Sunday, April 21, 2024

Underground

 

 

Legends of actual arts—behavior of human spirits. 

Feral minded, part tamed, part threshed.

The sin of wilderness, left to bushels—surrendering to time; battle of the brains, science of its religion. New World habits; Old World behaviors; we fight against schematics. Such insanity; to reach for something obscure. Brought into alignment, growing wildly, asking for one superior to fix inherence. 

I was looking at life, (as if I’ve a clear perception), reflecting upon human instincts. In asking self about reality, seeing what’s loathed in one’s arsenal, once debated, one art, self-denouncement. 

In an explanation, one undermines an audience, pointing to obvious pillars; artist to artist, psych to psych, counselor to counselor, or teacher to teacher—life is made easier, while complicated by unknowingness. 

Such self-detraction, such self-evasiveness—core habits, dying for rightness, humans nonetheless. The fight is becoming unhuman. In denying self, it might be purer, biblic. 

In seeking the best in souls, in outliving the contradiction, a sort of sadness envelopes beauty.   

The Great Mystery

    I couldn’t shake inclination, a dislodging instinct. I remeasure all consisting of us. Such a nudging, sweet humiliation, carved excitem...