RE-EVALUATION: A few thoughts about human nature Men are dickheads – or buddhas perhaps waiting to awaken instead. Dust covers human hearts, yet we also have capacities to learn & make fresh starts. Humans have crap in their brains, yet we also have seeds of greatness that shouldn't be disdained. Humans can be seen in multiple ways: fools – savants, heroes – villains, daredevils – cowards . . . what use is labeling? Can we transcend such nonsense & return to our original simplicity? Can we transform our consciousness from a boisterous "I" – into a more beautiful "we?" Wan-Sze: (sighing) I feel confused. Is this poem is saying anything profound or simply bullshitting around? Will: (scratching his nose) Perhaps a bit of both? Humans often contain contradictions that seem inexplicable. Nadia: (coughing) Regardless of what the author is saying, there's the question of the audience. Most poets write for extremely limited audiences, and how many readers give poems their full attention? Kasim: (yawning) . . . Essentially, authors write for themselves. Poetry is mental masturbation and mere wordplay. The only "real" poetry is silence – all else is noise. ===================================================================================== from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields Summary: A series of contrastive reflections about human nature and poetry. Keywords: human contradictions, human limitations, meta-poetry, transcendence uthor: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2005 in Tokyo, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Shizuoka, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/amber.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/HowWeird/winged.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL https://www.tnewfields.info/es/reeval.htm NIHONGO https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/saihyouka.htm ZHŌNGWÉN https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/pingjia.htm