The Flower of Drugs and Drunkenness, (Early Draft).

Lo, a new psychal monster looms!
Huge, as large as Earth itself;
One eye is magnitude, the other,
Relation; his mouth a black cavern
Like infinite space; his right arm,
A telescope, his left, an axe
With which the trees of life
Are laid down. His beaming chest,
A skyscraper, and a bottle
Of Prozac pills where a dick
Should be. One leg [...]

Asceticism is the practice of going to a beach at low tide, concentrating extremely hard on building a sandcastle, and then expecting it to protect you against the vicissitudes of the ocean.
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This is also similar to the practice of applying physiological means to achieve psychological ends, except that in such a case one has the [...]

Epistle written from A warm city in reply to an invitation to a dinner Party.

Hello all you poor East bedraggled friends
Who must through winter yet toil and fend,
While I, on vacation, do ascend,
Just like this birdly city with no end,
To higher temperatures - the sun’s domain -
Where it is rare to be assaulted by the rain.
But I don’t mean to by these words profane,
Or to, through contrast, tighten winter’s [...]

Thought is responsible for all joy and all pain. This functions on two levels:
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1. On purely psychological grounds, a man’s mental state is contigent on the ideas of which his mind is constituted concerning the universe, or reality, and their relationship to his identity, or ego.
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2. All human action finds its birth [...]

A wise man learns to hate women as much he loves them. This does not mean he will be a happy man.
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But what would be the impetus without Beatrice?
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That is a good question.

An Ethos, or: An Invocation of Ancient Albion

Poerty is the natural conscience of man; religion is the law. I believe in freedom and goodness, therefore I believe in the eternal consumption of religion by poetry in the eternal revitalization and reformation of the soul of man.
Religion is a stone dragon with a sardonic grin and bloody eyes that looms over man and [...]