Sunday, January 11, 2009

the goal

the goal is to smile on the day of your execution, to laugh when you know that you will die in the next ten minutes. the goal is to remain beautiful in the face of what is not. the goal is to feel like christ. the goal is the feel like lucifer. the goal is to be as wise as the serpent and as air-borne as the dove. the goal is to love yourself.
the goal is to say yes to life, and therefore to death, unless you can ignore death. most of us do most of the time.

i want an honest style. i want a direct style. i want the opposite of a boring style. i want to tackle the “serious issues” with a sense of humor. i want to be able to laugh. i want to understand anyone worth understanding. i want to defend the beautiful from the envious. i want to explain the otherwise obscure.

this goal is not universal. this goal is personal, taken piecemeal from here and there. i can use more or less irony as the situation dictates, as taste requires. i
know from the beginning that my best readers will only eat me, assimilate me, shit me out and move on.

1 comment:

  1. The goal is to learn how to capitalize. The goal is to say something original. The goal is not to bore more intelligent readers like myself. The goal is to wipe that self-satisfied smile off your face and embrace your social duty. The goal is to make this world a decent place to live for humans as yet unborn.

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