by phillipw | Apr 20, 2020 | CI, Ho
Plato Would Have Hated Movies “the stones would immediately cry out” ~ Luke 19:40 No sound of landing penetrates the rocks. The total lack of atmosphere here on This moon forbids the din. There must be shocks While lander touches down, like when long gone...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | BO, Ho, LO
Painless Pleasure: Two contradictory versions of the myth of Ganymede “to be very eager in the pursuit of pleasure is to go hunting for pain…. Homer…says that the greatest gods receive no advantage from their power, but are even much injured by it, if...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2019 | GA, Ho, LO, RI, VE
Letter to his Wife They suffered from a passion like their loins Ripped open, full of pain, and gushing life Out like the plastic chips, the bastard coins (More costly than the infant Paul or wife) From this combined Las Vegas slot-machine Affair. The older...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2019 | Ho
Affair The Paraclete fulfills all spaces, space, A flooding God, a tidal wave, a spate Of infinitely surging, soaking grace In every place susceptible to hate, Wherever gaps could harbor darkness, long As light-years, eons, or as small as quarks. There...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2019 | Ho, TR
The Past Has Ceased: Hollywood vs. the Truth The past has ceased, unless the lens Of Hollywood decides to resurrect Some part of it, though even then the Whens And Wherefores are distorted, the correct Is sacrificed for thrills. Who cares about The facts when tears...
