrative to cling to Because of course narrative is all we cling to And its really just simple teleology When you think about it So why? And also What? Also is? Also I’m lost now, everything And having lost everything I find it easier to not care what others think And aint that the rub Because when you have people you care about you inevitably seek to please them And only when you care about no one can you really please yourself Or at least that vague notion of the self trapped in all our ambitions And aren’t we trapped by our ambitions? But enough of that because I was saying something else There was a feeling in there somewhere that inspired me to write once And it seemed very beautiful until I realized it had been done So I sat back and laughed and did it anyway Because there is a power in me that you do not know And it exists in the rapture between words unspoken The synapse between thoughts and the explanations Of my various and pointless free associations So I’ll take a walk now and become Walt Whitman And no fear or loathing will stop this great wave Our great wave in the speckled sea of Nihilation Tis’ sublime that is the very notion of sublime The thought that beauty is thought And other failed attempts at describing the impossible
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 1:21 AM UTC
A Thought about Things, and Thought, and the World, Neatly Laid Out in a Format that Renders it Moot
I am near permanently enraptured by all that is In a way like only two youngns’ alive and ravenous Libidos ******* everyday can be and do I have all the meanings of all the ancients wrapped in my skull Shadows of memories that are not mine On the brink of the precipice-come-project Along with other vague metaphors that are so trod Upon that all we have left is the post-modernity of antiquity Scrapped together to make a semi-legit piecemeal rendition Of narrative to cling to Because of course narrative is all we cling to And its really just simple teleology When you think about it So why? And also What? Also is? Also I’m lost now, everything And having lost everything I find it easier to not care what others think And aint that the rub Because when you have people you care about you inevitably seek to please them And only when you care about no one can you really please yourself Or at least that vague notion of the self trapped in all our ambitions And aren’t we trapped by our ambitions? But enough of that because I was saying something else There was a feeling in there somewhere that inspired me to write once And it seemed very beautiful until I realized it had been done So I sat back and laughed and did it anyway Because there is a power in me that you do not know And it exists in the rapture between words unspoken The synapse between thoughts and the explanations Of my various and pointless free associations So I’ll take a walk now and become Walt Whitman And no fear or loathing will stop this great wave Our great wave in the speckled sea of Nihilation Tis’ sublime that is the very notion of sublime The thought that beauty is thought And other failed attempts at describing the impossible
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I don’t know what to do And I don’t know where to go And I don’t know what I don’t know That’s keeping me from home The home that’s out there for me the horizon of tomorrow And words are fickle ****** things For description of that pasture As I’m lost and I’m silenced In the beauty and the rapture And if for just one moment I could finally come to capture The light that settled in the wind The storm that won’t begin The blazing saddled horse within The path that is incumbent I stand broken in my stature I am under-slung resplendent As the words come much slower now And the feelings washed out grey I couldn’t tell you who or how Has come to write today and the words begin to flow again like the river Styx as I follow on an angry path to find a blessed fix to sooth the shallow paltry soul that bore my sordid stay as I ponder on the world and things with shadows in the way
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 10:30 AM UTC
Something like a sonnet that wasn’t meant to go anywhere
Today is a pale day, A grey day. But that is not why it is pale. It is pale because it is colorless, another drop in the bucket. My inadequacy grows symmetrically with my own dissatisfaction. And I am shelled with explosive thoughts all derivative and predictable. For the loose sand that I sift through my senses creates a thin mask of foundationless kernels. All the candy is wrapped up in bright packaging to attract the eye and disguise the paltry nutrition within; an old, worn out evolutionary trait used supposedly to search for new food sources. And I am left ever conscious trapped by my own logic in the new paradigm that is lonely and empty. Sometimes I wish I lived before all our great wars, back at the height of aristocracy. When we all lived by the romantic images of our minds and men made change by god inspired will. As the world was much larger then; so large that we could ignore it’s vast esoteric workings and rest comfortably in our own intuition. Whether the world is material or immaterial is irrelevant and meaningless. I only want to know whether it is mine or isn’t. Is my stake in this world or is it’s in mine? Is my destruction my choice, or his? And even this is irrelevant in the end because it has no purchase on my actions anyway. The fact is I feel as though I’m in control and all scientific fact points in the opposite. And so today is pale, again. And my life feels empty, until another brief glimpse in to the shadow of teleology passes through my sensorial geodesic and I am wrenched headlong back into comfortable narrative. I am the waffle ****** I own the waffle. And I wander down along the dotted time line with my blinders on, occasionally slipping on the balance beam and smashing, crotch first, into the irreconcilable and incomprehensible night of entropy. Ever circling back through all my fancy “knowledge” and landing again on the feet that my father gave me. Coming, once again, to the sanctimonious and systematic pattern of myself, I lay unawares, viewing only through a pinpricked hole, into the wasteland of the real. I am left only to gape in awe at the persistence of my dream.
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 10:20 AM UTC
It is time for some more things
Today is a pale day, A grey day. But that is not why it is pale. It is pale because it is colorless, another drop in the bucket. My inadequacy grows symmetrically with my own dissatisfaction. And I am shelled with explosive thoughts all derivative and predictable. For the loose sand that I sift through my senses creates a thin mask of foundationless kernels. All the candy is wrapped up in bright packaging to attract the eye and disguise the paltry nutrition within; an old, worn out evolutionary trait used supposedly to search for new food sources. And I am left ever conscious trapped by my own logic in the new paradigm that is lonely and empty. Sometimes I wish I lived before all our great wars, back at the height of aristocracy. When we all lived by the romantic images of our minds and men made change by god inspired will. As the world was much larger then; so large that we could ignore it’s vast esoteric workings and rest comfortably in our own intuition. Whether the world is material or immaterial is irrelevant and meaningless. I only want to know whether it is mine or isn’t. Is my stake in this world or is it’s in mine? Is my destruction my choice, or his? And even this is irrelevant in the end because it has no purchase on my actions anyway. The fact is I feel as though I’m in control and all scientific fact points in the opposite. And so today is pale, again. And my life feels empty, until another brief glimpse in to the shadow of teleology passes through my sensorial geodesic and I am wrenched headlong back into comfortable narrative. I am the waffle ****** I own the waffle. And I wander down along the dotted time line with my blinders on, occasionally slipping on the balance beam and smashing, crotch first, into the irreconcilable and incomprehensible night of entropy. Ever circling back through all my fancy “knowledge” and landing again on the feet that my father gave me. Coming, once again, to the sanctimonious and systematic pattern of myself, I lay unawares, viewing only through a pinpricked hole, into the wasteland of the real. I am left only to gape in awe at the persistence of my dream.
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