The Roof Is on Fire

by =ahermin Hello my name is Jimmy Pop and I’m a dumb white guy I’m not old or new but middle school fifth grade like junior high I don’t know mofo if y’all peeps be buggin’ givin’ props to my ho ’cause she fly But I can take the heat ’cause I’m the other white meat […]

Our House

by =ahermin Our house of fire, in the middle of our dream.Home, home again I like to be here when I can When I come home cold and tired, It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away across the field the tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees […]

Revelation

  by =ahermin “I had a kind of revelation in the Sinai desert, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Suddenly I experienced a total rejection of monotheism. In this very rocky, inspiring land, I said to myself that the idea of believing in only one God was cretinous. I could not think of another word. […]

A Beautiful Girl

  by =ahermin “The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.” ― Michel Houellebecq, The […]

Playing God

  by =ahermin A new creature was created by American scientists – the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can […]

The Rest Is Silence

by =ahermin You’ve lived so little that you tend to imagine you’re not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and […]

Reality Fades

by =ahermin I was spending my time in the doldrums I was caught in the cauldron of hate I felt persecuted and paralyzed I thought that everything else would just wait While you are wasting your time on your enemies Engulfed in a fever of spite Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades Like shadows into […]

Nothing to Loose But Our Chains – A World to Win

  by =ahermin “Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted […]