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Nov 2018
to express the mind,
you must first tame
the heart...

hard... i know...
but mind, heart & mouth
do not mix...
hence "freedom of speech"
is equivalent to...
a, "freedom to ****"...

or burp.
     - but with what i actually
coming out of your mouth...
can i have the lobster, ma'am?
i think it's quiet unique
to... have a creature
urinating from its mouth...
not mentioned in the Quran
as a "***** meal"...

such simpletons took over
the emotion "argument"...
Beethoven is still playing
in the background...

           emotions are a set of
complexities...
they require thinking...
to be "censored"...
or rather...
  filtered"...

  they require coordination /
coordinating...
   akin to Beethoven's take
on a clockwork orange,
working from the "nadir"of the 9th...

only a deaf man might have
written such sights into a seeing man's
eyes... who... might
or might not... whistle the verse
into the lip-readings' of a a deaf man...
if... provided if...
he wasn't caught whistling
the *la marseillaise
...
a new clockwork orange...
        framed:
      ****... it's the same piece of
music, from symphony no. 9?
right?!

i have not concern for feeling...
what i have is a concern for
the thinking that...
ennobles said feeling to
concern itself with speech...

    these early 21st century
intellectuals...
what happened?!
tumor?               stroke?!
didn't they see "it" coming?!

when you entertain simple
emotions in conversation / "debate",
you're entertaining even simpler
thinking...
     play Ludwig! play!

    when someone is "offended"
by, "hate" speech...
      can you even begin to comprehend
the logistics of thought behind
that expression of lost nuance?
or lost metaphor?
can you?!
        i can't.

emotion, deservedly, requires as much
rubric aligned complexity
as thinking...
    you can't just feel "something",
or, "nothing"...
in the same variation of:
you can't "think" of something,
or "nothing" at all...

                     but what i'm hearing,
as suggested...
is the complete abolishing of
emotion per se...
  the whole logos contra pathos
bonanza of soap opera buggery...

as much as i'd like to entertain
eternity being a brain and a spine
confounded in a pickling jar...
to be honest?
i'd also like to feel something
once in a while...
sorry... forgive my sentimentality...
but a cogitans continuum
is somehow...
less than appealing for me,
right at this point...

freedom of speech...
   how about a freedom to think?
freedom of thought...
how about a freedom
to phonetically encode
what could have, but wasn't
supposed to be uttered?!
happy?

thinking doesn't motivate us,
feeling, does...
i've heard the hamster-wheel
turn thrice while writing this,
and i'm still not convinced...
as the ancient Greeks stated...
life is without meaning...
so why do we punish ourselves for it,
with it?
     the irrationality persuasion
of the insatiable heart...
feelings... oddly enough...
no one's thinking will persuade me
to procreate...
what... **** once more
based on a Newtonian proposition?!
life is a labor of love,
  life is not, a labor of reason...
reason comes after,
and is never actually included
in the act of life,
rather, reasoned out of life,
as a post-scriptum,
enlarging itself into the realm
of an afterlife,
and the dogma of theology...
why would feeling be deemed inferior
to thinking?
why not suggest:
the thus expressed feeling?
the thinking behind it,
is inferior to the thinking implied
by the lack of contrary emotion
to engage with
the expressed "opinion".
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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