All the lines here have been taken from An Existential Guide to: Making Friends (with some minor editing). Shared with dVerse: descort
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
Bog Standard – 5th September 2026
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
When I read the title, all I could think of was bog roll, Shaun, and then I read the poem! I once had a roll of toilet paper with similar things printed on it. The font threw me off at first, very Shakespearean, but the shape and layout told me otherwise. I chuckled at ‘Bars are museums of speech’. There is truth in ‘To be human is to be an animal that needs witnesses’.
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I didn’t think of that Kim but it makes for an interesting double meaning of b-roll. I’m not sure about the font but ran out of spare time with the formatting.
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We can certainly get bogged down in the mire of relationships! I really like the ideas of growing pumpkins and saving the horse. Good one, Shaun!
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Cheers Lynn 🙏
I can’t take any credit for the actual words – just the organisation of them.
What was interesting was that I put the original article into an AI checker and it was deemed 100% human but when I put this resulting poem into the checker it was deemed 100% AI!
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That IS interesting!!
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don’t believe everything you read. The font is too small dear Shaun. But your words have a life of their own. That humans need witnesses. Oh yes. Don’t we know. Especially young ones on social media. Thanks Shaun.
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Thanks Selma 🙏 Maybe I’ll make an audio clip for this one.
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That group chat is an interesting mulch heap. Enjoyed reading this tonight. Thanks for joining in.
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Thank you Grace 🙏
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Ah…. group chats, especially when you chat at a bar can be a treasure trove :-)
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In English we could call this kind of chat ‘talking shit’ and from that we could spin off into many different directions which would often be inspirational. Maybe even a revolution. As Serious Drinking once sang ‘The revolution starts at closing time!’
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I love this rearrangement of lines into a poetic form. And how it is arranged like sheets of toilet paper reeling off the ‘bog roll’ :)
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Haha! I like that idea Freya. Toilet roll of inspirational quotes!
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Each of your lines reads “random” .. yet collected in a pretty straw basket, they work perfectly. LOL
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Thanks Helen 🙏 As all the lines are from the same article, there is a thread running through them that can be connected in anyway the reader pleases.
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