“It’s the nature of the wise to resist
Pleasure, & the foolish to be [its] slave
[For certainly the good must persist
(& the weak to hide in luxury’s cave)]”
#Epictetus
#PhilosophyPoem
#ComicPoem

“Pecuniary emulation drives
Consumers to spend more on displays
Of wealth and status symbols, [to prize:
(]Opposed to more useful commodities[)]”
#ThorsteinVeblen
#PhilosophyPoem
#PecuniaryEmulation
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen

Cities can be paradises
When individuals accept others
Leaving people to their own devices
(Honestly most mistakes no one bothers)
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
#ComicMap
#Queens

Insanity fertilizes
People’s unholy ambitions
Whilst laziness utilizes
Our inhuman demolitions
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
#Redeemer

I’m trapped here in this near perfect world
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem

Anybody & Evérybody
Will go to evéry & any length
To dodge & evade, all things G_dly
(The modern soul seems to lack strength)
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
#ComicPoem
@philosophors
@QuoteJung

We all carry modernity’s troubles
Either on top* of our craniums
Or in a shopping cart with bottles
(Ignore• quotidian geraniums)
#SelfiePoem
#SelfieSonnet?
#comicpoem
*in front
•forget

We haven’t found the abyss quite yet
But humanity’s still excavating
Our insanity hasn’t been met
(People are still deprecating)
#HeadlinePoem
#ComicPoem
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/20/queens-man-facetimes-nephew-as-he-stabs-wife-2-year-old-daughter-to-death-report/