Birthday of but a single pang
Birthday of but a single pang,
That there are less to come—
Afflictive is the adjective
Though affluent the doom.
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The Heart asks Pleasure—first
Von Emily Dickinson
The Heart asks Pleasure—first—
And then—Excuse from Pain—
And then—those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering—And then—to go to sleep—
And then—if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The privilege to die—
The Adventurer
Recently, I found in my digital archives that in May 2019 I made the Creative Type test by Adobe Create. It said that I am an Adventurer. Here are the results.
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If all People were only as good as me …
If all people were only as good as me, mankind would be the way it is.
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So we’ll go no more a–roving
Von George Gordon (Lord) Byron
So, we’ll go no more a–roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll go no more a–roving
By the light of the moon.
A Strong and United Nation may be Destroyed …
A strong and united nation may be destroyed if it is unprepared against sudden attack. But even a nation well armed and well organized from a strictly military standpoint may, after a period of time, meet defeat if it is unnerved by self-distrust, endangered by class prejudice, by dissension between capital and labor, by false economy and by other unsolved social problems at home.
It’s all I have to bring to-day
Von Emily Dickinson
It’s all I have to bring to-day—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget—
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
140 Zeichen (56)
Ein Schwein zerlegen
Roboter in der Fleischerei: „Aber, XC357, ich habe dir doch gesagt, dass du ein Schwein zerlegen sollst, und nicht die Frau Schweinsberger!“
(Inspiriert von einem Xing-Leserkommentar, nach dem Roboter in einer Fleischerei kaum Anwendung finden dürften. Siehe hier auch „140 Zeichen (10)“ über schwere Zeiten voraus und „Wie denken Menschen über künstliche Intelligenz?“)
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The Truth and The Lie
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
Poetry after Holocausts?
The question is not: how can there be poetry after holocausts?
But: how can there be holocausts after poetry?
(An antithesis to Adorno’s statement that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. From the film: In Praise of Nothing/ Slatko od nista by Boris Mitić, Serbia, Croatia, France 2017, spoken by Iggy Pop)
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