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| Doppelgänger |
Monday May 01, 2023
Hoping against hope?
Wishing for real life knowing
it’s unlikely now?
Being unrealistic?
Asking too many questions?
Tuesday May 02, 2023
His Romanian
friend once said that she was raised
by her grandmother.
That’s why she thought her mother
was her sister growing up.
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Now that he feels sick
much more often, he wonders
if the healthy food
he eats is poisoning him.
A conspiracy, perhaps?
Thursday May 04, 2023
It was very kind
to be told that he was too
postmodern and old
for Oratorian life.
This is ironically right.
Friday May 05, 2023
He was projecting
his deep desires onto
a forma życia
that will never come to pass
now (for reasons that refrain).
Saturday May 06, 2023
“From now on every
body stands on his own feet.”
Merton said these words
just before the CIA
murdered him inside Bangkok.
Sunday May 07, 2023
He’s the odd man out
because he’s the old man out.
Time to rehire.
AI is making it clear
that his tier is redundant.
Monday May 08, 2023
It took time for him
to become what he has been.
This is not so much
a surprise for him, as it
is a real reassurance.
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Saint Bernadette once
said: “My job is to inform,
and not to convince.”
There is nothing to convince.
There is nothing that’s convinced.
Wednesday May 10, 2023
The indications
suggest he is a scholar.
But degrees deceive.
His mother told him when he
was young: “You are a poet.”
Thursday May 11, 2023
“Our bones are scattered
by the side of hell” (so says
the Psalmist of old,
because sometimes you simply
cannot help but feel this way).
Friday May 12, 2023
Ian MacDougall
Hacking passed away this May
at eighty-seven.
He was a mad traveler,
directing from a distance.
Saturday May 13, 2023
Once he has control
of the organization's
documentation,
he can then establish his
indispensability.
Sunday May 14, 2023
Rather than pointing
out to the leadership class
that their present road
map is unsustainable,
he chose to recuse himself.
Monday May 15, 2023
He experienced
it for the last time over
ten long years ago.
Since then, he has happily
avoided it like the plague.
Tuesday May 16, 2023
The very best scene
in Conspiracy Theory:
she looks down and reads
what he wrote using an old
magnetic poetry kit.
Wednesday May 17, 2023
The Patrician Grill
has always been his daughter’s
diner of preference.
They had brunch there this morning
to celebrate her birthday.
Thursday May 18, 2023
It was the bottom
of the 10th inning when the
home team scored a walk
off home run to end the game.
Red Sox fans hate the Yankees.
Friday May 19, 2023
And now there is one.
He is in a position
to write himself out.
This will continue until
his words become obsolete.
Saturday May 20, 2023
The Old Rite is gone.
The Ordinary has come.
He is presently
avoiding it since it is
less than Extraordinary.
Sunday May 21, 2023
The next best thing to
traditional ritual
is nonsensical.
Modernity has destroyed
the beauty of liturgy.
Modernity has destroyed
the beauty of liturgy.
Monday May 22, 2023
Poetic cleansing
is his Villanellistic
agenda today.
There’s no better pace than this.
There’s no better rhyme than Tao.
Tuesday May 23, 2023
It's not what you do
but rather who you are with
but rather who you are with
that matters the most,
whether you're in a car wash
or in a grocery store.
Wednesday May 24, 2023
His South African
colleague made it possible
for him to complete
a very technical task
that was beyond his know-how.
Thursday May 25, 2023
William of Ockham
thought in English, but wrote in
technical Latin.
You do not simply read him.
He must be ruminated.
William of Ockham
thought in English, but wrote in
technical Latin.
You do not simply read him.
He must be ruminated.
Friday May 26, 2023
His constant driving
over the past fourteen years
has decisively
and irreparably damaged
and irreparably damaged
his central nervous system.
Saturday May 27, 2023
Rather than focus
his attention on the dead
data of DITA,
he decided to slowly
transition into Forex.
Sunday May 28, 2023
The seventy-three
chapters of the holy rule
contains the grammar
of his drudgery divine.
It's unspectacular work.
It's unspectacular work.
Monday May 29, 2023
Come Away With Me
contains a haunting song that
describes an event
that prevents him from going
silently away with them.
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Don’t just do something,
stand there (that’s right, just stand there)
because this moment
is a very mild place,
moment by precious moment.
Wednesday May 31, 2023
They are far away,
but shall always remain both
near and dear to him.
He'll let his doppelgänger
show them what cannot be said.
