If life is dull, try sailing across foreign dark seas on a moonless night and keep watch at the lonely bow; If life is comfortable, try fighting a tropical fever between seas whilst the cold sweats drag you deeper and deeper under the hull; If life is hard, try making a living by pulling rickshaws … Continue reading Ifs and tides of plenty – a short poem from the Java sea
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Allen Ginsberg-styled poetic rant – a poem
Fellow comrades and like-minded freedom fighters, I hereby proclaim democracy – that once upon a time genius ideology of great aeons past – dead as we know it; The illusion of democracy, on the other hand, is well and truly alive and kicking! Pour me another drink with a side of Caucasian privilege as yet … Continue reading Allen Ginsberg-styled poetic rant – a poem
There is no losing in writing – a late-night poem
I stare at my typewriter and it stares back at me As I wonder about customs past and the relative irrelevancy of the modern-day writer; Random late-night thoughts typed in a computer that blew typewriting away, the same way the writer as we know it might one day cease to exist; Attention spans span shorter … Continue reading There is no losing in writing – a late-night poem