Epistemology


  If you do know that here is one hand,
we'll grant you all the rest.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Because there were no hands, they were
completely absent. I don't mean this as a joke. Nothing
prepared me for it: it was like a dream.
That's why. Because I've tried hard to forget.
And, without warning, I could tell that I was
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 Education for Leisure - Carol Ann Duffy

Today I am going to kill something. Anything.
I have had enough of being ignored and today
I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day,
a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets.

I squash a fly against the window with my thumb.
We did that at school. Shakespeare. It was in
another language and now ( Read more... )

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre,whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Spooky by Dusty Springfeild 
2. The Passenger ( ( Read more... )

This Is Just to Say

It was I who ate
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and then
framed William
Carlos
Wiliams

Forgive me
it was too easy
so poetic
and so bold

Song Against Natural Selection - Edward Hirsch ( Read more... )

The Ambush - Brian Patten ( Read more... )

Oh Yes - Charles Bukowski

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than
too late.

This is the story of your red right ankle ( Read more... )

"Clark Gable" -The Postal Service ( Read more... )

I've decided I want a skeleton suit for my birthday, but there is an impressive variety of styles to choose from:


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