History & Power

I cycle; I am History;
I let the powerful rise
Then I break them down.
12.31.10

Listening & Ideas

Listen carefully
Listen to everyone
Listen to everything
Listen with your eyes
Listen with your nose
Listen with your mouth
Listen with your skin;
Your best ideas come
From keen observation.

Ethnicity & Freedom

To insist on an ethnic purity is but primitive atavism
Which, in time, will bring more intra-ethnic feuds
That split and splinter such atavisms
Until external ethnic infusions
Come in to the rescue;
Ethnic inbreeding
Stunts intellectual freedoms
And fosters decay.
12.29.10

Obligations & Freedoms

Only the recluse are free
Social and private obligations
Tax our personal freedoms.
12.28.10

Meekness & Hubris

Those particular and critical among us
Nurture their hubris at the expense peace;
Contentment comes from acceptance
Acceptance, from humility
Humility, from meekness
And meekness, from magnanimity of soul.
12.27.10

Meausers & Intellects

It takes our brains
Decades of emancipation
To be able to measure all things
With unbiased, circumspect intellects
Rather than with how everyone else thinks.
12.26.10

Cowards & Heroes

Our fears
Either make us heroes
Or they make us cowards.
12.25.10