Pull the trigger and stretch some more.
There are certain sectors in man’s nature that are more flexible than others. Those strivings and character traits by which men differ from each other show a great amount of elasticity and malleability: love, destructiveness, sadism, the tendency to submit, the lust for power, detachment, the desire for self-aggrandisement, the passion for thrift, the enjoyment of sensual pleasure, and the fear of sensuality. These and many other strivings and fears to be found in man develop as a reaction to certain life conditions. They are not particularly flexible, for once they have become part of a...
Read MoreHomespun hodgepodge honeypot
> He liked me in white; He liked me in pink. When I was the person he liked I turned my nose up at pastels I bought only white. When I liked the person he liked I piously praised more colour I bought only pink. Now he’s off to Godaloneknowswhere And his eyes are closed But my drawer’s still half and half Neatly folded bundles of pink and white at ease Like spookasem spun on a stick. Pink frilly nothings and staid white everythings Readying themselves invitingly to be worn today Surreptitiously stifling the black of me...
Read MoreA prayer tonight
My Lord Make malleable to me words winged So for each I choose unto each I choose With warmer wisdom and keener cunning A friend in the Spring wind is never tinged. So is repentance sought for the weakness of a drowned out heart. "My Lord! This is how I have divided things that are within mycontrol.Please forgive me what is beyond my control."Muhammed (PBUH)
Read MoreMon cher Emile
Far, far from the Eagle’s perch Between cragged rocks And beating waters There is An imperceptible unclenching A leisurely unclasping A fist first A locket last All of it Noiseless drama In a grey-mirrored theatre Summer, mon cher, rains on Wintered moorings And the difference is known only within. “Emile. There it is; his name…But that’s not it. Not at all. This is how it was.” Sylvia...
Read MoreEnter smart sounding identity quotation here.
Choose an identity Feministically, Muslim, Muslim Woman Stand at the buffet with an overfull stomach And pick one. Choose an identity Mutually, Online, Offline, Kneel at the wheels of a duplicitous soul And pick one. Choose an identity Scholarly, Capricious, Rapacious Sway like the bow of an ungodly schooner And pick one. Choose an identity Forlornly, A Friend, A Lover Sit with Ulysses in another world’s summer And pick one. Ek weier om te kies/I refuse to choose It’s too much bloody work And I’m tired...
Read MoreJa-Nee we’re all just doorkeepers in the end
Listen, you see Between you and me Between the illustrious illusion that is us-all There is only a door Ornate in its squalor And depraved in its desire. I’ve tramped through mud and danced with Orwellian pigs to get here- I know I said I had no expectations I know I swore just to say hi- A proper lie I know Still, I’dve thought to be welcome here I know I’ve left another door ajar that should long ago have been locked I know I know I chanced upon the door to Atlantis knocked down But To find a firmly shut door Here Even after My own...
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