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“More matter, with less art”

Matter, I have none to consider.
I frolic in art, yet create nothing.
I am

stagnant

.
My thoughts do not flow.
They stew and fester in their own slime.
An idea strays
unbidden
into the marsh land of my mind.

The quagmire is treacherous and teasing
like a woman.
The idea treads gently, naively,
on shadow assumptions.
Momentarily,
it totters, on the brink of consummation-

roadblock.

Beheaded. Cleaved.
Splintered by self-consciousness.

Who am I to think?
What am I to think?

I forge a pedestal of vanity and sit atop my velvet throne,
passing judgement on Life and Existence.

I
Think
but I am no Thinker
as a child with a crayon is no Artist.

My thoughts are
unworthy, unoriginal, unrefined.

I have no authority to Think.
I am but a bitter, bitching, postulant to Intellect.

But even this thoughtstoppingthought is a victim to the bog.
Like Judas, my thought betrays my thought.
I wallow in vanity again,
pretentious enough to pity my apparent inadequacy.

This further thought flings me into self obsessive depression.
That further thought flings me into vain self disgust.

I am vain
vain
vain.

Self-awareness is a curse.
I will forever be aware of my vanity,
my penchant for art,
my lack of matter.

I am all art and minimal matter
all morass and minimal direction
all talk and minimal walk.

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”

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