A commentary on the shallowness of media and popular dialogue about the economy. I have read that the inventor of the GDP figure never intended it to be a stand in for national well-being or success.
Be Prepared to Stop at Any Moment
°° […] intersection, a roadwork sign warned: BE PREPARED TO STOP AT ANY MOMENT. I felt my jaw dropping. It sounded like a warning, and also a reminder, as if I needed one, that most likely I wouldn’t be hearing […] ° At all times, remain alert Whether alert to the monster I’s mutterings, Or […]
Disorderly [conduct] Tiles
The thing you never notice The tiles on the floor They run in checkered patterns & line borders Maintain the veneer of the clock-world Whitish speckle, perfect level, hard concrete for your toes Until one day, you’ve noticed someone took a special touch Made it more inviting, disordered your morning rush
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{ the screwy title is due to an error that appeared today that affects only the title in wordpress posts from android, including after rebooting, popping the battery and also uninstalling and reinstalling the app. It seemed apt to the post }
Sudden Onset
Sudden Onset Empty set recursion – lost within the divide-by-zero abstract & densely populated depthless-pool-of space, that> Void Arrangement of cloud chamber sketch animations dancing among & between waving vines – frenetic vines – graceful & intense. And then the 2nd figure in intense liberation and motion, patternless synchrony, never a wrong move Percussive, the sudden onset […]
Travel Tips
We walked in the sun, we walked in the rain We walked in doubt and we walked in certainty We walked on concrete and we walked on sand We walked forever in a haze of unreason We walked into a cave with banners held high We walked along a cliff’s edge, we walked in single […]
Cryptogram of Cosmic Glue
….. The flames licking the sides – bursts of activity – creation or destruction – Some things imply, while others recoil .. If and Only If is symmetrical, yes… While some minds may be of Unity, or among the unity of universe, yet others recoil from what’s next – sensing, in their bones, that they […]
Atemporal Pisky Topologies, Simple
Crenarcheota, ancient of days, one of the monophyletics…. By-the-by, seeing what is not a place to blur, becomes annealed, becomes a plum choice for crystallization…. But one to the other, remarking ever that it had been clarity of intent, but noticing also how the strains of philosophy had shotgunned, they said thus that it had […]
Perpetual Airport Chaos
He sleeps and sleeps and sleeps And in endless false awakenings, Finds himself always waking in lounges and Gate 37b and more And always there is too much happening, & sometimes, Fights, Yeti, Explosions, Tickets that dont work, Children from horror flicks… He begins to wish for the dawn; But he sleeps day after day….
A note on the utility of gender-free pronouns in literature
Consider the phrase “the Raven of Stars begins xyr dance” which is what I was writing (for the Discordian Postcard Conspiracy) the first time I decided I required a multiple genderless possessive. In my case, I wanted to specify that despite being a ‘the’ the Raven of Stars was not-singular yet not-separated entities, and also that […]
Lost in Mist 