philosophy
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Not For Lack of Trying
What can I say to you monsters? Who could I possibly save? I am submerged and anyone that I pull to me will die. Save yourselves? You can’t. You can’t. Can I feel love when all…
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Teaching Wolves
Written 2.22.26 I look out on a dry country of hills, where between the gaps I see, a hundred miles away, the snowy caps of some tall, flat range. I wonder why the snow is kept…
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A Blind Warrior
I am witness to a numb, dull golem who acts without understanding. This companion of my memories is mute to me, his thoughts sit outside of him. He is empty of breath. I press water from…
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Not Before Suffering
I think of my body often, and its miraculous persistence in conducting my existence. I think of of humankind groping for perfection as defined by itself. The farce of justice. The emptiness of empathy to the…
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Little Transient Creatures
A man stood on the shore of a grand, calm sea, where even the edge of the water did not lap but hung with a curled edge over soft sand. Ahead, the blues and greens softly…
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One Routine of a Lost Soul
4/15/2025 I wake, study language, hold my love.I boil water, exercise, steep coffee, work the crossword.I kneel at the altar and pull a spread for the day.I shower, reflect, am caressed, discuss the day.I dress, pack…
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New Crimson Nativities
3/13/2025 Bring me poets with broken hearts. Bring me songbirds that feel this biting air as I do.Bring me the wines gone sour, the stale bread.I cherish it all the same.I am the king of the…
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A Storied Tradition of Hellish Inhumanity
On completing Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, a certain emotion hangs with me, which is best illustrated through the path of his narrative, and the fact that I often read it as a reprieve from the…
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Safe and Cold and Alone
Excerpts from journals dated 2/18/25 and 3/2/25 I feel alone and hunted. I feel disheveled and ungrounded. I am no longer home; I am in a den that reeks of panicked sweat where I fail to…
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