Monday, January 12, 2004

for love... (a mini manifesto)

A physical poet stands for love, understanding. Science, progress through knowledge, moving from fact to interpretation. Truth (with a capital T, since it is the first word in a sentence) is essential, and it can always only be an approximation (for physical, empirically deduced truths), an approximation through multiplicity. Sentience is the joy of life. We must each think for ourselves.

We have a grave responsibility to put ethics back into our lives. Respect for life, for freedom, is best assured through individual responsibility. Apathy that tells us we do not matter is the main corruption that allows wrongs to persist, to prevail.

A physical poet represents the two greatest forms of power necessary to fight evil. This power, and the responsibility for this power, should always be decentralized, cherished and preserved by every individual. These two things: Words and Weapons, they are free speech and self-defence.

Without this power, institutionalized injustice is immortal. Everyone has a fundamental right to education and a means of self-defence. We must fight for this.

I am, and think I am a physical poet. I will actually put up a few poems here, in time.

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