escape

from aping

by Roberto Lavidez

bewildering

menu of beliefs

planted in fertile

breeding ground

for decadence

thoroughly

contaminated

by concepts

awash in

disconcerting

images

embodying

incessant motion

the failure of

knowledge

the failure

of thought

most stirring

and disturbing

episodes with

intimations

of doom

confrontation

of incompatible

events

expressing

relentless

resistance

to the tension

strengthen

subversive

worldview

not without

its built-in

paradoxes

making

exigent

demands

prompted

by some

inner urge

toward regular

flouting of

the rules

old pieties

tailored to

increasingly

conspicuous

emphasis on

modern tastes

advocating

slavish

imitations

relentlessly

searching for

unrecognizable

untraceable

inner vibrations

of one’s own

infallible fantasy

ascendancy

of passion

over reason

an escape

from the

indignity

of impotent

actuality

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open mind-less

by Roberto Lavidez

unrestrained

drunkenness

epitomized by

vast bureaucracy

litter the landscape

of existence

signaling a growing

alienation of

an open mind

terrified

of retribution

allegorized into

parables

taking on

phantasmagoric

qualities

subject to

misinterpretation

mangling beauty

and truth

to disparage

the ultimate sacrifice

of sinners frozen

in the rectum of

the universe

the powers

ruling

humanity’s destiny

corrupt

infinite malleability

of all experience

and reality

the interests

of the wretched

of an unredeemed

world

unthinkable

to carry out

by pondering on

heavily compromised

voyeurism of

history books

deconstructing

myths and

memories

it records

the repulsive

amalgam of

love and war

stomached

by preaching

about the

great final

battle between

good and evil

and the poor

inheriting

the unlivable

earth

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Lost WhOle

by Roberto Lavidez

endowed with a

significant purpose

tantalizing fragments

of a lost whole

seek refuge

from some

impending disaster

they emerge with

extreme suddenness

imagining the

unproven possibilities

of a series of

beguiling coincidences

demonstrating a

striking convergence

with the undercurrent

of ancient connections

woven from the

very fabric of faith

between earth and

the stratosphere

little more than

wishful thinking

are the manifold

glimpses of

high science

which develop an

intangible logic

constituting a

retrospective illusion

reduced to stargazing

the unlimited utopia

the propaganda

of triumph of

unscalable mountains

setting up shop

for eternity

straight all the way

to vanishing point

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on the lookout

by Roberto Lavidez

in the chiaroscuro

of the moral struggle

for existence

reflections

reflect themselves

recapturing

lost pasts

charging 

their underlying

meanings and structures

prudently hidden

in the reeds

unexplicably

wandering away

looking into the abyss

and making the leap

driven by

bloody circumstances

contemptuous

of the rest of humanity

on the lookout

for something

unconstrained

as the savage life is

overturning 

the surface

of the earth

where grains of truth

are embedded

in tales 

and persistent 

guerilla activities

opening up

the space of democracy

giving a passionate

impromptu harangue

on the blindness

of justice

and the coming

of something

unforeseeable

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some humanity

by Roberto Lavidez

some humans

are more human

than others

animated

by curiosity

and the thirst

for knowledge

living

to seek meaning

seeking

to know the world

treads through

interwovenness

of human life with

the natural world

standing firm

against the

threatening flux

of daily existence

overcoming 

paralysis

typical of the 

hopeless

engaged in

curing the ills

regarded as

the impossible

the intractably

unpoetic

plunging into 

controversies

of historical

determinism

probing into 

man’s mental 

functioning and 

dysfunctioning

which prompts

a bird to cry out

in protest

before disappearing

into the rainstorm

into the common mass

of common rubbish

all too familiar

with the reduction

of men to machines

incessantly voicing

forbodings of its 
diminished future

cursing those 

deemed civilized

for undermining 

their so called sense

of empirical faultiness

and moral gravity

for the unspeakable shit

that they leave behind
the unscriptable 
that remains in culture

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