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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reductio Ad Absurdum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOMETIMES I feel like, <br>I f e e l<br> LIKE<br> I, <br>I I<br> I I<br> I<br> I I I<br> I I I<br> I<br>I M LUSINNG<br> MAI; mnd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll be sitting in something like the half-lotus<br>Position, and I'll be staring at my computer screen, <br>Which is tilted downward just slightly, so I can<br>See… if I play a game—which I won't (I have a TV for that) , <br>But whatever—and I'll just be half-way into some<br>Deep focus meditation, wondering about Mu<br>Or something else, or something yogic, <br>Or something… OM NAMA SHIYAVA…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I'm just mindless right now, <br> Reeling in that emptiness, <br> Wishing I could pull myself<br> Out of Satan's Cradle, <br> Not thirsty for the milk<br> That flows from the mother<br> Of my inaction, <br> My absolute lethargy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It doesn't have to be this way—<br>I tell myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I tell myself as I sit there, <br> White screen greeting me, <br> Telling me what a good day it is<br> To not think at all<br> And maybe write a poem<br> When I get fed up from reading<br> My Facebook newsfeed—<br> Doesn't happen as often as you'd think, <br> Though I'm terminally disgruntled<br> About the perpetual bondage<br> I have toward the social networking<br> Behemoth; <br> Leviathan that gnarls through the seas<br> Of boredom, sinking the steady ship<br> Consciousness in its green, amaranthine<br> Jaws, which glow in the twilit, <br> Star-crossed window sill<br> That beams in the plasma<br> Box and back to where it came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Help me out.<br>Help me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I AM HERE! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I can't stop doing nothing<br>To do something<br>Because something might happen<br>While I'm out doing something<br> And I know it won't happen<br> But it might happen<br> But I don't know how to make things happen<br> Can someone tell me how to make things happen<br> So I can stop doing nothing<br> And do something<br> And people will be like<br> You did something<br> So I'm glad I was watching<br> While I was doing nothing<br> Just waiting<br> Wishing<br> H O P I NG<br> Y<br> O<br> U<br> WOuld—<br>Do<br> Som ething.<br>I'm glad you did something.<br>I wanted to do it, <br>But I was too busy waiting for you to do it.<br> Oh, God, if there is a GOD, <br> Can't you release me from these chains—<br> I mean, according to Milton, <br> You released Satan, <br> And he said, <br>'Here, at last, we shall be free.'<br>Of course, he was in Hell, <br>But he was his master<br>And if this is heaven, <br>Then salvation sucks<br>And I don't want any part of it.<br> Release me, <br> Release me, <br>I don't want to be the anthroparion<br>Of the technological age, <br> Blood pouring out of my eyeballs, <br> My teeth clenched into a single pane<br> To reflect the visions that gloss<br> Across the panel I stare at—<br>I don't want to be the ouroborus, <br>The mobius snake that loops for a while<br>Before eating himself.<br> I wonder if I am the result<br> Of the Chinese Room Experiment—<br>AM I RESPONDING TO MY CONSCIOUSNESS<br>OR AM I SIMULATING MY RESPONSE<br>BY IMAGINING A THEORETICAL CONSCIOUSNESS<br>WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST—<br> whatever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I just want to sit up, <br>And erase the homunculus<br>That hangs over my head<br>As if it were barbed wire<br>On life's fence, <br> Gateless, though it may be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could be doing something I tell myself<br>I tell myself<br>I tell myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I lie to compensate for what I want? <br> What do I want? <br> I don't know, but can I have it.<br>QED</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530698" data-title="Reductio Ad Absurdum de Tim Stensloff" data-description="SOMETIMES I feel like, I f e e l LIKE I, I I I I I I I I I I I I I M LUSINNG MAI; mnd. I'll be sitting in something like the half-lotus Position, and I'll be staring at my computer screen, Which is tilted downward just slight..."></div> </div> </div>
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