The world doesn’t need anymore poems
Posted on | June 13, 2009 | No Comments
Humanity has been lost to capitalism, commercialism, politics, ethics, volunteerism, postmodernism, sports, textbooks, genetics, and robotic surgery. I was drinking with a friend of mine earlier tonight. A girl I still probably think I’d like to be with, but my own indecision and uncertainity prevents anything of the sort. She is bright and probably could have been like Sheri Donatti, a Village beauty and challenging soul, but like I said, Humanity has been lost.
She grabbed a bit of it when she whipped out a pen and began sketching my face on the back pages of my copy of Henry Miller’s Black Spring that sat on the table between us. But her own Humanity frightened her so much that after finishing three portraits she completely dismissed her art. The Internet and the independence to create and produce is more important to her than soulful creation. It is arguably the most important thing right now to the new generation of thinkers and ‘artists’. But I ask, does it resonate? Does it have Humanity – love, pain, sadness, joy, doubt, hatred, and acceptance. All the things that great literature seeks to grasp and embrace with loving arms?
I say no. I say that there is too much collaboration and sharing and not enough thought, not enough reflection. We are obsessesd with new ways of broadcasting our minds and our interests without really paying attention to what we are saying. Why the hell does a site like this exist – http://plinky.com? We apparently don’t have enough to say! It’s just noise!
We are pissing cold piss and shitting diarrhea. Our bodies are out of sync. Our society is so out of sync its driving me mad. There must be a way back!
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