Author
Robert Witmer
6 works
To Secure a Share of Equanimity, Hide Behind a Skull
Death empowers others. — Elias Canetti
The rain comes down both sides of a camel, but only one flank of the mountain is green.…
Through each gate passes a road, lawless and desolate; along the road a breeze, scented…
The Afterworld
A metaphysical music plays chess with Death. No one remembers their last move. Lost in the
greater glory of the next. We must be careful to pretend. Symbols clash. And an…
stars follows the Chorus as they glide across the heavens chanting no man is happy.…
Stuck in the Middle with You
I tried to explain to Charon all the good that Prometheus had done for humankind. But…
Read More →The Despot
The one who, after every announcement of someone’s death, eats more.
— Elias Canetti
A very rich man who advocates killing the dead, burning every mummy he can buy. He. He
Pathos and Puns, Feeling for Heartache Beneath a Suit of Amore
I had learned not to take gravity lightly; even before the apple fell, it weighed…
mind. I knew the first couple hadn’t floated around Eden like cosmonauts in the…
Space Station, but I wondered how they came down to Earth. Without a DJ, or for that…
Just Kick Back, and Let the Wheel Turn
He saw through everything, and so it was he saw nothing – the nothing that is not…
A wise man who suffered from paranoia once wrote that the invention of absolutely safe…
would allow people who ride in them “to feel immortal for a while.” Perhaps he was being