Monday, May 14, 2018

pondering your profundities


(lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man – dostoyesky)

 

she had majored in philosophy

i thought it would be interesting

to talk

but then she asked,

“if you find something

was it ever lost?”

 

(the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering – john green)

 

how quickly do you think i walked away

negotiated with nihilism

the production of a one act play

where the actor says

everything there is to say

by saying nothing

 

(life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing – shakespeare)

 

another beer in i grin

listen to the din of the party

leave to buy some bacardi

walk the streets, drink

and think about the ball bearings

in roller skates at a roller rink

because no thought is on the brink

of saving our solitude from ourselves

 

(everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing – e. m. cioran)

 

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