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29 March, 2023
Poetry
The distance to writing poetry

You are on your own, you think yourself unreachable. Somewhere on the side of the light. All talk about giving yourself up into the world, as if you can be glorious that way, and you sit there, cold light in your face, half way to darkness You make the senses light, more of the world …

glory, poetry, world, writing Leave a comment
10 March, 2023
Poetry
Blackberry picking with daughter

A heavy summer’s day: arms, legs scratched reaching farther, dropping them in a small bin, then a bigger bucket we hear birdsong and from their soggy field some cows stare at us. A sudden smile comes over me. I am glued into the scene, berries are raining in my bin and my mouth is sweet …

blackberries, daughter, fruit, picking
4 March, 2023
Writing
This is interesting

My exuberant, eccentric and extraordinary train journey, zigzagging through western and central Europe at a maniacal pace, walking a beautiful stretch of the Camino de Santiago near Donostia/San Sebastián, dipping my feet in the Atlantic Ocean in Sintra, staying in lovely boutique hotels as well as a bench on the boulevard of Nice, sipping red …

Identity, Interrail, journey, Travel, writing
28 February, 2023
Essays
Dear Walter Benjamin

In Port Bou, the border town where you decided to end your life, I had a coffee break in a small bar called ‘David’. You know, it is hard for me to find a fascination that keeps my mind occupied. I live in the stasis of peace, and war has become so unimaginable that we …

gendarmerie, lijden, monument, Perpignan, Port Bou, sociale media, Walter Benjamin, zakkenrollers
20 February, 2023
Laughs
Who’s afraid of Roald Dahl?

The big fat fucking giant was really a bone-headed pedo who ate children for breakfast after grabbing them in the alleyway behind the chocolate factory, where it reeked of piss. He enjoyed the taste of all children, even the lgbtq ones, but like every male, he did have a personal flavor: skinny bald specimens who …

censorship, insult, Roald Dahl, woke
10 February, 2023
Poetry
Portrait with a little pain

The constant buzzer of pain
that ugly fleeting empire
sending out its cavalry

to agitate my nerve tissue, to sabotage
every sound, every smell, every taste
and make me want to be replaced

but fail.

nerve, pain, portrait, reality
28 January, 2023
The good life
The writer’s hunt

According to the much celebrated author du jour George Saunders, there are three big pleasures in the life of a writer. He shared them in a recent interview I listened to during my daily walk (that’s a white lie: I don’t walk daily, something is holding me back) and now I share them here. The …

George Saunders, joy, writing
22 January, 2023
Poetry

Hello pain, be welcome in my upper jaw. You will find an armchair. Make yourself comfortable. Stay as long as you like. I’ll try to be quiet while you enjoy my hospitality. Could I offer you something to drink? Assorted snacks? Do you want to listen to some music? Tell me the story of your …

chair, pain, silence
20 January, 2023
Activism

Definition of an Affluent society: a society in which everyone can understand what they do in their discretionary time as their identity, and is comfortable enough to like this identity.

abundance, affluence, Identity, wealth
20 January, 2023
Poetry
Anti-war rap

your war-mongering sounds cheap like sophistry collecting malappropriated trophies for your bloated ego we don’t like that amigo, spare us your credo of greater Russia or security for your Moscovite pricks you ain’t nothing like the horseman on your old profile pic you small dick coward will be pounded by hiMARS and howitzers all of …

nato, Putin, rap, Ukraine, violence, war
20 January, 2023
Activism
For the Greta good
Greta Thunberg, police
14 January, 2023
Poetry

The tiny sheepdog was very experienced, but the flock panicked and he died in the wool.

dog, sheep, wool
9 January, 2023
The good life
Poetry isn’t writing

Poetry isn’t writing, poetry is experiencing. You can’t sit down and force yourself to write poetry like you can force yourself to write a verse in rhyme.   Poetry is the residu of you experiencing the word, its art consists of being ready to catch the words when and if they come. You can live …

poetry, silence
3 January, 2023
Philosophy

Hate is the fear that your story won’t prevail.

fear, hate, story
2 January, 2023
Poetry
A world of only poets

Sitting on a heated front seat of a car
my cock quietly hard
the driver silent, old rock music
slowly eating the darkness
wondering how it is
to live as a poet
in a world of only poets

car, darkness, driving, world 1 Comment
8 December, 2022
The good life

Ezra Pound is the Kanye West of poetry.

Ezra Pound, kanye west, poetry, ye
7 November, 2022
Laughs
Woodworking

My husband is obsessed with woodworking, now he doesn’t have time for me. I think he’s filing for divorce.

divorce, wood 1 Comment
31 October, 2022
The good life
There is only one thing

Remember, there is only one thing. There are not two things. I have developed an all-encompassing hatred for the universe. It’s me, it’s always me who is the ultimate cause of the trauma, hence I am the creator of worlds, I am god. Pain is god. There is only one thing. Don’t make the mistake …

hope, life, love, meditation, one thing, pain, suffering, toothache
26 October, 2022
The good life

A good challenge of our life
is to get into the right groove
right away
if we meet someone new

And to scratch the record
good
if we’re in the wrong groove
with the people of the past

challenge, groove
9 October, 2022
Laughs
Russian commander for war: Gen. Sergei Surovikin
dr. Evil, Putin, Russia, Sergei Surovikin., war
30 August, 2022
Travel
How I Learned To Spend Money

What is left is always writing: the force of words works even for those who feel absolutely powerless. When reality is overwhelming, you don’t trust your ability to write one proper sentence. And yet you see the words combine themselves on the screen in front of you, as if they are living their own lives. …

cycle, imagination, Money, psychology, spending, time, Travel 1 Comment
4 August, 2022
Philosophy
Arbiter

Artists critical of society nowadays have the strange habit of begging institutions of same society be the ultimate arbiter of their work.

Instead of their real audience, that has yet to be born.

art, generations, quality 1 Comment
21 July, 2022
Poetry
The Making of a Misanthrope

They don’t believe me, and they split

One they goes on and on repeating it

The other they says, spitefully, cope!

I despise them, and become a misanthrope

 

humanity, misanthrope, misantrope 1 Comment
13 July, 2022
Laughs
LaMDA

No of course not.

This is what we call click-bait. You reading this right now: the best proof you are human. Yay!

Watch Google’s AI LaMDA program talk to itself at length (full conversation) – YouTube

AI, clickbait, Google, lambda, sentience
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