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    Venom Burning
    Venom Burning
    Venom Burning
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    Venom Burning

    By Nicolas Doidge

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    Burning thoughts and feelings rattled off in poetry, slithering through the mind of Nicolas Doidge; Venom Burning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicolas Doidge
    Release dateAug 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310507588
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      Venom Burning - Nicolas Doidge

      Introduction

      Nick:I definitely notice that the more I work on my own stuff, the more out of touch I become with others' art, with pop culture, with the times in general. Not that I was really in touch to begin with, but the stretch has been made further by my own absorption with my own creative process. Do you ever feel that way? And is it a bad thing?

      Artist:I used to but it just took a toll on me. What is the purpose of your art? It should be a release, not something that develops closed perceptions of the world. That just leads to self-righteous isolation. Beware the reason for your expression.

      Fear

      Fear is a hell of a whip.

      It's like the cat-nine of your psyche, held by your super-ego, that conditioned, inbred, set-up authority.

      Reining down its sharp hooks of shoulds and should-nots into your true self-expression.

      Ripping up your self-esteem, confidence, and voice; leaving you depleted of energy and passion.

      It takes less energy to let go of the whip than it does to wield it.

      Yet, when your true self-expression becomes accustomed to it, insensitive to it, even tolerant of it;

      You become trapped in hesitation, in stagnation; afraid of being whipped, but also afraid to let go of the whip.

      Machine

      When you care more about words on a page or the bottom line instead of life and the quality there-within,

      You've forgotten what it means to be human.

      When you care more about saying what is right or politically correct instead of saying what is true,

      You've forgotten what it means to be human.

      When you forget

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