Many/none

Many are lower, but none are higher.

Enough

Only enough is enough.

We say

Matters, we say of is.

Human beings are not born once (García Márquez)

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera

There is much to be said

There is much to be said for the algorithm, though most, predictably, are content to speak against it.

There is an easier poetry

There is an easier poetry in what has been said a lot, and a more powerful one in what has not.

New poems

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I pity those

I pity those who dumb down their model of life to make living easier.

The deepfake

Give me the deepfake over the fakedeep.

The fifth dimension

What if consciousness is the fifth dimension?

Only essentiality

Only essentiality is essential.

The ethical challenge

The ethical challenge is to acknowledge the ethical challenge.

Least favorite

Deterioration is my least favorite decoration.

Something new

To see something new, say something new.

New poems

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In the old days a poet once said (Ko)

In the old days a poet once said
our nation is destroyed
yet the mountains and rivers survive

Today's poet says
the mountains and rivers are destroyed
yet our nation survives

Tomorrow's poet will say
the mountains and rivers are destroyed
our nation is destroyed and Alas!
you and I are completely destroyed

Ko Un

The page was too small

The page was too small. I could have never been a poet had I been limited to the page.

What death means (Canetti)

As long as I have not formulated clearly and wholeheartedly what death means, I will not have lived.

Elias Canetti

Justice

Justice requires justification.

Our reactive design

Our reactive design may be inadequate.