Response to threats of damnation in Britain

There are plans to get the message – "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" – put on buses across Britain as well as on Tube trains in the capital. Link

Can't help but get the feeling these buses would be more likely attacked than others.

Also, it seems probable that the message will have the reverse effect it intends. Many people I've come across, when given a choice to either deal with the fundamental question of how they should view their life from a god/no god point of view, will choose to either not think about, to be content with not thinking about it, or will (like I did after more than a decade in the Catholic Church) resort to fear-based thoughts and retreat all-the-more happily to the comfort of religion.

my left everything

when i woke up earlier it was
in stages or phases, slowly
shifts of am i asleep to am i awake?
am i dreaming? only without questions
my left everything
when next i slept above
every again awake to worry
i jump down and next nest near to the wall
where you drip out all your sleep into
bedsheets and can't lay there anymore

New / temporary rules

no capitals
no gratuitous punctuation
limit adjectives
limit "the"
limit "just"
no "like"
sparse similes
two "ing" words at most
no gratuitous line breaks


I am implementing these rules because I am not depressed, and I really only write when I am, and I can't control when I am, etc. A couple poems trying to use these rules are a couple posts below. The one about my dog and the other one about a black girl I saw. I I I I. I use "I" too much, too. ***** I think I'm going deaf, or everyone and everything is either too quiet or too loud. Mumbling.

I just thought about drawing a picture of my bed with pillow arms hugging me.

GOSH. I am feeling the top of my skull through my hair skin and whatever other fleshes are there and jeez it's hard. It feels like nothing else. I think I could hurt someone by hitting it against their softer parts.

*noises and the background sound of football*

Lake Eerie

"Trailer a"

Southern hemisphere map-of-the-world

I could go for a map like this for my wall. It makes the planet look heavier, it makes the 'more common' map seem like the continents are dripping. It's really, really disorienting... which is probably why I like looking at it and trying to make it right in my head.

sometime in spring maybe, black girl in her winter coat

sometime in spring maybe

in all of two days exploding
out of the surrounding trees
different species-white cottony
puffs that float all day
around a camera and a happy dog
the sorta day or moment that
has no precursor or
immediate epilogue
it's a few minutes whipped
around midair
-
black girl in her winter coat

seeing a black girl in her scarf
coat and hat wave her hand
dismissively turn her head then body
made my back and shoulders
suddenly cold