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Time changes people,
Power chains people.
What changed in me?
Whatever chained me!
Oh subtle judgement
and standard teleology,

Tell me:
Is the world
worth pondering,
Or is this all just
time wasting?
Thinking,
Longing;

Ruminating over purpose,
Contemplating loneliness,
Tell me: what am I typing?
These poems used to be my
escape, my passion, carefully
constructed as words were con-
-verted from temporal lifeblood
into digital ink which still I spill
over, the words trying, to find
something worth posting for
but sometimes it feels as if I
am not obsessing over these
sentences enough to pick up
the pieces, unapologetically I
throw out another uninspired
verse. Poetry's best not thought of
as work and therein lies the problem:

Me,
Writing the same poem
for the umpteenth time,
It feels like we've been
here before but can't seem
to remember; of which this piece is
a perfect example, disinspiration.
Of times, change
and a poet's written
interrogations, no regrets.
Back into the throes of existence
I find myself thrown.
The session has found me again
and I admit
that I lost it
sometime ago. In longing I drown
until something best left unknown
reared its head; The Great Perhaps
was upon me at last

and I could only see heartbreak
awaiting me on the horizon
of her love.
What of this
change? A{lone
/home}gain!
Held fast,
Felt ****-all.
All-the-way thru
unto the Fall; pwn
Logos (language),
Pathos (sensation),
Ethos (spirit).
Ever fantasise about dissolving oneself in a vat of acid?
Took so many psychedelics I very nearly lost it; it being
ego, ergo, myself. Found a solution, and don't give a ****!
'swear.
Belief;
n.
A coherence of given presentation to the subject
which accords with their representation of reality.

Truth;
n.
The coherence of given presentations to an object
which can be said to accurately represent its reality.

Meaning;
n.
Signification of object/subject
which coheres/reconciles truth and belief.
These operations of mind constitute the will which enables choice.
When Europeans came to America
they bought the island of Manhattan
from the Native Americans for tradestuff.

Supposedly the Natives (who did not actually
control the territory) thought this idea, that
one could 'own' land, was ridiculous.

The land does not belong to us,
We belong to the land.
Now Manhattan

is home to some of the highest valued
real-estate in the Western world, and
still it is such a ridiculous notion:

Ownership, valuations, land;
We own nothing except for
our minds (if even them).

Eventually Earth repossesses life.
This is the way it was, has been
and will be for all of time.

Gradually the ground reclaims
itself. Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust.

Possession is always (con)temporary,
Just as subject and object are of
the same stuff so too must own-
ership open us up
to the equivalence
underlying a Hegelian dialectic.

The captain was right: control is an illusion.
There is only ever direction, and mind is that
process, which the human body offers up.

We fall prey to subject-object dichotomies
that breed from our own feeble illusions.

I say: praise be to memory.

The inevitable begs that
all information be free.

Time will take us all.
Note: 'the captain' refers to Jean-Luc Picard.
To say the word silence
is to break its reference.
Nothing's unutterable,
Does that mean some-
thing, could you out-
line the indescribable
or would it just fade/
replace/become? I'm
so happy to be sad,
Content in feeling even
if it be painful, I've felt no-
thing before, it's numbness
is awaiting us all, I can wait,
I am no thrall, I am here and
I am proud to fear.
Title inspiration from a sketch by George Carlin on pride and nationality.
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