the catalogue of the heart's delusions

This is the catalogue of the heart's delusions
Because the trend in design is toward simplicity.
Design is just the response to a problem.
(and the problem is man.)
You survive, and you do not survive.
I think the hardest kind of courage to have is the courage not to lie to yourself.
How to get through death, transcend death? A bloodlet, a sacrifice. Transcend death by absorbing and accepting it.
Life is never fuller in us than when Death's Angel places her hand on our shoulders.
What the process of maturity really entails is acceptance of death.
Something like sleep that brings down blackness on yr head,
a cancelling-out, its finality beautiful.
It would be like a black sleek amusement ride carved out of your
favourite silks beautifully dark
It would creep up behind you and boom like a ghetto-blaster
In yr ear so you'd scream in a nervous skeleton laugh
But its beauty is its democracy which is always welcome
And welcoming.
She creep up on kings with the same embrace.
Yes death is female not the illustrated comicbook skeleton
And yet his face was always a grin
And her embrace is
The simple joke of the absolute.
(And yet death is a jest that hides a truth,
A serious secret selfconsciously revealed.)