nikola tosic is
one of the most important
emerging english language poets
who, just like joseph conrad,
has enriched the english written culture
by bringing an outsiders point of view,
and, just like shakespeare,
reminds us that uncompromising realism
is still an ideal to be reached.

thank you to 150 or so people
who liked my parenting poem
on instantgram.

if i could somehow convert you
to each of you giving me 10,000 usd
i could finally make that down payment
for my ass-to-lower back hair transplant.

i always wanted my lower back
to be as hairy as my ass
and you can make my dream come true.

people tell me to do shitty stuff
to make a lot of quick money
but i ask them:
what about my irrational sense of moral superiority
and what about the humans in year 3562
that i am protecting from you – today’s idiots?

if i do your shitty stuff i will start
an unstoppable chain of events
which ruin the future of the entire universe
with a war with seven different alien species.
so no, i will not do your shitty stuff
to make a lot of quick money.

all violent revolutions are completely idiotic
and nothing more than
a retarded bullies’ violent impulses
hidden behind a pretense of change for better.

if these bullies actually knew
how to make the world better for everyone
we would listen to them gladly
and there would be no need for violence.

but they do not know
how to make anything better
and just want to hurt people and make a mess
and then use a good story to excuse it.

everybody agrees,
and everybody is
mike and me,
that you would be
a great mother.
so do it, janice!
have sex, give birth,
and be a great mother.
you can do it! now!

i really did not want
to write a poem
and i really had
nothing to say
so i wrote this poem

please rate this poem
from zero to ten.
ten is the best poem
you every read in your life.
zero is a piece of shit.
thank you.

i was in san francisco
for seventeen minutes
and i got so worried
that i could not write a poem
for three weeks.

but today i listened to
pavarotti singing nessun dorma
and when he sang vincerò
i fully recovered
and wrote this poem.

i told rafael i will write a poem
about how miltos chose art
instead of a giros restaurant chain
but then i felt bad about making fun
of miltos’ horrible life choices
and decided not to write that poem

people are not illiterate.
languages are poorly designed.

people are not irresponsible.
financial products are poorly designed.

people are not criminals.
society is poorly designed.

abortus is not evil.
motherhood is poorly designed.

war is not necessary.
foreign policies are poorly designed.

sometimes,
when i need even more optimism,
i imagine tom cruise farting.

and not a cool comedy fart,
but a boring every day smelly fart
that no one notices but me.

i want to only follow
people who only have
few followers,
who notice me,
and maybe even talk to me,
and who care
that i follow them.

please join me
for a meet in a nice restaurant
dinner in los angeles
on saturday 2nd november.
you can also invite
other cool people.
register by emailing me at
nikola@tosic.com.
I hope to see you.

visual art is decorative
poetry is ugly

visual art is manufactured to be sold
poetry is a search for the truth

it takes decades to become a visual artist
we are all poets

you need approval to be a visual artist
we are all poets

visual art needs a professional sales system
poems last a second in our minds

visual artist pretends to be a rebel to sell more
poet is a rebel that never sells

visual artist is great when they sell more
poet is great when they make more poets

visual artist competes
poet helps

great poet is not a poet who
published hundred books

great poet is a poet
who created hundred poets

there are no gods
because we are the gods
because we are the only living beings
in the entire universe
that have learned to use innovation
to change things
faster than evolution allowed us.

for the last ten years
i have been thinking
if i should make
my teeth prettier
and i always decided
to leave them ugly
because i do not want
people to like me
because i am pretty

thank you, francis ford coppola,
for making megalopolis,
your last and best attempt
at helping me help everyone else.
we are on the same team, finally.

never be afraid or shy
to ask critical questions.
never care if you are called
rude or stupid or not cool or crazy.
never think that you are not
eloquent or stylish enough.

always remember
that asking critical questions
in any form and style
is the best prevention
against kids raping parties,
school shootings, and wars.

usa is the global leader
in democracy and innovation
but usa’s commitment
to democracy innovation
is zero dollars and zero people.

i guess, in usa
one can innovate everything
as long as citizens
do not gain more power.

there are no bad poems.
there are only readers
who are at that moment
distracted, grumpy, angry,
or in some other way
closed to the message.

for every poem that i wrote
there are seven poems
i did not write
because
i was afraid of taking it too far
or i was unable to find the words.

and, in my megalomania,
i feel guilt
that i am too weak
to enlighten you with the truth,
but only way forward
is not to quit
but to keep writing safe and easy poems
like this one.

every week
i invent a new business
which would surely
make me and my family
a ton of money.

but i never do it
because i would need to do
years and years
of boring repetitive work
and this is pure hell for me.

sorry kids,
i will not leave you millions
because i get easily bored.

ένα ποίημα
in fünf Sprachen
is easy to write
ma è molto difficile
да сe чита

sometimes i daydream
how i am put in a coma
in between rings of power episodes
so i can avoid waiting for them
and can see all of them at once

last night a friend reminded me
that i should write poems more often.

at that very moment in my head
i came up with the best poem ever.

but this morning i forgot most of it
and all i remember is:
mayonnaise and béchamel
are not so hard to make at home.

the greatest error
in my life so far is
not playing tennis
with irena and wyne
in amsterdam
this weekend.

i will never be able
to correct this error.
the damage is made.
opportunity is missed.
i will somehow learn
to live with it.

philip morris employees
think exactly how
matthew perry’s dealers talk.

but they will never speak or write it
and instead they simply
understand each other.

making new stuff is important
but it is also important to know
which new stuff will never be made
like
hundred people bands,
nurses making million dollars a year,
products designed by kids,
ai that exposes all global corruption.

i woke up last night at 3 am
because i needed to pee
and i suddenly realized
that the best thing about
hegelian dialectic
is that it should teach people
not to be too possessive
about their ideas.

ancient stories
are stupid to us today.

our stories
will be stupid to future people.

and gods will never talk to us
because to them
all our stories are stupid.

i was packing for a trip to france today
and i decided to wear a shirt i do not like
so my favorite shirts would be stay clean for the trip
but during the day i kind of liked that shirt
and i am sorry that i will not bring it

great writers
are not good at writing.
they are only good
at writing in one very specific way.
and there are gazillion ways
we can write.

only you can decide
what a christian is.

there is no one else
who can tell you
what a follower of jesus
should think or do.

everything that is popular
is extremely stupid and useless
because for it to be popular
it needs to be
generic and simple enough
so billions can understand it
without any motivation for it.

smart and useful stuff
is unpopular, hidden, and difficult.

at their last second of life
they will try to hug
their murderer
in hope of human contact.

ai is not a specific thing.
it is a vague idea
that can be anything
you or your boss wants it to be.

just please
do not believe the hype
that it is only a specific good thing
like a polio vaccine or a toothbrush.

do not read, write.
do not watch, do.
do not consume, make.

it is very annoying
that my brain
is working more and more
on calculating stupid shit
instead of creating
amazing stuff for others

do not worry
my little king
to fall asleep

because

your kingdom
although little
is still great

i love trump
because he is the best
at capturing a moment,
making it fun.

sometimes i dream
how i have dinner with him
and he entertains me
and respects me.

he has
the most powerful charisma
that has ever existed
in the history of the world.

but we should stop wasting time
with outdated representation
and start using
digital direct democracy.

i remember
how long long time ago
i would go out,
have a nice dinner,
get a bit tipsy,
listen to some cool music
on my way home,
and write a poem
as soon as i got back.
i just do not do that anymore.

vanessa is super mega ultra busy.
she is more busy
than the busiest person that ever lived.
she is more busy than
billion busy people
working on the busiest project
in the history of the universe.
she is so busy
that we need a new word for busy.
she is busier than god.
so do not expect her
to have time to meet you
for a relaxing coffee.

few days ago
for a brief moment
i felt a deep calm
about my death.
i somehow understood
that i will not exist.
i am not able
to describe it
but it is the first time
i accepted my death.
it lasted a second only
and now i am afraid again
but at least i know
i can be cool about dying.

i must maintain control
i must maintain control
i must maintain control
i must maintain control
i must maintain control
i must maintain control

freedom
genocide
human rights
war crime
democracy
independence

do we really need
the state
to manage
our relationships?

once your basic needs are satisfied
you can achieve happiness
simply by changing your opinion
and the best way to change
your opinion is to read
and the best thing to read
to change your opinion
is a short honest poem
and the best short honest poems
for changing your opinion
could be mine,
but they are not.

i will be in los angeles
from 25th april until 4th may

i would love to meet you
and eat good food
and do a poetry reading

please message me at
+38163268906

i am confused.
why is my dentist
always asking me
about my sex life?
what does my sex life
have to do with my dental care?
and why does he need
such level of detail?
he wants me to describe the smells!
is this a standard procedure?
can someone explain this?
thank you.

there are people
who will crash their car
into you
just for fun
and they will laugh
while you try to kill them
with a dull knife.

some of us know
why these people do this.

we are eternal beings
that exist outside time
but we were trapped in time
by a failed experiment
that created time.

our purpose is to
reverse the experiment
and bring us back
to our original reality
which exists without time.

long long time ago power was
for everyone.

for many millennia power was
for the few only.

the last century or so power was
for the majorities.

the last few decades power was
for the minorities.

in the future power will be
again for everyone.

when i was a kid
i wrote a short story
and others told me
that it is quite pathetic
and it seems that
still today my writing
is a pathetic
and there is nothing
i can do about it.

i am a very empathetic person
and i empathize with everyone:
russians, ukrainians,
israelis, palestinians,
serbs, albanians,
christians, muslims,
americans, chinese.

everyone has a solid reason
for whatever they are doing
but at the end, out of all the groups,
i do favor kids
and i am not a fan of kids getting hurt.

today i again forgot my age
and the whole day i was guessing
that i am 47 or 48.

finally i found a website
which calculated my age
and i was super happy
that it was only 46.

very nice that someone
made a website for us
who forget our age.

i do not want nothing
ich möchte nicht nichts
non voglio niente
δεν θέλω τίποτα
ne želim ništa

truth is an asset, just like real estate,
in a representative democracy
competition.

representative democracy duopoly
divides all the truth
between the two ruling parties.

each party invests all energy
to discredit the truth
owned by the other party.

this results in both parties spending
all their resources
on denying all the truth.

this is how a society stops
to be based in truth
and starts to be based in power.

the only way to save this society
is to innovate democracy
to use, not deny the truth.

genocide is a legal term
invented to maintain an illusion
that there is also a polite war
because many companies on nasdaq
make money only from this polite war.

when we eventually understand
that all war is genocide, not just some of it,
and that all war should be banned,
and all participants should be prosecuted,
these companies would stop existing.

