Ponderable polemics, poetic

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philosiphication

  • Self. Centered.

    I love to walk alone in the rain and snow the colder the wetter the better I hear, understand nature, myself, my perosnal nature a whole lot better character building personal challenge; to prevail against the cold, the wet, implies some sort of adversarial relationship we do not partake the colder the wetter the better Read more

  • But is it art?

    Large, bold strokes spray painted symbols, words innocent and sinister hieroglyphs and slogans in black and blue on pulsating, animated canvas Names, times, events, places feelings and forgotten emotions weathered, all Some are ancient, indecipherable some still hurt some never did some are funny a few not at all Many names are legible, a.k.a’s various Read more

  • Whether banes

    You’ll never know what might have been you’ll never prove what could have been to loudly proclaim what should have been is the greatest of curses self-inflicted by men Read more

  • most monochromatically not

    I’ve never seen the world in quaint, stark black and white even as a child, vivid shades of gray were crystal clear I have always seen life for what it really is; unnamed, unruly tints and hues both opaque and austere seeing life as purely black-and-white takes a special color blindness that I did not Read more

  • Vexing thesaurus

    Forever is an ugly word Inspiring, enticing, incorrigible promise and implications immense execution uncertain, incomplete Forever is overly simplistic hopeless realization intoxicates a siren-like, self-coaxing impossibility mocking, scornful of your naiveté Forever is an ugly word gracefully benign until practiced; its only relationship to reality is its ultimate, untimely, predictable demise Read more

  • Dunking debunking

    Consider the common donut if you purchase one it comes with a hole you can purchase just the hole, but it is not a hole at all it is a ball; a doughy sphere made from a disc that once was where the hole is now, yet it was never truly a hole in its Read more

  • Gratitude

    Thanking God for prayers unanswered should be a regular pilgrimage daily thanks sent heavenward as well for pleadings ignored, deals never made, proposals not acknowledged, pleas not granted, abstract make-a-wishful thinking, and rejection from past potential dates second guessing goes against my better adult judgment, yet fits my quirky analytical ways so thankfulness is sometimes Read more

  • Prey

    You cannot pursue your epiphany Elmer Fudd-like True, wascally revelation is cunning, coy, indiscriminate – charmingly droll, visceral with twinkling eye To hunt your trophy epiphany, to blindly stalk personal truth is just taking a walk. Truth – truth be told – is far more cunning than you are much more adept at being the Read more

  • Adrift

    Over a beer, I blithely told a friend bemoaning a lost love there were plenty of “other fish in the sea” unmoved, he was, as I noted “there are also tires, discarded refrigerators and sunken oil tankers” Thus inspired he raised his glass, made a toast; “Let’s hear it” said he “for the girls of Read more

  • Résumé I…?

    Paperboy. ice-cream-scooper- slash-soda jerk; lumberjack, dishwasher donut-seller Early professions, pocket-money for adolescence, keen life-lesson reality checks still being cashed Passed the tests had some laughs Real, adult life, full-time living. Radio announcer. Construction-gopher census taker, house painter, shopping-mall Santa, radio station manager and pumpkin monger; more life lessons, more life lived, lived well Bellman, waiter, Read more