PYRAMIDS AND CORTISOL
suffering built
edifices
nations
and rulers
without character
but
high levels of cortisol
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May 27. 2026
düşler ve görüşler şiirler, düz ve eğri yazılar, ingilizce-türkçe ukalalıklar, seyahat algılamaları karmaşası. a messy mixture of memorabilia: poetry, poetic prose, fiction, fictionesque travel notes, and such.
PYRAMIDS AND CORTISOL
suffering built
edifices
nations
and rulers
without character
but
high levels of cortisol
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May 27. 2026
IT HAPPENS
finding
a word
catching
a train or bus
grabbing
a thought
thought of a pet
not sought
feeling
a peace undone
not rare
enjoying
a moment
not reserved
appreciating
art
or result
of a cosmic parody
made public
on display
reliving
a sleep of innocence
survival
again
to be repeated again
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HOW MANY WORDS DOES ONE USE
in science IT and engineering
education
and employment
In medicine
also in teaching related subjects
professors
students
career holders
have no age limits
for using words such as
now
like
so
etcetera
in English as a second languages
in Turkish as a first language
in congress
with spouses
and with law makers
and
law appliers
on television
news and talk shows
in text books
on the internet
in politics
in courts
where logic does not prevail
the lack of words
where
words lose meaning
not to be recovered
crooked letters
crooked allusions
from
proclaimed
temporary authority
wishing for and even
succeeding to achieve
permanence
absurd
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May 11, 2026
TRESPASSES AND OFFENSES
he went to the city when young
in body
and in mind
the city of fables and mysteries
histories and labels
to face
himself and others
in streets narrow
and wide
and in eyes
sunken
and deep
uncaring
even like sheep.
wooled over
world apart
he saw brunets and blonds
who could speak to him
who should speak to him
and
was speechless
lest
they did not see
did not appraise
did not
he saw houses
with no owners visible
shops with nothing available
stone edifices
stone faces
fuming things
and fumbling people
and learned loneliness
for himself
and others
he came back
himself
and
as another
to the same
to do the same
to think
some more
to search some more
to plan to visit some more
with and without intentions galore
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April 18, 2026 (rewritten)
CAUSE AND EFFECT ARE NOT ALGEBRAIC
AND SELDOM GEOMETRIC
x and y
singly
or in multiples
positively and negatively
are not as taught
whether they represent unknowns
or
known axes
when they appear as words
written
and spoken
or
looks and glances
to delight
or humiliate
through multiplication
and division
cut
long and short
carrying messages
to and from
other regions
stroking
and measuring
beliefs
and disbeliefs
in axis of virtues
and transgressions
in realms illogical
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March 29, 2026
Government actions, national or otherwise, are evaluated only after they are made and the results of those actions become apparent in a new environment dependent on not only those actions but other actions of other players.
One has no chance of taking steps to correct political and social and economic and any other public mistakes of a government in a future which already exhibits the results of those mistakes and still contains the perpetrators and the sufferers, the victors and the victims in a changed landscape.
Empires and nations have populations who benefit from past mistakes and also populations who lose physically, emotionally and financially. Recovery would require the quick and sincere admissions of the perpetrators and the ability of their environment to apply, accept and support all changes, Almost an impossibility in a country and world that has already changed in unforeseen ways towards a new reality which is pregnant for other mistakes and will soon give birth to other culprits and victims. There will be brighter futures for those who can use newly discovered power and instruments for stronger lights or those whose skies are not covered by clouds, meteor dust and space junk.
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Marh 18, 2026
GOG AND MAGOG
expected to wreak havoc
appearing soon
but not within my lifetime
unless they are names of artificial intelligences
to be used by
ignorant intelligences
on a world not spared
by surface dwellers
already released
by themselves
and each other
known by all
under other guises
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March 13, 2026
BELIEF AND FAITH
in people
past and present
known
related
or totally
estranged
and mythological creatures
of any gender
sometimes
genderless
seldom compassionate
with behavior violent
without reason
impertinent
and inpermament
close by
and far far away
in time and space
victorious in causing misery
to too many
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March 12, 2026
THE CURSE OF ISHTAR
I doubt religious and cultural dynamics in the Middle east can be underestimated. In fact, the reverse is possibly true. Too many writers, politicians, decision makers seem to have overestimated them for over one hundred years, especially in terms of their paradoxical nature. Islam is not the basis of Middle Eastern culture. The ME Culture is more involved with geography, economy, trade, sociology and the all pervasive scarcities of water, food, forage, wild and domesticated animals, art, compassion, empathy, humor for too many centuries and a mysterious foundation of undecipherable ethics, far away from that which was considered and studied by Classical Greek, Roman, Asian and European thinkers. Unfortunately, the populations in the region were not taught any philosophy, ethics and art by their rulers, the Ottomans and others before and after them and in between. Humanity, having the general ability, to think, imagine, invent and explore, managed to raise some thinkers, writers and artists in the region but they had no influence on their rulers and the general public both of which believed that ignorance was to their and their progeny’s and their culture’s and country’s advantage.
