barcelona pensamiento 1

The state of poeticism, (so to speak), is a state determined by the expectation of death, which is also to say, a heightened awareness of the transitory nature of life. There are many different ways of allowing this state to influence behaviour, all of them poetic, (so to speak), and none of them particularly useful in the business of perpetrating the human race, or business, or plain day-to-day living (something conditioned by the ability to wipe this state from the daily slate). However, poeticism, like death, is unavoidable: we all have a poet within us; our consequent choice is how much attention we choose to pay her, or him.

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