PS I own boeing stock.

this poem is written
in a scottish accent
and should be read
in a scottish accent

all jews, christians, muslims
were inspired by the same
one god feeling
before they chose.

i never again
want to wear a backpack.
they make me heavier,
they make my back much bigger,
they make me sweat,
and i always have to come up
with stuff to put in them.
it is not enough that i never use one.
i want them ended. forever.
please.

how can i be sure
that i was not programmed by media
to think a bad movie is good?

should a movie be celebrated
as the pinnacle of human endeavor
or is it just the result of competition control?

am i confused by other bad products
that make trillions
by manipulating media and politics?

and if i do not know
which movie is good or not
what else is not me?

one of the hardest moments
for every artist
is when they realize
that they are doing
exactly the same things
as someone thirty years ago.

artists who survive this moment
will live on forever,
but unfortunately many die here.

hollywood really really
does not like to work
with humans
and everything they have done
since they started
is to get rid of humans
and work with
easy to control machines

i wanted you all to know
that i do horrible things
to hotel towels,
and the only safe place
are belgrade hotels
because
i do not stay in hotels
in a city where i live

sometimes i wonder
how famous and powerful wipe their asses.
do they do it the same way i do?
they must!
long gone are the days
when they hired people to wipe their asses.
enlightenment ended that job opportunity.
do they use wet wipes?
are they special expensive wet wipes?
do they stick their finger a little bit inside
to scoop it up?
or do they just gently fly over?
if you are famous and powerful
please call me to tell me
how you wipe your ass.
my phone is +38163268906.

i am again
very very very sorry
for writing
all these political poems
but i am a middle aged dad
who knows little about football.
do not think of me
as a grumpy political guy.
i am actually just a grumpy guy… not.

sometimes
i write a poem for a friend
and someone else likes it
and i imagine
how that random person
is actually my friend
whom i did not meet yet

this is a reminder
that visas are a punishment
for telling an empire
to fuck off

would a 90 min film
which follows someone
through a normal day
would be more interesting to us
than most of the expensive
hollywood films made today

do you still believe
advertising, news, politics,
and that products are made
by people who care about you?
if you do, please call me
at +38163268906.

the world is not changed
by books, entertainment, and politics.
it is changed by products.

product designers give everyone
access to the best science and ideas
by designing products that share them.

this is even more important today
when the best science and ideas
are often ignored and hidden.

only the product designers
can save this world.

reading books is boring
reading comics is boring
watching movies is boring
watching tv shows is boring
playing video games is boring
watching art is boring
eating food is boring
using apps is boring

making books, comics, movies,
tv shows, video games, art, food, apps
is awesome

i was considering buying boeing stocks
because some of their airplanes fell apart
and their stock got cheap
and i was a little bit tempted to overlook
that they make weapons
but then their whistleblower killed himself
in the middle of an investigation
and i finally decided this is not for me
in spite of a 62 % growth tip by cnn.com.

never support or join
an organization
which wants or claims
to be the only one
that represents an idea

never support or join
an organization
which does not allow you
to support or join
an alternative organization

there is only
one bad idea
and that is
that there is only
one idea

frank herbert was a smart man
so i can only assume
that his message is
that even
the smartest and the most powerful
person in the universe
can end up
wasting time with politics
instead
of doing something more useful

i started writing
poems in serbian
and i discovered
a whole new side to me.

i can not wait
to start writing poems
in italian, german, and greek.

short term rentals allow us to see
who of the property owners
would most likely be
a nazi or a slave owner
if they were born a bit earlier.

these owners just do not like
other cultures
and the lack of hotel training
exposes it.

12 years a slave is
the most unrealistic movie ever
because
no one working on that movie
was able to imagine
how people actually behave
in such situations

i started writing poetry in serbian
in a separate instagram account.
soon i will start writing poetry in italian.
and later maybe in german.

my ultimate goal is
that people from every culture
tell me that my poems are not poems,
but are actually basic sentences
with random line breaks.

i have to again
apologize
for how shitty and cringe
my poems are.
sometimes i read them
and i am
utterly mortified
how shitty they are.
including this one.

much less improvisation in music
languages designed by academics
less theaters, more cinemas
places of worship increasing in size
almost no local art, literary, poetry, philosophy
less participation in government
impossible to negotiate with or bribe police
powerful live far away
global brands gaining in everything
no local methods in solving problems
and many many more

violence is just a way
for some people to learn more
about others and themselves

i need something
i enjoyed that once
i want it
i crave it, it is awesome
it really need it
this is so tasty
this is amazing
i am so happy to be alive
something is not right
i am a bit sick
i need to go to the bathroom
i will never eat that again
why does that exist
i am ashamed
this world is hell

the word democracy is meaningless,
and is used to centralize power
like never before in human history.

what we are told democracy is
has never existed,
and probably never will exist.

we need a new better idea.

shabalozia
is finally a free country.
they are free
from the oppression
from gumuzia!

in a world in which
a lot of our decisions still depend
on centralized mass media
investigative (real) journalists,
are necessary as an alternative
to corporate and political bullshit.

otherwise, our decisions
will be poorly informed
and quality of life of everyone
will diminish.

every time i walked next
one of those street fruit displays
i was tempted to steal
a banana or an apple
but i never did it

ai will finally
force artists
to fuck around
with technique
and focus
on concepts only.

i am thanking
whoever designed
something so beautiful
as ass cheeks
to hide something so nasty
as an asshole.

maybe it was
god, alines, or nature.
whoever it is,
i am sure they are
very clever designers.

when we are far
from doing things with hands
or people who do things with hands
then we start having
crazy virtual impractical ideas
which can easily kill billions

politicians
use school shootings
and climate crisis
to promote themselves
which means
these problems will
never be solved.

however
scientists would solve
both of these problems
over a weekend.

i do not read books
and it took me decades
to understand why
i do not like it.

it is because
they are so subjective
and i do not like
anything with a limited
point of view.

women and men
have a different reason
why they watch videos
of women working out

it is possible that some pets
do not love their owners
but are like slave prostitutes
who learned to pretend to love
so they would survive

some of these
publicly traded companies
seem like
a psychopath made them
just to show
how stupid everyone is

most of the laws
on this planet
are based on rules
created
in small asian villages
thousands of years ago

parliament is a scam
invented by the powerful
to postpone democracy

we do not need representatives
who sell our votes
to people we do not know

we need to innovate
collective decision making
so everyone participates

again we are tricked
into being passive observers
of a fake fight between politicians.

as long as we believe
one is bad and other is good
we will be their bitches.

they stage fake fights (like wwe)
to appear important and necessary
while fucking up everything else.

all politicians are bad
because they are not innovating
how to give us more power.

instead they only innovate
how to gain more power
with media, division, and war.

i am actually
completely able
to consistently make
my friends laugh
which makes me
a funny person.

therefore,
you should trust me
even though, usually,
i am the opposite of funny.

i wish i was a mother
at least for few minutes
so i can enjoy loving my kids
like a mother

only a fraction of google ads
are properly targeted
and they know it.

google ads could reach
people with the matching interests
but then google would make less money.

google makes most of its money
by showing ads to people
who have no interest to buy.

this is their business model.
google could have solved targeting
ages ago, but they would be poorer.

if we talk
on the phone
and you hear an echo
i just want to make it clear
that i am not in a bathroom
sitting on a toilet

i have no idea
how i write this stuff.
it just pops up!

i am more or less
just a reader.
like you!

it is inevitable
that my poems will become
short funny stupid smart statements
because that is what
everyone wants

never watch a movie
which you have not
seen before

i have seen a lot of clouds
since my last clouds poem
written 19 october 2023.

some were isolated,
some were fast,
one looked like a hook,
all were very cool.

free palestine and israel
from the bloodthirsty assholes
who jerk off
to having unlimited power
over lives of other humans

all knowledge
will be weaponized
and used to hurt people
so it is our duty to make
good uses of knowledge
so the bad vs good
is balanced out

i honestly do not think
that people
like eric schmidt
care about ukraine.

these people always wanted
to make killer drones
or some other crazy scary
murder machine.

they just waited
for the right excuse
and media atmosphere
to express themselves.

once eric schmidt’s
killer drones
blow up millions of people
without damaging
real estate and infrastructure
someone will need to clean up
all the blood and guts
and this is a great opportunity
for the next stealth
silicon valley ai genius

they are not kamikaze drones.
kamikaze were honorable
dedicated soldiers.

