Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"What we perceive as solid matter

is mostly empty space.

Just as we may perceive
that a life is full...

...that is actually a series
of empty encounters..."
(Fringe 1-10)

(?, pics provided by Popo)

"....age is no crime,

but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is."
(Charles Bukowski)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Here's to the mindless

Vacant and spineless
Forever hollow, they follow and feign


Cheers to our leaders
Slick elevated zeros
Packaged and plastic, they dance for the herd


Here's to your boxes
Your paradoxes
Grasping at freedom, you buy a shiny cage


Here's to religion
A world built upon exclusion
Scarred by illusion, you'll always obey


And as I walk through the filthy streets
Where all I loved has died
I'll raise my voice here into the sky
Now hear my War Cry"

(art by Andy Park)

Sunday, August 28, 2011

“The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.” (Henry Louis Mencken)

(?)

"Guilty until proven innocent

We condemn your soul and fate
Nevermind the possibilities
Too busy for logic or to calculate


Take part in a diminishing breed
Where complex turns to simplicity
When pain is acknowledged
Frivolous calculations will be abolished


Without judgement what would we do?
We would be forced to look
At ourselves emerged in lost time

Assuming what may be
Without judgement
Perception would increase a million times


Distracted by the imagination
That experiments with ease
If you could taste it, it might be addictive
Where life will crush those who defy

(art by Jacques Resch)

Take part in a diminishing breed
Where complex turns to simplicity
When pain is acknowledged
Frivolous calculations will be abolished"


Saturday, August 27, 2011

“The soul is born old but grows young.

That is the comedy of life.
And the body is born young and grows old.
That is life's tragedy.”
(Oscar Wilde)

(?)

Friday, August 26, 2011

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no.

That's where toughness comes into play.
Toughness is not being a bully.
It's having backbone."
(Robert Kiyosaki)

(art by Chris Mars)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

"Beware of monotony;

it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
(Edith Wharton)

http://www.mcmatz.com

(The Seven Deadly Sins - ©Madeline Carol Matz. All rights reserved.)


Monday, August 22, 2011

"May the wind always

be at your back...
and the sun upon your face.
And may the winds of destiny
carry you aloft...
to dance with the stars."

(art by Brian Despain)