Always Faithful

A United States Marine.

Back from his first tour in Iraq.

He wore a black beanie called a “watch cap.”

I picked him up and he sat in the back.

I had a long time to hear him talk.

Together we laid waste to the hotel room.

“We need to get more cigarettes.”

When we started off on foot it was four o’clock.

We had a long time to talk as we ( Read more... )

Illusion Allusion by Kyle Henebry

Action

Reaction

Opposing faction ideology

Imaginary douchebaggery

Objective subjection

Subjective objections

Introspective interjection

Semantic Soliloquy…

Ultimately you have no ability

to undo ideology

from your own humanity

trained to believe

complete with preconceived

perceptions and expectations

These Conditions of ( Read more... )

This has been the happiest winter of my life since i was a very small boy.

Do you think that your fathers are watching?

That they weigh you in their ledgerbook?

Against what?

There is no book

and your fathers are dead in the ground.

My car sat in the muddy snow 50 yards away from the road I’d been traveling on. 50 yards from where it should have been.

Are you hurt? Asked the policeman.

No. I’m good.

He scanned my stuck vehicle with his maglight. He told me a story.
Not too long ago a milk truck tipped over in this same spot. Milk got everywhere. They had to fill it in with dirt. ( Read more... )

The change happened over time.
We began to encounter disciplined groups of well armored soldiers wielding long spears.
Thickits of spears bristling to and fro as the drums beat the battle march.
They showered  us with arrows from platforms on the backs of armored elephants.  
The earth shook to pieces beneath their massive feet.
Truly a sight beyond ( Read more... )

Intrapersonal communication detected…

Isolating feed…

Stand by…|

The old customer was insisting that I had cheated him out of several dollars worth of empties. I counted out the deposit to him two times over, pointing out each bottle he returned. He insisted I was wrong even after I was forced to second guess my counting and mistakenly give him an ( Read more... )

erinm0624 (11:57:53 PM): albert is an asshole
erinm0624 (11:58:00 PM): since when do I get pLAYED??
TheFlFTHDENTlST (11:58:31 PM): you got played the moment you thought he was special
TheFlFTHDENTlST (11:58:41 PM): ie
TheFlFTHDENTlST (11:58:48 PM): you played yourself
erinm0624 (11:59:17 PM): exactly
TheFlFTHDENTlST (12:00:01 AM): just relax. ( Read more... )

Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

What are we?

Truth lies in what we do not know, not in what is already known. We cannot know what we are; only what we are not. Truth is a product of being open to existence. Truth is about facing the present moment without having your ( Read more... )

Kyle Henebry on Sword Fighting

I’m here to talk to you about sword fighting. This presentation is partly informative, partly how-to. Your first impression when you think about sword fighting is probably that it’s a violent act whose sole intention is to cause harm. But how many of you would consider sword fighting a form of recreation? How about ( Read more... )