TIME IS CONSTANT

 

DYSTOPIA BEGAN WITH LIFE

the first ever kvetch

was the autochtonic owner 

of an ingrown toe nail

not subject

to pity

or empathy

unaware of

auras negative

or 

perspectives furtive

secreted

in a cave 

self made

owner

and

distributor of 

moans common

grumbles human

not discerned 

by pets and peeves

even at a pity party

present 

and

indigenous

in and 

out of

black holes 

of minds

and thoughts

single

and 

plural

ahmet cafer celebiler

July 3, 2025

SIGNIFICANCE

 

BELIEVING IN YOUR IMPORTANCE

This requires no third party assessment or declaration. But, there are some signs and instruments and procedures one may apply to create, invent, discover and feed faith in your significance as well as balms, charms, meditations and incantations.The trick is to first disown hubris, doubt and bravado and remove influencers like family and friends from your inner self to where they belong, outside yourself.

You may replace them with small figurines, statuettes and hazy memories of gods, cartoon caracters and pets who have no intention or desire to be real even when they are solidly sitting with you, in front of your PC, or making noise in your sojourn now and before.

Then, divide your time into little pieces, all with images you enjoy, yourself, trees, seas, mountains, waterfalls, cats and tasty edibles. What you will have will not be a puzzle that can be brought together for anything that resembles a puzzle. It will be an existential cacophony that controls life on your planet and locations thereof.

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

June 16, 2025

LIFE OF AN AMPERSAND

MARKS MENTIONS & MARIONETTES 

an ampersand is not a puppet

even with strings

resembling 

a figure sitting

a wooden puppet

does not get a mention

honorable

or not

even with speech

a politician 

a living puppet

of its own beliefs

and 

those of many right hands

in pockets

their own 

and others

a mark

chalk him up

on a tally

on a banana boat

or an ark

and keep him there

in case he 

muddies 

the waters of mars

let him stay

just a connection

not connecting

love

or mercy

or science 

or philosophy

loosely bound

to 

other 

mannikins

ahmet cafer celebiler

June 14, 2025

OUR PREPOSTEROUS MOON

 

FOR THE MOON CHILD

i watch you mature

even in miniature

in spaces far

amidst clouds near

driving a biga

invisible

today

to all 

as luna

not selene

but as khonan

on currents of air

to meet thoth

in a game of senet

not as a pawn

but

as my queen

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

June 11, 2025

BORROWED MYTHOPIA

 

WELTANSCHAUUNG

FOR REPTILES OF THE MIND

rules of

life

and

purpose

joy and delight

for them

who see green

and

not the tree

and 

delve

on 

shades of green

know their skin

scales

and

standing water 

even when not green

drinking the water

and  

feasting on all else

not feeling

Weltschmerz

ahmet cafer celebiler

June 6, 2025

Note: RECONSTRUCTED AND DECONSTRUCTED 

FROM JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE AND WILLIAM BLAKE

MATCHMAKING WITH STRAWS

 

PAIRING OF FIGURES AND CHARACTERS

this is a task

obvious

or masked

an ancient algorithm

without

propensity scoring

and 

estimated probabilities

as well as

neighbour matching

caliper matching

balance checks

and variable comparisons

in our case

it was fancy

esthetics

symmetry

and 

a time of comets

planet conjunctions

climate change

acting in act three

of a play of multiple acts

simulating

assimilated emotions

actions 

of

the currently fashionable decorum

an irrational ceremony

with rational covariates

Eser and Ahmet Celebiler

June 3, 2025

WAITING

 

WAITING FOR PEOPLE AND THINGS

used to wait

for toys

and new clothes

shoes to sleep with

in case they do not survive the first night

toys

books

father

and other friends

needing feeling needed

now

it is gargantua and pentagruel

offspring of 

le grandgousier

chaucers pilgrims

at canterbury and elsewhere

and

people of boccaccio

desperate and joyous

even gorgons

my muses

while grounded

a peripheral ganglion

a household gargoyle

on guard duty

to ward off harmful spirits

reigning over the agora

of offspring 

children and 

one playfull 

biting

pet 

in a safe home

free from

the grande guignol

of these years

ahmet cafer celebiler

May 28, 2025