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Edgewise Junior Member
since 2008-03-23
Posts 19Chicago |
Pretention evocative of retaining a version of an idealized pre-modern sort of vision where rhymes serve to sway and structure to placate invisible gods of rhythm who serve the aesthete muses on a plate. How does it taste? Now on the menu is deep fried abstract fission subsistence for some sort of evolution. Is it revolution? Not if its been packaged and shipped. Pre-equipped with personality, head buried in sand. If there’s a demand, than it can be sold, a million-fold to the number. If there isn’t, take a number in the queue. Why take to the streets, when the pew’s are just as empty? Spend your time in a search for pennies on the beach. It’s not that the consumers are in the business of diluting art. The problem is that consumers constantly consume whatever is provided like children being educated in the ways of pick and choose. Between coke or pepsi, or which team has the best chances of winning this year. Do you prefer Burger King or McDonalds fries or onion rings with your illusion? I prefer to delude myself with grandiose schemes of survival… Why hold to a bible when you can write your own? And hold on to your brain child as if it cried and needed your undivided attention 24/7, all year long. After all, it belongs to you… Right? Or is it just another meme floating in a primordial sea of ideas which become more and more inseparable, with the formation of each supposedly “new” one? I would like to think that every aesthete is unique, That his or her vision of the world is like a thumbprint, pressed against a pane of glass for the express purpose of leaving a mark. But I have my doubts. Because when enough people rush to the same place, than it ceases to be unique, and instead we have… Cliché. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Egewise, I tried to read this last night but was too tired to understand it. Today, after a good sleep, I was able to enjoy your thoughts immensely. I loved the mind-meandering, the paradox, the irony, the honesty, the wit, the line-breaks, the circle. My favourite lines (although I enjoyed every bit of it) are: I would like to think that every aesthete is unique . . . But I have my doubts. - Owl |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Far too true, I'm afraid. |
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