Our whole lives (Levertov)

We are living our whole lives in a state of emergency.

Denise Levertov

Time for all

Misfortune has time for all eight billion.

There is always a reason

There is always a reason for one to hate another. And we will always find it.

Transience

Transience, for all its damage, is the only thing that makes existence endurable.

The trick

The trick to appreciating art
(and many other things)
is to know enough,
but not too much.

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Only if nothing matters

Only if nothing matters does justice not matter.

The surest way

The surest way to defeat yourself is through self-deception.

The same differently

We are all the same, but we are all the same differently.

Barely an inconvenience

Without love, without need, death is barely an inconvenience to anybody.

The sweetest

To achieve improbably is the sweetest feat.

Every time

Every time you learn one thing so much more becomes possible to know.

Normal people (Raven)

I wasn't trying to emulate normal people, but I did like knowing what they were up to.

Catherine Raven, Fox and I

The truth

The truth must be approached with impiety.

Are not

Now is forever,
but we are not.

To capitulate

To believe without evidence is to capitulate to complexity.

One of the main reasons

One of the main reasons we need other people is to tell us a story about ourselves different than the one we tell ourselves.

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Ho ho ho

We see and imagine

We see the human and imagine the divine (that is, we imagine that which might see the divine and imagine the human).

No history

There can be no history of eternity, for there can be no eternity of history.

Jubilation

Jubilation is the strangest, and perhaps my favorite, of the states I have experienced in this life.

At least it can grow

How inadequate language is,
but at least it can grow
as our need for it grows.

On choice

Choice is a necessary impoverishment.

Long enough

If you haven't seen something change, it just means you haven't been watching it long enough.

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Subset

Everything is a subset of everything.

Variations

All others are variations of me,
as I am a variation of all others.

Those who fear

Those who fear the truth will always seek to obfuscate it.

Thus

The universe was too small to accommodate hope: thus, the multiverse.

A poor substitute

Opinions are a poor substitute for understanding.

After conclusion

Everything matters in process;
after conclusion, there is only the text.

Relevance

Relevance requires perspective.

An irresponsibility

I have an irresponsibility to convert industry to leisure.

And only death

Death, and only death,
is devoid of possibility.

A distinction

All creation changes;
not all change creates.

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Midjourney reveals my superhero look

Astounded

I have long been astounded
by how many poets hate words.

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To disrespect

To disrespect is at times the highest duty.

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On hope

Hope is an expression of confusion.

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On life & living

Life is unforgivable.
Living is trying to forgive.

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Only man can make

Only man can make a labyrinth of a confusion.

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At any scale

Greatness at any scale is great.

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I can stop

Once I have thought all the thoughts I can stop.

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Antonym

Divine is the antonym of human.

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When?

When is it reasonable to be unreasonable?

"This Message Is Not Secure!"

The Nassau Review has accepted my poem "This Message Is Not Secure!" to be published early next year. They are based in Garden City, NY, where I lived for a while, so that's a cool bonus.

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Death's poem

Death's poem is accomplished almost entirely by erasure.

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Doubt now

Doubt now or regret later.

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Distraction

Distraction is destruction.

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Stronger

Stranger is stronger.

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The Word For Rain Is Rain

My latest book, The Word For Rain Is Rain, is now out and available on Amazon and elsewhere! This is a collection of very short poems, like my earlier book, Trajectory.

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I am (mostly)

I am (mostly) what I've captured of the past.

The ice is melting

How can mathematics be true

How can mathematics be true when it is immune to the effects of entropy?

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The loan shark

Upon the assumption

Everything is built upon the assumption of continuity.