Tomato soup – for the unimaginative, the indolent, the unfortunate – just like grandma used to make, but she did not poison it. You know the one – the tired, old American brand. Ingredients: Tomato […]
Month: January 2022
Burning
In her own person, merely being, poet and sorceress, angel and curse, sister and succubus. Heroine without a patron. Benefactress without a suitor. Her poems, muse-obsessed. Her lovers, in her poems immortalised. No sin without […]
Ugly
However beautiful you may be, or perceive yourself to be, if your heart is ugly, you are ugly – hideous, repulsive, grotesque. Monsters are only monsters if they have ugly hearts. Quelle que soit votre […]
Disbelievers
It is unlikely that the Divine would have such fragile conceit as to be in any way offended by those who disbelieve. Il est peu probable que la divinité ait une vanité si fragile qu’elle […]
Bedevilled
If the fool, obsessed, persists in her or his obsession, that obsession becomes devotion; that devotion, belief; that belief, reality; that reality, enlightenment. The fool then becomes the sage, the seer, prophetess, prophet. Bedevilled, bemused. […]
Pathogenicity
How can a country, still so young, so recklessly, so violently, so ineluctably, speed with such determination towards self-annihilation? Why drink Coca-Cola? Why eat Campbell’s soup? Why use any of the tired, old, chemically engineered, […]
Proximity
To begin with, you were never mine.Because I am entirely, tirelessly yours.That was the reality that eluded me,momentarily. I picked myself up in thedarkness, persevering half a lifetime ’tilthe day when I might be found […]
Metaphor
Those with complex minds and impassioned hearts are compelled by destiny to live simple, orderly lives, ensuring harmony through the counterpoise of extremes. Though claimed throughout millennia of Western culture that truth is by definition […]
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