Short Egotism Poems

Kees van Dongen
a futurist in art way back then
Placed himself on par with Matisse
shame how egotism can never cease...

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when speaking the truths
 is called " bad attitudes , " 
arrogances 
or egotisms, 
remember that some victim players
are on different stages....

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Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pains of stupidity

   It lowers the shield that lets one think they have complete validity...

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Nothing embarrassing have I ever done
Nothing stupid or silly under the sun
Never my own horn did I toot
My perfection you can't dispute
I've out lived everybody who could tell anyone...

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"You have to listen to my opinion."
"No I don't. Go away."
"But my opinion is highly informative."
"No it isn't. Don't care."
"I know so much more than you do."
"About your own boogers maybe."...

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Egotism 
is far from altruism,  
it's sustained by a glory so vain and fragile; 
amassing wealth as the impulsive imbecile... 
shunning a guilt so perceptible. 
Their riches were to be shared by many: 
to prosper, love and pray 
trustfully....

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LUCKY

wish
you'd best watch
cause you could feel
lucky

truth
be prepared
cause you could meet
regret

life
consciousness
by human standards
egotism

old
archaic word
a timeless tradition
genetics



to blind the horizons of synthetic normalcy
or deafen the boundaries of a static establishment...

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Academicians …
masticating and
 grinding their ‘truth’
Spewing out
what they would have us swallow
in gagging choking egotism
Regurgitating it back
in the toxic chunder
of a narcissistic reality
Papering the walls
of modern thought
with the bibs of their retching 
As they hide within
their ivory towers
—festering in mass 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: September, 2023)...

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The clouds pass silently above
On their way to infinity;
Sojourners drifting in the sky;
Compliantly acquiescent
to whims of dominating winds.
Our paths to perpetuity
are like those hovering above:
Short time stays in this dimension
crammed with egregious egotism;
Marvel at insignificance
as though it were significant.
Our egos pass, notwithstanding,
into amnesic nothingness....

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What I have in my bag
is a very glittering gift
I want to enjoy it alone
but something says “back off”

This gift in my bag is golden
no human can resist egotism
to share is a nightmare case
all I desire is enjoy it alone

Truly much love I have for it
but it is not my thing alone
people gave it in good faith
yet in bad faith I possess it 

For common good power is 
but an opium it is once got...

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The gods looked down upon the plebes
and roared a loud thunderous laugh.
Those arrogant humans never
Learn. They spend precious time flirting
Audaciously with foolishness;
They set their eyes toward heaven
And expect to achieve greatness.
By whose precious standards do they
Trust determining their greatness?
Their own supreme egotism
Suffices as their bellwether
And so therein lies their weakness
A trait exclusively human....

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A nasty, string of wood carvings
Bellowing scripted atrocities
Successfully distracting the masses.
The village idiot has risen to power
Playing the part with inflated lungs of egotism
Against the backdrop of looming globalism.

Greedy, seedy, needy, speedy, targets
Of wasted life in the hot sand.
He tries to build a castle
Only to have it blown away by the dry wind.
Dry wind, the bad breath of evil
The falling of another empire....

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A selfish yes
An unkind no
Blind eye to pain
Deaf to insane.

Pray how 
does one retrace
for to find    that forgotten face 
to touch   that trembling hand
the soft unheard   to hear
the blank unseen   to see.

Pray how 
does one unchain
a lifetime of links   serpentine...
    I hooked to me
    me addicted to I
I for me
and me for me.

All the ways and all the days
all   of the all   of everything
that always be
just for me....

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Zen is without 
                    symbolism 
                                        and egotism.
Not all haiku is Zen
                    but all Zen is haiku. 
                                        Zen is less awareness; 
without filter
                    or screen; 
                                        live in the present moment; 
quiescent in
                    the calm 
                                        of contentment....

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