True Lies

To Fictioniers and Colleagues ATC

All Good. All Lies

When Snoop (or Alexander Pope) says
S’allgood (“whatever is is good”), we
might be able to buy it as a descriptive
over-all statement about the WHOLE,
deal—evolving beyond our species
terms of desire and humanistic notions
of good & evil.
 
“Yeah IT’S all good but sure feels
like holy hell here or there or now
and then.
 
See: that (theoretically) does justice to the
all-good notion without doing injustice to
good & evil, horror and humor, violence
and  delight, pain and pleasure, smart
and stupid….  yes?
 
Sounds like contradiction or paradox, but
we know it’s a matter of “levels” – wholes
and parts. What’s All Good for Farmer
Brown isn’t necessarily good for goose
and gander—:  
 
And the same with LIES. It’s all lies, yes?
(scrubbing the connotations off that word
so we can used it descriptively rather than
just pejoratively. ) Even as we know there
are truths and lies going on like anything on
lower “levels.”  But  the representation is
always a “rip-off” of the whole it represents,
yes?

The sign is not the thing signified, nor the word
what is worded  and so—in a truthful sense
of the highest order: all lies.OR all fiction if
that seems like a softer term
 
Over use of either one will cause consternation
among the uninitiated, true?  And confusion. 
 
To recognize that IT’s all LIES,  lets us relax
a bit—don’t need to take up arms so fast
against thevarious ways we talk about stuff.
Us Fiction-ers.

 Compose and Be Composed I always say.
 Well, I say it a lot. It’s a true lie.

xxxooo, Sam