Grindr
It is a truth that, like ayahuasca,
shanks the autocratic ego:
love’s brazen bloom beyond
your mate is never bad, since
even if you took steps to form it
in defilement of fidelity
(the best hope to invalidate
that truth) taking those steps—
not the love—would be bad.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)