destiny and destination
PERHAPS...
a poem to be read aloud
before a crowd
PERHAPS
what we
call 'intelligence'
is Enhanced Stupidity
(or do I mean cupidity ?) -
for if mankind was better than dysfunctional,
had true intelligence,
and was not obsessed by gain,
he would have devoted it entirely
to sensual pleasure and being beautifully
happy, rather than
to trashing a world
that he truly filled with pain...
PERHAPS
human language
is the worst kind of communication.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160208083546.htm
PERHAPS
the most wonderful
word I know
is
I N T E R I M
PERHAPS
sharing
is better than
just caring.
PERHAPS
I am because
you are
and I don't know
who you are.
PERHAPS
I am not a person, but
a place
of thistly thought.
PERHAPS
a
poem's a small echo
heard through deadly noise.
PERHAPS
the most destructive liberty
is calumny.
PERHAPS
a good sexual partner
is someone who can do and enjoy
more than two things at a time.
PERHAPS
it is only when people
are out of harmony
with themselves and others
that sex assumes grotesque importance.
PERHAPS
we
are hungry ghosts,
all equal
in our emptiness.
Perhaps
'enlightenment'
is elegantly-doing
nothing.
PERHAPS
what
the hungry ghosts call
life
is merely virtual
for the very few who
live.
PERHAPS
the more you know
the more you do not know.
PERHAPS
marriage is the ashtray
of romance.
PERHAPS
their 'crimes against
humanity'
are nothing compared with
our crimes against nature
every day.
PERHAPS
true soldiers
shoot themselves.
PERHAPS
the most terrifying cliché
is
"while / where there's life there's hope".
PERHAPS
the greatest achievement
is
stillness.
PERHAPS
we are our genitals
(to a large extent).
Men— rigid, wilful
driving home intentions,
points and arguments
to prove their prime;
Women— pliant,
generous, fluent, subtle
(at least some of the time).
PERHAPS
love is the most
expensive way to learn humility.
PERHAPS
to love solitude
is to know happiness.
PERHAPS
respectability
is the worst kind of
corruption.
PERHAPS
gentleness
is preferable to
kindness.
PERHAPS
'god' is in each of us,
armpit and arsehole,
foreskin and vulva,
cancer and pustule,
dandruff and fæces -
while 'the devil' is in
words and theses.
PERHAPS
religion is
at best
the politics of the supernatural,
and
at worst
the economics of superstition.
PERHAPS
the best thing about the
Tuareg
is that they never wash.
PERHAPS
education
acts on the mind of a child
as a Trojan virus does
on a computer.
PERHAPS
the logical materialism
of our civilisation
owes much more to materialism
than to logic.
PERHAPS
progress should be measured
by
the diminution of the self,
not the world.
PERHAPS
poetry is not 'the
best words
in the best order',
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.
PERHAPS
life
is
piles of trivialities
until the last supper
intravenously
way beyond hope.
PERHAPS
as knowledge of minutiæ
increases
wisdom declines.
PERHAPS
a tombstone
is attachment
petrified.
PERHAPS
the earth was formed
from the smashed womb
of the Angel of Suicide.
PERHAPS
in the Beginning
was no word,
for words
are outcry
of absence.
PERHAPS
the hair around my heart
was always grey.
PERHAPS
a
genius is someone
born with exactly the right psychoses
at the right place
at the right moment.
PERHAPS
people who miss people
really miss themselves.
PERHAPS
Islam could be described
as
a religion for gangsters,
while Christianity
might be described as
a religion for swindlers
and cheats.
Both feature ascension,
and both have hi-jacked
the whole spiritual dimension.
PERHAPS
human language
is the worst kind of communication.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160208083546.htm
PERHAPS
there are no
Simple Truths
Lapsed Catholics
Just Wars
Bad dogs
- nor even
Pure Evil.
PERHAPS
the only vacuum
is the space between people.
The rest is connectivity.
PERHAPS
deep down
most of us are
shallow graves.
PERHAPS
only cruelty is more despicable
than self-promotion.
PERHAPS
the culture of capitalism
is the decoration of greed.
PERHAPS
because humans
live like humans
inhumanely,
animals
can't live as animals.
PERHAPS
the most liberating freedom
a person can enjoy is
the freedom from wanting
the approval of others - an attitude
which, of course, depends on
freedom from oppressive family
and the fear of solitude.
PERHAPS
in
the end
everything is food
and death.
PERHAPS
the personal
is the political
only
when the personal
is just for show.
PERHAPS
'the intelligentsia'
is a mafia because
none of them is
intelligent enough
to be dissonant
or dissident.
