romance and chivalry for the new age

having a naked picture ( )

of your significant other ( )

on your cellphone is an advertisement ( )

that you're sexually active ( )

to a degree that gives you status ( )

it's an electronic hickey

--Rick Peters - a washigton state lawyer discussing sextexting among teenagers

rethinking existentialism

whoever does not live in poetry
cannot survive on this earth.

-halldor kiljan laxness + 1998

did he have to blow up so many amplifiers

when the love of power
yields to the power of love
then there will be peace

- jimi hendrix

i caught this on a bumper

parting epiphany

the bishop had the audacity
to quote tagore
at the end of the funeral
yesterday
(sheila sullivan - butte-irish montana superwoman-{may she rest in his eternal peace})-

death is not so much
an extinguishing of the flame
rather
it is a turning out the light
for the dawn has arrived

-Rabinandrath Tagore +1949

cognitive dissonance

the first day of the year
loads of weight to carry
already levity is a joke
only a choice to be
lovingly overwhelmed
to be graceful
learning to bow again
learning to bow deeper
madness is
a demanding queen indeed

how do you know

rose coloured vestments

gaudete

epistemological dissonance

Their brains are rewarded
not for staying on task but for jumping
to the next thing. The worry is we're raising
a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains
are going to be wired differently.

-Michael Rich

this is a figure of speech isn't it?
i mean
we're not talking about the actual wiring of brains, are we?

maybe it would have been more accurate to say:
their priorities will be vastly different-
and we are all likely to suffer because of that