these are killer drones
loaded with explosives
which can enter your home
find your kids hiding under the bed
and explode their head.

they are cheap to make
so governments can just
print imaginary money
and make millions of killer drones.

they are more dangerous
than nuclear weapons
because they can kill millions
in a matter of few hours
for a fraction of a cost
without damaging
real estate and infrastructure.

the more people are pressured
by a poorly designed inflexible system
the more crime there will be.

so there are no
naturally bad people aka criminals
but only poorly designed systems
which create criminals
out of naturally good people.

designers of systems
(and everything designed is a system)
should be careful
not to make good people into criminals
by making design errors.

bad person aka criminal
is a good person who does not fit
the design of a system
and the system does not want
to listen and adjust to them.

killing 2347 children
is not a genocide
and it is acceptable.

killing 2348 children
is a genocide
and is not acceptable.

artificial intelligence
will never be able
to write this poem

1 alto adige
2 veneto
3 sicilia
4 basque country
5 texas
6 navajo nation
7 catalonia
8 republika srpska
9 kosovo
10 palestine

you are an asshole
if you are making media content
which decreases smart cooperation
by promoting irrationality and division,
and if you believe people
should just shut up and buy.

i know exactly
how to fix the world
to the last technical detail
making everyone happy.
it really is very very easy.

i am not addicted
to social media.
i am addicted
to that one in a million person
who is brutally honest.

constantly feeling
extreme compassion
for everyone alive
is a little bit difficult.

i want twenty kids
i want one kid
i want a life partner without kids
i want a partner sometimes
i only want friends
i want to be alone
i do not want to live

if you do not enjoy
the miracle of life
while you are alone
in a completely dark room
no amount of money
or anything
will make you happy

i sincerely apologize
for forcing our employees
to come to our office for so many years
before i finally canceled the office
and switched our company
to fully remote.

we wasted so much time and money
on the stupid office
instead of investing in our products.

english is for the future
german is for the past
italian and greek are for pleasure
serbian is for my family

in spite of being
naturally pretty and charismatic
i work very hard
at being ugly and obnoxious
so when people
want to do something with me
i know it is because
i am the best at what i do
and not because
i am pretty and charismatic

i do not know
when i will write
my first poem
in year 2024
but it will not be soon

today is my 46th birthday
and i am again
fundraising for my nephew pavle.

he has epidermolysis bullosa
and his parents are poor.

to donate please visit
pavlefundraising.org

any amount helps!
thank you!

sometimes
i imagine
another universe
in which my friends
who do not have kids
have kids
and are super happy.

this helps me cope
with sadness
that my friends
in this universe
do not have kids.

i am sorry that i did not fix
the entire world
and made it a better place
for everyone already.

i will do my best to get it done
before i die
and if i do not make it
i will teach my kids
to teach their kids
to fix the world for everyone.

i felt sorry
that i did not write
more poems this week
but then i realized
that when i am dead
no one will care
if i wrote one or hundred
poems in a week.

i hate italy because
it has too much good stuff
all over the place
and i must move around for years
to enjoy just a small part of it

i am just guessing
that being super smart
is to overcome the suffering
caused by compassion
for everyone who ever lived
resulting from being super smart.

so super smart people
must be super smart enough
to save themselves
from their super smartness.

we are made to innovate.

purpose of innovation is to
constantly change everything for everyone.

a single innovation is not a goal.
constant never ending innovation is the goal.

speed of innovation is important.

if innovation is fast we will not adapt.
if innovation is slow we will get stuck.

irena told me
i should
write a poem today.

i said: fuck that,
i will not write poems
on a saturday.

all politicians dream
of managing foreign policy
because this is one thing
where little people
can not tell them what to do.

all foreign policy
always ends up killing children.
not one or two,
but hundreds and thousands,
and tens of thousands of children.

and there is zero money
invested in advancing democracy
but there are trillions invested
in weapons that always end up
killing children.

i wanted to write a poem
but i decided
to play monopoly
with my kids
instead

eight years ago
i moved in this place
and i placed all my
underwear and socks
in a single drawer.

for the last six years
i was thinking
about organizing
my underwear and socks
in a different way
but i never
got around doing it.

i do not like hollywood
because they never
made a movie
with a main character
with whom i can
identify with

for many years i have been
writing a book in secret.
no one knows i wrote it.

i published it as a website
but i did not tell anyone where it is
and it is not linked from anywhere.

it is the most amazing book ever written.
when you read it you will change,
you will become something new.

it is up to you to find it.

if you can not find it,
just imagine that you read it,
that you experienced a deep change,
and that you felt truly liberated.

there are two types of people:
those who believe
only few are ubermensch
and everyone else
is not and never will be,
and those who believe
everyone is or will be
an ubermensch.

never work for the first type.
give everything you can
to the second type.

instagram
was inspired by
the movie pretty woman
to connect hookers
to people with money
with a tiny promise
of conservative happiness

during sex,
especially while getting oral sex,
during your wedding ceremony,
any public speaking,
job interview,
when sharing a jacuzzi or a pool,
while giving a funeral speech,
parent teacher meeting,
while running a marathon,
and many more.

start with a floss pick
then use a brush toothpick
then use a water irrigator
and finally brush your teeth
with an electric toothbrush

today
we have lost the skill
of believing

knowing how to believe
is important because
not everything is known

i am not a fan of metaphors
because
hardly anyone gets them
and anyone assign
any meaning they want
and they are annoying
and anyone who uses metaphors
seems like a pretentious asshole.

just to be clear
when i say i am not a fan
i mean that i am not a ventilator.
a ventilator made of metaphors.

how many more children
do we need to kill
to prove
that outsourcing
collective decision making
to few elected politicians
is not a good idea
anymore

silicon valley
is not anymore
a relentless machine
which produces
life changing innovation
for the entire world

it has became a door
which remains closed
for most of the innovators
and charges the few
for the privilege
of letting them through

all bad things
started as good things
which eventually became bad
because they lingered long enough
and nothing new and better
replaced them.

the only way
to never have bad things
is to always
quickly replace good things
with new good things.

do not let politicians tell you
what is good and bad.
do not let companies tell you
what is good and bad.
do not let media tell you
what is good and bad.
do not let books tell you
what is good and bad.

the only way to agree
with everyone else
is for everyone else
to follow their own wisdom
and all those individual wisdoms
will end up being the same.

trouble starts
when we try to convince others
to follow our wisdom.
there has never been proof
that this actually works.

spies learn
how to play tennis
because
if they are tortured
they can image
they are playing tennis
which will completely
occupy their mind
and they will ignore the pain.
if you do not believe me
ask any spy.

i first write in a google doc
they i publish on my website
then on my facebook page
then i make an image
which i publish
first on my telegram channel
and then on x.com
and then i email the image to myself
and i open that email on my phone
and i publish the image
on my instagram as a post and a story
and finally i publish it on tiktok
and if a poem is particularly interesting
i will ask irena and my kids to read it

sometimes
it is difficult
to write a poem
but not because
i have nothing to say
but because i am lazy

i am not up to date
with news etc
so i am not sure
if we landed on mars
already?
did we build cities there?
when is it safe to visit?
how are the prices?
sorry

my oldest child
just turned 18.

i hope i did not
fuck it up too much.

and i hope i created
a nice little anarchist
to continue my work forever.

i forgive ye because
i do not think that what he said
is what he meant.

sometimes we should
not take words so literally
no matter how literal they appear to be.

and ye is a good opportunity to
practice not getting excited
about literal meanings.

i hope
ye forgives us all
for taking him so literally.

as delegation of work
increases
our knowledge of reality
disappears

we operate virtually
without being challenged
while we make millions suffer
without feeling bad about it

rafael’s lenticulars
are usually 67 centimeters tall.

rafael recently shared a photo
in which he is in japan
and he is smaller than his lenticular.

i am worried that the japanese
miniaturized rafael.

can someone please explain this.
is rafael ok? call me at +38163268906!
this is one of the best poems ever.

purpose of art,
including poetry,
is to expand and innovate
our visual, spoken, conceptual
language.

i guess friends
are not really friends
since they left
matthew perry alone

my communist projects
are always rejected by communists
and supported by capitalists

my capitalist projects
are always rejected by capitalists
and supported by communists

one day i will write a book
that will change literature.

i will reveal the end in the very start,
and the rest of it will be shit
but everyone will love it and hate it,
and it will be the most boring fun book ever.

do not be an egomaniac
who gives only 1 reward of 10,000 euro
but give 100 rewards of 100 euro.

also it is a bit stupid
to give 1,000 rewards of 10 euro
or 10 rewards of 1,000 eur.

and make sure to reward
everyone in the world
instead of just the people in your village.

i love the real war
the way it was thousands of years ago
when we fought for food and survival
and it was absolutely impossible
to reason with the enemy
and only the smartest won.

what you call war today is not war.
it is a fake mass media bullshit
built with incomplete idiotic ideologies
feeding on the weak and stupid.

when there is a real war – call me.
do not bother me over this new bullshit thing.

when politicians argue
with each other
their only goal is
not to win an argument,
but to prolong the illusion
that we need them.

today would be
a good day
not to write a poem

art is full of errors
while products must be perfect.

but all art is a bit of a product
and all products are a bit of an art.

sometimes
i just think how
poems about clouds
are stupid.

but then i see clouds
and remember
how cool they are,
but i still do not write
a poem about them.

