Category Archives: Philosophy

Pragmatics

Be kind to others, counselors advised.What goes around will come around – you’ll see.I tried and failed a lot (for I despisedhow peers appeared). It didn’t work for me,until I learned the clue to self-esteem.Discovering I needed to be proudtomorrow, … Continue reading

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The Bad Consultant

The expert paid a visit and was paid.He studied the dynamics, interviewedour team, absorbed the plans, and then he laidout recommended actions. To concludehis work, he edited the notes he madefor spiral binding, but did not includethe tactical and practical … Continue reading

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No Blacklist Please

Our lives are too complex to be reducedto elegant synopses. Fairy talesare straight; by myths we all can be seduced.But black-and-white applied to being fails.Reality is complicated – loosedat us in living color. Truth entailswe grant it all its spectra … Continue reading

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Bleak House

Our species moribund, the planet ill,the future’s shape no longer indistinct,although it may take centuries to killus off, it seems civility has peaked.Now courtesy has tumbled from a hill,engendering an avalanche of dirtthat buries kindness in a dire spill.Before humanity … Continue reading

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Dawn v Dusk

If darkest pre-dawn,perhaps it will be lightestright before sunset.

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It Worked Today

It worked today. I had good internet.There was no glitch or hangup in my way.I try to notice well but can forget.It worked today. The water pressure’s good. There’s no delayin telephone or text. I’m not upsetby outside cats or … Continue reading

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No Precedents

Imperfect practicecomprises no precedentfor a wise future.

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Sitting in a Puddle of Anxiety

I’m sitting in a puddle of anxiety.I feel a little swamped with dark uneaseabout our present plague and future destiny –I dread regression, and the rising seas,and getting older, frailer, losing words and bloodand friends who move or die in … Continue reading

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The Ends of Short Stories

I’ve seen the posters on the power poles,with pleas for missing pets to be returned,with photographs and words that move our souls,suggesting mourning people who have yearnedfor absent love. But seldom have I learnedwhat happened next. Was Rex or Frodo … Continue reading

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Switch

I think it would inform us to exchangeannouncements about diet, fitness goals,and other resolutions with a rangeof news reporting relapse in controls.Do you agree? Or would it be too strange,to share the fail or fracture in the roles,and mention not … Continue reading

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