Tag: prose
Ballerina at the Border
A piece inspired by seeing Yo Yo Ma’s Spring 2019 performance at the Mexico-US border in Laredo. Written during a brief episode of lexical-gustatory synesthesia. La placer por la presencia de Yo-Yo-Ma This sentence tastes like a milkshake; it flows playful down the tongue The way water and children descend slides Chocolate milk, foamy cream…
Candlelit
Published in the Stonefence Review May 23, 2019. This version has new edits. They urge: use mania as midnight oil. The last calories in an emaciated stomach, a trickle of water in a dessicated bladder, the fumes in an empty tank. I must burn it before I run out, or I will be left with…
The Fragility of Authentic Love: An Existential Analysis
Loving authentically is a daunting project rife with almost inescapable pitfalls. In this essay, I will first explore Sartre’s novel theory of love developed within his broader phenomenological ontology. Under this theory, the purpose of love is to escape from the Look and the groundlessness of existence. Then, I will critique his understanding from Beauvoir’s…
This is Not Philosophy
Valedictorian Speech for Maeser Prep Academy Class of 2017 I am honored to give this speech, I really am, almost as much as I am under-qualified to give it. My speech will be kind of like high school: the best part is when it’s finally over. Street philosopher and leader of the free world, Drake,…
Last Lecture
“Somebody once told me the definition of hell: On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous What if a demon slithered up to you after your graduation, and forced you to relive all of highschool? No, not just the dances and the weekends, but every…