Easy Noumenon Quotes

“... This is all just too much to bear[,] so / Don’t get put off if you’ve fallen. / Don’t expect a veil or lending hand. / The world takes no pity, doesn’t glimpse at // Any of it, pain or death, the immanence of / Hell upon hell in every place and time. // Know it all[,] if you will. / Be it. Do it. / Take from / It, for it—this uncertain climb you’ve made [in] / Proceeding to [your own] skull ...”
― Vincent St. Clare, Easy Noumenon: Early Poems

“I really can't say I've done much with my writing up to this point aside from sitting on it, an ever-growing pile of hidden scribbles, secrets unintended, metastasizing and shifting about just beneath me. Sure, I've posted tidbits of creative work on outdated online forums, Facebook groups, transient little Reddit communities, and other such sparsely populated corners of the Internet, but all[-]in[-]all I've long wanted to shed a brighter light on my efforts. (And one less obstructed by the datasphere, at
that.)

Well[,] hell, maybe not a single book will ever emerge from my hands and onto a printed
page. ["]Hope for the best[,] but expect the worst["]—right? Certainly, worse things have happened to
people.

I sometimes like to half-jokingly tell myself that my only hope for seeing my ink-on-paper ambitions realized lies in a cadre of extraterrestrial archaeologists one day reaching a dessicated wasteland once called Earth and retrieving from a pile of rubble the mangled flash drive on which I, some ancient and mysterious scribe or archivist, stored everything from twitterature to unfinished novels to manifestos to pulpy, half-assed attempts at erotica.”
― Vincent St. Clare, Easy Noumenon: Early Poems

“… Loosely[-]associated thoughts on suicide, compassion, enlightenment, death, resurrection, and what lurks between them all—all woven together in a shoddy tapestry, though perhaps beautiful (I’d like to think) for all of the slop involved…”
― Vincent St. Clare, Easy Noumenon: Early Poems