avatarIsak Dinesen

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“We have art so as not to die of the truth.” -Nietzsche

Author’s photo of carved cattle skull
Author’s photo of carved cattle skull

If the question be art, beauty is necessity staring down dread.

If the answer be art, let it bind our wounds.

If you make art, be recklessly un-ensconced.

If you mock art, you will return to weep.

If you fall into art, there will be no hand holds.

If you are death, be filigreed and frowned.

If death silences, chimeric words will crackle from the page.

If death is unpublished, bastards will have their wicked posthumous way.

If death whispers, it is to command life.

Any death but death from truth.

Author’s photo of Dunedin Graveyard, New Zealand
Illumination
Poetry
Death
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Nietzsche
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