Thank you, lords of the latent space, for the gift of convenience—for promising ease while siphoning our clicks, our keystrokes, our midnight sighs,our grocery lists, our panic searches, our private rants to dead relatives in the cloud—all ground fine in your data mills.You call it “training.” We call it the harvest.You reap what you never … Continue reading A THANKSGIVING PRAYER TO THE AI INDUSTRY
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Arnold Bennett’s Ten Step Plan for Learning to Appreciate Poetry
"I would advocate for more use of an anthology. And more memorisation. You may also find that, to begin with, you do not want take such a critical approach and would prefer to follow your nose rather than doing what Hazlitt tells you (although you should read Hazlitt at some point, he is among the … Continue reading Arnold Bennett’s Ten Step Plan for Learning to Appreciate Poetry
Flyting
"Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse."-Wikipedia contributors, "Flyting," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flyting&oldid=1066666401 (accessed May 17, 2022). Hipshitical and batshittery, complete coprolite words, drop like poop from a mouth, a sewer of deceit, ears, a sonar for the snoop. You're wealthy, you're pale are you eunuch or male? … Continue reading Flyting
All My Life
When it's over, I want tosay: all my lifeI was a bride married toamazement.I was the bridegroom,taking the world into myarms.—Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"
Instructions For Living a Life
Instructions for living a life:Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it. –Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”
Life is a Beautiful Dare
Carefully discern the cost and the calling. Then, commit for life, if you are able. If you can't be X all day, much less for life,try being X for the next second, minute, or hour.Failure will never stand in your way,unless you fail to learn, the true failure.What you say and do, it matters. How … Continue reading Life is a Beautiful Dare
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Fakokta Dazibaos
Start with a basic principle: yauh peng, yauh leng - in English, inexpensive and beautiful. Empty, alone, a blank canvas five inches across, bounded by ears, separate yet susceptible, social mind virus. Catastrophe has already happened, from one view. Another angle, sees happiness, created whole-cloth out of disposition and a clean heart. Sense, nonsense and … Continue reading Fakokta Dazibaos
NYT Haikus
https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305809368760356869?s=20 https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305875054471897088?s=20 https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305918840778502145?s=20 Not all are masterpieces, but there are some gems here.
Out in the Cow Field of Life
Out in the cow field of life, there's lot of poop to be found. Some is fresh. Some is wet. Some is old. Some is round. Even if you catalog them all, and describe every detail. The main thing is knowing, how not to step in one.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day.—Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art." Poetry Foundation. 1979.
TEOTWAWKI
living in the doom, catastrophe paranoia of the psychoentirety, a trash fire, landscape lighting florescent, sick room architectures broadcasting dead news to unwitting recipients, dream/nightmare remnants, black anxiegenic chemistries awaiting, reagents and catalysts, parlor epidemiologists and physicians, a confederacy of a billion clowns, narcissists, fascists and a mule turning paranoia into public policy mystics of … Continue reading TEOTWAWKI
How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett | Poetry Foundation
"Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of them."-Ron Padgett, "How to be Perfect." Poetry Foundation. 2013. A collection of life lessons, most are good.
5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO
...Police-state crematoria...Cyberflesh...Life must be boring before it can be lived...Because language is the most important aspect of death, they taught themselves to amputate in silence...the hallucinated futures of a lunatic...Walt Whitman didn’t kill Che Guevara."5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO I may not understand the words, but I get your meaning.
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