for “Meh”
Month: November 2009
Random poems, selected and posted for no damn reason whatsoever.
A random selection of poems I scribbled on cocktail napkins inside sundry dives and late night coffeeshops between 2004 and 2005, posted in a fit of utter, wanton, and gleefully amused, narcissism Of course. Thoughts of the lovely Miss. J. F. (who dances in diamonds) August 2004 A slender reed, a stalk of sugar cane […]
Of ugly truths, oppression, privilege, and doctrine – 2
So now, where were we? Collective Blood guilt. It exists, to a degree. Of course it is nuanced. After all, whose grandfather hasn’t oppressed another’ grandfather, whose great-granduncle hasn’t cuckolded another’s, whose great-great-grandmother hasn’t stolen from another’s, and so on. How many Armenian civilians were killed by Turks? But so too, how many thousands of […]
Of ugly truths, oppression, privilege, and doctrine – 1
On Ugly truths and Pretty Lies. I oppose the very notion of an ugly truth. Why? Because truth is never ugly, only when we look at it from a limited perspective it can appear ugly. “Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…” Lies can taste sweet, but they are only pretty from a superficial […]