March 2012
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fatigue;
little apricot:
cut into slices then dried.
a dismemberment
that i’m too acquainted with;
the fruit and i are like twins.
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The United States of America on college education
Student: I'm not going to go to college because I don't want to go into debt.
USA: YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. YOU'RE GOING TO AMOUNT TO NOTHING YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY TAXES ARE SO HIGH.
Student: I'm just going to attend a small community college instead.
USA: HAHAHA YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY. ENJOY YOUR MCDONALD'S DIPLOMA.
Student: I attended a four year university and received a diploma in a field I am interested in. Now I am $50,000+ in debt.
USA: YOU DUMBASS. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CHOOSE A USEFUL MAJOR EITHER. GOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.
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the 20-something complex;
after reviewing a number of 20-something online literature, including the keystone 20-something pieces, i end up with the same reaction, no matter how different the title suggests it might be from other 20-something writings. my eyes glaze with that sort of krispy kreme glaze, that same glaze that i get when i look at contemporary art, that trite “whatever, i don’t even care”...
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rain;
my nose is first wave…
moist air grazes my body
these are my radars.
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awareness;
the land of twenties
is an extremely strange place
one is “presented”
with so many choices but,
are they new or were they there…?
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scholar;
encompassed by will,
a body of pure ambition,
headstrong, straightforward.
they know not what failure is
but they will know soon enough.
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parasites;
they track you, tag you,
they finish your sentences,
walking behind you,
picking up all of your slack.
“how convenient!” …exactly.
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension...”
– Anatole France
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death;
sweeping in, claws out,
collecting my fallen innards.
i’m their shameless prey.
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waking;
batting its lashes,
sunlight comes with coy greetings.
i respond with a smile.
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everything meaningful is in my sketchbooks.
this is my concrete contribution to the world.
my haikus are direct, sure, but a lot of them aren’t physically written.
my paintings are pretty indirect, vague & shit, y’know.
but my sketchbooks? everything important’s in there.
i kinda wish i had the patience to share everything from my sketchbook,
but that would just take way too much time.
whatever.
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“My religion is to live and die without regret.”
– Milarepa
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How to write a decent poem:
Pull it all apart
And put it back together
Over and over
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nipples;
“nope, can’t show that here”
as if they destroy cities.
i’ll never get that.
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today has been sultry.
i’ve finished 5 sketchpages, all with random things… i’ll post some later.
i’m not craving cheese heavily at all which is a blessing from the babies.
also, i’m leading a group in deep breathing, meditation & chakra balancing at my uni.
things just really make sense to me today. carlos has clarity today. sultry, smooth, sublime.
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utopia;
it’s a nice word, yes?
it greets you nicely of course,
that’s all it’s good for.
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maybe the KONY 2012 vid was just an experiment to see how naive & gullible western youth is.
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graduation;
building momentum
bright eyes, a brighter future
then… a screeching halt.
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today, i am especially bitter:
why?
• all of this KONY propaganda sweeping my dash as if it’s a new issue. and all of the “activists” who reblog/retweet/share the propaganda as if they really fucking care, as if they won’t forget about it in a month and move back to their bullshit twitter feeds.
• the lack of understanding/perspective in just about all of my classes beyond being a (white) kid in...
it just occurred to me that when i’m drunk,
i become hypersensitive to people’s energies.
by that i mean, i sense auras in their entireties.
my descriptions of people, while i’m drunk, are lively and vivid.
while sober (usually) they’re qualitative and precise.
i need to better understand what’s at work here.
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self;
i sit a strange seat,
between leaving and staying,
a limbo of sorts,
i’m both teaching and learning;
the constant of all constants.
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“We have millions of people in larval, low-awareness lives, in their little...”
– Terence McKenna, in reference to the western world’s aversion to drugs
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translucent;
your eyes see one thing…
are you able to see through?
look past face values.
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Woman: Should we disentangle ourselves from miserable people?
Deepak Chopra: Absolutely not; the more you experience the suffering of another person, the more you have the desire, even the mental desire, to alleviate it, you get better; your health improves. The suffering of other people is what gives birth... compassion is what gives birth to love. Love is what ultimately causes healing. So without compassion, there is no love. Love also has to be in action. Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.