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Where are you Paul? I'm in Cyberspace Mum. My Pentium processor has broadbanded me Into this wondrous realm. A pixel powered virtual landscape Peopled by avatars Speaking Internet Slang. FFS, *** are you talking about? She asks. In so many words. I **** and ROFL at her incredulity. It’s full of danger, that Internet, says Mum. That’s true. It’s full of paedophiles, Spammers and trolls. Hackers. Chat-rooms and forums Plagued by flame-wars And spam enough to fill a trillion tins. Sites full of viruses, Trojans, malware and spyware. Cyber-bullies and loons abound. But I just Love it. A ****** addiction Needing every fix. A realm indeed of quantum singularities, And imploding nebulae. Paul Butters (C) PB 3\9\2011 in Yorkshire.
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Sep 5, 2011
Sep 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM UTC
Cyberspace
Perfection: skewed over the years; in our quest for longevity, in our denial that good things do end, we have tried to make perfection into a permanence. We chase it all our lives: the perfect car, the perfect lover, the perfect relationship. We've forgotten somehow that perfection isn't a state of life. Perfection isn't normal. Perfection doesn't exist naturally. Perfection is something we create, and like all things humans make, it is temporary. Perfection is a moment to be lived in- a glistening diamond moment that we get to exist in for such a precious little time. We breath in and are filled with satisfaction, that most powerful ****** We glow in our souls until it radiates from our faces. It is the second right after a first kiss, when you draw back and look into your lover's eyes. When all things are brimful of possibility and all futures are open to you. It is the moment after you achieve something you worked for your entire life. Something you bled for, lost sleep and friends and years of your life over. It is the second when your child screams and draws breath for the first time. When you see reflected in their tiny face everything you were and everything they will be. We are perfect in that one moment. Of course all of it will end. Your girlfriend may leave you behind after a time. She may break your heart and carry it with her, leaving you scarred and unable to love again. You may lose everything you've worked for in a single, capricious moment. In one simple, thoughtless mistake. Your child will be with you for a time, but they will grow old and leave you, never to speak to you until you are on death's door. Still, as we sit on our unbelievably vulnerable world, one of billions in a universe full of singularities and solar flares, comets and quasars, evolution and extinction- Shouldn't we just be glad that the moment happened, instead of realizing it will end? Life has so very few of these anomalies of perfection; enjoy them while they are there, do not miss them when they are gone.
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 1:52 PM UTC
Perfection
Perfection: skewed over the years; in our quest for longevity, in our denial that good things do end, we have tried to make perfection into a permanence. We chase it all our lives: the perfect car, the perfect lover, the perfect relationship. We've forgotten somehow that perfection isn't a state of life. Perfection isn't normal. Perfection doesn't exist naturally. Perfection is something we create, and like all things humans make, it is temporary. Perfection is a moment to be lived in- a glistening diamond moment that we get to exist in for such a precious little time. We breath in and are filled with satisfaction, that most powerful ****** We glow in our souls until it radiates from our faces. It is the second right after a first kiss, when you draw back and look into your lover's eyes. When all things are brimful of possibility and all futures are open to you. It is the moment after you achieve something you worked for your entire life. Something you bled for, lost sleep and friends and years of your life over. It is the second when your child screams and draws breath for the first time. When you see reflected in their tiny face everything you were and everything they will be. We are perfect in that one moment. Of course all of it will end. Your girlfriend may leave you behind after a time. She may break your heart and carry it with her, leaving you scarred and unable to love again. You may lose everything you've worked for in a single, capricious moment. In one simple, thoughtless mistake. Your child will be with you for a time, but they will grow old and leave you, never to speak to you until you are on death's door. Still, as we sit on our unbelievably vulnerable world, one of billions in a universe full of singularities and solar flares, comets and quasars, evolution and extinction- Shouldn't we just be glad that the moment happened, instead of realizing it will end? Life has so very few of these anomalies of perfection; enjoy them while they are there, do not miss them when they are gone.
