a poem for today, 4 August 2012

a poem for today, 4 August 2012

[a letter sorted sonnet of eight sentences and its image]

This ceteris paribus mentality is inherently atheoretical and noncontextual: it assumes that the same mechanism works in basically the same way whether we apply it in mental health or criminal justice, income maintenance or education.

I give up.

I won't do it again. 

I want to, I really do.

It was a failure but many interesting events are failures.

I don't bring this up to drive a wedge between groups, but to make a point.

Lying is a state of war, and irony is a state of peace.

I felt like a five year old with an angry babysitter.