ㅁ the sneaky snake entered the garden hopped up on his self-deceptions like a chatbot on prozac and gave his wanton pitch elevator-style to the kids there this one girl succumbed crashed
– a nonnet.
Month: October 2024
Caveat: Poem #2991 “Submission”
ㅁ The wind whipped rain, and caused a feeling: a vague, pathetic fallacy took hold of me, and left me reeling. The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling: nostalgia gripped, my soul was dealing, bowed down to nature's papacy. The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling: a vague, pathetic fallacy.
– a triolet.
Caveat: Links #84
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale” – Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)
Caveat: Poem #2990 “Outward”
ㅁ there's no sense of rest no respite from nagging guilt sleep is all that's left
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2989 “Surrender”
ㅁ Lately I hate life. I feel nothing anymore. Why do I bother?
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #83
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- A Catholic makes the case that both candidates are too evil to bother voting (bear in mind this is basically about abortion, of course, but the roundabout path taken has some interesting twists)
- Postmodern conservatism
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Immigrants are just the kids on the lawn – the old man wants the damn kids to get off his lawn. The old man is a jerk.”
Caveat: Poem #2988 “It’s possible this poem has no name”
ㅁ I made secret, unknowable poems. Crafted with pure banalities, they occupied remote screens, distant from daily life. These were words for fate: disquisitions against time; perfect rants.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #82
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Caveat: Poem #2987 “Unrecorded events”
ㅁ with rain, came dragons, who all coiled in the treetops supervising sleep
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #81
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Speaking as someone who hates AI, you are more than welcome to train your AI on my writing. Because I would love to see your AI fail, and there is nothing the market wants less than my writing” – Jason Lefkowitz
Caveat: Poem #2986 “Around the corner”
ㅁ doom impends portended coming along well it's just this feeling you get sometimes
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #80
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- TBH I’m not sure I understood this
- Or this… Small bits of negative time, due to quantum superposition
- This makes me think many of my neighbors
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase ‘As Canadian as ____’ (cf. ‘As American as apple pie’). / The winner was: ‘As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.'” – the internet
Caveat: Poem #2986 “Precepts beyond history”
ㅁ rain came this weekend filled the downhill-rushing creeks turned over some stones
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2985 “Antumnos”
ㅁ The otherworld unleashed its dogs; they chased us through the timeless trees. We fled and jumped those ancient logs. The otherworld unleashed its dogs. We fell and tasted moss and bogs. The murky water grasped our knees. The otherworld unleashed its dogs; they chased us through the timeless trees.
– a triolet.
Caveat: Links #79
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Pretentiousness… is a necessary condition of the artistic process.” – Thomas Bevan
Caveat: Poem #2984 “Reason to not”
ㅁ "No time like present" - except all those other times that were just like now.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #78
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Utopia is never a place you arrive at, but it’s a journey you’re on” – Sherryl Vint, discussing Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Dispossessed.
Caveat: Poem #2983 “The old house, again”
ㅁ I dreamed that Arthur became possessed by some remodeling demon. So while I was gone at work, He began adding things - random additions - to his odd house: stray basements, towers, leaks.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #77
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- “the most cost-effective treatment for even severe depression was problem-solving therapy”
- On the matter of sovereign wealth funds: obvious, but needed to be said
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The only possible excuse for God’s behavior is that He does not exist.” – Stendhal
Caveat: Poem #2982 “In praise of the banal”
ㅁ Banality is worthy stuff: it centers things, and pulls the fringes back from fevered dreams, it moderates the fools.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Links #76
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- D&D is anti-medieval, despite appearances. Actual genre: Western
- Something bothers me about this argument, but it’s hard to explain. Where does the presumption of god’s GOODNESS come from? did I miss something?
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Facebook was a mistake. Books were not meant to have faces.” – someone on the internet
Caveat: Poem #2981 “Zzzap!”
ㅁ Twenty years later, I still get "brain zaps" sometimes. Yay SSRIs.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #75
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Here is one trick to see the future. From the standpoint of the domestic American economy, the difference between outsourcing to robots and outsourcing to China is negligible. China’s impact is a preview of AI’s impact.” – Curtis Yarvin (grains of salt, and all that: Yarvin is an extremely weird neo-reactionary monarchist, but I think he’s not wrong on this point)
Caveat: Poem #2980 “Grounded beside the parking lot”
ㅁ Wind rushed through, bashed the walls of our building. The structure creaked like an old sailing ship.
– a tetractys.