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Twist ye not the tendrils of time frame dragging by any other name black holes ergosphere sublimes pulls spacetime to its slow down game Those clocks and our clocks not the same Time's vector smeared along its timeline speeds along its X axis game Remains longer on its own line rhyme Then around and around she goes For this clock so smitten runs so slow And where the hands stop nobody knows Spacetime's drill bit twisted so This black silken dress of spacetime Wrapped around this gravity vortex Twisted infinity sublimes on the singularities’ cortex Redshifts starlight to infinity Photons below values of C Their orange trails of light I see These curved, stretched, these twisted banshees Frozen in space these tendrils of time My heart beats on ever so slow This time signature of space aligns reality to its queer clocks of woe In front of me coasting along a singular photon it’s brilliance flitting like a firefly’s lonely song wave-like in its own resilience This photonic duplicity particle now and a wave the next surrenders its reciprocity to this block of spacetime so vexed Such are the tendrils of time here to the black holes seductive embrace These time signatures skewed so queer From the Dark Mother’s fingers trace As she smiles at me saying: “Oh my beautiful child of wonder” “Blessed be your love and curiosity” “Of all my spells that you fall under” “To you all of my precocity” “So I bless thee and thy lady “Star” “Your undaunting love of Michele “Shines on in O Class from thee so far” “I release thee from this spacetime spell” These tendrils of time wound round These whirlpools in space These wonders of space found In Michele’s beautiful face. Dave Proffitt 9/10/2016 3:01 PM
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Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 6:28 AM UTC
The Tendrils of Time
Twist ye not the tendrils of time frame dragging by any other name black holes ergosphere sublimes pulls spacetime to its slow down game Those clocks and our clocks not the same Time's vector smeared along its timeline speeds along its X axis game Remains longer on its own line rhyme Then around and around she goes For this clock so smitten runs so slow And where the hands stop nobody knows Spacetime's drill bit twisted so This black silken dress of spacetime Wrapped around this gravity vortex Twisted infinity sublimes on the singularities’ cortex Redshifts starlight to infinity Photons below values of C Their orange trails of light I see These curved, stretched, these twisted banshees Frozen in space these tendrils of time My heart beats on ever so slow This time signature of space aligns reality to its queer clocks of woe In front of me coasting along a singular photon it’s brilliance flitting like a firefly’s lonely song wave-like in its own resilience This photonic duplicity particle now and a wave the next surrenders its reciprocity to this block of spacetime so vexed Such are the tendrils of time here to the black holes seductive embrace These time signatures skewed so queer From the Dark Mother’s fingers trace As she smiles at me saying: “Oh my beautiful child of wonder” “Blessed be your love and curiosity” “Of all my spells that you fall under” “To you all of my precocity” “So I bless thee and thy lady “Star” “Your undaunting love of Michele “Shines on in O Class from thee so far” “I release thee from this spacetime spell” These tendrils of time wound round These whirlpools in space These wonders of space found In Michele’s beautiful face. Dave Proffitt 9/10/2016 3:01 PM
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Slotting into geological time "As a man thinks, so is he", ferillergood ye may as well add as subtract. Am i right or am I wrong? Dexter, yeh, that'n or Sinister. Being left or right, That's jest sided-ness, a sort, a me-trick-able stackable thing, with an in side and an out side and a top outside and a bottom outside and a front inside and a front backside and a back frontside with its own inside. Like you. Value pends 'pon sorts of things into similarities of singularities, if I got that message un occluded or unveiled of sacred meanings. There seemed to be no code "if a man (voice) says a thing that is true, but I did not say it: does that make it untrue?" I answered, "Lord, you are truth." Wow. Look what I said. truth you are lord. Punctuated equilibrium humm white noise of wonder can it be? 'Think so.
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 AM UTC
the climate is changing, is that all?
Each of you. My individual singularities, Dad’s One Thing. Conceived 1955. Driven home, progeny, made man, unequivocal, indisputable. Post-war night spirits undaunted ~ stop ******* me. *** for you, stopped me. Can’t make it the way you want. Please stop. Backing off, I respect real you. Don’t push me Me. Don’t dream. Will dream us. Short sentence for guilt whisked way beyond what crime could be. We combine beans and seeds and gourds. That’s science! Culinary! Botany, true, but I’m enaturated. Human pod progressed. If that’s a word, don’t dream it’s not. Forget every word. But make each and every word count. Then add stash, socked away. I concede. Mi casa su casa. Paint it. Together. Made mistake then fixed it. Copasetic dovetails, my lady and me (not I). We walk talk island jib. I like the cut of your yar across the moonlit pool. Go around with me to all haunts, snow globetrotting shaken not stirred My déjà vu in futurum videre, I can’t believe. Asunder goddesses should be together, While Isis and Osiris boogie like Beatrice and Dante encircled, Their own private imbroglio invaded By Goth end time alchemists conjuring copyrights for gelt. You tell me this short story. I cringe. My mind clouds men’s, and then conjures Morpheus. My shadow child joins me in Paradise, Deliria dancing in concert with Shakespearean intent. My daughter’s got more guts in one pinky Than all that fallen pilot on our island bargained for In the games that decided who’s hungrier. You could have been that gal.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 12:21 AM UTC
Don't Dream
Each of you. My individual singularities, Dad’s One Thing. Conceived 1955. Driven home, progeny, made man, unequivocal, indisputable. Post-war night spirits undaunted ~ stop ******* me. *** for you, stopped me. Can’t make it the way you want. Please stop. Backing off, I respect real you. Don’t push me Me. Don’t dream. Will dream us. Short sentence for guilt whisked way beyond what crime could be. We combine beans and seeds and gourds. That’s science! Culinary! Botany, true, but I’m enaturated. Human pod progressed. If that’s a word, don’t dream it’s not. Forget every word. But make each and every word count. Then add stash, socked away. I concede. Mi casa su casa. Paint it. Together. Made mistake then fixed it. Copasetic dovetails, my lady and me (not I). We walk talk island jib. I like the cut of your yar across the moonlit pool. Go around with me to all haunts, snow globetrotting shaken not stirred My déjà vu in futurum videre, I can’t believe. Asunder goddesses should be together, While Isis and Osiris boogie like Beatrice and Dante encircled, Their own private imbroglio invaded By Goth end time alchemists conjuring copyrights for gelt. You tell me this short story. I cringe. My mind clouds men’s, and then conjures Morpheus. My shadow child joins me in Paradise, Deliria dancing in concert with Shakespearean intent. My daughter’s got more guts in one pinky Than all that fallen pilot on our island bargained for In the games that decided who’s hungrier. You could have been that gal.
