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11 mins
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Oct 14 2024
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18 mins
Sean Wayman: Gin-Soaked Love
Gin-Soaked Love
O why did you turn from my gin-soaked love?
My heart sends out its nightly petitions.
How could devotion be less than enough?
I think of you and your cruel rebuff—
the past comes back with savage insistence.
How could you turn from my gin-soaked love?
My passion was not some specious stuff,
it came with the strength of fever visions.
How could devotion be less than enough?
From such heights, I fell to this trough,
and now the nights pass with moist reminiscence.
How could you turn from my gin-soaked love?
Some idols have seen all their gold-lead flake off
but mine is still subject to fresh accretions.
How could devotion be deemed not enough?
While some still show pity, others now scoff,
yet still my heart sounds its dull repetitions.
O why did you turn from my gin-soaked love?
How could devotion be less than enough?
Sean Wayman
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
