Monday, November 30, 2020

 

THE QWERTY MIND


children love keys

in locks

on a box  

on the piano

or a clarinet, contra-alto

till they become short elegies

their mysteries 

like trees on Mars

in an age 

disappearing with age

memories 

used up

in tatters

when nothing much matters

except the warmth of stars


ACC

2019

Sunday, November 29, 2020

INEDIBLE CONCOCTION

 

Vows do not make a sum bigger than its parts.

A field of Two Individuals is not A matrix

Two numbers added are no more than squiggles

Many thoughts together is mambo jumbo

So why do homing ants clean house every year?

And nesting penguins did not visit us this year?


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november 2020

Friday, November 20, 2020

A TRAGIC RHYMING EXERCISE

 

PHILOPATRY


I think I once was Marc Anthony

Whistling a soliloquy

Wantonly on a quay

In Alexandroupoli

Waiting for Cleopatry 

With no concern for philopatry


November, 2020

Sunday, November 8, 2020

IDIOCY OF SMARTNESS


Eser does not like it when I become pedantic in everyday behavior.

But, once in a while, i cannot help but write  short pieces like the following.

This is the first edition of an unedited toy train of thought on a circular track :


That humans are smart is an assumption based on the beliefs, knowledge and thinking of some other humans, who would like to believe this assumption is fact.

History, literature and politics prove otherwise. Scientific analysis, investigation and logic become valid instruments only after assumptions and observations are formulated and then are mistakenly accepted as fact.

In sociological, psychological and political context, ethical, compassionate and logical behavior is usually based on social contracts formulated by a few “smart’ persons who were interested in protecting their families, wealth, position, tribes, nations, football clubs, etc. against typical idiotic behavior of humans in general. Whether the rules and conditions of these social contracts (which vary according to cultural context) are universal or valid for all humans is a moot point.

It is up to you as a thinker to follow Sextus Empiricus, Macchiavelli, Voltaire or Alfred Jarry and Eugene Ionesco, non of which will classify you as smart or stupid in the absence of a valid yardstick.


ACC

November

2020