Words that smack of pill-pushing platitude and rigmarole rehearsal are not words of affection and inspiration, though quite necessary scarcely to approximate that which the words themselves are devoid of, namely, singular affection, tenderness, and empathy--for without at least the Attempt at expressing Something to whom we feel genuine warmth ( ( Read more... )

Common light
of ordinary day
sheds certain mind
on certain shade.

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To spend most one's time
In spools of viscid explanation
Strips - the organ from the vein -
Guts experience
Minces shadow
Dissevers day.

Dadism:

"Don't make mountains out of moles."

Sorry B---, I affectionately refuse to be your push-and-pull philanderer's den of escape and perfidious non-committal on-a-string sensuality just so you can selfishly disentangle the sometimes-unhappy domestic knots that choke your life and your neck while, at the same time, you try to shake from each pant leg the overwhelming sensation of the ( Read more... )

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections
and the truth of Imagination"

~John Keats

For the past several weeks I have not written in prose form because that which is worthwhile to write is ever-evolving and too complex for me to communicate, either because I cannot think properly, or because of sheer abstrusity, and that which is not worthwhile is, well, not worthwhile, and, of course, not readily convertible by my mindfingers ( Read more... )

Heart! We will forget him!
You and I--tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave--
I will forget the light!

When you have done, pray tell me
That I may straight begin!
Haste! lest while you're lagging
I remember him!

~Emily Dickinson

"Language began, Blackwell supposes, in certain rude accidental sounds, which the naked company of scrambling mortals emitted by chance"

~Abrams mingling Blackwell

"I have no great opinion of a definition, the celebrated remedy for the cure of this Disorder...We are limited in our inquiry by the laws to which we have submitted at our setting out." ~Edmund Burke

"A thing is not more perfect by becoming something else, but by Being More Itself."

~William Hazlitt