YOU DO NOT HAVE WINGS OF WAX AFIXED TO YOUR BACK TO HELP YOU SORE THROUGH THE WINDS AND SKY
YOUR FEET ARE PLANTED FIRMLY TO THE GROUND EVEN THOUGH THAT GROUND IS SHIFTING AND UNSTEADY
YOU'RE NOT ICARUS
YOU CANNOT NOT RISE TO HEIGHTS THAT YOU ARE WARNED NEVER TO CLIMB
BRUSHING YOUR FINGERTIPS ALONG THE HEATED WAVES OF THE SUN
YOU STAY IN YOUR TOWER CLOSE TO THE WATER WERE IS IT SAFE AND FAMILIAR
YOU'RE NOT ICARUS
YOU WILL NOT FALL TO THE EARTH AS THE WAX MELTS FROM THE HEAT OF THE SUN RUNNING OVER YOUR SEARED FLESH AND BONE AS YOU APPROACH THE WATER BELOW
YOU ARE SAFE ON THE LAND CARESSED BY THE BREEZE AS YOU WALK ALONG THE SHORELINE GAZING AS FAR AS YOUR EYES WILL ALLOW YOU TO SEE
YOU'RE NOT ICARUS
YOU WILL NOT SINK LIKE A WEIGHTED STONE IN THE GLITTERING OCEAN
ITS WAVES DROWNING YOU IN IT VASTNESS NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN
YOU WILL SIT ON ALONG THE COASTLINE SAFE AND SOUND CONTENT IN THE CAGE YOU HAVE CREATED FOR YOURSELF
YOU'RE NOT ICARUS
YOU WILL NEVER TASTE THE FREEDOM IN THE SMALLEST OF WAYS EVEN IF THAT FREEDOM ENDS YOUR SHORT LIFE
YOU WILL LIVE NEVER KNOWING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, WHAT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE OUT THERE IN THE WORLD, WHAT IT COULD HOLD FOR CHANGE IS A TERRIFYING AND UNCERTIAN BEAST YOU DO NOT WISH TO POINT WITH A HOT IRON ROD
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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