Faith in logic (Theroux)

He suspected that the man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality...

Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

On nature

Nature is a network of questions
tirelessly trying out solutions.

On poetry

Poetry shouldn't tell people
what they want to know—that's fiction.
It should tell them what they don't know
they don't know.

Hi (Shaw)

"Hi," she said to the moth.
It flew away.

Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

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The obligation

The obligation to be truthful
increases as we become angrier.

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Poems

Poems can do as many things as words can do.

On faith

Faith is the failure of doubt's duty.

What it comes down to

Nuance over ignorance, every time.

Provocation

A thing provokes most when it changes.

Evil?

What primitive minds call evil
more thoughtful folk term injustice.

The Million-Line Poem

Got the two most recent lines on Tupelo Press's ongoing Million-Line Poem.

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The way it was done (Theroux)

Knowledge to them was the parent of malice. Ideas they met with derision, truth with suspicion, and differences with fear. For any other way of life one couldn't raise their temperatures a therm. They lived, they knew, the way it was done...

Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

The Idyllic

Good news! Lingerpost has accepted my poem "The Idyllic" and will be publishing it in their next issue.

The truth

Even when the truth is cold
the truth is warm.

Life

Half our lives in error,
and the other half spent justifying the first.

Leaves move

We grant each other plausible motives,
but leaves move when wind moves.

More or less

The less you have, the more you can believe in nothing. The more you acknowledge, the less you can conceive of everything.

Knot

David Lehman selected my poem "Knot" as a winner of this week's Next Line, Please challenge at The American Scholar site. I was pretty happy with the way this one came out, so I'm glad to see that others liked it too!

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Apocalypse

Apocalypse is just another word
for I don't understand.

Finding

What you look for you will find.
What you run from will find you.

Play

Play your way to purpose.

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The genuine

Even the genuine is not inevitable.

On freedom

Compulsory odes to freedom are the opposite of freedom, are tyranny appropriating freedom's name.

The individual in society

All ideologies of society are inimical to the individual. Almost, one can say that there is no place for the individual in society!

Taking care of yourself

Taking care of yourself isn't always about protection. Sometimes it's about connection.

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Compulsory

Compulsory work is slavery, no matter how you dress it.

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