When I was a kid we thought the end of the world was coming any minute via The Button Instead it came a little later

We used to wonder What will they think of next? Having lost our capacity for wonde… We insist Now they’ve thought of everything

We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories

The devil is a man for all occasio… Because we always have a choice To rise to the bait But God created man By giving him a choice

A civilization can die From a variety of causes– Famine, conquest, madness, etc. In succumbing to boredom Ours will be the first

The Imaginary: I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it The Symbolic:

If you pull my heartstring I’ll say one of eleven pre-recorded phrases but you can only hear the ones in the first four dimensions

The fog is so thick now We’re buried up to our necks in it Our bodies out of sight And out of mind Making the ground beneath our feet

The number one cause of divorce Is holding a grudge We are divorced from reality Because we hold a grudge against t… We resent the truth

We’re told “Never give way on your desire!” even as we learn that “Desire is always the desire of th… Suffice to say,

You can neither know nor control t… But you can follow it And as you follow the truth You will come to know How to control yourself

Love may never win but love always ties

The epic poem for this epoch will have to say the most with the least

The heart is a pump That never stops Caring Artificial Intelligence is possib… But machines will never care

If life is the in-breath and death the out-breath we presume that by ridding ourselves of death we’ll live an infinite in-breath