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We dream a dream of tomorrow, of fresh starts and new beginnings. We wait on sunrise for what could follow in eagerness for happy endings. "Tomorrow," we tell ourselves in desperation. Tomorrow, we hope to be; tomorrow, we become. So we live today in trepidation for a tomorrow that might never come. We walk these crowded roads but we walk alone towards where destiny could afford us. But we walk in faith to ends unknown with hearts on sleeves, and fervent wanderlust. Time, hope, fate- all singularities colliding onto each other. Hold fast the spark of entwined destinies so we could live tomorrow's adventure.
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May 23, 2015
May 23, 2015 at 1:37 AM UTC
Tomorrow
These ideas Like singularities Infinitely dense Violently Collapsing in And The Mind Is just another Universe Dominated by Chaotic Contraction and expansion Another thought is born While another ends And the gravity Of some minds Captivate Others celestial bodies
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 8:14 PM UTC
Watch Out For Black Holes
some days some days i wake up feeling warm and lovely and happy feeling whole and right in who i am and what i appear to be some days i go to bed barely holding my eyes open against the weight of dreams barely staying in reality a moment longer some days i want to create a dream of imagines on paper and spill the ink of my mind out onto the world, eagerly showing the creations of my mind and what excites me as far as what i can imagine and bring out of the ethereal into the only slightly more tangible inner chambers of my mind palace other days i want to destroy to tear, end to end, the world i have created in my mind and every piece of it i have brought into existence to shred myself to pieces to rid the universe of such and inadequate creature as myself who dares feel more comfortable as a fluid being, more free to explore and weave in and out of the norms set by society and then i fall, weak and hollow, to my knees, full of life and brightness that has been pressed to aside by the gaping holes of heaving singularities within my gut and soul and i feel dark and wrong and numb but then every so often i get a spark of light in the inky dark of me and it flutters close circling my form slowly and giving out the slightest bit of light and warmth sometimes this first Good Thought or Good Feeling will be crushed snatched from the air in the claws of a demonic and wild gargoyle but even so, one by one the light spots will gently blanket the gargoyles, forcing them to lie in wait once more for who can fight the gentle persistence of a butterfly
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 9:49 AM UTC
some days
some days some days i wake up feeling warm and lovely and happy feeling whole and right in who i am and what i appear to be some days i go to bed barely holding my eyes open against the weight of dreams barely staying in reality a moment longer some days i want to create a dream of imagines on paper and spill the ink of my mind out onto the world, eagerly showing the creations of my mind and what excites me as far as what i can imagine and bring out of the ethereal into the only slightly more tangible inner chambers of my mind palace other days i want to destroy to tear, end to end, the world i have created in my mind and every piece of it i have brought into existence to shred myself to pieces to rid the universe of such and inadequate creature as myself who dares feel more comfortable as a fluid being, more free to explore and weave in and out of the norms set by society and then i fall, weak and hollow, to my knees, full of life and brightness that has been pressed to aside by the gaping holes of heaving singularities within my gut and soul and i feel dark and wrong and numb but then every so often i get a spark of light in the inky dark of me and it flutters close circling my form slowly and giving out the slightest bit of light and warmth sometimes this first Good Thought or Good Feeling will be crushed snatched from the air in the claws of a demonic and wild gargoyle but even so, one by one the light spots will gently blanket the gargoyles, forcing them to lie in wait once more for who can fight the gentle persistence of a butterfly