PERHAPS
purpose is the last religion,
(whose chief and murderous god is money).
PERHAPS
no philosophy
is worth expressing.
PERHAPS
even the poor
have more money than sense
PERHAPS
it is enough
to picture blind conspiracy
of molecules - of stuff
and anti-stuff.
PERHAPS
consciousness
is a wound.
PERHAPS
the first step towards
wisdom
is to cut off your feet
PERHAPS
it's not what's going
on that matters
but what's going off.
PERHAPS
nothing that is guarded
is worth having.
PERHAPS
without
God
or gods
we would still be in Paradise.
PERHAPS
silence is the truest
depth within us.
PERHAPS
opprobrium is more
trustworthy than praise.
PERHAPS
it is a blessing
to gain the hate
of the hateful
who are legion.
PERHAPS
obedience is
not humility.
PERHAPS
thinking is not doing
but refracting.
PERHAPS
thinking about thinking
is becoming.
PERHAPS
the Evil Empire
is not capitalism
but the family.
PERHAPS
some of us aren't born
with a vacuum inside.
PERHAPS
happiness
comes
not when the unfillable hole is blocked
but when the wound is healed by licking.
PERHAPS
the core of confidence
is humility.
Or, to put it another way,
true confidence is humble.
PERHAPS
poetry
is not
'the best words in the best order',
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.
PERHAPS
philosophy is distraction
from distraction
by distraction.
PERHAPS
it is because anger
is the most genuine emotion
that it is the one
least countenanced.
PERHAPS
time
in the toilet of
the restaurant
at the end of the universe
is very sick.
PERHAPS
the only art
to have much improved
since prehistoric times
is the art of war.
PERHAPS
the most virulent cancer
is Economic Growth.
PERHAPS
the most addictive video-game
is
sex.
PERHAPS
sex is better on your
own,
since nothing that you do is false.
PERHAPS
Satan was Jehovah's
rejected or rejecting
lover.
For polytheists
the only gods worth having
are amphibious, shape-shifting,
divinely fluid ideomorphs,
who inhabit the several worlds
between and beyond 'Heaven' and 'Hell'
not just the narrow, anthropocentric
monotheistic and stifling prison-cell.
PERHAPS
what most people think
is
social harmony
is just inertia.
PERHAPS
optimism
is never more than
shallow.
PERHAPS
most
human activity is needless -
- except the prevention of human activity.
PERHAPS
the
finest human achievement
is the undoing of human achievement.
PERHAPS
the best of man is his ruins.
PERHAPS
Life is
Death masturbating.
PERHAPS
dying is when everything
has gone
except the feeling of going.
PERHAPS
every
opinion is smug
- even this one.
PERHAPS
marriage is the ash-tray
of romance.
PERHAPS
testosterone
has wrecked a million
times more lives than heroin.
PERHAPS
the most destructive drug
is work.
PERHAPS
we were all 'Best Before'
we were born.
PERHAPS
the worst thing
that can befall a writer
is to be published.
PERHAPS
the Coca-Cola of love
needs to be tasted
before the wine of friendship can be fully appreciated.
PERHAPS
it
is kinder
to be a pædophile
than to be a
meat-eater...
PERHAPS
...kinder still
not to have children.
PERHAPS
the
keenest Christians
and Muslims have always been murderous.
PERHAPS
what
is sacred
is secret -
which is perhaps why holy books
are no more
and no less
than literature.
PERHAPS
success
is a lead balloon
for airheads,
while failure
is the comfort
of philosophers.
PERHAPS
children
don't know they are
plans
and adults don't know they are
ruins.
PERHAPS
the
object of Democracy
is to ensure that everyone
practises
'decently'
the same hypocrisy.
PERHAPS
the
greatest evil
is its celebration of itself.
PERHAPS
the
greatest evil
is the most basic
desire.
PERHAPS
the
world is ruled
by strengthless dead
in dodgem cars.
PERHAPS
the greatest power is
no-power:
a molecule of air.
PERHAPS
love
is the other side
of a coin.
PERHAPS
'soul' is just a fancy
name
for misery.
PERHAPS
Osama bin Laden
was a most interesting
latter-day fusion
of Agamemnon
with Odysseus.
PERHAPS
the
best that one can be
is useless.
PERHAPS
wisdom
is dark.
and stupidity
is blinding light.
PERHAPS
mind,
too
is shit.
PERHAPS
it
is the trivial people
not the serious
who need to 'lighten up'.
PERHAPS
every
'middle-class' value
is false.
