Trust the Science

Mar2

True scientific practitioners speak forth and create positive reality through New Thought, lest base animal magnetism join with carnal error to cancel our natural right, as children of Divine Mind, to healthful perfection of body and soul.

Negative mental influences shall not deter. Sickness and mortality have no dominion. Malevolent mesmerism and witchcraft shall be returned from whence they proceeded. Error shall be cast down by sheer delusion of positivity. Maleficent magnetism must eternally fail. I send your foul animal magnetism right up your Phineas Quimby; you will then recognize that Christ was indeed a scientist, and his prophetess, Mary Baker Eddy, classic New England neurotic hypochondriac, a heretic.

New Thought: old hat

Get thee to a Reading Room. Fast.

Revival Revulsion

Mar8

Bark like a rooster, roar like a chicken
Fake those healings till we sicken;
Churchy frenzies, righteous quavers—
Charismaniacs and ravers.
Holy laughs from Howie Browne
Lame libations: drink it down
Until you sprawl on the temple floor
searching for God’s own unlocked door.

PROMPT 2:

write a poem based on an obscure and interesting English word.

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a neurological condition that causes outbursts of uncontrolled or inappropriate laughing or crying. It is also known by other names including emotional lability, pathological laughing and crying, involuntary emotional expression disorder, compulsive laughing or weeping, or emotional incontinence.

Pseudobulbar Paroxysms

Apr2

PROMPT 2:

write a poem based on an obscure and interesting English word.

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a neurological condition that causes outbursts of uncontrolled or inappropriate laughing or crying. It is also known by other names including emotional lability, pathological laughing and crying, involuntary emotional expression disorder, compulsive laughing or weeping, or emotional incontinence.

Landscapes of Nothing

May28

The majestic grandeur of hope and opportunity of the painted landscape was rendered down into navel-gazing eternity by Mark Rothko‘s landscapes of nothing. Without the background of the centuries of written word that these paintings have come to replace, our pop culture viewing the Western civilization Visual Cliffs Notes can imagine whatever meaning their shallow minds can conceive.