[lit-ideas] Re: 4 Authentic Heideggerian Poems
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:59:58 +0900
Quid pro Guinness
-- Imagined Irish pub sign
John
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1.
>
> Life is
> running on a beach
> in slow motion
> toward death.
> And, yes, the flick get boring
> after several decades.
>
>
> 2.
> I don't need no "cogito" to tell me I exist,
> all I need is to stump my toe --
> then the echo of my curses tells me so.
> But when in an antic mood I sometimes wonder
> what is the isness of is?
> Is it nothing more than just the ising of all that ises?
> Is IS just is-itself? Or is it made of some things elses?
> The On-spring of some mighty mother?
>
>
> 3.
> There are three phases of physical existence:
> solid, fluid, gaseous.
> Most of us are familiar with all three.
> We know, for instance, that solids, like hammers,can and do
> hurt unwary thumbs, and that fluids
> like Guinness can joviate, then deflate,
> and that gases can gag us if there's no bathroom exhaust fan.
> These phases, of course, are all just guises of matter
> depending on the temperature and the pressure.
> O Christ, this all gets so tedious and boring and so involved.
> I'm already tired of this shit. Listen up:
> Physics follows its laws to the letter.
> Let's just leave it at that. Now who the hell is it
> that ... ah, fuck it.
>
> 4.
> When I would ask my father
> questions he couldn't answer,
> like "why is the sky blue?
> He would say:
> "I don't know. You'll have to ask God when you die."
> I came to realize that my father didn't know very much,
> but his ignorance apparently didn't bother him at all.
> I wish I had been more like him.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
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