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#106
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Suzerain of Sheol
Desolation Denizen
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If you want the simplest answer, in my opinion, I think it's because our brains are naturally inclined to slide around issues like this. From an evolutionary standpoint, it's more beneficial not to be fixated on this "plight" as we're calling it here.
To your second point, I do think there exist certain transcendent individuals who can apprehend the problem, and then move past it (perhaps with ease). It makes me think of more introspective religious practices like Gnosticism or several Eastern traditions that dwell more upon the dimensions of the self and (supposedly) thereby come to the terms with the universe. Discovering the macrocosm through microcosm, if you will. I'd almost say that those people are the only ones who truly live.
But.
I do feel some slight need to qualify that statement. I'm not actually obsessed with this issue, if you'll believe that. Probably more psychological sliding-around of corners. But, it's not as though I wrack this poetry out in some attempt to come terms with or find peace with my life -- it's really just something creative I do as a hobby, though, yes, of course, they are things I think about a lot. They just don't consume me, is what I'm saying.
And of course there's tells to be found. It isn't possible for a writer to divorce themselves wholly from their work, there will always be the underlying psychological fingerprints, as it were. I think what the bottom line to me is that what comes out in my poetry is only a portion of myself; I don't tend to put the other aspects into words.
Hopefully that made some kind of sense...
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
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Posted 01-25-2012, 04:50 PM
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