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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

i hope
one day
i will believe

one day
i will have
the last sex of my life

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

miltos is a level three villain
in the art video game.
you need to beat him
to reach level four.
there are seventy six levels.
i am still at level two.
rafael is level forty two.
my kids are level one.

let me try put this life lesson
into a semi decent poem:
the main thing about
the things you have
is that they cost more
to keep then to get.
and i am not talking about
houses and money and that stuff.
hope that makes
some sense to someone.

i want emotion
i want life
i want to change everything
i want to be the chosen one
i want to succeed
i want to be loved
i want to love
i want to become
a nuclear weapon of love
i want to live forever
i will live forever
i will never die
and everybody will love me
every second of my neverending life
will be an extreme explosion
of wonderful emotions
time is nothing
love it everything
because i am buying
this toothbrush