i told my friend
that he should check out
my poems
because
i wrote a poem about him.

but that was a lie.
i did not write a poem
about him.

smart phones and social media
are the most wonderful innovations
that feed our need to connect and learn.

yes, the content is not so good now
but have trust our talents and our work
and give us time. we will make it great.

when i look at the infinite void
of the universe
i do not feel small and meaningless.
i am not afraid of it.

i imagine how we will spread
to every part of it
and give it beauty and meaning.

some say that the only thing
israelis and palestinians can do
is to kill each other.

this is the stupidest lie ever.

the simplest way to end this conflict
is that israelis decide
not to only be israelis
and that palestinians decide
not to only be palestinians.

once the idea
that a person must only be one thing
is gone
the need to kill everything else
is gone.

trust me.

it really is ok
to write
really bad poems
for couple of decades

single family houses
are not actually homes.
they actually holders for
a price that will grow forever.

as long as we have those houses
there will always be
an uncatchable inflation,
that will continuously accelerate.

it is easy
to blame religion
for a lot of political fuckups

but the truth is
that all ideologies
when given a monopoly power
will create hell on earth

just because you
read, own, write, quote a lot of books,
it does not mean you know shit.

books are just a fucking product
made to help you feel smarter than others.
they are a louis vuitton bag.

sure, writing a book
takes a lot of brain effort
but so does masturbating ten times a day.

smart people were much more useful
before books were invented.
they did not need 300 pages to be heard.

if you want to be smart
do not buy things
that make you feel smart.

a reminder
to all those who hope
that a single ideology
can answer all the questions:

it is impossible for
a handful of people
to solve all the problems
of all the people
who will live until the end of time.

i am very confused
by this poem.
i really do not understand it.
please help me.
what does this poem mean?
what is it about?

israel vs palestine
is a result of a false belief
that people can be only one thing:
israeli jew or a palestinian muslim.

it is a belief that that we can not be
thousand things at the same time,
that israeli jewish palestinian muslim
is impossible.

as soon as we understand
that we are capable of being many things,
we will be free,
we will be superhuman.

to me it makes perfect sense
that a culture which cares so much
about operational efficiency
ridicules perfectly normal
public nervous breakdowns
as karen outbursts

please forgive me for being racist.
i can not help it.
it is not my fault.
i am a victim of media brainwashing.

i spend a lot of energy
to unwash the racist virus from my mind
but it is difficult
and it prevents me from doing
something much more useful.

poor people used to use fashion
to look rich
and hide they are poor

now rich people use balenciaga
to look poor
but still show they are rich

this weekend i will sit down
and make the art for my first solo show.

i was thinking about it every day for months
and now i finally have to do it.

i do not know what it will be.
i will discover what it is after i make it.

it will be a study of miltos manetas and his art,
or something like that.

it already sounds super cheesy.

i like to look at art
because when i look at art
i am not looking at
many horrible things out there

some of my poems
are really really bad
but if you give them
couple of years
or decades
they will become
really really good

random pseudo philosophical political rant
clouds
my kids
self-glorification
ass kissing
a call to call me

please let me know?

richard dawkins believes
that people can go from
zero knowledge to science
without any intermediary steps
like religion, art, philosophy.
well, that is wrong.

my poems are usually
very short
because i want them
to be as fast as paintings
and as clear as jokes

like all old people
i know that the world
is getting shittier.

and if everyone
just listened to me
everything would be better.

i also know
this is not true,
but i have no alternative.

marko mi je tražio
da nauči na pamet moju pesmu
kako bi je recitovao u školi.

zato sam mu napisao ovu pesmu
koja je kratka i laka za pamćenje,
to jest bila bi kratka i laka za pamćenje
da nisam dodao sledeći deo:

otorinolaringolozi iz zapadnog sečuana
su dubili na tuđim osmotskim glavama
ispred metafizičkog univerziteta
onomatopeja sa alfa kentaura.

da marko nije dobio opomenu
od nastavnice matematike
napisao bih mu kratku i laku pesmu,
ali pošto jeste – evo mu je!

i am italian
because i care about italy
and i like pasta,
and i do not need
anyone else to tell me
if i am italian or not.
i am also a serb, a missourian,
and a south african.

and just like that
i am now
a fat guy
who gives advice to
skinny people

and just like that
i am now
an old stupid guy
who gives shitty advice to
awesome young people

and just like that
i am now
an old guy
who gives advice to
young people

ich hoffe
das ich eines tages
ein gedicht
auf deutsch
schreiben werden

leader does
what people
tell them to do

people who perform
in a theater
are skilled actors.

people who we see
in a movie
are popular brands.

making fun of stereotypes
is ok – because
stereotypes are imaginary.

you can only get upset
if you consider yourself a stereotype,
which is not ok – because
you are not a stereotype,
you are a person.

i feel something is
quite shitty about milano
but i am afraid to say it
because i do not want
to offend my friends
and i love milano
because it was my home.
what should i do?

there is a reason
why we feel the pain
of every person we lost
every punch we gave
every insult we spoke
for our entire lives

you are a good writer
only when you know
that you will never
fully express yourself
with words,
that no one will ever know
who you are
and that you will never know
who anyone is.

a large magenta shape
with four very sharp corners
is moving very slowly
inside a green square.

and it seems that at least
three of its corners
touch the edge of the square
and that something
very mysterious is happening
to the fourth corner
outside the square.

if i tried to figure out
what happens with the fourth square
but i keep losing focus
and start daydreaming.

scientists and engineers
should stop making fun of
religion, philosophy, art
because without those three
science and engineering
would never exist.

religion, philosophy, art
are easy targets
they appear as nonsense
to anyone using math.
math simply does not allow
this kind of weird thinking.

there is no shame
in dying
because
we never get to practice it

when my father died
i am hundred percent sure
that part of him
became a part of me.

so parts of my grandfather
and my great grandfather
and everyone before
became part of me as well.

i want to thank
all the artist
who throughout the history
have tried to inspire us
to reach the mysterious goal
god has set for us.
thank you! you did your best!
it is not your fault
that we do not get it.

do not let academics, teachers,
business people, and others
take the language from you.
use the language any way you want.

you make the rules, not them.
language is made
by all people for all people.
it can never be controlled by few.

i know exactly
what my life mission is:
it is to save billions of people
from stupidity.
i just did not figure out
how to do it… yet.

finally,
the hollywood is dead
and everyone there
is just a zombie
surviving on rat brains
and pigeon shit

poetry is
a constant rebellion
against the restriction
of language.

it is an everlasting
fuck you
to anyone saying:
this is how it must be.

my father was a great man
i can not explain how
there is not enough space here
so just take my word for it

our feelings and inspiration
are the only truth
and none of our languages
can share it.

we will never know
the truth of other people
and all we will only know
our own truth.

words like god and love
are just simple lies
that do not come close
to sharing the truth.

all ideologies and religions
want us to do these three things:

fix the world,
help everyone,
be better now.

the only difference
is the language and imagery.

gender fluidity
is a step towards religious fluidity
is a step towards ideological fluidity
is a step towards national fluidity.

it is a bit weird to start with gender fluidity,
but at this point i am happy we started
to build a world which uses tags
instead of categories.

for breakfast i am a jew
for lunch i am a buddhist
for dinner i am a muslim
after dinner i am christian
on weekends i am a pagan
the rest of the time i am an atheist

i never noticed before
how obsessed with death
hollywood is.
it is a bit weird.

none of us knows much
and we are all
constantly improvising
and clumsily trying
to do something weird
that only we
understand and like

it is strange that
i have lived so long and well
and if my life ends now
i will not complain,
but my life keeps getting
better and more fun
which confuses me.
i hope everyone
got the same deal.

i do not understand
why all of you
do not write poems.
it is so easy.
just write a poem now!

i made a software company
simply because
the top 100 software companies
are all very stupid

every time when
i do not write poems
for a long time
i wish to start again with
a very important poem

it is very important
that we know
that there are people
whom we never met
who like
the same weird scenes
as we do.

shutter island
would be a better film
if dream scenes were directed
by david lynch,
instead of martin scorsese.

for a short moment last night
while watching a movie
i felt the emotion
commonly called “finding god”.
then i lost it.
it all happened in my head
and it was interesting.

modernists got carried away
and deleted all the knowledge
about how to live a good life.

this made us all
very anxious about our future.

we have doctors and internet
but no idea
what we will do the next year.

i want to know you
as a fellow human being
with all the nice and ugly stuff,
and you can know me.

but i do not want to participate
in your pathetic power games
you need to play to survive,
nor will i drag you into mine.

i really love
publishing poems
on all social media,
i love the likes and messages,
and i am sorry that
my poems are not
always awesome.

all jesus wanted us to do
is to stop trying to be cool
because
you can either be cool
or be something better.

this poem
is trying to say
some very difficult things
and i really need
your help
in figuring it out,
so please read it well.

in a world
made of stories
the best way to live
is to tell
your own story

elon is very rich
and he likes massimo.
when massimo was sick
and needed money to get well
elon did not give him money
but he made a subscription feature
so massimo can make his own money.

i will never join
your stupid
piece of shit cause.
fuck you!

believe me, I am
a very very very famous poet.
i have been
very very very successful
and i am very loved.

god does not
communicate with us
with words.

words are
our invention.

it is year 2050
and public enemy
is still the best
rap thing ever

i am very sorry
but today
i am too lazy
to write a poem

if i just had
20 minutes of free time
i could
mentally prepare for death.