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*The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.* Carl Rogers my hands can be so prosaic uninterrupted in the mechanism of gestures mindless, blinded, tired of polishing the edge of the world your hands and their delicate shiver are used to behaving trying to learn how to grasp the meaning, the contours of the void in daylight or why haters hate (was it your fault or theirs?) you are an unfinished landscape of breaking points and hopeless moans, oases of quietness,  turning points and electrical paths, buds of mystery I know nothing about still, there’s something  teasing written in between such is coherence:  a paradox -two interlocking  unwittingly- irrational at one level imaginatively reasonable at another -reality is framed by negotiation with a god of silence- two singularities conversing, filling the air with space   : it is me⁢ is you Like when you erase me perfectly with a blink of an eye tired or cynical with yourself, or when I crush you like a manic avalanche in midsummer day -there is some madness in between- after all shame and shamelessness cannot be understood in binary codes while humility and pride are two faces of the same coin it’s been written  since day one this matching choreography of turmoil inside or just the pursued birth pains of self -switch, twist, push, turn, run, hide, split, break, slip, cut repeat, repeat, repeat – the vertigo of life rhyming imaginary possibilities new gestures, new proportions of light and darkness in the power of my hands in the clarity of your voice we approximate the truth of our last breath grow old in stories within stories within the story we tell ourselves to survive the crack of dawn and so it goes: the hero decrypting sunset deepens the story looking for some freedom to be and I cannot look at you without the sonorous light bearing tenderness within I set you free in my blood without knowing if you stay for today
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
within without
*The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.* Carl Rogers my hands can be so prosaic uninterrupted in the mechanism of gestures mindless, blinded, tired of polishing the edge of the world your hands and their delicate shiver are used to behaving trying to learn how to grasp the meaning, the contours of the void in daylight or why haters hate (was it your fault or theirs?) you are an unfinished landscape of breaking points and hopeless moans, oases of quietness,  turning points and electrical paths, buds of mystery I know nothing about still, there’s something  teasing written in between such is coherence:  a paradox -two interlocking  unwittingly- irrational at one level imaginatively reasonable at another -reality is framed by negotiation with a god of silence- two singularities conversing, filling the air with space   : it is me⁢ is you Like when you erase me perfectly with a blink of an eye tired or cynical with yourself, or when I crush you like a manic avalanche in midsummer day -there is some madness in between- after all shame and shamelessness cannot be understood in binary codes while humility and pride are two faces of the same coin it’s been written  since day one this matching choreography of turmoil inside or just the pursued birth pains of self -switch, twist, push, turn, run, hide, split, break, slip, cut repeat, repeat, repeat – the vertigo of life rhyming imaginary possibilities new gestures, new proportions of light and darkness in the power of my hands in the clarity of your voice we approximate the truth of our last breath grow old in stories within stories within the story we tell ourselves to survive the crack of dawn and so it goes: the hero decrypting sunset deepens the story looking for some freedom to be and I cannot look at you without the sonorous light bearing tenderness within I set you free in my blood without knowing if you stay for today
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When someone you loved very much dies, strange things Start to happen to you, that you don't notice right away: The hologram that their influence built around you Turns inside-out; the bulk of it shrinks down Into one of those super-dense singularities. Their belongings start to feel impersonal and oddly distant; Reminiscent of a strangers bags, sitting packed for the departure. All the love and caring is siphoned out When the owner leaves existence behind: The void they left fills with a surreal grace, when viewed From the novelty of their absence. A breathtaking coldness Accompanies this second ownerless half-life: Touching them, your own fingers are burned, frostbitten Eventually dead to external stimuli. The rigor travels inward from the extremities, Making a slow ascent toward the heart, Crystallizing everything along the way, Melding it all into lovely, singular geometries As one cell after another is enveloped. Until the central core is an unmoving artifact In the arctic waste, but unable to die. A frozen cryosurgical intervention of stained glass Ruby veins, suspended in frozen calciferous walls. Other people do not notice the changes or see Not unless you touch them- Accidentally brushing up against you, They feel then the penetrating cold, Radiating outward in bitter waves. Drawing their clothing more tightly about them, They search for the taletale signatures of frost, Wondering if winter came early this year.
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Sep 16, 2010
Sep 16, 2010 at 7:05 AM UTC
How Cryosurgery Is Performed
To observe surroundings Often results in the discovery Of a momental occurrence - marvelously unique Never replicated in both past and future Madness Is Dullness to the glistening radiance of these everyday singularities Hidden irretrievably in moments quickly passed.
