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#desire

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stgreenie

Sweet viral girl
pops up on my screen
like a sweaty dream

She reeks of spam
and other devious worms
as she entices me
with a tempting invite
to click her easy access link

My rational head properly warns
that if I take the vixen's bait
havoc will be my fate

Logic implores
this naughty boy
to practice safe text
but as always
#desire rules the day

Of course it did

Now I pay the price
for my late night cyber vice
with an infected device
and a broken heart

Just how do I explain
this I'll conceived sin to my wife?

#vss365#poetry#poem
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stgreenie

I don't need
no frickin happy pills
to get me through
these endless days

Don't #desire
that chemically inspired
mood suppressing
glassy eyed facade smile
that passes for serenity

I really don't need
no psycho analysis
mumble jumble therapy
whining about
how I despise my Mommy

Now I take each day
with
low
expectations

Minimalist aspirations

Manageable frustrations

My self hating defeating
contraction action plan
demands absolute acceptance
that I ain't so bad
and we misfits
collectively be
flawed pieces
that don't
always fit
conveniently
in this jumble
of a puzzle
we call reality

#vss365#poetry#poem
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire — such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other — as essentially unattainable. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself — no doubt justly — a miserable specimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/755…

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Ariel Kroon

I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.

unsustainablemagazine.com/apoc
@academicchatter

unsustainable · A Look at Apocalyptic Desire: The Wish to Remake the WorldIt may be no surprise that many people have apocalyptic desire, a hope for global cleansing and perhaps renewal. But the future is in our hands. Let's discuss.
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