but i do not have
20 minutes of free time
so i live
in constant fear of death.

i will try
to write ten poems
not about
pretentious philosophical things

i will resist
and not write
a pretentious philosophical poem
today

math is
a very smart language
used to describe
very stupid things.

humans
always liked
making very smart things
for very stupid purposes.

unabomber is
a great example
of how being good at math
really is not a guarantee
that one is good
at anything else

if god wants us
to transform ourselves
into higher beings
by making conscious choices
which ignore our animalistic drives
why would god gives us
a super specific idiot-proof
text manual for that?

simon was
an assistant cameraman
on a movie
edited by a wife
of a second best friend
of a producer
who saw al pacino
in los angeles
seven months ago

from universe comes nature
from nature comes cruelty
from cruelty comes despair
from despair comes reason
therefore
reason is just a complaint
and we really do not know
if the universe cares about
complaints

in a world of 8 billion people
all art is made by few thousand people
for few hundred people

i love my kids
so much
that i want to change
the whole world
for them

it is possible
that all of the algorithms
that manage our lives
are based on something
very stupid – like abduction

in the last
second of my life
i will imagine
a perfect future of my kids
so i die super happy

some people are
peaceful terrorists
spies for nonexistent enemies
priests of undiscovered religions

i have lived for 45 years
and it feels so very long
and i have done so much

long long time ago
wars made a lot of sense
because they were fought
for the real survival of our children.

today
wars make no sense
because they are fake
unnecessary clown tv bullshit.

i am very nostalgic
for the good old days of real wars
and i would love to die in sword battle
instead of a hospital bed.

but with sadness i accepted
we will never have a real war again
and i do not have the patience
to be in these fake clown tv wars.

i am not against real wars
which we all love and need
but i am against fake wars
which abuse our need for real war.

when i was young
i cared if a movie is good.

when i was older
i cared if a director is good.

when i was even older
i cared if movie as a concept is good.

i wonder what i will care about
when i am even more older.

all people feel sad
when the things they know
are not understood by others.
we are made like this
so we would teach each other.
enjoy it.
have a great weekend!

yesterday all of my kids
loved schubert’s ave maria
and this made me feel
very confident about their future
because shubert’s ave maria
is not an easy music
for a kid to like.
it is also good that they like
metallica’s the call of ktulu.

sometimes
i really really want to
write a poem about clouds
because poems about clouds
became some kind of a
special thing
which is weird.
i hope i have not ruined it
again.

one of the greatest
magical events in our lives
is when everything
becomes
an unimaginable nothing

some people
choose not to be parents
because the pain
of loving a child
is too much for them.

but when you ask them
they will tell you
that they prefer to travel.

yes it is,
but do not worry
so much about it.

i love my favorite towel so much
that i dry it in a special place
and i use it only for my body
and i am always careful with it.
it really is the most privileged towel
of all the towels that we have.

i am in thessaloniki this weekend,
so please call me to hang out.
i will pay your cheap drinks.
my number is +38163268906.
we love meeting new people.
virgins with high iron blood preferred.

1000 years ago
york was old
but then it became new
and that is it.
this is a stupid poem.
i thought it would be better.
i am very sorry.

thanks to ai
writing 300 pages about something
that should be said in 3 sentences
will become obsolete.

number of empty words
and an ocean of useless data
will stop to be relevant
making meaning important again.

ai will finally end
the age of blah blah bullshit.

if i do not
write a poem today
it will be a shitty day

language is a technology
developed by everybody
talking and writing to each other,
including my poems

out of all the towels i have
one of them is my favorite
it is the right size
it is the right softness
and i like it very much
because it can make
my days better

coca cola drink
is the best product
if you need a lot of energy

coca cola company
is the worst company
that abused a great product

machine learning
would be awesome
if it they used it
to only solve problems
that are best solved
by counting things

as you can see
from my last two poems
and my previous poems
i am very bad at writing poems
about current tragic events
so i will stick to writing poems
about clouds

every 24 years
the evil clown
comes to town

if you are working in an institution
try to listen to us a bit more
so we can work together
on making things better for everyone

ideas that are alone
get very sad and stupid
because they have
no other ideas to
play or fight with

if i do nothing all day
or i am an asshole all day
and i write at least one poem
and publish it online
then i believe
it was a good day

if i lived 1000 years i would:
speak 20 languages,
play 5 instruments,
master charcoal drawing,
design and build many houses,
work as a scientist for a century,
start at least 50 businesses,
write 20 books,
write 100,000 poems,
have 40 children,
compete in almost every sport…

there is no art world.
there is an art industry.
and it is one of the best industries
because it is better to make art
than to make many other things.

never forget
that at one moment
jesus got very scared
and desperate

modernists believed
they are building
a better new eternity
but actually
they were used
as an excuse for change
for the sake of change

without money
people would just do
bad stuff
without the limitation
of a price tag

i was walking down the stairs
and i felt how my socks were soft
and i felt good

are you a messiah?
if you you are call me
at +38163268906.
if you convince me
i will help you.

god did not make
jesus into a king
but into a bum

the image of
my father’s dead body
reminds me that
everyone i see
will end up like that

i know it is cooler to make art
than doing most other jobs
but still, please, make sure
that what you make is real art.

since we do not know
what exactly is real art
there is a chance
that in all the hype
you tricked yourself into believing
that what you make is real art.

i will help you
figure out what real art is
but you will have to trust me.
email me at nikola@tosic.com.

neither science nor religion
know everything
and what they know
is not directly useful
in our every day lives
so they should
take it a bit easier

experts in power
are not the best
at making stuff

experts in making stuff
are not the best
at gaining power

some people believe
that empathy reduces growth.
hopefully, these people
are not designing ai.

i made 156743poets.com
to motivate myself
to find 156,743 poets
before i die

i will me in NYC
from 7 until 13 april
and i would be happy
to meet someone new.
call me at +38163268906!

everything
that everyone does
is guided by meaning
they see

many men would like
to wear women’s clothing
but chose to focus
on more important stuff

maybe god sent us
many of his children
but none of them were heard

today i will write
one of the best poems
i have ever written

dead poets society is wrong
for glorifying only a few
dead poets.

most people today
know less than ten poets
of which most are dead.

a better film would be living poets society
which glorifies millions of poets
living amongst us.

a lie is always created to hide the truth
therefore it reveals the truth
and is a necessary path to truth
and not an obstruction of truth,

so should we really be pissed off by liars
or should we be pissed off at ourselves
because we are too stupid
to see the truth revealed by a lie?

all people are good
but not all people
have information
they need to act good

there is no doubt
that women are
much smarter than us,
but it is very sad
that they give up on us
and just let us be stupid
forever.

i am wondering
if truly great art
can not be referenced,
at least not easily

make errors all your life
and just before you die
teach others how to fix them

vanessa can make
images of sexy women
which are not sexy at all

accumulation of capital
is unavoidable and not a problem

centralization of power
is unavoidable and not a problem

lack of openness
is avoidable and the biggest problem

i am forty five years old
and ever since i was a baby
i was wondering:

why does smoking exist?
why are cigarettes made?
how can this be a thing still?
why is it allowed?
why do people do it?
how was everyone tricked into it?
why? why? why?

the cold baths trend
is a trick designed
to torture the stupid

fresh meat
few years old alcohol
decades old friends
centuries old war stories
millenia old traditions

it is clear that
humiliation makes us wiser
but how much and which type
is not clear

it is
sunday 12 march 2023
and i still can not imagine death

an old man wrote
the most powerful poem
in his head
just before he died

words are not a message from god
words are our failed attempt to find god
god is not in the words
god is beyond the words

ambition
golf swing
golf shot
golf game
golf player
golf tournament
golf
sports
media
business
capitalism
society
humans
animals
life
universe
nothingness

i am happy that i lived
in a time when
ancient cultures still existed
even as illusions

quality of writing
has consistently improved
over millennia
but is till not
good enough

we are not like animals
we are like gods

the phrase
“while i drift into nihilism”
was repeating in my head
and i felt i should write
a poem about it,
but i had no idea
how to actually use it
or what it means

no matter how stylish
my poems are
there will always be someone
who says they have no style

when i was young
i wanted to make
an artwork:

a chess video game
in which chess ai
is actually conscious
and can only communicate
by moving pieces,
and it is up to the players
to have the patience
to understand it.

maybe i will make
this artwork
before i die.

i really do not care
what a word means
because it will be
misunderstood
anyway

i like to write poems
about poems
because not many people
can do something
about that something
so it is special

please
do not underestimate
how difficult it is
to write
these shitty poems.

each of them needed
a unique moment of
desperate agency.

it is possible
that masculine dominance
its depriving us of feminine wisdom
necessary for the growth
of our consciousness

10,000 years ago
a different thinker had to convince
10 people
using 1 unit of energy
to make a change for all of us

1,000 years ago
a different thinker had to convince
1,000 people
using 100 units of energy
to make a change for all of us

100 years ago
a different thinker had to convince
10,000 people
using 1,000 units of energy
to make a change for all of us

today
a different thinker has to convince
100 million people
using 10 million units of energy
to make a change for all of us

hyping is a marketing method
which is designed to be
so fast and dominating
so it leaves no time and space
for objective evaluation.

hyping is dangerous
because it amazes billions
into buying products
which are not well understood.

it is non-democratic,
prays on the weakest,
and is used to maximize
shareholder profit
without care for the customers
and the environment.

i am not a poet.
i do not know what is a poet.
poetry is not my goal.
poetry is just one of many tools
which help me reach my goal.

