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Gwerpin

ten minute self portrait with MS Paint 101

ten minutes? probably more like 30.

or maybe 45

It's kind of mihaly.csikszentmihalyi.lian

to lose track of time

Stereotype A

Meet Jim.

Jim is a real man.

Notice his big arms, bushy beard, and steely gaze.

Jim has high blood pressure.

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Pith and Dribble

here's a game i like to play

i take the pea sized bundle of conviction
(the burning glow of certainty)
and i subject it to articulate debaters
and watch the gluey gullible glow
stick to one position
then another
twack twack twack
until it turns into a cold marble
of balanced, rational uncertainty

 

*

 

i mount my soap box chair
hands ready at the keyboad
preparing to pontificate
on some topic current and noble
but my ideas are skeletal
and need to be fleshed out
so i look up this and read about that
and the pithy sound bites fall apart
leaving muddy mumblings about
how complicated the issue is

 

Monochromatic Markers

the gaia-invisible-hand hypothesis

bad food in, bad feeling out

Good for Them!

again, i feel the drop

hearing these he.she.its spit

from stage to mic to itunes

to ipod to my head

i hear the spit

and i sink

i drop

i turn away

and bare fluorescent lights flick on

drowning out the mood-light in my head

the harsh light reveals harsh reality

that these kids are not me

that they may like to hear the spit

and the bombastic transparencies

hurled out like something brave

and audacious

as they stand before their like-minded siblings

and permute like-minded sententiousness

good for them!

for them!

not for me.

i must be getting old

because i really have heard it before

even the same structure

the same contrived hipster voices

the funky soulful whatever

contrived.

just young people mating

sending out their whale songs

good for them!

that's cool

they're cool

i'm not.

Fwd: postin up

listening to pri about the 60s 
something came to me, some connection
can't remember right now
mbti, change of beat movement
ah! radicalism, activism 
versus hip society! 
different groups of people
the activist start
then the sensualist follow
where do i fall?
outside of both bubbles, i imagine
neither group would have me
or i wouldn't have them
too dead for activism
too square for hipsterism
instead, i sit by the reflecting pool
full of philo-sophomoric narcissism

piss and shit

gas in my bowels

lead in my veins

cloudy overcast day

cloudy overcast mind

aspiration for life

does not exist

in articulated form

vaguely stupid images

of neanderthal strongman

with artistic bend

pumping out paintings

a steady stream of poems

simpleton, simple man

compulsive sketcher, painter

 

Auf dich!

i dont care about art

(thats a lie)

what i really care about is cool

about the feeling of cool

of something enviable

like damn, i wish id done that first

(i still could  

and maybe people wouldnt notice!)

(naw, thats cheap, 

a lie that would feel like shit)

so i am checking people out 

and making judgments

like, look at him!

thats kind of cool

sort of a dark, manly hulk look

got his own ideas 

aint afraid of living his way

(although hes going to die 

for being so fat!)

black shirt. thats cool

and look at her!

but shes trying too hard

wasnt she a model?

and now she is shadowing him

i know him, hes a dork

(he was all about being cool)

she (literally) has to stoop to his level

(i see her in my minds eye stooping)

and there again

another case of cool

(im all about cool) 

(it just happens to look like art sometimes

artsy or independent, thinking)

but this guy, hes goofy

i mean, hes fun, not dark

but doing his own things

happily popping out tricks

and grunging down his own path

making it look cute and casual

but check it out!

hes got product

hes got resume 

thats something cooler than

despondent, moping, apathy

das ist cool, man

wirklich cool!

Auf dich!