Thursday, July 13, 2006

A Bouquet of Sunshine


I’ve been accused once or twice (a week) of cynicism.
A little word that dismisses all of my views.
“Oh but you’re so cynical”
As if to be a cynic is to be


  • a hippie


  • a liberal


  • a faker


  • a fakir


  • a fucker


  • a trouble maker


  • a risk taker


  • a polemicist


  • an alarmist


  • a science fiction writer


  • a green


  • a dreamer


  • a conspiracy schemer


  • a kook


  • a spook


  • an oddball independent


  • a delinquent


  • a johnny-come-lately


  • a speaker in tongues



  • To be a cynic is to be negative;
    one who doesn't pull with the team;
    lacking in good old fashioned optimism;
    (That which makes the world a better place).
    Well let me tell you: I am a fucking optimist.
    If I weren’t, I'd have given up ages ago,
    I’d be drowning my sorrows with all the other dead guys.
    Yes I’m a cynic; cynic with a capital See.

    4 comments:

    Rancho Perros Bravos said...

    A seenic then, seeing what it is, always seeing.

    Dr Victorino de la Vega said...

    Dear P.I.,

    Always remember that cynic is cool.

    In Greek, being “cynical” simply means holding the belief that your fellowmen generally have as much morality as stray dogs…

    Not an unrealistic way to view the world we live in.

    And a powerful vaccine against naïveté, stupidity and the “virtues” of the Leviticus- a twisted morality equally dear to George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden.

    littlebitofsonshine said...

    well shoot i must have missed something was there a negatice somewhere ????i love your musing and your blog so there im still trying to see the negative???

    designing wally said...

    I do so enjoy to find one other jaded romantic soul being sucked down into the earth via gravity on this bit of rock spinning through space....
    It makes me less cynical...

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