Multimodality

As spring breaks,

Ice cracks,

There is life,

And joy.

~VI

 

 3D Art

Trumpidiocy!!!

 

Best 9th!

 

Underground

Global Authorities now had to deal with this issue: Humans hadn't been able to transport other humans to other planets in massive volumes, and due to a universal shortage of rubber, more babies were being born than people being rocketed away. 

Arable land on Earth was so scarce now cows had to be cloned Underground. And since there was much life Underground and since McDonald’s never closed any more, more people got that much fatter, which made it much more difficult to transport them to distant galaxies. 

Global Authorities also had this problem to solve: Urbanites outnumbered Ruralites significantly and land was priceless. Only the biggest corporations could afford land. All of them were linked in with Global Authorities of course. Ruralites would have to have no choice it was decreed: They had agri-skills more economical Underground. They would have to be gathered up (mostly by Urbanites) and enslaved Underground.

Underground was no easy place. Time was meaningless there. It was decided some time ago not to try to replicate outdoors Underground. Most outdoors were heavily guarded anyway and besides, Underground was about commerce. You could shop there, eat there, stay there, live there. They even had theme parks with roller coasters, beaches, petting zoos, and so on. Underground also had the cheapest housing (some with basements) and lower paying more laborious jobs. Crime and poverty tended to go Underground. 

The wealthiest and most affluent tended to socialize in VertiPods: Lavish estates atop giant skyscrapers with very restricted access to and from Underground. Slavery though, that was new, after so long. Underground had prisons of course and so there was forced labour but not enslaved. Ruralites had been offered countless dollars to abolish their creed and surrender their ways to Urbanites but the ones that remained would have none of it. All were adamant, most were vigilant, and some were militant. 

Many Ruralites had of course taken advantage of the opportunities offered by Urbanites. A few even had a VertiPod. Opportunity still usually came in the usual forms and competition for scarce resources was of course fierce but due mostly to over population many born Underground stayed Underground.

Most Urbanites had never met a Ruralite even though Ruralites were surrounded by Urbanites whose borders with Ruralites were the best preserved but also prime for profitable (always vertical) development. Buildings were so tall due to fundamental design changes that planes needed more altitude for larger airports serving more commuters. Cities were congested and Globalization was everywhere. 

Corporations dominated omnipresent media that downplayed their political power and influence. Global privatization of most industry had made the few richest richer and the many poor a plentiful pool of cheap labour. Underground was the creation of large corporations much like almost everything. Vertical development plans always included the Underground which had very specific entrances and exits.

Judgement of protest

 Is defeat of truth.

Paint Confederate Statues Black!

 Paint Confederate Statues Black!

Pride's Tyranny

More is lost from
Enforcing unity
Than granting
Sovereignty...

 

 ~ The Shah of Athabasca

 

Pride is such a tricky sin;
There's always some boss,
And qualities always matter,
To no end....in practice maybe,
But not so much so in theory.
Huh? Allow me to explain:
This piece is presently my
Boss, ...no idea how long
It'll take to finish, ...see?
However, should I decide
To finish it here, it's done.
Pride must be true freedom,
Or it'll guarantee you defeat.
Ultimately, your time ought
Not be based on your pride.

 

 - Victor Imari (9/11/2009)

Urban Roots and Secrets

If change is constant,
Yet goal is the same,
Then goal must be...
That constant change!

~ The Shah of Athabasca

How funny life works
When you work at it
Where you are is ideal
For where you came from
Even if you're born
To lose; you are not
Born just that! Yes
Priorities matter!!!
What forgives? Art?
Like hell it must!!!

Victor Imari (6/26/2009)

Peace is...with words.

We turn our futilities
Into dreams hopefully
Already in progress.

~ The Shah of Athabasca

Peace is...
Just without fear,
Letting go of gear,
Peace Is...
Putting it all together,
Even for the first time,
Here, hear and forever
Peace is it altogether.

- Victor Imari (01/15/2008)

Simple Truths

 

All most life's filtering junk for art,
Why should science be indifferent?

 

     ~ The Shah of Athabasca

 

Doubt checks ignorances,
Otherwise undetected and
Left unattended creative
Forces coalesce and win
Victorious resolutions.

What is significant
Is hardly arbitrary,
Any history of ideas
Precludes one liners
And talk ain't cheap.

 

    - Victor Imari (17/11/2007)

Destiny

Faith is everything that you do,
As much as something you have.

~ The Shah of Athabasca

Some people
Love belief,
Some people
Believe love,
I believe love's
Destiny.

- Victor Imari (20/10/2007)

Even

If (and when) you look back,
To what was magnificent....,
The tragedies become dramas,
And then, maybe even comedy.

- The Shah of Athabasca

You have to love
Your creations:
You are an actor
In God's play;
You are anything
You want to be,
But you can't be
God, until then:
You have to love
Your creations.

- Victor Imari

Imagine This

To every benefit there is a
price and to every cost too.

~ The Shah of Athabasca

Hanging up on promises sucks. Yet
We can't help but wonder Godness:
Choices have everything to do with
It all. Choice is to fate as decisions
Are the results. Whenever there is
Godness there is goodness almost:
There' a fine line between rumination
And contemplation. Finer than silk...
God lives in all our alien languages;
Our spritiual and secular unities, like
Abandoned sleds by a lakeshore;
Incredibly alike wherever possible.

- Victor Imari (22/03/07)

Someday

The decisions we decide,
Keep us bound together.

The promises we promise,
Keep us bound.

The choices we choose,
Keep us.

~The Shah of Athabasca

I'd like to write my best song,
Ever. No thing so casual as to
Drag out every point by point,
Detail that tedious encounters
Don't (rarely) but can provide.
In fact it's no easy song sung.
For as many reasons as there are
To write it, you see? So much to

Read for.

Have you ever feared a good thing?
I'd like to write a memorable song

Someday.

- Victor Imari (16/09/05)

To Sincrerity

The difference between being
Discontent and being unhappy
Is that function of happiness:
Being content of discontent.

~ The Shah Of Athabasca

Passion's beauty incarnate,
Love is labour of beautiful,
And love of beauty is truth:
Dreamy thoughts can be true,
Whenever passion is sincere;
Love of beauty is the passion:
Where labour's commitment,
Not to that driving passion,
But the beauty of sincerity.

~ Victor Imari (27/10/2006)

Know Where?

Dare you remember
One of those days,
When nothing made
Sense except that,

Nothing made sense.

There is that time,
Then to take time
To make amends,

And ensure service
Where every detail

Matters; only you

Know your own:

 

Destination's worth....

 

     Victor Imari (09/06)

Measures

It's either a torpedo
Or a really big fish.

~ The Shah of Athabasca

Happiness is measured
In perceived successes.

Success takes effort,
Governed by planning

Successful tactics, to
Successful strategy to

Surpass those equilibriums,
Between virtuous patience

And all of our deadly sins.

Victor Imari (1/09/06)

Tales - Dignity Dictates

There was this story,
As goes much history:

Sometimes it's best to
Let people think through...

Without the questionably
Beneficial distraction of you

It is a tale indeed,
Of two great cities:

Something always comes
From intimacy, but offering

Solutions to thirst isn't always
Called water. Pride precludes

That whenever the worst of
Times hit, so does victory.

- Victor Imari (08/06)