Between This World and the Text

My latest poetry collection is now out and available on Amazon!

Between This World and the Text

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Comes from

What comes next comes from what came before.

Calling it

Putting this with that and calling it the other.

Intelligence

Intelligence is concatenative.

It is best to know

It is best to know if you are trying to validate or invalidate.

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Never

Struggle is never beautiful.

The template of no

The template of no always produces an upwelling of yes.

The greatest tyrant

The greatest tyrant is the one who insists you are free.

Virtue

Virtue is the most savory vice.

What you can do

You can acknowledge things, you can reference them, discuss them, make use of them, without endorsing them.

What I want

What I want is to be new forever.

What we say

We say what we need to say to say what we mean to say.

Let there be

Let there be clarity, and joy in its discovery.

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Too many

The one who says "Better the devil you know" may know too many devils.

Enemy

I wouldn't wish puberty on my worst enemy.

Tendency

What was almost entirely unforeseen was my tendency to overlook things.

The people

The people are most practiced, and therefore most skilled, at wrongdoing.