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towards-death verses 01 (opens the original)
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There is a tradition in Japan of Zen/Ch’an/Daoist practitioners composing a final poem or verse, upon dying. These are often called Death Poems or Death Verses (jisei), and many have been translated into English.There is also a tradition of poets writing poems as they are dying, and sometimes those poems being posthumously published. (Though this seems rarer.)Today I will share a few of the books that I have in this genre, and then share some of my practice poems of this nature, that i write occ
think of this as a test, administered by an immortal toddler, who hasn’t had a nap in ten thousand years (opens the original)
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the frequency of writing here will be less and lessit’s not because i have nothing to saybut because i understand that like me, you are inundated by people who proclaim to be “saying things”my days have been one battle after another, medical this and medical that, poverty this and poverty thatat a certain point it’s just the background drone of societyeveryone vamping, and then, as if out of nowhere, everyone coughing up bloodyou see, any genius can lie about the way life isit takes a real stupi
my review of Gregory Done’s polestar book (opens the original)
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Dreams and Demons come together (opens the original)
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Do not open (opens the original)
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Given the total context of the way western society is, less than 5% of subscribers will even open this email, and only a fraction of that small number will read to the end.We are in the beyond burning times. Everyone is devolving, isolating.No one can trust anyone else to be able to have the myriad resources and skills needed to actually be with one another in the multi-collapse. How can anyone ask anyone else to risk the little energy they have, gambling on each other’s destitution?We are alone
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