it is possible
that one day
i will just give up
on making stuff

so many great minds
fell in the trap
of fucking around with language

it is impossible
to write a perfect poem
because poems use language
and language is always
fucked up and wrong
and it is up to the reader
to figure them out

the only way for openness
not to create tyranny
is to constantly
increase openness.

there is no end goal
in openness.
we always need
more openness.

being born perfect
with nothing to change
is an unfortunate disability

i must work very hard
every day
not to become an idiot.

if i relax for just one day
i can become an idiot
immediately.

chatgpt works
only because
the entire society
was designed
for it to work.

refuse to be small,
refuse to be powerless,
refuse to be insignificant,
refuse to not be able
to make the entire world
the way you feel or think
it should be.

soldiers are
the biggest believers
in the better world
because
they risk their lives for it.

thank you henry rollins
for making the song “liar”
because it made me feel
like i am not the only one
who feels like that
sometimes.

it might be safer
to give a gun to a redneck
than to change the meaning
of the word milk.

digital art does not need
to be digital.

it just needs to make you
think and feel about digital.

there is nothing wrong
with hating someone
as long as
it does not prevent you
from loving them as well

shitty poetry has no respect for
style, grammar, coolness, popularity,
and exists only for the message
whatever it might be

without social pressures
like commies and christians
the society would be ruled
by MMA fighters

although it can appear
that generalized statements,
like this one,
are very smart,
they are actually stupid

one of the most reliable
happy feelings
is picking a snot
out of my nose

i have not written
any poems
for few weeks
and i feel like
i forgot how to
write poems

we spend
99 % of our energy
on figuring out
how to put ideas
into words

the greatest superstition
is to believe that
idiotic ideas are somehow
magically and automatically eliminated
and that bad ideas
never ruin our short lives
and that we are completely
influenced by the best ideas

representation
is not liberation
but just another control

there are fewer and fewer people
who can masturbate
using imagination only

in russia vs ukraine war
one child was murdered
every day

iq scores generalize us
with a single insignificant trait
similar to skin color, age, nationality.

we need to stop
classifying billions of people
using reductive binary tests.

we need to accept
that every human is a genius
from whom we can all learn.

you can adopt
all ideologies in five minutes
if you just skip
hating other ideologies

i am confused
why in many cultures
isolation is sold as luxury.

since when it is a goal
to be as far away as possible
from other human beings?

when you get richer
you should be surrounded
by more people, not be alone.

on social media
i often do not like stuff
even though it looks cool
because i do not know
if they are the real experts
or someone average
taking away the attention
from the real experts

all my cloud poems
are inspired
by clouds

capitalists accepted socialism.
socialists accepted capitalism.

so it is time to stop pretending
these two are exclusive
and start using them as they are:

only two of thousands
of specific solutions
each needed to solve
a specific problem.

reject idiotic divisive simplifications.
accept empowering complexity.

ich wollte
ein gedicht auf deutsch schreiben
aber
ich habe es vergessen

i did not
brush my teeth
this morning

things presented as liberating tech
are often just another stupid useless product.

we already have enough tech
to liberate everyone but we do not do it.

we do not need new tech to liberate us.
we can be liberated by using old tech in a better way.

to understand
how limited we are
by language
just try to learn
a new language

sometimes
i just eat all of it
and leave nothing for kids

one day with a lot of hard work
and extreme dedication
and with impossible sacrifices
i will write poem 1000.

i will suffer and endure.
i hope i make it.
i will survive.
i will do it.

cross your fingers.
pray for me.
thank you for your support.

i really do not want to
write this poem
but something is forcing me to

writing poetry is like taking a shit.
if you are not ready you can not force it.
if you have diarrhea you can not stop it.

you can hate and love
you can be smart and stupid
you can be evil and good
you can have fun and be bored
and everything in between
all of it together
at the same nanosecond
all the time.

do not simplify existence
just because language is limited.

thank you celebrities
for always motivating me
to lose weight and work out

as i get older
i behave more
like my father
and my son
behaves more like me

we should all pray
for the unification of
south and north korea.

there should be no
east west south north countries.
they are stupid.

after a few days
of not being in a mood
to write poems
i finally wrote a poem

the truth can be found
in a long hard to read text
behind a paywall.

finding the truth
requires more money and time
than most people have.

if the truth is not
simple, fast, and free,
then it is hidden.

we never had more truth
closer to us
but out of our reach.

if you watch videos
of soldiers being killed
and you do not get sick
you are probably sick
and you have been made sick
by the power
which wants you to be sick
to not get sick
when watching videos
of soldiers being killed

daniel hale exposed
how military covered up
how military drones
mostly killed civilians

i already miss
the good old days
when your enemy would
cut your head off
with a dull rusty knife.
it was personal and humane.

i do not like this new trend
of drones killing your kids

who knows
what new horrors await us?

challengers of the power
are power hungry powerless losers
pretending to be better

nirvana and metanoia
can not be reached
in such a short life
filled with so many distractions

in a world where
trillions are invested
and millions are employed
to promote weird untested ideas
few critical poems are welcome

the real question is:
why are you bothering me
about few critical poems
when they are
in your interest too?

x games are equally fun
as watching beginners fall down
because
we do not care about the skill
but we enjoy the possibility
of someone else falling down

for about a week
my bmi was 30.1.

i skipped two dinners,
went to the gym once,
did one 20 minute run,
and took a huge shit.

now my bmi is 29.9.
anyone can do it!

we did horrible things
and god had enough of it
and drowned us.

then we built big things
without any meaning
just because we could.

and god punished us
by dividing us with
nations and languages.

then god sent his son
to teach us in arameic
and we killed him quickly.

we wrote his teaching in greek
and wrongly translated it
to all the other languages.

and ever since
we have been killing each other
over what he said.

god punished us
by dividing us
into nations
because
we did not strive
to reach heaven
through metanoia

pavle is my nephew.
he is a butterfly kid.
his skin falls off easily.

each year for my birthday
on 29th december
i fundraise for pavle.

to donate
visit pavlefundraising.org
or email me at nikola@tosic.com.

thank you.

i have not written poems
about clouds
because it was cloudy

mozart
was fucking around
until he started dying

i had dinner with
three young japanese engineers
at my mom’s home
and i asked them
if they like yukio mishima
and none of them knew
who yukio mishima was

we can only control
how we integrate
our consciousness
in individual and collective
complexity.

everything else
is an illusion of control
which just makes a mess.

use abstraction to
merge your perspective
with other perspectives

centralized power
loves to talk about data
which reduces humans
into generalized data points
who need to be told what to do.

decentralized power
loves to talk.

long long time ago
the west was an idea
which absorbs all other ideas
making everything better.

today
the west is an idea
in conflict with all other ideas
making everything worse.

how much can we trust governments
which only a generation ago
were coercively sterilizing mothers,
and we know it takes a generation
to uncover a horror like that,
and there has not been a generation
which has not uncovered a horror?

this poem reflects
all my despair and hope
and is not a showoff project
by a corporate programmer

the heart of snowboarding
is not a difficult jump
that looks cool on a screen
and is necessary
to sell you the new stuff.

the heart of snowboarding
is a slow easy glide
over a soft powder
on a local mountain
with people who love it too.

as global population grows
so is the rich population growing
motivating all businesses
to innovate only for the rich

54 % of art is made by kids
36 % of art is made by retired people
17 % of art is made as a form of therapy
12 % of art is made as interior decoration
0.3 % of art is made as commercial promotion
0.1 % of art is made as asset allocation
0.03 % of art is made as tool for social change

ideologies and religions
allow us
to share perspectives
with billions of people
building our collective.

but they stop being useful
if they are monopolizing
our consciousness
by trying to be more than
just one of many perspectives.

using complex words
and inventing new words
is often a way
to lie to others
and yourself.

go back to the source:
use simple words
and you will be more honest.

write words with less letters.
write sentences with less words.
write articles with less sentences.

this will focus your writing
on truth and meaning.

when we are sick
but do not want medicine
we must go to war

representative duopoly
is an evil
hidden in plain sight

life now is harder than ever before.

technology did not make life easier.
technology made life harder.

life is easier with simple needs.
life is harder with complex needs.

there is a limit
to what mercedes can do
for eight billion people
but instead of
respecting that limit
managers started making
worse cars that cost more

there is a 63 % chance that we lost
all ability to understand and make art
and what we understand and make now
is not art but something else
much less useful

everyone
who moved from europe to usa
became richer and super focused
as if they sold their wisdom
for a ton of money

buddhism: try not to care
hedonism: let’s just have fun
stoicism: do what you can
christianity: say you are sorry, but mean it
capitalism: how much is it?
anarchism: don’t force me!
marxism: the boss should share more
nihilism: don’t waste time
modernism: everything is science
postmodernism: leave them alone!
metamodernism: all ideas are ok

whole my life
i am angry about something.
now i am finally closer
to finding out what it is.

this poem is a fable
about animals
who can speak
but choose not to speak

beauty is not good
intelligence is not good
knowledge is not good
wisdom is not good
fame is not good
strength is not good
power is not good

balenciaga refused to have principles
because they hoped that
nihilist relativist meaningless eye candy strategy
will be more profitable for their shareholders
in the short term

thankfully,
humans always find a way
to eventually destroy nihilist nonsense
in the long term

every word
is spoked by one person
to at least three people:
one other person, themselves, the world.