PERHAPS
the
basic Human Problem
is that human imagination
is not compatible
with possibility.
PERHAPS
sex
is silly -
though sometimes it seems
majestic.
PERHAPS
the
biggest mistake
one can make
is to take
oneself
seriously.
PERHAPS
Anglophones
are good at catching shoplifters
because they are always looking sideways.
PERHAPS
shadows
are the illuminations
of the secret.
PERHAPS
desire is what the Mummy-Lords decree.
PERHAPS
Christian Heaven
is as sterile
as a hospital
without a single animal.
PERHAPS
Never
is where most
people live.
PERHAPS
The Good Life is
doing nothing
disgracefully gracefully.
PERHAPS
there is nothing to understand
because meaning
is meaningless.
PERHAPS
who is dead, and who's
alive
is often mere opinion.
PERHAPS
war
can be abolished
only by abolishing armies.
PERHAPS
most people would rather
be entertained than wise
- or happy!
PERHAPS
the
only humility possible
within our culture
is anonymity.
PERHAPS
the
only good property
is the property nobody wants.
PERHAPS
only nihilists
can be happy
in an urban culture.
PERHAPS
words
corrupt
everything they seem
to describe.
PERHAPS
you
are an egg
waiting to be hatched.
PERHAPS
the
madness
of mass-murderers
is unexceptional.
PERHAPS
even
the brightest
of us do not know
what to do with
our intelligence.
PERHAPS
to
call someone 'negative'
is a fairly negative
thing to do.
PERHAPS
only
some beggars
are not corrupt.
PERHAPS
all frontiers are sordid.
PERHAPS
the most powerful word
is not Exterminate!
but
but.
PERHAPS
our
minds are ruled by stories,
and perhaps every story is false.
PERHAPS
a truth is a truth
only until it is
accepted.
PERHAPS
the
process of embalming
starts soon after birth.
PERHAPS
the
brain and the heart
are houses without air.
PERHAPS
for
those who are into self-harm
and guilt,
Jesus is a Godsend.
PERHAPS
more
love is involved
in planting trees
than 'having sex'.
Why do human babies cry ?
PERHAPS
because human life
is such an outrageous
imposition;
or because human consciousness
is a kind of
continual drowning...
PERHAPS
I am
a bubble of being
outside the bubble
of breeding, of meat-
eaters - almost
a ghetto of one.
PERHAPS
knowing
is just another form of
having -
a substitute for
being.
PERHAPS
the
more that humans achieve
the emptier they become.
PERHAPS
apart
from our turds
(which dung-beetles like)
and our corpses
(which vultures value)
and our blood
(which nourishes leeches)
and our bones
(which dogs love to bury)
the only good thing that humans produce
(and which few other animals appreciate
is music.
PERHAPS
Grace
is stone, fur, fruit
catastrophe.
PERHAPS
God is disease
of idea.
PERHAPS
God is a tree.
PERHAPS
life
is
the cheapest thing on the planet.
PERHAPS
the
only freedom from
is the freedom from desire
(including the desire to live)
- and the only freedom to
is the freedom to die happy.
PERHAPS
religion
is Jihad
against sanity.
PERHAPS
Original Sin
is taking yourself
seriously.
PERHAPS
terrorism
corrupts terrorists
just as consumption
corrupts consumers.
PERHAPS
the only desire
not trivial
is the desire for death.
PERHAPS
the world is turning
into desert
and cities.
PERHAPS
we are encyclopædias
of emptiness.
PERHAPS
'intelligence'
is just a fancy word
for 'pathological cunning' -
and against it we
and the world
have no defence.
PERHAPS
life
is a knife
in dying air.
PERHAPS
dissidents
are just the few and only people
who dare - or bother - to think.
PERHAPS
war
is peace on the rampage.
PERHAPS
what
unites most people
is the refusal to see
the pity of things.
PERHAPS
memories
are the scabs of consciousness.
PERHAPS
truth
is something more lost
than gained.
PERHAPS
music
is in the instrument not made.
PERHAPS
for
a dog
god also is a smell.
PERHAPS
oil,
not tears,
issues from the eyes of Islam
(which perhaps is pissing blood).
PERHAPS
every institution
defeats its purpose.
PERHAPS
you
are truly alone
when you have no-one
to say Good-bye to.
PERHAPS
God and Love
are disease
when joined together.
PERHAPS
evil
prospers
because comfort corrupts.
PERHAPS
the
Garden of Eden was
WILD.
PERHAPS
Islam could be described
as
a religion for gangsters,
while Christianity
might be described as
a religion for swindlers
and cheats.