The region has been a staging ground for frequent military ventures for many millenia, related to beliefs, resources and especially Abrahamic religions which downplay each other and believe in revenge and/or their race’s and/or religion’s supreme status in the eyes of supreme beings of all types and physiques. Including clandestine organizations, especially American, british and French (joined recently by Russian and Chinese), the whole region becomes a cul de sac of paradoxical quagmire in shifting sands and mountains, strangely trying to feed the greedy appetites of all the beings leading nations and organizations, totally unaware of their mortality and the possibility of entropy.
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THERE IS A HINT OF JANUS IN EVERY MONTH
offensive allegations
and
defensive arguments
may
open and close
doors
with or without
keys
and key bearers
who are born with their keys
in their expressions
and marsupia
opening and closing
purse strings
coffers
denying surges
sorties
at whim
and on orders
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February 21, 2026
BELIEFS NEED AGITATION
beliefs and winds
forsake
when they do
unreasonably
unseasonably
leaving
human vanity
hope
trust
and skeleton leaves
hanging
hanging
over a senseless void
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February 5, 2026
DREAMS OF FOOD AND OF LOVE-MAKING
pangs are essential
for
the romantic
or the hungry
for enjoyment
for
future consumption
subjects of emotion
behaviour
and fusion
of food
and bodies
not together
adobo
does not use
combava
gochujang
does not recognize
albanian pepper
so many lovely people
and
tasty food
survive
in ignorance
all
or none
may be fused
in alternate
spans
and spaces
hearts
minds
and
plates
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January 22, 2026
NOT SELECTED
no statistics
or
probabilities
guide
the woman
in picking
the One
on display
or
on a shelf
even with no
expiration date
etched
or carved
on face or hand or feet
or the pedestal
she has borrowed
from an ancient
greek temple
preferably ionian
hoping for a sound foundation
to anchor
against quakes
lava
and evil eyes and mouths
a choise
guided by
ancient wisdom
ancestral memory
or psychopathy
or
prayers
with beads
entrails
and
several omens
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January 21, 2026
TIME DOES NOT GO BACK
people do not go back either
paradoxes go back
regrets live in the past
memories are paint by numbers drawings
by visionary artists
and
a few masters
who appear
to disappear
in personal spaces
drawing
look-alikes to
previously known people
not angels
or culprits
just others
many others
who were
and
who will
manifest
in lives
loves
and
thoughts
whimsical
arbitrary
or
impulsive
like a snail
with a task
or
a clock
that runs fifty nine seconds a minute slow
deceiving mortals
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January 17, 2026
NATIONS AND COFFERS MEASURED IN PERCENTAGES
there is no compassionate interest
or empathic interest
but financial
national
and
sexual interest
all
ruling the poor and the wealthy
in differing percentages
of possibilities
and
probabilities
and
chance encounters
with serendipity
or worse
a
fluke
fluke = surprising bit of luck; a tape worm with suckers and hooks
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January 10, 2026
COCKATRICES REVERED WITH A VENEER
sycophants
look for omens
in chicken behaviour
in cages
built by owners
invisible
or
themselves
very visible
justifying
the words
o culo d'angelo
for dukes of parma
ancient
and
modern
though
dissimilar to a rooster
even when
it becomes a cockatrice
viewing
the world
with mortal greed
lost for thoughts and words
petrifying all in its vision
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January 10, 2026
CEREMONIAL WASHING
not maundy
or
mikvah
but for purity
in marriage
helps couples
to couple
with taste
and pleasure
no cobwebs
slime
or dirt
between bodies
just matrimonial sweat
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January, 4, 2026
SCROLLS AND TRANSCRIPTS
some in cuneiform
some in hieroglyphs
on sand
stone
and
parchment
remain to puzzle
puzzlers
scouts and adventurers
leaving Voynich aside
and disregarding
artificial intelligence
not appreciating
plants
roots and leaves
lose interest
in knowing
knowing themselves
and all else
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January 3, 2026