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A Levantine Requiem in G min. Ch XIX of the Freestyle Academia Series
A Levantine Requiem in G min. Ch XIX of the Freestyle Academia Series
We now know that catering to our base emotions is a quick way to power. We now know logic is no match for emotions. We will NEVER find our…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jul 4
Kill the Geese, No one dies, in C# minor…
Kill the Geese, No one dies, in C# minor…
Maybe Ray Romano was right — maybe it’s Anil Seth who nailed the nail on the head. I am, for once, quite happy to delude myself into…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Apr 29, 2023
Salting the Earth: The taking of Soledar, Part II in A min…
Salting the Earth: The taking of Soledar, Part II in A min…
Soledar’s fall would be a prize for a Kremlin starved of good battlefield news in recent months after losing the significant city of…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 12, 2023
Salting the Earth: The taking of Soledar, Part I in A min..
Salting the Earth: The taking of Soledar, Part I in A min..
Control of Soledar is disputed, with some sources claiming that Russia’s Wagner Group were in control of the settlement…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 11, 2023
Teenaged Wasteland, A.K.A. Letter to Isabel Part I in F min.
Teenaged Wasteland, A.K.A. Letter to Isabel Part I in F min.
Dear Isabel, I hope this letter finds you well. It’s been so long since the last time we spoke. Since I last held your gaze and you peered…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 6, 2023
Letter to Dinorah, in C Maj. Ch II.
Letter to Dinorah, in C Maj. Ch II.
Dear Dinorah, I am so very sorry for placing such burden on your shoulders. My ghosts are mine & mine alone. I had no right…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 6, 2023
Letter to Dinorah, in C Maj. Ch I.
Letter to Dinorah, in C Maj. Ch I.
Dear Dinorah, I hope this letter finds you well. I’ve promised to write, but you know, life has this funny way of getting in the way…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 6, 2023
The Shelling of Kharkiv in B maj.
The Shelling of Kharkiv in B maj.
It began with a 3M54–1 Kalibr missile strike on Freedom Square…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 6, 2023
When Kyiv falls, we weep, in C min.
When Kyiv falls, we weep, in C min.
We weep at the loss of a place & time that has been forever changed…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Jan 6, 2023
Chronic Altruism, Part VI in A min
Chronic Altruism, Part VI in A min
It was the ONLY time of the year when food was plentiful. Mami y Papi had enough money left over they could get some of their stuff back…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Dec 24, 2021
Chronic Altruism, Part V in D♭/C
Chronic Altruism, Part V in D♭/C
He beat his wife constantly. One particular time, for God-knows what particular reason, he peeled a long electric cord and with a whip…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Dec 14, 2021
Chronic Altruism, Part IV in C Major
Chronic Altruism, Part IV in C Major
Despite his young years, Kevin has taken on life challenges, burdens of family responsibilities that would have hobbled the toughest…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Dec 5, 2021
Chronic Altruism, Part I in A♭
Chronic Altruism, Part I in A♭
Without that first moment of recognition…that admission of inadequacy, there is no learning and there is no evolving. Somebody who lacks…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Dec 4, 2021
Chronic Altruism, Part III in B♭ min.
Chronic Altruism, Part III in B♭ min.
Santos’ vulgarity and syphilitic brain did not diminish his wisdom. Quite the contrary, he had a clear, albeit crude way of looking at the…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Nov 27, 2021
Chronic Altruism, Part II in E♭ min
Chronic Altruism, Part II in E♭ min
Freedom should cost. It should exact a heavy toll and be hard-won…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Nov 20, 2021
…at the pre-Genesis of Omega, Ironic Tolerance, Part VI in B♭.
…at the pre-Genesis of Omega, Ironic Tolerance, Part VI in B♭.
These perfect interludes are a manifestation of Aristotle’s solution to fatalism, such that every proposition is either true or false…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Nov 1, 2021
…the Beatification of an Atheist Saint, Ironic Tolerance, Part V in C#.
…the Beatification of an Atheist Saint, Ironic Tolerance, Part V in C#.
The realism of one awakened is the poet’s realism; not that of the business man. The laughter of the old rogue is no longer the laughter of…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Oct 30, 2021
Subatomic Infinity…or Happy Misery, Ironic Tolerance, Part IV in A♭.
Subatomic Infinity…or Happy Misery, Ironic Tolerance, Part IV in A♭.
We all seem to exist in a peculiar state of superposition. Between the realization of the futility of it all, and the hopeful idealism we…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Oct 28, 2021
…Clean Air that Pollutes Smoke: Ironic Tolerance Part III, in E min.
…Clean Air that Pollutes Smoke: Ironic Tolerance Part III, in E min.
The ritual is a rather glorious and — to an outsider not familiar with the manaña doctrine — a contemptible practice…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Oct 27, 2021
…kissing a Viper’s smile: Ironic Tolerance Part II, in A maj.
…kissing a Viper’s smile: Ironic Tolerance Part II, in A maj.
However it was that it came to be, La Romana was the place of my birth…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Oct 25, 2021
…on how to pet a demon: Ironic Tolerance, Part I in G♭
…on how to pet a demon: Ironic Tolerance, Part I in G♭
Had she lived in the time of Jeanne d’Arc, she would have been beatified…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Oct 24, 2021
New One True Religion in B Major
New One True Religion in B Major
Damn my soul because I choose to rub-one-out as a safe way to relive stress…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Sep 8, 2021
Love as Charity in A♭ Major, Exotic Scales & Variations Series
Love as Charity in A♭ Major, Exotic Scales & Variations Series
Fuck this philosophy of pessimism being peddled. There is light and laughter and love in the world. Go get some!…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Sep 6, 2021
Crisis of Trust & The Evolution of Truth, in F Major
Crisis of Trust & The Evolution of Truth, in F Major
Facts are ephemeral artifacts that can be conjured up as needed, when needed…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Sep 4, 2021
Reflections at Summer’s End, Chapter IV, in A
Reflections at Summer’s End, Chapter IV, in A
“It’s the child within,” The part of me that remains pure and fragile…
A L B E R T I☆R O M A N I
Sep 1, 2021
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