literature
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The good thing (depending on your perspective) it is in an active state of collapse. It’s impossible to be any sort of skilled linguist and use a phone to write. No autocorrect or spellcheck knows better than me, exactly what I am trying to say. Autocorrect is the worst. You’ll type an entire long piece…
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by Edgar Allan Poe First published in The Flag of Our Union Publication date March 1849 Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow:You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision,…
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When I finished this I couldn’t stop giggling. Not because it’s that funny. Because I couldn’t believe I wrote it. I wish that allegory wasn’t lost.That we preserved the art, despite the cost,To those who seek to rule this Make Believe.And not by bending fellow man to knee,By tricking him into thinking he’s sovereignWhile enslaving…
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And J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit more specifically: these really are tales of the journey of the soul towards enlightenment. Some of them are more obviously this, such as The Odyssey and Herkales and his 12 (Astrological Signs) Labors. But the Hobbit is also this although Tolkien famously wouldn’t entertain anyone suggesting his writing was at…
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The ghost of Edgar Allan PoeVisits me in dreams.He does it to inspire me.At least that’s how it seems.I told him he inspired meFrom when I first picked up a pen.He apologized for GoldbugAnd then was gone again. To this day his words do echoIn my fertile ear.“I’m sorry it was racist.”A fault I find…
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COVID keeps on killing kids and No one seems to care! “Send them to their destiny It’s better for them there.” All so Mom and Dad can work And function the machine So the people killing us can Add to wealth, obscene. And men who promised to protect Are instead counting cash From the very…
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A sonnet daily ‘bout the whims of one A borderline neurotic sort of dude. Of broken hearts and broken wills, so fun! Of love left unrequited — unrenewed. It will keep you healthy Whitman says If you take your dinner in the nude. As for your opus, always edit, yes. For we should be improving…
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Ask someone who loves you why I care. Set a simple marker at my chair. I will be along in just a while. To greet you in the evening with a smile. I will hallow heavens for my bride. Meet my living maker in the sky. Ask someone who loves me cause I can’t. The…
Musings of the Mad 