said the empath to the square

when asked,
"how can you listen
to that shit?"

not caring so much
abt him liking what he liked
just wanting him to hear
what he heard

"this is what
it sounds like
all day

even while
yr lips
are closed

even if
god forbid
you mind
yr own
business

even when
yr looking
the other
way

whatever
that is

those things
you hold
at bay
apologize for
kick dirt over
adorn
w/ stray leaves & twigs
for camouflage

those things
scream at me

but not in words
so much
more like
jumbled words
you can't make out

kinda like
this shit
i listen to."

he went on
in spite of
having lost
his friend's
attention
and/or
concern

to explain how
dissonant
chaotic noise
can sound
familiar
comfortable
soothing even

since it doesn't stop
even when he isn't
listening to
that shit.

mmmm chinese buffet

chelsea & hollywood

...

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Third Sunday Blog Carnival

http://thirdsundaybc.com/2012/12/16/vol-1-no-12

"He scared," *d*m's student said to her classmates, though she was clearly within earshot of him. And he was. He was scared that his words could never be sufficiently colorful. He was afraid that students who have calculated the world on their phones would have no use for a higher power. He was frightened that their voices would never stop cracking but instead fade into a chorus of spotty faces & screaming minds. It concerned him that he could not experience any of this for them, instead of them, or in spite of them. He was intimidated by the challenge of proving that there was something beyond the horizon.

Questioner: "Why do we laugh when somebody trips and falls?"

Krishnamurti: "It is a form of insensitivity, is it not? Also there is such a thing as sadism. Do you know what that word means? An author called Marquis de Sade once wrote a book about a man who enjoyed hurting people and seeing them suffer. From that comes the word 'sadism,' which means deriving pleasure from the suffering of others. For certain people there is a peculiar satisfaction in seeing others suffer. Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize, gossip thoughtlessly about others, all of which is an expression of insensitivity, a form of wanting to hurt people. One may injure another deliberately, with vengeance, or one may do it unconsciously with a word, with a gesture, with a look; but in either case the urge is to hurt somebody, and there are very few who radically set aside this perverted form of pleasure."