Disillusionment is also an illusion.
—James Richardson, Interglacial
Snobbery is a sign of poor breeding.
I hate it like a cigarette.
Only when the mighty have been brought down
shall the masses ascend.
Those who hate to hate fear.
Those who fear to fear hate.
Furies or furries.
Obfuscation chants
of the one who shuns the unfamiliar.
An intentional wilding will always be insufficiently wild.
You never embraced an empirical proposition.
Is self-centered always selfish?
How presumptuous
to call another pretentious!
To condemn or condone?
So long as we try to love one thing
rather than strive to love all things.
Those who condemn imperfect engagement
more than lack of engagement.
I long to indulge once again in indulgence.
Is the intentional fallacy
the most common cognitive error?
Sensibilities exist to be offended.
The blessing-curse of romanticism.
Saint-Denys > Freud.
The voice that I hear in the silence,
the voice that I heed in the cacophony.
Your face was truth-lit;
now it’s shadowed and I can’t see it
even when you stand on my toes.
The fool is the one who follows the false.
The less you know, the more I won’t tell you.
A plague on all your houses.
It's such a chore to adore anymore.
Your storm changed me to storm.
But melancholy, too, is carnal.
Do you see more being born or dying?
I have stolen more time from my life
than anyone I know.
It’s not enough, but it’s something.
All poems are written and copyrighted by M. C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.