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What is the purpose of irony and how does irony relate to meaning–to meaninglessness? Explore the key features of your existence in this series of poems that begins with the simplest statement, things exist, and end with the definition of the absolute.

This is the first of the 44 poems, each beginning with a general context followed by how that topic relates to you:

    I

Things exist.
Things do things.

 There are things that do things.
 There are things that things do.

The first thing that things that do do is exist.
The things that things do don’t exist, they happen.

 Some things exist.
 Some things happen.

To exist is a thing that things that do do.
A thing that exists happens.

     * * *

You exist.
You do things.

 You are a thing that does things.
 There are things that you do.

The first thing that you do is exist.
The things that you do happen.

 You are a thing that exists.
 Existing is a thing that you do.

A thing that exists happens.
You happen.

Poem 10

I question everything.
I question myself and why I must question everything.
  So I am silent.

I become hungry. So I eat without question.
I become tired. So I sleep without question.
I become lonely. So I love and I hate without question–
  Without silence.

Why?

                                    -Rick Mallery

I wrote this poem November 17, 2011 as a summary of my philosophy. I’ve tried to expand on it since but continue to find that saying more says less.