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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

after two decades
of writing poems
i am still not sure
if i should write numbers
as digits or words

when read silently
the brain hears numbers
in both cases
the same way

it is easier to read digits
but maybe not so pretty