...Scruples from the Underground...

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In violent times...

You shouldn't have to sell your soul

In black and white...

They really really ought to know(just don't
know)

Those one-trick minds...

Who took you for a working ****

Kiss them goodbye...

You shouldn't have to jump for joy

(jump jump jump jump jump)

You shouldn't have to (shout) for
joy(shout)

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Shout 2000,

Disturbed.

...Satire...

And then, there was no need?

There was only the joy of entertaining self-affliction.
Of hysterical pens spitting ink on lined-pages… pages lined with such droning symmetry, they give you a headache – monodirectional.

Just like monotoned songs and monosyllabled lectures.

There was joy of Liberation.
Of not knowing your anima or animus.
Of running stark naked in steaming rain.
Of no role: divine or circus-assigned.
Of bleeding green blood and laughing at that.
Of that sweet, violent Liberation.

Of the world bursting into a million lit speckles,
Of each blasted synapse, tearing down your royal clocks, moment by moment,
Of love – ah, so cold and furious, makes you bite your lip.
Of volatile earth-shakes, soul-quakes.

And again – the rise of that selfless, endless rain



… Why did God create poetry?
Or, did poetry create God?

Or is this just a trick of insincere, self-deceiving linguist?
Or won’t you ever know the answer?
Or won’t you ever know that you cannot know and still continue to want to know.

To have.

Or no, never to have. You must never desire to h.a.v.e.

Your cold-showers, walks-on-flames, joys of open, green, gangrene-ridden wounds bear witness to your acidic strength of never-to-h.a.v.e.


You have no needs.

None.




And then…
At that instant in narration…
They will come in their chariots.
From deflowered skies and frayed earth-
They will bring plastic food, clothes and a satire on something they call love.


Love – Designer made.
Carved, waxed, wrapped in wood recycled from coffins.

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And they will touch you.
Touch you – oh, dear God – right where you must n.e.v.e.r be touched.
And you will burn with that cold bite.
Burn anew, you dead, infantile wick.


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And there will be pagan celebrations…
To the gods of Forgetting and Retrograde Inhibitions.
Of desires.


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All your lessons of green wounds will disappear with screams of crispy fresh fears and repressed, lip-biting cries.

Receding slave…

You.
Feel beautiful, at least.

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...Teacher : A Paragon, in Classical… Forever-al Learning...

“Knowledge without action is like a glowing wick,
It gives light to others, but dies burning, itself…”

Whoever takes up the profession of teaching should observe the following duties:

· (A teacher) should show kindness and sympathy to the students and threat them as his own children… (while) a father is the immediate cause of this transient life, a teacher is the cause of immortal life. A teacher ruins himself and also his students if he teaches for the sake of the world.

· (A teacher) should not seek remuneration for teaching but nearness to God. Wealth and property are the servants of body which is the vehicle of soul of which the essence is knowledge and for which there is honor of soul. He who searches wealth in lieu of knowledge is like one who has got his face besmeared with impurities but wants to cleanse his body.

· (A teacher) should not withhold from his students any advice. After he finishes the outward sciences, he should teach them the inward sciences. He should tell them that the object of education is to gain nearness to God, not power or riches, and that God created ambition as a means of perpetuating knowledge which is essential for these sciences.

· (A teacher should) dissuade his students from evil ways with care and caution, with sympathy and not with rebuke and harshness … (since the latter)… destroys the veil of awe and encourages disobedience.

· (A teacher) shall not belittle the value of other sciences before his students. In fact, the teacher of one learning should prepare his students for study of other learnings and then, he should observe the rules of gradual progress from one stage to another.

· The students should not be taught things that are beyond the capacity of their understanding. The Prophet SAW said, “When a person speaks such a word to a people who cannot grasp it with their intellect, it becomes a danger to some people.”

· (A teacher) should himself do what he teaches and should not give a lie to his teaching. Hazrat Ali said, “Two men have broken my back, the learned man who ruins himself, and the fool who adopts asceticism. The learned man misleads people through his sins and the fool through his evil actions.”

Acquisition of Knowledge, Chapter One,
The Book of Worship, Volume One,
Imam Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum-id-Din