The Case of Killian Hill vs The State ii
Posted: March 31, 2016 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion Leave a commentSetting: offices of Giles & Jerico Actuarial Practice
Personae:
Killian Hill, high net worth individual – client of Giles & Jerico
Giles Goldstein, personal wealth manager
Well, Mr Hill… I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that the balance of invisible activity has been positive. Your portfolio stands to gain substantially from your investments abroad. I deduce from the figures I have here that about a third of the total revenue has come from repatriated profits and dividends of holdings overseas.
That’s all well and good Giles, but I’m not really interested in balance of payments right now. You said you’ll find a way to make sure I’m not losing much of my wealth to these punitive… these ill-imposed… these terrible taxes targeted at my class… that was your task, wasn’t it? Have you identified the loopholes as promised?
Yes, in fact I was going to come to that… I figured if I take a more gestalt approach it’d make things more comprehensible…
Look Giles, I’m a busy man… I’m sure you appreciate I don’t have all day to role play, and watch you gesticulate… just give it to me straight! Tell me what the plan is!
To put it simply Mr Hill, I believe the reasonable solution is to move your management operations and make them local to the territories that are generating much of your wealth. Far from the reach of HMRC…
That’s great Giles, I gotta tell you pal, I’m relieved! After that horrible hotel experience on the last business trip… this is just what I need. Good going. See, I knew you’d work it out…
… However, it’s not without considerable risk. Costly too, but cheaper in the long run should things go smoothly. Most of these territories have enormous geopolitical risks despite being heavily deregulated in comparison… and having less complexities in terms of monetary and fiscal policy systems.
But it’s workable, right?
Certainly, but I would recommend getting your legal team to do the necessary due diligence before we commit to proceeding in any direction for that matter…
Right, I see…
You don’t mind me asking, do you Killian? You mentioned something about an experience at a hotel… you don’t have to disclose if it’s upsetting…
Oh, it’s nothing just uh… how I can put this… you know, I always thought geishas were meant to be gracious and all that, but can you believe it Giles, they completely took advantage of me out there you know! All resolved now, I suppose it wasn’t so much the money I lost but the whole ordeal completely ruined a fantasy I’d held dearly since my youth… but anyway, yeah… some experience I tell ya!
Some adventure, huh?
It’s not an adventure when you lose, is it now? I’ll speak to my lawyers and have them set up a meeting with you and see if there’s any merit to your so-called gestalt approach. They’ll have time to listen to all that… okay?
Yes, I guess…
Great. Gotta go! Oh, greet the family for me will ya? And don’t forget… I need a gestalt result. Gestalt…gestalt… good grief Giles! Goodbye!
© Heath Muchena, 2016
Memory Stain iii
Posted: March 31, 2016 Filed under: Inhibitions Illustrated 10 Commentsmemories are but feelings immortalised
and every fragment of you that features in a daydream or bedtime fantasy
creates the polarity between my emotions and reason
like the spark of that season
when you and I were intimate
the times that had me believing
for love – life was worth living
yet when the mood subsides
I feel compromised
knowing you’re sleeping
in some other’s bed, on some other’s chest
I had always been told that if you love… you let go
but I didn’t suspect you’d find some place else to nest
and so soon
but if memories are feelings immortalised
then I have no regrets
even if one minute they are fresh
and the next – stained
© Heath Muchena, 2016
78.5
Posted: March 27, 2016 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... Leave a commentThe impetus for, as well as the result of, the creative act is expression – which is the essence of all that is, that can, and that cannot be.
© Heath Muchena, 2016
Living On The Surge iii
Posted: March 27, 2016 Filed under: Inhibitions Illustrated 3 CommentsHuman, not natural law, is what grants privilege and that may sound like an old dictum but still, I feel it is worthy of mention because we are indeed living on the surge… and those supposedly blessed but unwilling to engage others at the margins, will not be able to save their children however prepared….
