"Hell, in case you are wondering, is reading yourself over and over. That is the postmortem fate of all poets who end up there for many reasons, the most egregious of which is having troubled good people’s sleep with verses." Preview for my Selected Poems project. First reply

"'Sanity' was born at the same time as language. It was a younger sibling of language that was needed for eons until its older kin put the quotes on it. It was a struggle for language to dominate its sibling, or even find a name for it." The fugitive of Sanity. First reply.

"All ideologies promote a false cure for malaise: optimism. Communism even made optimism compulsory, creating societies where every human was ill at ease. That was equality." An addendum to a my favorite book. First reply.

"The bartender hasn’t taken a shower in a year. He stinks. His name is Musk. And he doesn’t card anybody with cash for a beer." Satan, Hitler, Meta, Amazon and Anthropic Walk Into a Bar. First reply.

"I had just gotten to the end of the street when I heard the little bookseller running and calling after me, 'Mister, mister...' I stopped. 'I can’t sell you that book, it’s my favorite.'" A tale of a walk. Today on my Substack.

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