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 9:23 PM UTC
Pausing
ya want some love but not for keeps, ya play us well and make the sweeps, we swept right up off the floor, we hurried and broomed on out the door. so take it or go, make it real slow, lemme watch ya and think to myself, "Daddy, baby, my fine **** man, lemme watch ya and think to myself, 'When is he gonna trip onto that fat ****** face? Pale, ignorant race?' Not even a trace, no, no, no." No, no, no, not even a single ****** trace of warmth or love or kindness or recognition of my humanity, the sole thing that makes me a likewise piece of the Earth. I'm gonna sweep away those ships, ****** doggoned grisly wrecks, sweep 'em right over the passing waves and right off the edge of the Earth. Cuz I don't call NOBODY "Daddy," though I call one person "dad," "father," "pops" and it pops I stick my needle through the pulsing air and it pops your **** heart pops. and ya had your fun, your day in the Sun, our little run and now, and now, and now, oh, now, it's done, don't make me get a gun. I know nothin' exists in singularities, nothin' exists on its own, vacuums only are in theory, we are living to our bones and the living state rests right into our **** bones, however, I can hate you for what you have done. I can hate you and I will hate you for every single thing that you have done, "Daddy," "Mommy," too, the systems of patronizing pater familias and all working gears of institutional injustice, hurt, pain, wreck, my ships may be wrecks, now, too, but the wind and the breeze are quick to blow and the direction of the currents are fast and strong. So just sit there ya **** sit and **** into your ***** being just sit there and ya think, "Why ya fingerin' that doorknob when I thought I played ya for keeps?"
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 12:45 AM UTC
nobody Daddy
ya want some love but not for keeps, ya play us well and make the sweeps, we swept right up off the floor, we hurried and broomed on out the door. so take it or go, make it real slow, lemme watch ya and think to myself, "Daddy, baby, my fine **** man, lemme watch ya and think to myself, 'When is he gonna trip onto that fat ****** face? Pale, ignorant race?' Not even a trace, no, no, no." No, no, no, not even a single ****** trace of warmth or love or kindness or recognition of my humanity, the sole thing that makes me a likewise piece of the Earth. I'm gonna sweep away those ships, ****** doggoned grisly wrecks, sweep 'em right over the passing waves and right off the edge of the Earth. Cuz I don't call NOBODY "Daddy," though I call one person "dad," "father," "pops" and it pops I stick my needle through the pulsing air and it pops your **** heart pops. and ya had your fun, your day in the Sun, our little run and now, and now, and now, oh, now, it's done, don't make me get a gun. I know nothin' exists in singularities, nothin' exists on its own, vacuums only are in theory, we are living to our bones and the living state rests right into our **** bones, however, I can hate you for what you have done. I can hate you and I will hate you for every single thing that you have done, "Daddy," "Mommy," too, the systems of patronizing pater familias and all working gears of institutional injustice, hurt, pain, wreck, my ships may be wrecks, now, too, but the wind and the breeze are quick to blow and the direction of the currents are fast and strong. So just sit there ya **** sit and **** into your ***** being just sit there and ya think, "Why ya fingerin' that doorknob when I thought I played ya for keeps?"
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(I this very am a contradiction to itself) this which is the very thing i am is not at all a multitude of singularities but a single multitude of multiple singulars i am large and small and enormously a colour daft as starry days and brightly nights and with pale meter my hards are soft and softs are hard (and i am like an onion in petals of purple skin an acrid flavour imps my beam of darkly steeply cooler hotter breaths that buzz like wondrous flies in ample valleys or cotton pasted flesh in denim )your jeans were on my floorIfoundthemthismorning and i woke up to call you just so i could touch your voice with my ears and kiss the treble of its throat with my gangling soul waxing profusely with sparks of verdant poems blossoming in the uncommon pit of the stomach of my gross futile blithe brain because you made them with the errant tattoo of your slight and tremendous music bustling its enormous yawn over the roof of (my) rainbow hard heart that would like to comment in Your plunk of navel ringing tiny glittering barely hairs my smooth and pinkish crumpled crumbs of love and sprinkle you with careless *** sometime maybe SWOON.
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Apr 26, 2011
Apr 26, 2011 at 8:20 PM UTC
Untitled
Will someone ever understand me? As simple as it sounds, the word ‘understanding’ is an uncanny term. To expect understanding from others is like a screaming paradox that uninvitingly and inevitably gives its RSVP. Definition of understanding varies from person to person. While some term ‘compatibility’ as basic understanding, others think understanding as a means to gain affirmation. Both interpretations sound alike but in fact very much like bibliophile and bibliomaniac. It gets peculiar as we proceed. Why in this world do we need affirmation? It’s profoundly queer to ask for acceptance. Do we really need ‘approval’ for our existence? We’re not illegal. Illegal things require approval. Drugs require consent. We don’t need to prove why we should be accepted. Giving heed to such a peculiarity is equivalent to symbolising yourselves as illegitimate. You have a birth certificate. You’re a registered citizen of a country and you have a house to live. You go to school/college/ work. You’re normal. Believe me, you’re not a felon. Why don’t people fulfil our expectation? Major Irony Alert. Expectations being fulfilled is, I believe, one of those rare miraculous occurring in our lives. When people get it, they find the solace hard to digest. Just when they are faintly ready to accept it, they change the course the things by doing deeds to blindly adhere to the balance of sad and happy. And when the ruination has been already done, they crave for it. Dear fellow beings of earth, stop expecting. It’s purely a hypothesis. The permanency of the damage expectations leave behind needs no explanation. It’s one of the most obvious and self-explanatory dictum on this planet. People around me crave for being accepted. Girlfriends incessantly complain about their boyfriends not understanding them and vice versa. Parents lament over the ignorance their children. Children whine about the gap between them and their parents. People spend humungous cash to buy endurance. The reasons for such acts, I don’t reckon. There’s an old African belief that hovers around the truth of being singularities. I find it deeply humbling. Why ask for plurality when the sole purpose for our creation was to be singular and fulfilling.   The purpose for this entry is to some extent not defined to what I believe. It is not meant to mould you. It is meant to be analysed by you. Critique it. Make your own moulds. It’s just what the existing needs.
