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poems in draft

orpheus in soho

a seriously sexy man

vagabondage

measuring my face

old clothes

modern iranian poems

my hero

face at the bottom of the world

perhaps (maybe)

the diogenes sequence

where to store furs

already backwards

i am and am not:
      fragments of rumi

destiny and destination

the zen of no-enlightenment

the iraqi monologues

a light in ruins

separate amputations

the sexy jihad

awaiting the barbarians

the smell of possibilities

ultimate leaves

the book of nothing

confession from belgrade

rejoice in the dog

post-millennium maggot

dispatches from the war against the world

albanian poems

french poems
in honour of jean genet

the hells going on

the joy of suicide

book disease

foreground trouble

the transcendental hotel

cinema of the blind

lament
of the earth mother

uranian poems

haikai by okami

haikai on the edge

black hole of your heart

jung's motel

the second coming (rebus)

gloss on rilke's ninth duino elegy

wine and roses

jewels and shit:
poems by rimbaud

villon's dialogue with his heart

vasko popa:
a shepherd of wolves ?

the rubáiyát of
omar khayyám

genrikh sapgir:
an ironic mystic

beggars & darkness

the love
of pierre de ronsard

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BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE

good riddance to mankind

the maxims of
michel de montaigne

400
revolutionary maxims

maxims in
hungarian translation

nice men and
suicide of an alien

anti-fairy tales

the most terrible event in history

the rich man and the leper

disgusting

hush arbours

art, truth and bafflement

 

SHORT STORIES

godpieces

the three bears

three albanian tales

a little creation story

waybread

lazarus the leper

 

ESSAYS & MEMOIRS

i am a sociopath

one not one

an occitanian baby-hatch

ancient violence
in the amazon

home sweet home no longer

the ivory palace

helen's tower

schopenhauer for muthafuckas

never a pygmy

against money

'original sin'
followed by

crippled consciousness

a gay man's guide to
soft-willy sex

the holosensual alternative

tiger wine

the death of poetry

the absinthe drinker

masturbation

with mrs dalloway in ukraine

love  and  hell

running on emptiness

a holocaust near you

a note on the cathars

happiness

londons of the mind &
dealing death to the caspian

genocide

a muezzin from the tower of darkness

kegan and kagan

a holy dog and a
dog-headed saint

an albanian ikon

being or television

satan in the groin

womb of half-fogged mirrors

tourism and terrorism

diogenes
the dog from sinope

shoplifting

this sorry scheme of things

the bektashi dervishes

combatting normality

fools for nothingness:
atheists & saints

vacuum of desire: a homo-erotic correspondence

death of a bestseller

a note on beards

translation and the oulipo

the visit

sitemap


Nuadú, God of War

field guide to megalithic ireland

houses for the dead

ireland and the phallic continuum

irish cross-pillars

irish sweathouses

the sheela-na-gig conundrum

french megaliths

a brief note on hell

 

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A poet who's acceptable is dead.

 

 

We are all minotaurs,
lost in the sealed labyrinths of our brains.

 

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Many people would rather die than think.

Bertrand Russell

 


Il est plus facile d'écrire un mauvais poème
que d'en comprendre un bon.

It is easier to write a bad poem
than to appreciate a good one.

Michel de Montaigne

 


Poetry, in essence, is a form of cognitive thought,
of knowledge, of philosophy.

Mikhail Katkov, 1856

anomie


He who seeks to understand everything
risks dying of anger.

Arab proverb

anomie


There is no document of civilisation that is not also
a document of barbarism.

Walter Benjamin

anomie


A poet can only warn.

Wilfred Owen

anomie


The basic metaphysical problem is the question of suicide.

Albert Camus

anomie


We think and believe only what we want to believe and think.

Diogenes of Sinope

anomie


Through the skilful use of propaganda, whole peoples can be persuaded
that Heaven is Hell, and vice versa.

Adolf Hitler

 


Everything that is said, written and thought today
is increasingly – and dangerously –
irrelevant to life.

Raoul Vaneigem

anomie


Civilisation makes rottenness so much easier.

Noël Coward

anomie


Culture is a bridge between the deepest lies
and the shallowest truths.

Swami Vrhka Baba

anomie


Life is a night in a terrible hotel.

Saint Teresa of Ávila

anomie


The world of men is fraud and fantasy.

Rumi

 


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

 


'Education' I have had enough of & it is such rot.

T.E. Lawrence

 


Man marks the Earth with Ruin.

Byron, Childe Harold

 


What I am describing is not really what
you are interested in.

U.G. Krishnamurti

 


The world is a mesmerising mess
and humans are mesmerising messes.

Morrissey

 


Always look on the bright side of death.

Monty Python

 

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