I'm not sure I care anymore

I'm not sure I care any longer about the distinction between malice and ignorance.

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Must be

Might be must be motivated by maybe.

Every form of suffering

Every form of suffering can be described as a lack, as an absence.

Choice

Choice is the solution to a great many problems that now seem intractable because of external restrictions on a) available or permitted choices and/or b) our ability to choose.

There is no autonomy

There is no autonomy if you cannot make unpopular choices for yourself.

I read other poets

I read other poets not for ideas or technique, but to remind myself that I have permission to write my poems however I want.

Is it freedom

Is it freedom to redefine "freedom" to coincide with your current condition?

The more we ask

The more we ask some people to think, the more violently they will rebel.

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What is more destructive

What is more destructive than a person with a mistaken assumption?

More easily distinguished

We are more easily distinguished through our irrationality than via our reason.

We must control

We must control those who wish to control others.

Mere production

Mere production is the measure of a drone.

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That subset of things

I am interested in that subset of things that are necessary or beneficial to human beings but not necessary or beneficial to society.

Everything

Everything theological is theoretical.

The biggest constraint on poetry

The biggest constraint on poetry is poets' ideas about poetry.

Parallelism

Parallelism is a fount of fertile assertion.

The more we endure

The more we endure a deathlike life,
the more we dream of a lifelike death.