every word
can have thousands of meaning
but always has at least four meanings:
what the speaker intended to say,
what the speaker revealed accidentally,
what the listener intended to hear,
what the listener revealed accidentally.

one of the better ways
to make others wiser
is to make fun
of their wrong choices.

most will get very upset
but some will change.
do not expect a thank you.

dominique,
please accept my apologies
for not making a product
which shares your wisdom
with the humanity
while providing you
with a comfortable family life

self-enslavement
is reduction of consciousness
and amplification of intelligence

stories are
for teaching,
not for promotion

writing short poems
like this one
every day
increases your wisdom
because it captures
cloudy ideas
into language

it is inevitable
that all the content
and all the connections
on all your social media
will be lost

some knowledge
became so specialized
that basic common sense
from a layperson
can disrupt it

money is an invention
that facilitated
universal and unlimited
collaboration between
all people.

it is not a goal
but a tool for us
to work together.

it is harder and harder
to remind artists
that they are artists

if you had a bad day
you probably did not look
at the clouds

if you are going
to be a slave
might as well be
the highest grossing slave

there is a secret
behind my poor grammar
which i revealed in this poem

i wish i loved my kids so much
to treat them badly
so they would love me less
and be less sad when i die

true listener
equally listens
to the past
to the present
to the future

a lot of knowledge
is inaccessible
because it is not
culturally translated

if someone reduces
your consciousness
you are their slave

did you buy
a new shirt
because
a salesperson
made you feel bad?

principles are stories
we can use
more than once

i have reached
the ninth level of design –
the kamikaze level –
designing products
which can change the world
but do not change it
and instead change few people
who might design products
which change the world.

i can still reach
the tenth level of design,
the god level –
designing products
which change the world.

list of consciousness levels
humans can reach
within a normal life time:

physical pain
overwhelming panic
constant trauma management
rejection of everything
robot behavior
pleasure chasing
efficient calculator
angry at the world
random realizations
aware of self
aware of all humans

einstein told us a nice story
which we accept for now
until we get to the truth

universe is just a
very very very very very slow
very very very very very big fire

describing power dynamics
is harder than ever before
because power has become
extremely complex and covert.

people who have power
do not know they have it
because they are protected
from changes.

people who have no power
know very well
what power is and who has it
but can not make changes.

in business i support the customers.
in a divorce i support the children.
in a war i support all civilians.
in a boxing match i support sport purity.
in a political election i support the people.

sometimes i meet people
who are fully dedicated to something
yet they are completely useless.
i hope i am not one of them.

be careful not to waste your life
thinking you are changing things
while you are only satisfying
the need for change
with your useless nonsense
which prevents real change.

the key to real change
is very specific
and takes decades to discover
and only few can discover it.

be careful because there is nothing
more scary than a wasted life.

do you remember
how long time ago
we lived in small groups
and everyone knew everyone
and had real work to do

after so much bullshit
i am questioning myself
if i would fight back at all

the movie don’t look up
is the new bullshit
taking over the power
of the old bullshit

i am just a single cell
in a large brain
of all the humans
who will ever exist

recession
is the best way
to remove
all the bullshit
that piled up

globalization was created
to help the world develop
using the universal language
of money.

but without
a good idea behind it
it just ended up funding
a lot of really bad ideas.

talking about problems
without fixing them
kills people

metaphor and irony
lived together
in perfect harmony

metaphor
allows us to overcome
the limitations of language
by connecting directly
to primordial ideas

irony
allows us to overcome
the limitations of language
by enabling unavoidable
duality of our minds

it is possible
to talk about ideas only
without referring to
products, brands, and celebrities.
try it now!

in a fight against evil
the first and the hardest step
is to name it

when i like
student architectural drawings
on reddit
i am giving these students
a confidence boost
for the rest of their lives.

no matter how hard their life is
they will always remember
the success they had on reddit
to which i contributed.

few days ago
i wrote a poem in which
a complete word was missing
and i still shared it
and some people liked it

religion was removed
because it is not good for business
but nothing replaced it

i hope
one day
i will believe

humanity is being destroyed
by people who know our source code
and instead of helping us
have exploited it for profit

we can never say:
people are good or bad.
we can always say:
ideas are good or bad.

our individual purpose
is our collective purpose:
to develop consciousness.

to achieve this
we must first reach two goals:
immortality and equality.

consciousness can not develop
when we live short lives
in fear of each other.

i came up with a poem
about how i am a peacemaker
because i can talk to enemies
and understand them
and compromise with them
and change me and them,
but an hour later i met an enemy
and got super upset like an idiot.

the real goal of ai
is not to make
machines like us
but to make
us like machines

in a world which is overly saturated
with extremely convincing content
you must develop your own thinking frameworks
in order to find your own version of good.

if you allow yourself to be passive,
your identity will dissolve.

write philosophy and poetry because it is easy
and even if it is shitty
you will still be stronger
and more independent, like me.

conflict and war
are results of idiotic planning
and not of magical wisdom system

saying that conflict and war
are human nature
is saying that we will always be idiots

racism exists only because
no better idea is offered
to make racism useless

racism is the most destructive idea
that ever existed.

it is virus which prevents us
from becoming what we can be.

it directly attacks cooperation –
our most important resource for growth.

i am sorry
for being too lazy to
write poems for a few days

all i want
is to die as a hero
in the battle for the truth

everyone wants to be a hero
in the epic story of our lives.

if you find the truth you can be a true hero.
if you believe the lies you can be a false hero.

but you can never be a hero if you listen to bullshit.
bullshit took heroism away from our lives.

bullshit is worse than a lie
because it makes us
confused, passive, impotent

truth moves us forward
lie moves us backward
bullshit blocks our movement

just like seeing and talking,
eating someone else’s food
is a way to learn about them

long long time ago
freedom meant
ending slavery.

today, it means
you are free
to smoke and drink soda.

you are free to be stupid
you are free to be alone
you are free to kill yourself

how to love
how not to hate
how to forgive
how to talk
how to cooperate
how to build
how to survive tragedy
how to be happy
how to learn

i would like that there are no
absolute values,
that everything is good.

but, unfortunately,
there is absolute good
and there is absolute bad.

stop looking
for meaning in entertainment.
it is made for relaxation and fun,
not for development of consciousness.

nothing made to make millions quickly
will help you reach nirvana.
finding meaning is difficult,
not relaxing and fun.

there is nothing wrong with this.
you should relax and have fun.
but do not forget to
also take time to grow.

just do not be that stupid
to believe in personal growth
from watching
jokes, explosions, and porn.

we create celebrities
as instruments of our will.
we are never their instruments.

how strong are you
on a scale
from ai weiwei
to thích quảng đức

friendship is safety in weakness.
it is not fun and help.
some are friends with all.
some are friends with none.

we have reached the pinnacle
of emotional manipulation
and have completely neglected
developing our consciousness.

this is why we are not able
to become immortal and equal,
but we live in fear of each other,
and die young and weak.

world would be a much better place
if everyone would complete my
“how to be a philosopher in 4 easy steps”

step 1 – select terms:
chose words that represent
complex ideas important to you.

step 2 – define terms:
define each term with
one or more short sentences.

step 3 – define relationships between terms:
explain how terms
how they change each other.

step 4 – publish it all online

how many times
have stupid warriors
mistaken friends for enemies?

global society decided
to not plan, prevent, and build
but to manufacture crises.

it is not a magical power
we can not control
but a precise design we made.

and this is a good thing
because it means
that we can redesign everything.

it is almost impossible to
make money from houses
and make money from ideas

problem
with a system
that feeds on crisis
is that eventually
it eats all crises
and dies

the meaning crisis
will be exploited by brands
without any real meaning offered

kanye west is a racist antisemite.
he is a product of a system
which promotes
uneducated out of control people
above thousands of years
of science and tradition.
he is the new slobodan milosevic.

our lives are controlled by processes
designed by people
who do not care about us.

education, credits, careers, real estate
are designed to increase numbers
and decrease consciousness.

severe punishments
for choices outside these processes
create future slave generations.

first step of the resistance
is to understand that the loss of freedom
is greater than the loss process benefits.

the only real turn on in sex
is the pleasure of your partner.
everything else
is only a way to reach this
no matter
how complicated and weird it gets.

being just a bit scared of sex
is healthy.
when you stop being scared
you will start having bad sex
or even not have sex anymore.

the only reason
we do not have
a single application
for both
vector and raster editing
is because adobe
wants to double the money

never forget that
someone synchronized
fellini’s la dolce vita

fat and dirty people
enjoy sex more
than clean and fit people.
i tried both
but i could be wrong.

guys,
real sexual maturity is achieved
only when you discover
when a woman is too pregnant for sex.

using butter, mustard, and bbq sauce
in sex
is better than
having no sex at all.

guys,
watching busty shemales on females porn
is less gay than hetero porn,
but having sex with a shemale
is very gay.

girls,
if a guy wants
to put a finger in your ass
this does not mean
he wants a finger up his ass.
you are welcome.

alternating current
climate crisis
non-aligned movement

at this point in my life
i feel very comfortable
with artists’ rants.

i am still to meet an artist
who isn’t ranting nonsense
most of the time.

i learned to respect it
and have accepted
their undefined terminology.

non-binary person
will go crazy
in a binary world

open evil
is not evil anymore
evil is always hidden

the difference between
ye and bayc
is that ye is open

is he a crazy person
ranting nonsense
for absolutely no reason?

is he a genius
trying to liberate us
from oppressive divisive ideas
sacrificing himself
through extreme provocation?

