Saturday, August 22, 2026

INVOCATION FOR LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS

Just as pearls 
are less delicate, yet 
more rarified than facts,

so the artists, although
terrified, are patient 
as the windblown grit.

Call it a symbol,
a metaphor, or a lie—but 
let the statesmen

deal in worlds;
they shall traffic
in the skies.

Friday, August 21, 2026

IDEALIST HEPCAT HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

He scats
that there are no such things as 
separate events—

that he who
circulates his own blood
is the one who shines the sun.

Then he riffs that you must
see the golden
goose of life whole,

or else risk the temptation
of cutting it open.
You counterattack

that omnipotence
doesn’t have to know
how things get done

in order to transmute our
“freedom to”
to “freedom from,”

but you have to admit that,
even for a materialist, the jazz
is close enough

to say we see
independent identity
only through relation,

and that impenetrability
is just a jive word 
for drastic isolation.

Thursday, August 20, 2026

GUI

The analytics
were wrong about this
evanescent present:

even though it’s 
see-through,
it’s not so plain a thing.

In fact, it’s less
of an empty glass case

than a state-of-the-art paddock
in goal attainment’s zoo;
for it acts

as the first
and the last user interface—

the only place on Earth
you can have
what it brings.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

BEST BET

Sounds scary, but death 
is pure absence—
if we’re lucky.

If we’re not,
it could be
literally everything

good and bad, all
rushing past
at full-blast, from first

to last, with
no reprieve and
no contrast.

Picture the mammoth
who went huffing
toward a tar pit—

only to get
trapped there and
gruesomely preserved.

What’s worse
than being forced 
to sleep where you shit?

A permanent habitat
made of nothing
but memory.

INTRO TO WESTERN METAPHYSICS

And then—out
of the primeval slime
of Time

which has ever been
sluicing through the grates
of Existence

crawled Structure
with that quick cement
of difficult consonants

and Practicality 
with its similar mix 
of reinforced K sounds and T’s

to ask: What is that? Where is it from?
How come? And where is it
going to fit?


Shock and Awe thought this was
the new ground 
of Reality—whereas

Diffidence saw
it was
just an emergent property

but was far too shy
to say anything—and even later on
when it finally

tried, it was 
still too polite to really 
strongly disagree.

Monday, August 17, 2026

ALL PURPOSE

Listen
to the sounds.

Feel your feet
hit ground.

Nothing’s
more enormous

than one minute
of affordance 

to receive
without interpreting—

to walk around
and notice.


Saturday, August 15, 2026

POEM OF THE WAY AND ITS VIRTUE

A gesture needn’t 
be enormous

in order to be
enormous.

Maybe this
is all there is: quickmud

is best 
for the yellow flag iris—

but do not sink
to pick it up;

don’t shudder
or overthink

your purpose: go
with the flow

of the current, 
sure—but don’t 

be a dumbass;
use a goddamn rudder.