Posts Tagged ‘haiku’
November 14, 2010
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A real gentleman
would dry up at once if he
did meaningful work
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Immortality
is a devourer of the
agonized living
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One can know a god
from his laugh . . . If you like a
god’s laugh hide your heart
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The cleverest of
men know that the soul is healed
by being with fools
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If there is no God
two and two make five when you’re
counting your troubles
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There is no virtue
so old that something new can’t
be said against it
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Sarcasm is the last
refuge of those who really
love humanity
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Cannibalism is
the lowest form of pleasure . . .
Eat me and feel shame
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On the battlefield
of men and women one must
dare to lop off heads
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Happiness does not
lie in nothing left unsaid . . .
Secrets sing of joy
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Tags:haiku, Notes From Underground, philosophy, poetry, quote, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot
Posted in Dostoyevsky | Comments Off on Dostoyevsky
November 4, 2010
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Socialism is the
electrification of
real democracy
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Capitalism is
a mysterious product
of social decay
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Materialism
will debauch the mind and crush
the human spirit
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An enslaved press ruled
by an oligarchy is
a crime against God
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The basic evil
of money-bags politics:
lies told to excess
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Not every Congress
has revolutionary
possibilities
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Fascism is despair
lifting itself up by its
own backward bootstraps
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Intellectual
development requires some
knowledge of the truth
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While the ruling class
exists there can be no road
but self-sacrifice
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Politics cannot
be taken seriously
for five hundred years
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Propaganda is
the craftiness of scoundrels
plus “free” expression
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Spiritual death
is the monopoly stage
of clerical rule
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The spinelessness of
the Democratic Party
is beyond all hope
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The machinery
of wage slavery runs on
tortured currency
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Tags:haiku, Marxism, October Revolution, philosophy, poetry, quote, Soviet, To the Finland Station
Posted in Lenin | Comments Off on Lenin
October 30, 2010
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You do not need to
leave your room to roll in the
stench of ecstasy
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God is never to
be doubted . . . but the Bible
cannot be believed
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If Atlas were to
drop the Earth we could all find
perfect happiness
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A fresh outburst of
beauty is worthless without
the refuge of vice
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Self-observation
is a hollow, boring act
of complacency
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Whatever distracts
from perpetual despair
is born of evil
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Take an ax to the
Tree of Knowledge . . . The serpent
will writhe at your feet
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In the fight between
Don Quixote and the world,
Sancho Panza wins
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The transmigration
of souls is as comfortless
as the infinite
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Kiss your guilt as you
would kiss a woman, then creep
away and use drugs
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Tags:Gregor Samsa, haiku, Joseph K, Kafkaesque, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Kafka | Comments Off on Kafka
October 18, 2010
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Everything starts from
an empty white canvas . . . The
soul is a black dot
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Abstract painting is
the autonomous hammer
of the sacred eye
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Subdued blue is a
heavy cross to bear . . . A grief
lovelier than flame
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Existence is an
internal necessity
justified by art
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Only the artist
can grasp the vibrating light
of mystical sin
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True art is hardly
human . . . It’s the expression
of a stillborn child
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Color burns with a
mysterious power . . . I
fear its blind demands
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Civilization
is made more frightening by
adequate poets
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There is only one
road to follow . . . It won’t take
you to the next world
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It is the artist’s
duty to violate his
essential being
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Sunday is a task
too painful to bear . . . It will
damage your objects
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Music is breath . . . Its
enigmatic echoes are
full of silent chords
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Tags:abstraction, art, Der Blaue Reiter, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Kandinsky | Comments Off on Kandinsky
October 13, 2010
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Thought is the egg of
human imbecility . . .
The head is useless
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Tenderness is an
armadillo that can hiss
like a glockenspiel
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Butterflies are made
in the mouth of God as an
insult to the air
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Journalism is an
arthritic virgin riding
a tottering ear
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Spontaneity
can be invented only
by an art turbine
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The spiral river
of incoherence is straight
as a revolver
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I do not wish to
fathom the normal or the
work of professors
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Be attuned to the
gleam of constellations and
the arc of hiccups
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For myself, I have
an unquestionable faith
in quack egoism
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Literature is
a microbe that will destroy
all seriousness
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Enthusiasm for
algebraic formulas
is a tragic state
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Morals were betrothed
in hell to the law . . . Explode,
don’t conciliate
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Tags:Approximate Man, Cabaret Voltaire, Dada, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Tristan Tzara | Comments Off on Tristan Tzara
October 4, 2010
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The book salesman should
be honored because he knows
the books that will sell
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There are three methods
to gaining wisdom . . . All of
them are perilous
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At the center of
your being is a diamond
with a perfect flaw
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Choose a job you love
and you are gently shouldered
off the stage of life
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If you look into
your own heart and find nothing
there, plant a love seed
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Never give a sword
to a virtuous man . . . Give
him a book instead
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God is a tiger . . .
