Formalae Participation Mystique

Artwork: Jake Baddeley

I have gotten all I have ever wanted.

Magic is real.

I loved a girl.

Joy arrives on the sunrise of every sorrow.

Sadness from loss is the reward for loving a pet.

Theater and impulse is the thirsty eternal child.

The desert reveals the oasis and the epiphany.

Sex without love is swallowing sand—

Actors dancing on frozen land.

Laviathan lurks in the water deep.

Tread not, pierce her keep.

Union of soul is libation and liberation.

The tolerant putrefies the intolerant.

The intolerant purify the tolerant.

Victory and fear are bedfellows.

The Addicts are the Holy ones.

The Holy ones are the Addicts.

The two must mate then devour each other.

Hate hides their love.

Love conceals their hate.

Shadow is their wedding priest.

Darkness gives birth to light.

Eros nourishes Logos.

Logos expands Eros.

Toxic cycles are the poison and the antidote.

Every problem contains the solution.

Every solutions contains the problem.

Every cycle a Cherubim, and Seraphim; illumination and disintegration.

The war without is the enemy within.

Ambitions are hungry beasts who dine on their own tails.

Uroboros and Maya rotate the wheel of laughter.

Order is in escrow to Chaos.

Chaos is guarantor to Order.

All that is done is undone.

All that is undone is done.

All is true, nothing is real.

All is real, nothing is true.

To become someone, I have become everyone.

I became everyone, and now I am no one.

Only the Fool—but zero precedes the one.

Magic is real.

I loved a girl.

I have gotten all I have ever wanted.