You have my permission to disregard the meditation I wrote and do something else: /// Like / Walk along the side of a stream endlessly / Like / Go through a laundry list of affirmations in your head, examining and discarding each one / Like / Planning your to do list / Like / Trying (and failing) to just watch your breath and think no thoughts / Like / Criticize yourself for doing the meditation all wrong [….]
Tag: mental health
Emptiness (and a grain of salt)
[…] One of the many things we could say instead of — /
— instead of “I hate my stupid life” /
Confronting a memory /
Confronting a hypothetical /
Confronting other peoples’ theoretical thoughts about us /
Confronting ‘what if I had done it that way instead?’ /
All these emotions come and go, passing like ships, or birds, swiftly by […]
Night Notes
“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]
Timewise
1st draft written and published January 30, 2017. Expected to rewrite it a lot but didn’t change much. The last two lines are new. For Nextdoor syndication where it doesnt add the headline or featured image, this is a poem called ‘Timewise’. Click the link thou lazy critics. Those memories countless of innumerable days—idle-Lost in […]
“Pick Cards from a Hat / Base it on a Faith” – 7 postcard haiku / 5 postcards, some fun memes
Base it on a faith // We won’t be going back now // Each day further on — Great times of puzzles // Interesting times’ dilemmas // Serious times rejoice — STOP Pick cards from a hat // Make policy assignments // No one can predict — STOP Schizophrenia // But of splendor, not of […]
“Facing Fear” from the book Make Magic of Your Life by T Thorn Coyle
“Facing Fear” pg130-132 in Make Magic of Your Life by T Thorn Coyle from chapter 6, ‘Goals & Choices’ which is in section 3 which is on the power To Dare Fear is a complex, multifaceted topic. Some fear is obviously a lifesaver. I want to fear getting close to the edge of an actual […]
on todays headlines (navy yard shooter)
“SHOOTER HEARD VOICES”. Not relevant, sorry. Lots of people hear voices. I hear voices sometimes. Maybe it belongs in the article But not in 72-point bold capitals on the front page to headline. It just doesn’t matter. And you’re increasing the interesting stigmas I face on a daily basis. Bastard journalist/ newspaper editor. Asses. (as i […]
Psychotomimetic Counterpoise
A counterbalancing weightAn equally opposing forceNewton’s third law The Psychosis opposesThe Psychosis BalancesThe Psychosis at odds with the world The balance of the world’s symbolic consciousnessTipping right into senseless automatismTipping left into mania As the man on wire we walk As the dancer balanced on Wall Street’s bullPoised amidst the onrushing riotEntropy wrapped in chaos; […]
Contagion of Mass Behaviors
You can call me crazy, and shred my vanities –But know this, I don’t play games Driven by products,We with our spectacular manias Marching in lockstep to catastrophe Enforcing ideas of ‘right’ or ideas of ‘cool’ Fashions secular and religious become little voices in the mind Domestication puts the little cops inside your mind But […]
Tyranny of Perfectionism
Finding the papers of an injured one on your desk,You say:Gaps in employment: Lazy.No facebook profile: Dangerous.¹ Involuntary termination: UntouchableBanned for life –By HR’s conventional wisdom Then you fume aboutThe lazinessOf the unemployedTo yourself and on television and in government You require intrusive personality testsFor the most ordinary of real-work jobsSee it to it that […]
Lost in Mist 