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Isn’t it frustrating to get part of a message, and have the rest of the message be forever beyond your reach? But that is, truly, Life, for all but the omniscient. Our simian heritage gives us a busybody’s curiosity; biological and physical constraints give us opaque horizons, signal noise, the need for sleep and other homeostatic housekeeping, and the tragicomedy of a finite lifespan.

This page is at least as frustrating for me as it is for you, O Viewer. So much is beyond my talent-reach, and I seem always to be short on time. But if it helps, I only wrote the last line of “Mixing Signal,” which is “Got Me? O well,” and other than telling you that it is a persona poem with a Yahwehesque God as the persona, you are free to either write the rest yourself, synopsis it without regard to meter or rhyme, or treat it as merely a visual element.

Similar goes for “Bul[]  Shi[]” though much more of the poem is visible. It is told from the point of view of a naysayer, and is an answer to “love echo” in the form of a sort of antiecho.

Bul[] Shi[]

Bombastitude has made a mess
Upyoursism oppresses flesh
Lamed intellect reverbs ennui
[.][…..] [……..] formed [..] Model [.]

Mystery fans, you now have all the clues you need to make some sense out of the last line. I don’t think anyone on Earth would be able to discern what the last line is, exactly, but the facts that Model is capitalized, and the rhyme-meter scheme revealed by the first two lines dictate that the last line be at minimum a near-rhyme of “ennui,” get you more than halfway there.

love echo

let those with baffled vision see
oppression plain as ABC
victorious are those who ooh
enlightenment’s a Bill & Coo

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À long time ago Plato the Ancient Greek compared the way we try to make sense of things with observers of shadows on a cave wall trying to figure out what’s going on. (If you do an Internet search on “Parable of the Cave” you will get a MUCH more detailed and lucid, though less concise, explanation.)

Here is an assortment of items on a card table my ex-wife gave me a week or so back. I propped up my latest diptych drawing on top of a drawing of my High School sweetheart on top of my laptop, but otherwise left the table as is. Chaotic as it looks, you can tell much more about me and my life than you could watching shadows of my antics on a cave wall, but much less than there is to know. I submit this for study by anthropologists and sociologists, amateur or otherwise, who happen to be reading this: What kind of person am I? What are my prospects for the future? Do I deserve to live?