Indivisible

There is no indivisible "we."

I am loath to condone

I am loath to condone a lack of extravagance or an indulgence in waste.

The line between

The line between fact and fiction is not as indelibly drawn as the line between fact and falsehood.

Not always

In a novel, there is always a next thing, a next chapter, a plot development. In life, there often is, but not always.

What about the point of view

What about the point of view that point of view lacks explanatory power?

Trust

Trust your idea of a poem over anyone's preconception of the form.

There is no concept of time

There is no concept of time without repetition.

Complicated

The world has complicated my initial promise, but has it compromised it?

The hoax

The hoax is when they tell you that it's not a hoax.

All uniforms

All uniforms promote and signal conformity and a lack of autonomy. Never wear one and never approve one.

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How broken, how dismal

How broken, the mind that believes that nothing can ever get better. How dismal, the society that has caused them to believe it.

Human levels

AIs can never approach consciousness until they incorporate human levels of confusion.

Poetry

Poetry is my equivocation.

Beauty cannot emerge

Beauty cannot emerge from others unless we let them proceed according to their own inclinations. If we force them to follow ours, there can only result a forced mimicry.

On growth

Growth may be either a reorganization into a more complex form or into a more optimal form.

Can it be said

Can it be said that one loves enough until one loves past one's defenses?

I don't know how

I don't know how to do it but I'm doing it because I don't know how to not do it.

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I must be

I must be what I must be to do what I must do.

So much to be learned

There is so much to be learned in dreams. And none of it what Freud or a book that claims to interpret "dream symbols" tells you is there.

Hell must begin as heaven

Hell must begin as heaven or it can't be hell.

The notion of compensation

The notion of compensation is nearly as immoral as the disinclination to compensate.

My extraordinary claim

My extraordinary claim is that only I can be trusted to determine which claims are extraordinary.

We struggle so

We struggle so to see
that which has no category.

Regrettable

Little is as regrettable as regret.

When the fascist asks you

When the fascist asks you to kiss the foot, kick the face.

Those who say it

Those who say it is better to be wise than right don't know what it is to be either.

Commitment

Commitment is intermittent.

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Never enough

Orthodoxy will never be enough. Orthodoxy can never be enough.

Not all

Not all provocation is incitement.

On poetry

Poetry: making the ornamental essential.

A delusion

A calling is a delusion. A slightly-stronger delusion than a lack-of-calling.

We work so hard

We work so hard to create satisfying narratives because so little is narratively satisfying.

The first step

Introduction is the first step to indoctrination.

How was it

How was it that "modern civilization" proved to be so fragile, so vulnerable? And every stupidity so inextinguishable?

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Life cannot be understood

Life cannot be understood by obsessing over species.

Most everyone

Most everyone is a pragmatist when trapped by magma.

To understand

To understand magic is to know that understanding cannot coexist with magic.

Glimpsed

The world I will most miss is the world I only glimpsed.

The poet remembers

When the historian forgets, the poet remembers.

Each moment

Explore each moment to discover its crisis.

Resilience is not

Resilience is not learning to land on your edge rather than fall on your face or ass.

The incongruities

The incongruities are inconsistent.

To estrange

I exist to estrange the accepted assumption.

The problems with solutions

The problems with solutions are a minor subset of the insoluble.

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Insignificance

Everything has insignificance. That doesn't make anything insignificant.

I long most

I long most for what I have done without.

Maxim

Exertion is extortion.

I can imagine

I can imagine a theology, but whatever for?

Some people

Some people confuse themselves into absolute confusion.

Primarily

The universe is primarily impediment.

How will we know

How will we know when it is time to invoke the cancellation of the invocation?

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On words

Words are more responsive, and therefore more sustaining, than wordlessness.

I shall participate

I shall participate only to the extent that I consider whether or not to participate.

Most people's

Most people's intellectual habits are worse than their hygiene habits.

The tension of self

The tension of self with self is the generative driver of self.

My intentions

My intentions are not pavement, but fundament.

On loss

Loss is inevitable. Inevitability is loss.

Heroes vs villains

Heroes clarify; villains obfuscate.

Deviance from

Poetry is disharmony, deviance from the numbing hum.

Poetry can be

Poetry can be equations. And negations.

I assert my right

I assert my right to make assertions.

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The implicit threat

Note the implicit threat in joy, but don't obsess over it.

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Look for

Look for the wrong in the right. But also look for the right in the wrong.

It's a mistake

It's a mistake to equate disorder with disaster.

The person who programs

The person who programs the prologue is ignorant of the epilogue's algorithm.

A dictionary

A dictionary is a hazmat repository.

Only when

Only when the flag is burning do they outlaw the burning of the flag.

Not equally

Everything is wrong.
But not equally.