afraid


1191 universe is ours

when i look at the infinite void
of the universe
i do not feel small and meaningless.
i am not afraid of it.

i imagine how we will spread
to every part of it
and give it beauty and meaning.




1163 milano 2023

i feel something is
quite shitty about milano
but i am afraid to say it
because i do not want
to offend my friends
and i love milano
because it was my home.
what should i do?




836 i am afraid of green people

i was not afraid
of green people until they
became a political weapon




829 artificial intelligence is scary

i am not afraid of killer drones
i am afraid of automated pricing
actually i am afraid of both




805 there is no word for death

death is not a word for death.
it is a word we use because
we are too afraid to be honest about it.




720 salvador dali

i write poems
which salvador dali
was too afraid to write

someone fifty years from now
will write poems
that i am too afraid to write




super shitty poems

i am getting
more stylish and less shitty
at writing poems
which is not good
because i like my poems best
when they are super shitty.

i wish i could go back in time
to when i was super shitty
and stay there forever
because i am afraid of
becoming even more stylish.




delphine lecompte

she is so scary
that i am afraid
to even write a poem
about her




why writing poetry is important

if you accepted
that your true self,
your thoughts and emotions,
should be forever isolated
in the chaotic darkness
of your mind
then you should never write poetry.
i am not saying
that you will ever be
fully understood
by another person
but if you do not write poetry
you will surely never really exist.
it takes so little to write poetry
and the gains are so big
so the only reason not to do it
is if you are afraid
that others truly know you.
but this is very paranoid and insecure.




predicting the future

easiest way
to predict the future
is to speak of things
everyone is
deeply afraid of