the foreword to hell

walden freemanwalden freeman Posts: 511
edited February 2008 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
tattered sleeves will remain, the only connections between murders. shreds, hope, all theories retain a silence. we have absolved ourselves responsible, laughed at the buried-alive roots. ignorant to the future, we row on, steady with the current, until, gasp, the sudden remorse, the infinite wisdom of instinct. nothing could have prepared us for our pasts. nothing could have prepared us but our futures. hindsight, they say, is 20/20. i say 50/50. hell is tunneling its way up to meet us. set the cameras . . .
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    I think it's some kind of "feel sorry for me", "life's so awful" mentality that makes people believe that the future is going to be worse than the present or the past. A day is a day is a day...

    Challenges and disappointments and hardships are part of life but there's no reason not to be glad one is still breathing and able to move! Maybe it's anger at a lack of control over external forces?
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  • This isn't about me or feeling sorry for myself.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    This isn't about me or feeling sorry for myself.

    I was commenting upon the idea that some people have that the future is bleak. I think it's a false idea. I didn't mean you specifically, just the view that things are getting worse. I don't think they are. Objectively speaking, the past was harder for humans than the present.
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  • After rereading it, I see where that interpretation comes from. This, like most (translation: all) of my pieces is a clusterfuck mess of pent up frustration I have with everything around me. I write a lot of scathing stuff because I find it makes me not feel bad anymore. I think society is fucked up and there's so many people out there who are completely full of shit and there's a bunch of people on top laughing at everyone underneath, but I have so much hope.

    This piece is actually about the coming of a cleansing. I wrote this as a foreword to a nine-part series of short poems. I guess this would make it a ten-piece, but this is like, a warm-up. A preseason game or spring training.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    Oh. :)

    Thinking about my mis-reading of this has given me a good idea though. (I may put it up later if I have time to finish it.)
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