perspective

   "...we see things from the wrong angle:
a pile of stones instead of the face of the sphinx"

       -Transtromer

ISM

   Any 'ism' scares me because it represents an orthodoxy, a protocol of perception that defines the world, and me in it, that tells the world what it is.  That's fine for you, but it scares me because it also tells me what I am, before I've had a chance to present my own reality, my own values.  And if you take only a brief look at history, too often these isms have fomented a voluminous groupthink that seeks to push & promote its views into Empire.

irony

Wise are the eyes
     that recognize the paradox
That eternity lies
     In the heart of clocks...

crow 'ku

the old crow
  makes himself at home
    on the scarecrow's arm

                  -dubuque, I.

alvarez

  You have been careful with your technology
              to remove all of the necessity from life;
  But it turns out that you have been reckless enough
              to remove all the living with it....

One February

How sublime in its own way
When I steered into the fast line
In consideration of bypassing the Brunswick ramps
To glance in the rearview
Shocked to find a large SUV
Mere feet from my tailgate @ 65 MPH
Obviously irritated
At my sheer audacity!
To put myself in his path-
Exasperated at last
He swerved into the slow lane
To pass me
 And I knew well what was coming:
A hard stare of utter contempt
Along with a grand display
Of 'digital disdain...'

                -Golden Center Freeway

no more wars

Plato:

"...only the dead have seen the end of war..."