There is nothing to be feared
more than a tiger
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Do not impose on
God what you yourself do not
desire to practice
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The wickedness of
an oppressive government
is the zeal of wealth
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A superior
man who can’t dance will never
achieve true knowledge
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The man whose teachers
are anger and hate has the
soul of a pebble
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Tags:Analects, Confucianism, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Confucius | Comments Off on Confucius
September 18, 2010
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The saxophone is
beyond democratic . . . It’s
food for the planet
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Jazz is the only
music where mistakes are the
right information
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Human existence:
the same note played night after
night, differently
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Three-dimensional
artistic expression can
cure mental illness
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Record companies
are in the tragic business
of numbers culture
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Tags:haiku, harmolodics, jazz, Lonely Woman, poetry, quote
Posted in Ornette Coleman | Comments Off on Ornette Coleman
August 30, 2010
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No intelligent
man believes that justice is
abiding by truth
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I have no way of
knowing that the soul exists;
but measurement errs
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There are two sides to
every god: the side of base
deeds, and evil deeds
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Art is the measure
of all things . . . Courage is the
measure of all art
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Never willingly
accept advice from a man
who cannot be taught
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Knowledge, virtue and
excellence do not repose
in soundness of mind
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Tags:eristics, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Protagoras | Comments Off on Protagoras
August 3, 2010
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Ruling nature! Thoughts
come together into one . . .
Beliefs come apart
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Love is a circle
of boundless light borne through the
dark sky of nowhere
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God is the center
of everywhere; He extends
time’s circumference
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Happy is the god
whose divine hatred is borne
through all the wide air
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Wealth gained through wretched
strife is not binding on the
things of lawfulness
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Tags:haiku, On Nature, philosophy, poetry, Purifications, quote
Posted in Empedocles | Comments Off on Empedocles
July 18, 2010
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The moon is obscure . . .
Exceedingly itself, it
exists apart, lost
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It is I who call
the sun into being . . . The
gods are perishing
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Dissolution is
the descent from self-ruled Mind
to appearances
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A glimpse of Hades
and it is possible to
dissolve everything
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The infinite is
the same from every place . . . So
too all things unseen
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Anaxagoras | Comments Off on Anaxagoras
July 13, 2010
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The kingdom of gold
exists . . . Everything else is
empty opinion
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Moderation is
an injustice . . . Throw prudence
to the winds of sin
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Happiness is the
fruit of useless gifts . . . Strive to
trust chance and folly
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The gods stumble in
their blindness . . . Baneful old men
who do not listen
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It is better to
destroy Persia than one’s own
atoms of battle
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The silly rich should
think on the one true cause of
injurious greed
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The poor can console
themselves with little more than
desire and good deeds
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Tags:atoms, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Democritus | Comments Off on Democritus
June 30, 2010
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Man is most nearly
himself when he steps in the
same sacred dung twice
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Protracted effort
is needed to hide from the
danger of wedlock
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Renounce the way up
and renounce the way down . . . They
are not to be reached
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Big results require
deliberate violence
and discordant souls
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Nothing endures but
beautiful corpses quenched in
the river of fire
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God must carry a
heavy chain of ignorance . . .
Each day reveals it
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Seriousness does
not teach understanding . . . Wine
is our guardian
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Opposition to
the Universe is man’s fate . . .
Nature is diseased
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Tags:everything flows, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Heraclitus | Comments Off on Heraclitus
June 17, 2010
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Music is a pearl
of silence in transit to
spheres of reverence
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Men continue to
massacre each other for
peace and kill for God
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The empire of art
rules the universe with the
power of angels
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Momentous passion
is immortal . . . The soul is
mortal perfection
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Virtue is the near
neighbor of evil . . . Rejoice
in the great journey
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A thought is a cloud
unclouded by reason or
the air of chaos
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, Pythagorean theorem, quote
Posted in Pythagoras | Comments Off on Pythagoras
June 15, 2010
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The beautiful must
submit to ruin . . . Time brings
pain to fierce roses
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Repentance is the
bread of pleasure . . . Conceal the
light of mind from God
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The success of fools
and villains makes the whole world
ill with common scorn
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Life is nothing more
than necessity adorned
with the crest of hope
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The snaky heart is
an ornament admired most
for its loveliness
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Thales of Miletus | Comments Off on Thales of Miletus
May 20, 2010
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Avoiding death ends
where a gun begins . . . Power
has disarmed reason
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Happiness is a
state of consciousness achieved
only by lepers
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Western culture needs
a new moral purpose that
rejects human love
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Evil requires the
sanction of money . . . The tool
of stupidity
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God is a looter
who will take your property
and your rights by force
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Subordinating
yourself to me makes you an
altruism master
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Privacy is the
process of you telling me
everything you know
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Wealth is the product
of man’s capacity to
sacrifice virtue
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Civilization
is man motivated by
the desire for slaves
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The price of joy is
the wreck of your body on
the human scrap heap
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Man’s mindless lust for
the beyond is the end of
all prosperity
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Heaven is a road
of self-indulgence that leads
to the grave’s reward
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The savage’s God
is a dream of rebirth fit
only for victims
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Tags:Atlas Shrugged, haiku, Objectivism, poetry, quote, The Fountainhead
Posted in Ayn Rand | Comments Off on Ayn Rand
May 12, 2010
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Fiction is power . . .
A political tool to
create great orgasms
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The dead read books with
a lot of pages . . . They have
the time for language
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The literary
chakras are very closely
related to sex
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Repressing right-wing
moralistic culture is
not true censorship
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Only dream bodies
can overcome postmodern
ideas of time
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Literature is
modulated by magic
pleasure theorists
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A surrealist
government practices thought
machine wonder love
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I write so I can
get under the surface of
human solitude
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The unrepentant
penitentiary mind is
scared of innocence
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Free jazz is time as
insurrectionist
narrative weapon
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Tags:Blood and Guts in High School, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Kathy Acker | Comments Off on Kathy Acker
The Book of Haiku Revelation 