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 12:04 PM UTC
11th December 2014
Will someone ever understand me? As simple as it sounds, the word ‘understanding’ is an uncanny term. To expect understanding from others is like a screaming paradox that uninvitingly and inevitably gives its RSVP. Definition of understanding varies from person to person. While some term ‘compatibility’ as basic understanding, others think understanding as a means to gain affirmation. Both interpretations sound alike but in fact very much like bibliophile and bibliomaniac. It gets peculiar as we proceed. Why in this world do we need affirmation? It’s profoundly queer to ask for acceptance. Do we really need ‘approval’ for our existence? We’re not illegal. Illegal things require approval. Drugs require consent. We don’t need to prove why we should be accepted. Giving heed to such a peculiarity is equivalent to symbolising yourselves as illegitimate. You have a birth certificate. You’re a registered citizen of a country and you have a house to live. You go to school/college/ work. You’re normal. Believe me, you’re not a felon. Why don’t people fulfil our expectation? Major Irony Alert. Expectations being fulfilled is, I believe, one of those rare miraculous occurring in our lives. When people get it, they find the solace hard to digest. Just when they are faintly ready to accept it, they change the course the things by doing deeds to blindly adhere to the balance of sad and happy. And when the ruination has been already done, they crave for it. Dear fellow beings of earth, stop expecting. It’s purely a hypothesis. The permanency of the damage expectations leave behind needs no explanation. It’s one of the most obvious and self-explanatory dictum on this planet. People around me crave for being accepted. Girlfriends incessantly complain about their boyfriends not understanding them and vice versa. Parents lament over the ignorance their children. Children whine about the gap between them and their parents. People spend humungous cash to buy endurance. The reasons for such acts, I don’t reckon. There’s an old African belief that hovers around the truth of being singularities. I find it deeply humbling. Why ask for plurality when the sole purpose for our creation was to be singular and fulfilling.   The purpose for this entry is to some extent not defined to what I believe. It is not meant to mould you. It is meant to be analysed by you. Critique it. Make your own moulds. It’s just what the existing needs.
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A simple melody circular chord of smiling faces pass a warm moment to the left shared silence embraces, fills a need, and how, punctuated by cricket calls and arpeggiated highs does a collective memory etch and arch an overhead spider web, connecting the singularities, the string pulses ebbing and humming in tune with each glowing, grinning source, and how, does one sustain that web? Tug the string along on all your days, your dragging red wagon clasped human connection your cherished, sustained, maintained, mutual memories.
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Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 10:16 AM UTC
And How
the celestial bodies may crash and burn the sight from my eyes. but I see you in my mind: dancing through the galaxy. and that gives me the right to eternity. the black holes may swallow and leave my chest hollow and dusted. but I hear you in my head. your voice carries across the empty nothing and that gives me the right to eternity. the universe may protest. implode on itself. disintegrate. but I can feel you, despite it all: you’re made of thousands of years behind you. you run on rocket fuel and pure moonlight. you live among fragments of time past; stardust, spaceships, and singularities. you chose me to hold your solar systems and make sure they orbit. so I’ll ignore the meteor showers and the wormholes and cherish our interstellar dust. because I hold the right to eternity and I am a space to be reckoned with.
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Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020 at 4:42 PM UTC
the right to eternity
I have five appendages: head, arms, and legs. More complex than oneness: what of the six joints of every leg and arm, or the seven vertebra of the neck? Thus, looking at the body becomes more and more complex until I revert back to where my body evolved from a single- celled organism, which in turn came from water. Emotions are like appendages, there are also five simple emotions. Looking at them react together is very complex to follow each motion. Then, to complete the divine triangle: body, emotion, and, knowledge, which is born of unification. Virtue are singularities of all three together. Spirit is service, compulsion is a virtue of youth and vitality. It is excess of enjoyment. It knows less limits and adheres to less stillness. Insanity is the virtue of enjoyment that is converted to pain: a pain for others, if not sorrow for me. Thus, when I am continually the object of my own insanity, it can be hidden. But when it affects others, it becomes mental illness.
