Category: The Work of Play
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Silent G
Some of the most interesting words in the Engish language begin with a psylent consonant.
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Taleyew Mist (You Talk Too Much)
I’ll never heal because I feel everything. It’s all a mess, but I confess — this is my nest.
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Two Neurons Diverge
We walk backward into the future, only seeing the past clearly.
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Process The Process
How many times in my life can I Have feelings without words? A lot to process Process the process Profess to possess Refuse to confess What words can’t finesse It looks like a mess From outside the fortress I built to harness Contain more or less Wave hands & then bless Before I digress In…
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To Dream Your Magnum Opus
I don’t think you want to sleep your life away. I think you want a life where you can sleep when you’re tired and live when you’re awake. I think you want a life you don’t want to escape from. I think you want a life you are free to create… your magnum opus.
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Are We There Yet?
Bracing. Heart racing. Memory tracing Forever facing leaning In every direction at once Quantum, I laugh at you quantum To you it’s all quanta, But if you wanna Know my strong opinion your hedging when you’re keening Fear careening courseward leaning forward And I haven’t even left my chair.
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Forging the Strohax
The alchemy of the linguistic stim. I once read a piece by Grant Morrison on Chaos Magick and creating a sigil. Morrison is a modern-day shaman, a psychonautic genius who channels profound truths into the two-dimensional universe of the graphic novel. I read his piece as part of a compendium by a group called Disinformation.…
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The Sin Eater
That poor little sin eater in a darkened room fed artificial light and filtered half-truths and lies he gets to eat the broken fragmented shredded bits of strategically weaponized semantic psycho subliminal Sub-liminal he eats in the liminal space feeding and digesting so you don’t have to taste the indigestion.
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Less Than Zero Sum
The “Suffering Bully” is a reminder that the endless cycle of competitive misery dehumanizes us. When we cling to zero-sum suffering, we alienate empathy and stifle genuine connection. True humanity flourishes through shared compassion, yet we cling to scarcity. It’s time to reject this flawed mindset and embrace our collective journey.
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Blue Jays, Jethro Tull, & the Paradox of Giving
And it’s only the giving That makes you what you are ~Ian Anderson I’ve been accused of spending too much time pondering.Maybe that’s why I love that song. “Wond’ring Aloud” by Jethro Tull… So much of Ian Anderson’s lyrics have always resonated with me on the deepest levels. There are other lyricists who get me…