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UNE

Author:
David White (Thank you, come again.)

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Date Posted: 17:56:29 09/18/07 Tue

This poem is about Existentialism, a 19th and early 20th century philosophy expounded upon by a number of philosophers to some degree or another. The main codification of Existentialism occured in the writing of Nietzsche, Sarte, Hegel, Camus, Kant, Hegel, Hiedegger, Kafka, Kierkegard and Mencken. These are the essential existentialist philosophers that put forth a set of ideas that expressed the freedom and solitude of untouchable thought.

That thought was neither moral or immoral. It goes into the central concept of Buddhism, even, removing the moral constraints and the material worlds dictates on perception and acknowledgement of what is and what is not. It gives the participant in life the ability to make more accurate, liberating and sometimes drastically "evil" actions for the sake of ascension above a world that would enslave your mind to morals, false value judgments and inept perceptions.

It also frees us from the notion that all things must MAKE SENSE as morality, group-think, the notion that certain thinking is evil are all methods of making things make sense in a world that has no grand purpose beyond that of its organisms. Rather, things are STRANGE. Unguided, unrestrained. In that, we should find a sense of liberation and bewilderment, lonliness and light heartedness.

With no further adue, my poetic encapsilation of this philosophy:

UNE (one)

I am purity,
Stark negation of restraints

I am the monster that says no
I am the snake that says yes

I am blessed -
Cloaked in black and
Provoking thoughts with eustress

I am a sinister Kafka roach
Wrapped in pink skin
Surviving your fallout and dismay

I am May

I am today

I am boundless loving
Regardless of the all prevailing dream -

I am despot here

I am the island king
Eating my mangos
And scraping my spear
With sunlit hands

I am a true man
Riding a dizzy Camus camel
In a strange land

Everything to me is fire
And I am all fan

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