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Everyone is anxious For Chekhov’s gun is still on the wall It has not been fired And we are soon approaching the next act What do they wait for? A provocation?! Dear college age white boy (Not unlike myself) Your pseudo-nihilism bores them We all know these things are just for show Besides we see how much of an elitist you are And how little you understand the words you are saying If Nietzsche’s life were recast You’d be the man beating the Turin Horse Why does he say such things? Does he understand the human mind, the human condition?! We all wait for the collapse to come And all of its children to return home For we are already all aliens to each other And we know what sweet flowers can grow from ashes If life is to be a garden I intend to be a worm Does he really mean that? We can see in his eyes he is not convinced How long have we been going in these circles? Or is it true that I am unique in this regard alone? Every philosopher Every poet Every self perpetuating artist has their bag of tricks I have whatever I can pillage Everything that can be said Has already been said He am going back into the gallery And drawing mustaches on all the faces And as the audience leaves Chekhov’s gun remains untouched, suspended by a thread And this time only There are no deeper meanings
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 2:11 PM UTC
A Genealogy of Corals
Everyone is anxious For Chekhov’s gun is still on the wall It has not been fired And we are soon approaching the next act What do they wait for? A provocation?! Dear college age white boy (Not unlike myself) Your pseudo-nihilism bores them We all know these things are just for show Besides we see how much of an elitist you are And how little you understand the words you are saying If Nietzsche’s life were recast You’d be the man beating the Turin Horse Why does he say such things? Does he understand the human mind, the human condition?! We all wait for the collapse to come And all of its children to return home For we are already all aliens to each other And we know what sweet flowers can grow from ashes If life is to be a garden I intend to be a worm Does he really mean that? We can see in his eyes he is not convinced How long have we been going in these circles? Or is it true that I am unique in this regard alone? Every philosopher Every poet Every self perpetuating artist has their bag of tricks I have whatever I can pillage Everything that can be said Has already been said He am going back into the gallery And drawing mustaches on all the faces And as the audience leaves Chekhov’s gun remains untouched, suspended by a thread And this time only There are no deeper meanings
daniel-robinson
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 2:11 PM UTC
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