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Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 at 1:07 AM UTC
Simplicity/Complexity
I've shouted questions at the sky- Hard ones, nearly unanswerable- hoping against hope that somewhere, Something might answer. I've screamed until my throat grew hoarse from the effort, and stared up, waiting- wishing- begging for some kind of answer. A sign. Anything. But there was only silence, ringing deafeningly over the black expanse. The stars went on shining as they had before. It was then I realized. The Cosmos doesn't care about me. The Cosmos has cares of its own- Forging stars and galaxies from dust; Compressing the very essence of time into unimaginable singularities; presiding over the evolutionary cycles of innumerable lifeforms. Why would it care about one, comparatively insignificant life, on a world teeming with it, in the outward spiral of a galaxy very likely filled with other life. It was then I realized. Maybe I should look out for myself- find the answers I seek on my own, give up/leave behind my fear of the unknown, instead of expecting the answers to be handed to me. It shouldn't be that easy.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 1:43 PM UTC
Screaming at the stars
Of Burden I will not be made to forget that I am a beast—a mythical creature of ash and snow—of sunsets and tree branches—of supernovas and singularities—and my transcendence will be not be held at bay—will not be stifled, even by those forces that permeate worlds—even by those entities whose existence straddles dimensions. I am that I will never again be naught—that my existence has changed—is changing—the whole of creation. That those changes cast themselves both backwards and forwards through reality, is the stuff of magic and myth but I assure you represents a truth unhindered by the pettiness of perspective—a truth the size of at least one universe—a contorted, pulsating blob, the width of ten dimensions and length of four temporalities… nourished from its own individuality and infected by notions of shared sovereignty—notions of descendancy or dependency. The creature of that truth is a mighty beast that we have been beset to watch—to be—the gate—the liminiality—the hearth of our existence and the fortitude of our would-be destruction. Seize yourself. Walk the stunted and corrupt path through the limen and discover firsthand what the footsteps of divinity could never tell you. Breathe in eons of creation and destruction and exhale the causality you were born to wield. The strength in which we reside is never above—never beyond—never outside of “I am”. And it is through this notion and unto the world that I cast together revelation and contingency—sincerity and artifice—bared skin and mask—not to see between the lines of reality, but to witness everything at once—the gestalt—the whole of things—the miracle and awe of a conscious universe in which the proverbial neurons make war with each other—with the axons they slide down—with the very entity whose existence is represented by the house in which they dwell—I wish to see it all—to widen the scope of the collective eye—to manifest the spiritual evolution of the whole ******* world into just One Single Thought.
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 9:03 PM UTC
Of Burden
Of Burden I will not be made to forget that I am a beast—a mythical creature of ash and snow—of sunsets and tree branches—of supernovas and singularities—and my transcendence will be not be held at bay—will not be stifled, even by those forces that permeate worlds—even by those entities whose existence straddles dimensions. I am that I will never again be naught—that my existence has changed—is changing—the whole of creation. That those changes cast themselves both backwards and forwards through reality, is the stuff of magic and myth but I assure you represents a truth unhindered by the pettiness of perspective—a truth the size of at least one universe—a contorted, pulsating blob, the width of ten dimensions and length of four temporalities… nourished from its own individuality and infected by notions of shared sovereignty—notions of descendancy or dependency. The creature of that truth is a mighty beast that we have been beset to watch—to be—the gate—the liminiality—the hearth of our existence and the fortitude of our would-be destruction. Seize yourself. Walk the stunted and corrupt path through the limen and discover firsthand what the footsteps of divinity could never tell you. Breathe in eons of creation and destruction and exhale the causality you were born to wield. The strength in which we reside is never above—never beyond—never outside of “I am”. And it is through this notion and unto the world that I cast together revelation and contingency—sincerity and artifice—bared skin and mask—not to see between the lines of reality, but to witness everything at once—the gestalt—the whole of things—the miracle and awe of a conscious universe in which the proverbial neurons make war with each other—with the axons they slide down—with the very entity whose existence is represented by the house in which they dwell—I wish to see it all—to widen the scope of the collective eye—to manifest the spiritual evolution of the whole ******* world into just One Single Thought.
