Month: June 2022

Duk Dik – 20th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Always active, nervous twitching
Under the skin, blood is itching
Actions precede thought
Which evaporate to nought
Leaving all around you bitching

11th Sept 2023 – In Thai ‘duk dik’ means constantly moving around. This phrase can be used for my students in most of my classes.

The highs and lows I have known have turned me inward to the point where I’ll never feel anything close to normal. I don’t feel isolated, I don’t want in… There’s no confession to make, there’s no truth burning to come ripping out of me… I will always make relationships with people an approximation of a relationship. I think that’s better. I think things are more beautiful when you’re on the outside.

Henry Rollins

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to find the books I want to read from Dasa Books in Bangkok or even able to order from overseas using Amazon.

Hip Streets – 19th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Those hips are shaking
On the teenage Instagram
Whilst mine are quietly aching
Getting as old as I am

What the hell are you grinding?
Ass jiggling to all your friends
I really don’t need reminding
Of all these sexy new trends

I’m getting too old for this stuff
No way I can compete
I’m old enough and seen enough
Off to hip replacement street

Submitted to Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge Streets

The Truth is simple but the Way of Man is hard. First you must learn to control your self.

Mike, The Man From Mars, Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

The Observational – 18th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

When there’s nothing to say, don’t say a word
Even in silence, a meaning may be heard
Beaks may be flapping, yet nothing said
Silence all the yapping, shut up instead
A life without drama is much better observed

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Charles Bukowski

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to sleep through my alarm this morning. Out for the count and I think I feel better for it.

No More Maus – 17th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Burn the books that shook and rocked
Ban the guns all cocked and locked
Pay the man a corporate donation
Say a prayer to save the nation
Scoff as the rest of the world is shocked

The end of days, the Rapture foretold
When shock and awe have taken hold
Scrambling with a personal hell
Now has come the time to tell
About all the lies that have been sold

Most people would rather argue about reality than do something about reality.

Ryan Holiday

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to see the birdies able to fly – or just trying for their first times. I hope they can avoid our cats.

Not So Sure – 16th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

What the hell was that dream?
Our little band of brothers
Was on the run from ‘the man’
Though why I’m not so sure

We were on the move
Trying to stay one step ahead
We had the guns and merch
It seemed too much to carry
We couldn’t load it all up in time
And one by one, we were picked off

Then it was just us two left
You and I became slaves
To the over-mother, naked
Forcing us to drink her ejaculations
In the hope of impregnation
For a new master race
To take over the changed world

2000AD is a future past
Eugenics, so last century
Dreaming a fever dream
Not so sure what’s real anymore

We choose to believe that the game is fair…we prefer not to think too much about the depth of our liberty to choose.

Robert Greene

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to get free milk coffee with my regular fruit yoghurt drink I like. Nice!

Fatman report

How You Know – 15th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

When the phantoms come knocking at your door
Is when you forget what you’re fighting for
When modern society has you paralysed
Is when your violence makes no one surprised
When the ghosts and devils now created
Are apparently let loose unabated
When it’s impossible to live free from stress
Is when you begin to more enjoy your mess
When the threat of losing all value you hold
Is just a pretence to be following what you’re told
When life is lived in constant threat and fear
Is how you know that the deceivers are here

No one is smart enough to be wrong about everything.

Ken Wilber

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for ant spray. I don’t like to kill things but those little bastards get into everything. I just want them to go away.

A Dark Past – 14th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

When there’s no light, a sunny attitude will light the way
There’s a grain of truth in any story so I’ve heard them say
The windows into the past took us to a world away
The light that gave us colours, a rainbow no longer grey

We are inhabitants of a factory so huge we can’t even see it.

Henry Rollins

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for my aching hips – reminding me to move and stretch more.

Mine – 13th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 1 Comment

This here is my property
But it’s only a word to say
It’s just a thing to hold on to
And let go of again one day

Built on years of hard work
Though hardly blood, sweat and tears
Each inch contains a memory
That remains ’til the end of years

That twinkle is all I can hold
And will always take me to that time
That feeling cannot be taken away
And will forever then be mine

The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.

Liu Cixin from The Dark Forest

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 for making music that makes me smile and tap my toes in the morning.

The Week That Was – 26th August 1979

Know-all – 12th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

All I mean to say
There’s a bridge to Coolidge
No, all I really say to mean…
A man in a van can seem
Of age already, cameage
So many impressions
Of the ice man
And what do these clean sheets mean?
In need of a pep talk
As the all-o-gistics are denying caffeine
Living a schizophrenia dream
Sometimes Uranus is a bonus cup
But there’s no need to be jealous of the world

If you know, you know.

It is not what happens that determines the quality of our lives, it is what we choose to do when we discover that the wind has changed directions.

Jim Rohn

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I can use Facebook to stay in contact with my old students and I can watch them grow and develop into adults over the years. It’s a very amazing feeling to be a part of their journey, even if it is only a small part.

Fucking Ironing Boy – 11th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

In forty minutes this show will be over
A storm will have passed towards the west
The white cat switched sleeping positions twice
Mother bird returned to three chicks in the nest

The time it takes for the modern long player
Or to half-time in an average football match
An option to be lazily reading in a hammock
Is negated by the need to iron another batch

Seven shirts done, then rudely interrupted
On a roll, then derailed from the track
Momentum returns, tasks must be completed
And ironing boy is never getting this time back

20th Sep 2024 – Submitted to Ragtag Daily Prompt – iron

If you really want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for Top Chareon to have glasses frames for me to buy after the crazy funny dogs leapt up and smashed my old ones.