Random # 136 = 253 in base-7; 2 + 5 + 3 = 10 lines
keys that don't fit · finish of a symphony
like finish of all the others
mechanized death-dealing · darkens my timeline
things i can't scroll past
summer lingers · in the slow lanes
all the time in the world
to busy with books · barter for favors
ecome challenges.
sharpen your sense of self
if i struggled to stand · on this unbroken sidewalk
someone would come help me up
A trump bible in every classroom, detailed oil painting, norman rockwell.
I never cared for that word, "try". Stopping to consider & then doing it slighty differently & then seeing if the results are any better--that i can manage. Clenching one's teeth is optional.
[Meme: "When the mind is weak, circumstances become problems. When the mind is stable, circumstances become challenges. When the mind is strong, circumstances become opportunities." --Life Changing Quotes]
I have to remind myself that people unlike myself can still find reward in thoughts i don't. But all i can think of is somewhere there's a factory that garbles good ideas & endlessly repackages its output as simplified &/or misattributed memes. Once in awhile i can locate a source that is dedicated to debunking (e.g. "Nietzsche Didn't Say These") & i think of this as a public service. In this particular case i have found the words attributed to Hilton Craig Upshon, Prabha Iyer, or Deepti Hahl. It might as well be Freud-Gpt. There's a book by Barbara Ehrenreich Smile or Die that goes a little bit into America's love of positivity. I think, on the one hand, there are probably millions of people whose difficulties are of such a nature as can be addressed in this way, & i guess i can't blame them if in their zeal they want all problems to be equally solvable. I am more in line with Unamuno & The Tragic Sense of Life.
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