Nietzsche

i have a picture
Of myself
Before I stared
Into the abyss
And it stared back
Something subtle
Changed about
The eyes
A subtle shift
In light

I have three sons
Aged 7 12 and 16
And in their photos
Their eyes
Even the eyes of the one
Who is 16
Still have that
Pre-abyss light

Someday
They will see
What I have seen
Someday
The eye light will change

And we will still
Love each other
And we will still
Share our thoughts
And we will still
Live on

But our laugh
Something about
Our laugh
Will change

To match the change
In our eye-light

Bernie Sanders and Cardi B

Allow me to be the wet blanket that falls over the whole ‘Bernie Sanders shouts out Cardi B’ thing.

1. Bernie subtweeting Cardi B is a major Hillary ‘I keep hot sauce in my bag’ Clinton form of pandering.

But most importantly,

2. People who’s people haven’t been affected by the policies of elected people who are clearly their people tend to rationalize away the policies of elected people like them who overall tend to endorse and progress their particular worldview but also endorse and progress policies that hinder the advancement of people who clearly aren’t their people. 

Specifically, in the case of Bernie cynically attempting to cash in on Cardi B’s praise of FDR, I say this:

First of all, FDR was The Godfather of redlining. Secondly, the people who’s opinion of FDR that I most value are Japanese Americans. Who cares about social security for white Americans when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps? 

On Love

Idealized love. Intoxicated romance. Teenage love: “I would die for you”.

Adult love. Real love. Mature love. Commitment: “Yes, I would die for you, but I will also do the dishes”.