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436 · Mar 2017
Advanced Aporia
Joe Jr Mar 2017
Ruminating epoché,
‘I am…’ ‘Or am I’? Who can say?
‘A posteriori’ leads the way
For the extra and the ordinary
Axiomatic sway
In the gravity of corollary,
‘A priori’ interplay.
Ataraxic overlay of anxious automation,
As the innocence of dissonance delay
Initiatives imperative consolidation,
Civilly disobedient in expedient disarray.
Practicing semantic contemplation,
Filling nihilistic voids with particles in waves,
Forecast in vague extrapolation,
To interpret dreams of Freud to free Oedipus’s slaves,
A degreeless scholastic who never misbehaves,
Simulated humanoid dramatic in the affect that he craves,
Inflating the linguistics of silent enclaves,
A thespian who plans conation with legacy engraves.
Probabilistic determiner of cosmogenous debates,
The Apperceived inquirer of qualitative states,
Inspiring proprietor of dismality abates.
Challenging aporia as epistemic oscillates,
Stoically, heroically, ‘one’ who amalgamates,
Circling the infinite in hermeneutic calibrates.
265 · Mar 2017
Idle Minds
Joe Jr Mar 2017
Whispering winds of solemn sorrow
In the mundane hours of the night,
Surmising falsities of tomorrow,
For they fear the dark of divine light.

To prey upon the minds that dwell,
With woven lies, a web so foul...
Hark! The sounds of voices  swell
As the whispers rise into a howl.

Settling the sorrow of the traveling fellow,
Who never could find his way,
Strumming tomorrow like it were a cello,
Snapping the strings in dismay.

Who--alive for years, never did live,
As his angst and diffidence cumber.
Even the magnanimous can't forgive
The missing dreams of untried slumber.

Remnants of his tortured call
Were swept away in the breeze.
A feeble ripples arduous sprawl,
Replaced by the fray of the seas.

A mind lost in silent clamor,
Time ridden sands of disease,
Reduced to a mumbling stammer,
Foreboding thoughts of unease.

His idle mind tended to wander,
Through yesterday's--before tomorrow,
Distorting the past for future's squander,
Finding days from which to borrow.

— The End —