Saturday, March 6, 2010

"Deleted IV"

Explode 
in
expectant hope:
Christmas.

That,
or a kind of grieving.



"Deleted III"

You
I

I tell myself in the final moments,
I will try to find 
the words I have
forgotten.


"Deleted II"

The icicled air
and
hours of sun
change is the snail
across the front step.
Our own trails are longest, we, for whom
the only wounds that cease to hurt
are self-inflicted.
Only too often
we bear
but hide
our own.
All we have are fragments.
Perhaps another final line?
Converted churches.


Lines deleted from my poetry:


'Deleted'

For days I
wait
dormant instead.
When 
it is so
a choked sigh
poisoned every next moment
and, 
when I saw you last, 
the weight 
of an intimacy with doubt.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Heidegger, what are you telling me?

When you want to, you can be incredibly obscure, but then that's the point of digging in mines, isn't it?

"  True, as we look through Being itself, through time itself, and look into the destiny of Being and the extending of time-space, we have glimpsed what 'Appropriation' means. But do we by this road arrive at anything else than a mere thought-construct? Behind this suspicion there lurks the view that Appropriation must after all 'be' something. However: Appropriation neither is, nor is Appropriation there. To say the one or the other is equally a distortion of the matter, just as if we wanted to derive the source from the river. What remains to be said? Only this: Appropriation appropriates. Saying this, we say the Same in terms of the Same about the Same. To all appearances, all this says nothing. It does indeed say nothing so long as we hear a mere sentence in what was said, and expose that sentence to the cross- examination of logic. But what if we take what was said and adopt it unceasingly as the guide for our thinking, and consider that this Same is not even anything new, but the oldest of the old in Western thought: that ancient something which conceals itself in a-letheia? That which is said before all else by this first source of all the leitmotifs of thinking gives voice to a bond that binds all thinking, providing that thinking submits to the call of what must be thought."
From Time and Being by Martin Heidegger


We already know everything we need. 
Now all that is left is to remember it.

My Favourite Lines from "Griffin & Phoenix"

Go watch this movie. Please.

"While I'm out, what can I get ya?"
"everything."
"I'll pick some up on the way home."

"I don't need you for any of that. What I need is for you to be perfect. Because we were perfect, weren't we? We made a beautiful little lifetime together. Don't let that lifetime bleed into this."

"I want to stay here. I want to be anywhere you are."