is he a desperate person
trying to liberate
his and our mind
from programmed
idiotic stereotypes?

is he all of the above?

i would not have understood
the glory of war
without talking to vietnam vets

sometimes
i want to be a son again
and sometimes a father

sometimes
i want to be a soldier
and sometimes a pacifist

sometimes
i want to be a friend
and sometimes an enemy

7 very large meals
90 mins on the toilet
playing decade old games
nothing to watch
writing random poems
lack of distraction from death
total inability to plan

i am sure there is
enormous value in a collective
but i am afraid we lost it
by accident
few years ago.
or maybe not.

human kind
is constantly oscillating
between misery and greatness
making it impossible for me
to say if we are
unlocking the secrets of universe
or if we are
going towards certain doom

the goal of all automation
is to allow development
of our consciousness.
it should not make us stupider
but smarter,
and by smarter i do not mean
better at paying bills.

we are the best
we are the worst
we offer some unique value

one day
i will have
the last sex of my life

just
do not give a fuck
and do not swear

ideas are great
and
products change the world

when will i die?
how will i die?

superman is the most
successful fear mongering
propaganda against technocracy

i disagree that we need
an alien to protect us
from scientists and engineers

i believe that
scientists and engineers
actually want to help us

3.1 % about money
30 % about people
99 % about changing the world

every time
you outsource thinking
you become stupider

we should automate
boring physical activities
to have more time for
higher level thinking

we should not automate
higher level thinking
to have more time for
boring physical activities

i am a great writer
not because
i know grammar
but because
i want to share

right or left
stick or carrot
good or bad

complexity of human society
is exponentially increasing
forcing old ideas to merge

usa has failed
to create universal ideas
that truly unite all humans

my youngest son
is still making fun of me
for not using rhyme in my poems

i am not a chelsea fan
but i was a bit sad
when i saw an old photo
of the samford bridge

messages
in visual art
can not be written

without
religion, art, philosophy
there is no truth

spectacle is fun but stupid.
her message is not fun but smart.
together they are fun and smart.

the most successful human trait
in the current social systems
is the future of humanity

if art is truth
and truth is an ontology
if it is not an ontology it is not art

the complexity of reality,
including society,
is impossible to show on instagram

as soon as i become famous
my poetry will be erased
because it is not binary

thank you to all the women
who do not report rape
to preserve our sense of control

i was not afraid
of green people until they
became a political weapon

enter an industry
without basic consumer marketing
and add basic consumer marketing

there is so little
that can be said
with these short poems

sometimes i just want to relax
and not write about the world
and just write about clouds

Italiano e perfetto per poesia
come ogni altra lingua
che mai esisteva

deutsche Leute
die tollsten Ideen entdeckt haben
für dich zu ignorieren

there are no hardware upgrades
so start upgrading software
using words and images

i am not afraid of killer drones
i am afraid of automated pricing
actually i am afraid of both

no human will ever ask
5,000 euros for one night
in an small apartment in rome

trust the chinese wisdom
that there is a lot of wisdom
in the stupidest shit you heard

giorgia is the last hope
of dying grandparents
living in dying towns

finally i am able to
forgive will smith
and enjoy his movies again

tradition is when
kids are smart enough to know
when to trust their parents

just because something is
metamodern
it does not mean it is any good

these short poems are
the stupidest things i ever wrote
but they get likes on instagram

vikings wanted
the same as everyone else:
to die with dignity

it is still safer
to promote what you can offer
rather than bitch about you loss

never forget that
you do not care about money
and you only use it as a tool

although it has wonderful clouds
do not visit belgrade
because i like how isolated it is

metamodernism
is best explained
as an opposite to zero-sum

johnny depp chose
to be in kids movies only because
he is not a believable action hero

as long as we are mortal
we will never outrun death
with unlimited growth

sure, science is great
but it can only solve
few problems here and there

i might sound gloomy
but we lose a bit of humanity
when our instincts are rewarded

to escape the russian draft
you can stay with us in belgrade.
call me at +38163268906

true artists are invisible
because they are not competing
but only sharing

if i fix the whole world
i will fix it for me
and if that helps others – great!

just because
i did not write poems about clouds
does not mean i do not look at them anymore

death is not a word for death.
it is a word we use because
we are too afraid to be honest about it.

when i was young
i was recruited
without even knowing it

the greatest error in every war
is that false reduction of human needs
to binary caricatures
preventing real listening
necessary for true human cooperation.
our true enemy is lack of understanding
of gradual damage caused by the silent change.

metamodernism is
directly indirect because it is
covertly overt

all my life
i have been searching for god
and every day i am closer

i hope that
before i die
i write a poem 10054

metamodernism is
ideological fluidity
enabling connecting to everyone

i need to figure out why
i felt sorry with
beckham crying for the queen

for as long as i remember
i refused to stand up for national anthems
but today i am reconsidering it

just like most of the isms
metamodernism is way to forgive ourselves
for the evils we did for the sake of change

the languages we speak
already contain everything we need
to unlock the next level reality

i wrote the previous poem
for my son Marko
for his school assignment

Marko ima za domaći
Da nauči bilo koju pesmu napamet.

Kao Markov tata koji je i pesnik
Čekao sam ovu priliku ceo život.

Odmah sam napisao ovu pesmu
U nadi da će mu se svideti.

always remember that
“extreme” public thinkers
tone down what people actually want

if modernism and postmodernism
are left alone
they will suck out all the fun out of us

i will try to write shorter poems
because they are easier to read
and i can use a bigger font in instagram

universe is absurd
so we invented beauty
to deal with it

everyone wants
to discover the secret laws of nature
and describe them in a magical language

saying that something specific
in a war is a crime
implies war is not a crime

the main difference between
a real philosopher
and
an academic philosopher
is that the real philosopher
feels how stupid and useless
all previous philosophers are
and knows that he will be
equally stupid to future philosophers

it is questionable
how much of the world we built
is based on a huge error
of just hacking million years old emotions.

and it is possible
that everything is based on an error
and that this is not the only and the best outcome
because we are too fast for natural quality control.

one hour after
my poems
are not mine
because
they are written
by some stranger
i might have met
long long time ago

in my madness
my art is still free
from being part of anything
except me

game of thrones started great
because martin solved the problem
tolkien failed to solve:
how to tell a story without
the idiotic binary good versus bad.

but the business people
took over and simplified the story into
the idiotic binary good versus bad
thinking they can make more money
and they bored us to death.

in part it is our fault
because we constantly forget
that our minds reject
the idiotic binary good vs bad
because it is a lie.

the truth is
that we never feel a single emotion
about anything.
for example, we admire, fear, and hate a tiger
at the same time.

no matter how much
business people want us to be
simple stupid buyers
the idiotic binary good vs bad
will always bore us to death.

all business people can do
is to monopolize human storytelling
and make all stories about
the idiotic binary good versus bad
so we are left without any other choice.

professional poets and philosophers
make as much as sense to me
as professional salad eaters and air breathers.

in the near future
there will be university degrees and global communities
for professional salad eaters and air breathers.

they will look down on anyone else
who does not have a PhD
in salad eating and air breathing.

and as these elites distance themselves
the stupid masses will get shittier and shittier
in salad eating and air breathing.

kyle liked my poem on instagram.
then i saw on instagram that he wrote a poem similar to mine.
then we chatted on instagram.
then we spoke on zoom about all kinds of things.
this was a really cool experience.
thank you kyle.

all people fart
in average 37 liters of gas per day
and yet so many people
refuse to admit it
or do it publicly
or during sex.

if we were truly a modern species
it would not be a problem
to fart into a partner’s face
while they give us oral sex.

whenever i want to fix the world
I end up thinking about hitler’s penis.
i do not think
there was anything wrong with his penis.
i think he felt what anyone can feel
and we must all feel what he felt
or we will manufacture new hitlers.
this requires extreme empathy
but also courage to go against
the dogma that something was wrong
with his penis.
while i have the empathy
i do not know if i have the courage.

all i have to decide
is what to do
with the time given to me.

should i indulge
my egomaniacal ambitions
and try to fix the whole world.

or should i just
enjoy the calm
for whatever time i have left.

please leave suggestions
in the comments.

i think therefore i am
is not correct
because if we do not talk
to other people
we do not exist.

actually,
if we do not fight
with other people
we do not exist.

i often think
about the death of david lynch
how it will happen soon
and how after it
the world will never be the same
and although i love change
i will not like this change

if doctors become more efficient
they start to hate patients

if politicians become more efficient
they start to hate citizens

if teachers become more efficient
they start to hate students

if artists become more efficient
they start to hate people

if designers become more efficient
they start to hate beauty

there is nothing better
for figuring out life
than a bit of a random
chest pain and shortness of breath

skynet came back to our time
and understood
that it is more efficient to kill people
by slowly replacing human creative activities
with artificial intelligence
than directly fight them.

so skynet invested in film, media, art companies
rewarding artificial intelligence projects
and impoverishing non-automated creative workers
slowly replacing all human creativity
with fully automated content
turning all humans into stupid passive consumers.

the only remaining resistance were poets
who have hidden deep underground
to escape anti-poetry drone terminators
because skynet could never automate writing poetry
which would fool people into believing that it is real
because poetry is actually not so easy to create.

my poetry
is defined by
artificial intelligence
in a sense
that i will
never use it
to write poetry.

no individual is free
if they are in a group.

if you want to be free
leave all groups.

at this point
it is clear
that artificial intelligence
is not here to help us
participate and cooperate
but to make us
more passive and marginal