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You're wrong you know. You're not afraid of crossroads, Not confrontations, It's not indecision Or fear of failure, You have no issue with regret. You're wrong, And being wrong is not the problem, It's not liberty that afflicts you, Or binds you, Roots you to this place. You're wrong, And though you're tired That's not the reason, You have no real desire to give up. And society, your friends, Your loved ones are blameless, It's not the past that puts the pit Of doubt cemented in your core. The future is uncertain But you know that's not The burden That incites rebellion Throughout your body Leaves you Fighting with yourself. You're all wrong, Because you understand the solution, You know the puzzle of the present, the senselessness, The answer that they give Has no function No relevance No possibility No relief. To live life in the present, To embrace it, breathe it in, To ignore the thoughts that cloud All action, To make the most of the moment right at hand-- Is Impossible For the present is a fiction They are wrong It can't be measured There is only past or future The now does not exist. Each “moment” that you visit Is braided To past and future, Demands study and reflection Impacting everyone and everything. Every “moment” that you speak of is Not an individual, Has no uniqueness, Scarcity and rarity are imposters-- All is all. Each person past and future, Every worm and every atom Every thought and every planet Singularities Intertwined with molecular precision, And every insignificant Decision Is momentous By design. The reason, The answer, The solution for which you're searching, The misunderstanding That's been floating beneath the surface Of your mind, The resolution to the question the never ending And unnerving The unyielding perplexity That has you yielding to the ebbing flowing tide Is that you are not an individual, You are not uniquely different You are not a figment Or a stain or an error You are not a wink of time. The reason that the crossroads gives you pause, Doubt, Fear, anxiety, The reason that indecision sometimes Seems to be the guiding force in every moment Every magnified, sensationalized Magic nothing in your life-- Is that you are all, You are everything, Now, and then, and when, You are forever, You are purpose of all itself, You are every universe You are an infinite infinity Divinity resides in everything you do. And everyone you see, and interact with, Everyone you love and hate, Admire, Everyone you have forgotten Everyone you'll never know Every stone and every sinew Every straw and every beetle Every drop of blood that flows from heart to heart Or spills from any soul, Every all and every anything is affected by your now. You are not afraid of insignificance, your instinct Knows The truth though you ignore it— The responsibility you fear is The magnificence of you.
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Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 at 1:33 PM UTC
The Answer
You're wrong you know. You're not afraid of crossroads, Not confrontations, It's not indecision Or fear of failure, You have no issue with regret. You're wrong, And being wrong is not the problem, It's not liberty that afflicts you, Or binds you, Roots you to this place. You're wrong, And though you're tired That's not the reason, You have no real desire to give up. And society, your friends, Your loved ones are blameless, It's not the past that puts the pit Of doubt cemented in your core. The future is uncertain But you know that's not The burden That incites rebellion Throughout your body Leaves you Fighting with yourself. You're all wrong, Because you understand the solution, You know the puzzle of the present, the senselessness, The answer that they give Has no function No relevance No possibility No relief. To live life in the present, To embrace it, breathe it in, To ignore the thoughts that cloud All action, To make the most of the moment right at hand-- Is Impossible For the present is a fiction They are wrong It can't be measured There is only past or future The now does not exist. Each “moment” that you visit Is braided To past and future, Demands study and reflection Impacting everyone and everything. Every “moment” that you speak of is Not an individual, Has no uniqueness, Scarcity and rarity are imposters-- All is all. Each person past and future, Every worm and every atom Every thought and every planet Singularities Intertwined with molecular precision, And every insignificant Decision Is momentous By design. The reason, The answer, The solution for which you're searching, The misunderstanding That's been floating beneath the surface Of your mind, The resolution to the question the never ending And unnerving The unyielding perplexity That has you yielding to the ebbing flowing tide Is that you are not an individual, You are not uniquely different You are not a figment Or a stain or an error You are not a wink of time. The reason that the crossroads gives you pause, Doubt, Fear, anxiety, The reason that indecision sometimes Seems to be the guiding force in every moment Every magnified, sensationalized Magic nothing in your life-- Is that you are all, You are everything, Now, and then, and when, You are forever, You are purpose of all itself, You are every universe You are an infinite infinity Divinity resides in everything you do. And everyone you see, and interact with, Everyone you love and hate, Admire, Everyone you have forgotten Everyone you'll never know Every stone and every sinew Every straw and every beetle Every drop of blood that flows from heart to heart Or spills from any soul, Every all and every anything is affected by your now. You are not afraid of insignificance, your instinct Knows The truth though you ignore it— The responsibility you fear is The magnificence of you.
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My body houses two selves. Former fulfilling my heart's desire, Later obeying what my mind dictates. For you I'll light my brain on fire.
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Apr 30, 2019
Apr 30, 2019 at 1:52 PM UTC
Two Singularities
on the cross town bus met a holy man laughing singularities
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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 at 10:15 PM UTC
The Bell Weather
A single                t                  e                    a                      r fell beneath my features and shattered my e          m             o                t                 I                  o                    n                      s on the floor, remnants of what a mind could not hope to contain. Now expelled in transparent singularities that coalesce and fall like heavy dew. Shattering on the emotionless floor below.
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM UTC
A Single Tear Fell
Orchids grow from black holes without light Crushed down into singularities from the pressure of being the only stars that were never loved
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 1:28 AM UTC
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