and it's like -
where humor -
can't go -
because -
in all seriousness -
there's no humor there -
and so it goes -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and sometimes -
it's all just -
marketing -
to re-brand -
fast enough -
to surf -
the flow -
of breaking -
hype-cycles -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

the spectacular -
heart -
in the body -
of-politics -
marketing reality -
out-satires -
satire -
#micropoem

a new cancer drug called eFT508, and the ketogenic pathway, preventing the body from metabolizing fat. When the scientists combined the drug with a ketogenic diet in an animal model of pancreatic cancer, the cancer cells starved.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-fasting-ketogenic-diet-reveals-vulnerability.html

8/19/024 - Full Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2024/08/819024-full-moon.html

pondering -
the rigor -
of fairing -
of judgments -
is measured -
by the wholeness -
of accounting with -
compassion - -
of the situation -
and all entangled -
dependent arisings -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

she has -
a quality -
of another actor -
a resonation -
of vibe-alive-allure -
strong-sultry -
in-control -
has rigor -
to fair -
her judgment -
and wants -
and insights -
the stroke-of-love -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

an odd -
curiosity -
following performers -
and public-expressions -
and re-veiling -
degrees-of-body -
and how rare -
it has been -
seen -
in the general-public -
stream-screen -
all-conditions -
of the male -
per-form -
of its own honesties -
as aesthetic-gravity -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

fascinating -
been drinking -
red-wine -
all night -
i must be -
drunk-ish -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and pondering -
how conditions are shaped -
such that -
in them -
a person -
would be willing -
to give their life-for -
changing -
and-or preserving -
social-conditions -

and what conditions -
would shape -
the measures -
of our calculus -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Every artist, performer, creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig

in denial -
is -
mis-accounting -
dis-counting -
shadow-banking -
karma-teering -
of the -
quantum-spot -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

8/12/024 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2024/08/812024-first-quarter-moon.html

listening -
to every -
voice -
determining fact -
determining-narrative -
entangled -
no matter -
which comes first -
or what -
is in question -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

russia -
if you are listening -
please don't -
release -
my emails -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

like drinking water – a utility underpining our very existence.
very few understand what it takes for it to travel from a distant reservoir to our kitchen taps
the internet is unseen - an invisible “cloud” just above our heads, raining data down upon us

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet

childhood wish - had to wake in darkness of early winter mornings - to go - to school:
wished for more sleep. This was not fulfilled in his school days but much later: his failure to get an academic position is what allowed him to sleep whenever he wants

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-charlie-chaplin-was-an-angel-of-peace-for-walter-benjamin

attending -
to process -
for honest expression -
of knowledge-imagination-experience -
a good-faith -
reason-able account -
and with play-full-ness -
for afford-dances -
entangling -
meta-fores -
that is good -
for our -
political -
self-governance -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and it's also -
that we -
only know -
the value of -
ideas -
when others -
enact it -
pulling us along -
as we are all -
children of life -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry