Is it?

Is it that what is loved will be lost, or that what is lost will be loved?

Some struggle

Some struggle to know what's wrong with the world; some, what's right in it.

Always

Billions of little bubbles of identity, always beautiful, always popping.

We spend more time

We spend more time predicting rain than ruin.

Life & dream

Life should be a dream and dream should be a life.

Our profound duty

It is our profound duty to question questionable claims.

On automation

If a robot or an AI can do a job, then a robot or an AI should do that job, because it is a chore, not an avenue to human exploration or growth.

Everything I love

Is everything I love art or is art everything I love?

Better

Better pity than piety.

Not king

In the country of traitors, the true democrat (small d) is not king.

Better

Better we be compensated for living our lives well.

On people

People are fickle, except when they're not.

Humanity

Humanity, being one part animal, one part religion, and one part society, never had a chance.

New poems

+15

It is equal

It is equal to point at excrement and call it gold and to point at gold and call it excrement.

The demands

The demands are detrimental.

The quality of popular culture

The quality of popular culture depends a great deal upon the charms and virtues of the culture.

To work so hard

We should not have to work so hard to separate ourselves from the system of work.

On novels

I think I tired of novels when they stopped making me feel anything new.

I don't know

Is everything one ever says other than "I don't know" a lie?