Both feature Ascension,
and both have hi-jacked
our small spiritual dimension.
PERHAPS
passion
is the friction
between doing
and being.
PERHAPS
death
is the
Museum of Enlightenment.
PERHAPS
'enlightenment'
is just an
extreme form of resignation.
PERHAPS
sympathy is just a little
more than an extension of
self-pity.
PERHAPS
of
all renunciations
the most difficult is loss.
PERHAPS
this European culture
that we treasure
is just the gulag of our pleasure.
PERHAPS
the secret of life
is to hate it
and be happy.
PERHAPS
death is the greatest gift to the living.
PERHAPS
housework
is better done in the dark:
it's so much easier
and leaves the day free
for sleep or the tending of plants.
PERHAPS
the same is not so true for sex.
PERHAPS
the worst invention of
all time
(apart from writing
and the measurement of time itself)
is the Water Closet - the start
of a sewage treatment system
that wastefully, expensively
breaks down, disperses
our excrements, thus squandering
one of the world's
most renewable resources.
PERHAPS
as
rare as the Unicorn
is the believer of good faith.
PERHAPS
the
stupidest thing
about The Only Stupid Species
is that, unlike really
successful animals like rats,
cockroaches, spiders
and many other beasts
of true distinction,
we refuse to eat our dead.
PERHAPS
depression
is a trick
of consciousness which
we take too seriously.
PERHAPS
God has a terrible defect:
like Stalin, He hates intellect.
PERHAPS
rot
is not death
- but life everlasting.
PERHAPS
marriage
is an early symptom
of senility.
PERHAPS
'empowerment'
is just an easier kind
of
enslavement.
PERHAPS
everything
human
is corrupted with desire.
PERHAPS
only
through grief
will happiness emerge.
PERHAPS
in
wishing the worst for humanity
I wish the best for the world.
PERHAPS
to
be single is not a curse
but an accomplishment.
PERHAPS
it
is way too late
for us to have a future.
PERHAPS
it's
not 'love'
that 'makes the world
go round' -
but the seizing
and abuse of power.
PERHAPS
those
who most complain
about rain
are those who are trashing the planet.
PERHAPS
the
meaning of
catastrophe
is the catastrophe
of meaning.
PERHAPS
humility
is really knowing
that you are
the only kind of animal
that sneers.
PERHAPS
real
people
don't shave.
PERHAPS
true
intellectuals
have no friends.
PERHAPS
life is a foreign language.
PERHAPS
death is a smile.
PERHAPS
we each live in a nutcracker
between the outrage of employment
and the insult of entertainment.
PERHAPS
religion
is
more an attempt to
justify the unjustifiable
than to explain the inexplicable.
PERHAPS
love
is
estrangement's
distorting mirror.
PERHAPS
description
turns 'reality'
to 'fiction'.
PERHAPS
a
true atheist
is truly hard to find.
PERHAPS
to
loaf
is the secret
of life.
PERHAPS
Western democracy
is the dictatorship
of hypocrisy.
PERHAPS
the morality of conformity is immorality.
PERHAPS
the
poetry of government
is the fear of revolution.
PERHAPS
if
'Free Spirit' came with a T-shirt
there would be no T-shirts.
PERHAPS
truth is the first casualty of culture.
PERHAPS
what
for you is squalid and nasty
is the beauty of my life.
PERHAPS
between
the breeders and the homos
and the home-owners
are those who
might be the
independent few.
PERHAPS
money makes no-one happy
because it is only a means
to the impossible satisfaction
of infantile desires.
PERHAPS
happiness is unconsciousness,
and the nearest thing to happiness
is an erotic dream.
PERHAPS
Zen is
what you're sure
it's not.
PERHAPS
the purest poem
is the humble
mumble.
PERHAPS
in
a society
where nothing true is valued
I am not worth knowing.
PERHAPS
my writing suffers badly
from my lack of imagination.
('All my words come back to me
in shades of mediocrity.')
PERHAPS
yet
but
so
then
and
though
nevertheless
PERHAPS
you
write a poem,
stop. Then silence.
Perhaps the silence is
a better poem, and
the rest
(as Verlaine wrote)
is merely literature.
EHKÄ
onnellisuus on sen hyväksymistä,
että onnellisuutta ei ole olemassa...
ja suru on viisautta kestää se.
- Pajtim Statovci: Bolla
PERHAPS
happiness is acceptance
that it doesn't exist...
and sorrow is the wisdom to endure it.
Dissident websiteS
"It
is hard enough for me to remember my opinions -
let alone my reasons for having them."
Friedrich Nietzsche
