The pen is mightier than the sword.
The gun is mightier than the pen.
The printing press is mightier than the gun.
The nuclear bomb is mightier than the printing press.
The internet is mightier than the nuclear bomb.
"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."
Thirty spokes converge on a hub
but it’s the emptiness
that makes a wheel work
pots are fashioned from clay
but it’s the hollow
that makes a pot work
windows and doors are carved for a house
but it’s the spaces
that make a house work
existence makes a thing useful
but nonexistence makes it work.
— Lao-tzu from ‘Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years’, tr. from Chinese by Red Pine
WE DUH ONES WHO MAKE DUH SEESNIN TO PUT ON DIS HYEAH FOO HERETOFORE WE BE APPROXIMATIN HIS COOKIN NAWMEAN HE JUSS TAWT US WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW N WHAT HE STOLE FROM US NIGGA HE AIN'T TEACH US SHEIT :epic:
Je suis très fière qu'un de mes haïkus a été sélectionné pour l'ouvrage collectif bilingue par 139 auteur.e.s, 'PARIS flânerie / PARIS strolling', coordonné par M. Dominique Chipot. Pour plus d'informations: 👇🏽
We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
in our endless gush of posts.
I say this ferociously, unjokingly.
We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
whether heroically or stoically,
humbly mumbled or in boasts.
We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
in our endless gush of posts.
Today in Writing History May 22, 1967: Writer and activist Langston Hughes died. Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the early pioneers of Jazz Poetry. During the Civil Rights Movement, from 1942-1962, he wrote a weekly column for the black-owned Chicago Defender. His poetry and fiction depicted the lives and struggles of working-class African Americans. Much of his writing dealt with racism and black pride. Like many black artists and intellectuals of his era, he was attracted to communism as an alternative to the racism and segregation of America. He travelled to the Soviet Union and many of his poems were published in the CPUSA newspaper. He also participated in the movement to free the Scottsboro Boys and supported the Republican cause in Spain. He opposed the U.S. entering World War II and he signed a statement in support of Stalin’s purges.
Write, delete, write, delete, write, delete...
That's how my morning is going.
It's how my life is going.
Write, delete, write, delete...
At the end, I'll be
a still cursor,
flashing, on
a blank
page.
that liminal moment where i had to rearrange all my unconsciously reconstructed memories to match where it actually came from again was certainly A Moment