© Heath Muchena, 2016
78.4
Posted: March 27, 2016 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... Leave a commentCircumstantial poverty has always been the biggest blockade to the reasonable attainment of dignity, but indigence of mind is what truly deprives mankind from realising its common humanity.
© Heath Muchena, 2016
What About Art?
Posted: March 24, 2016 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... 5 CommentsI find scientific truths impersonal, thus not limited by the linguistic mediums in which they find expression; even though the grasping of these truths can only attained through a linguistic process.
Still, one can’t help but agree, to a degree, with Croce’s proposition that with regards to a true work of art – there’s no tangible reality. But of course a curious character will find that particular ‘Philosophy of the Spirit’ a concept relatively easy to conceive and perceive, if one takes the position that communication through the medium of art consists completely of the utility of mental faculty.
But whether your leanings are creative or scientific, the grounds are always common, unless someone’s love for dominion destroys the relation through vanity.
© Heath Muchena, 2016
two odd…
Posted: March 21, 2016 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion 2 Comments… but before she left, she was sure to make her opinion known… said it’s not so much my lovely locution but my gentle disposition… that’s the real reason she can’t resist the attraction
oh please, tell me something new… we all know you’re not exactly loud…
i’m definitely not about that diphthong
you aren’t what most would consider normal either
’cause?
i dunno man, maybe ’cause you always do that
do what?
play them that word nerd games, that’s what!
oh yeah? if you say so, pal! that’s your take on it… i simply talk how i talk… i guess it is what it is. she seems to like it though. besides, the expression of syntactic connections can be simply attributed to sequences and stresses in speech…
see, that’s exactly it. i don’t understand it. you do have rather unusual ways of getting your message across or should i say quite strange ways of attempting or not – to establish common ground through conversation. but i’m just not convinced it’s effective that’s all. in fact, times i think you just do it to torture me
well, language exists only when actually used, that is, written or read, spoken or heard. right? it’s not like you ever really listen to make use of it, so sometimes i’ll just be messing with you
© Heath Muchena, 2016
Beatitudes Bay iv
Posted: March 18, 2016 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion 4 Commentsblinders up
sea-side view
watching the sun come up
shining from the east wing through…
bedside – coffee cups
but we skip breakfast and make love
’til it’s time for brunch
and we just can’t get enough of each other
that is true
© Heath Muchena, 2016
Pitch Poetry
Posted: March 18, 2016 Filed under: Inhibitions Illustrated Leave a commentI remember when we were kids
the scents and textures… the fruit trees
groves of guava, mango and mulberry
all the good feelings and sense memories
that I carried with me to help create this new reality…
I guess subconsciously I always knew that I’d be rich
but never thought from invoicing receipts
for work that I did writing scripts for no one niche
until I started charging for each letter, every word, sentence, page and piece
now after every gig – celebratory drinks rooftop on a deck of mahogany and beech
and when the mood is right I might even roll me a leaf
just to reach those heights I couldn’t… with a lift
fruits of labour – sweeter than a brown sugar pinch
and ever since I realised that only I can set the limit
and my mind can break every barrier if I truly want to succeed
I find I have no time to wish, only to think, book binge, put pen to paper
and get ish writ…
so night and day I’m in focus zone as though about to pitch
usually because peers and links beseeched me to do that and this
and if I don’t have a task to complete, I usually have someone to meet
that at times it seems I only get to sleep when I blink
and having developed a habit of not turning off the switch
I continue to polish skills even at bedtime as a form of catharsis
so I don’t end up writing in my dreams…
and as I am writing this
only the night is my witness
and all I desire is to give you something you too can’t resist
something different, but not meaningless
hoping from it you take away something with you at least
for I have no wise words and no long lists…
and all I wish for, is that you also
begin to explore your gift
make the most of it
and never accept defeat!
I think that is all – finished
time for me to get some actual sleep
© Heath Muchena, 2016
On The Heath 