the chip

With the chip, there is an inherent need to engage in philosophical reflection that goes beyond the memorizing of facts, a drive to run past "book-smart," and finally, an overwhelming desire to dig with the hope of discovering the existential meaning to ones own life. There is a unanimous socratic agreement amongst this group of humans that "the unexamined life is not worth living," followed up with a philosophical process that includes a willingness to make whatever personal sacrifices deemed necessary, to ensure intellectual/spiritual progression continues. This includes the willingness to attempt to remain "unattached" for at least a season (or two) in order to purge what may have contaminated our psyche.

water it & let it grow

tragic relief

Standing side-by-side, their deliciously dressed bodies in crisp, black suits, cast a sorrowful, yet familiar, shadow over me. Unwrapping the special memories once made together, forced a metamorphic phenomenon, turning lying boys into honest men. I could feel their tears collectively slide down my cold, pale flesh but my beatless heart could not break. Tragic relief, I learned in death, felt indifferent, but infinite miles from soullessness.

external acceptance

Unraveling the truth of a past which goes on to haunt and taint the future.

Schlepping 'round town in fancy boots.

Old, without a purpose that goes beyond the self.

Inherent sexiness cannot be contained by crying out a thousand Hail Mary's while chained to a church pew. Such an attempt forces an inevitable explosion, leaving pieces of beautiful flesh to graze upon a pile of dirt laid so "neatly" above hell. Animalistic desires unleashed through tragic circumstances will scramble, chew up and spit out a sound moral code, turning the steady hand of G-d invisible, even though it remains right where it always has been - upon us.