Never forget.
(thanks to grow-a-brain for the link)
I am a girl I am between 1 and 100 I have eyes a nose and a mouth I live in a house I am short
I hate writing about the good because then I feel so girlie, so silly, so trivial and so vapid. If I were to say, "I miss her" even though she's merely inside the house, while I am in the other room, does that not make what I say, or the meaning behind it, so much less? Isn't it better to write about fire and brimstone and death and destruction, decayal, denial, illness, hopelessness? as though the good, the happy things, are so much less. Simply because they are, as in, they exist as they are, in a sort of lowered state, lowered meaning closer to the whole, closer to god, closer to being unable to be deconstructed. This isn't making sense. No one really pauses to ask themselves, "why do I feel happy right now?" but we do pause to ask, "why am I so sad? and how can I remedy this?" happiness does not require reflection. It just requires breath, acceptance. So, no, I'm not going to write about the good moments; I'm not going to try to bastardize them by pitifully attempting to reproduce them on the page. See how limp all of this is? how empty? how could it compare? you cannot word laughter. You cannot word a smile. Show, don't tell - isn't that what we're supposed to do as writers? but how can you show a smile on the page? how can you show something so concrete? even with things like chairs, doors - the only thing you can do is tell, really. "There is a door. It is painted pale green; the paint is chipping and the knob is rusting." I'm not showing; I'm telling. The only things that can be shown are the un-showable. Mental states and thoughts - the only way to reify such things is to write them; by giving them words they become concrete, they are shown.
Happiness differs from sadness in such a way. Happiness is a smile, or the slight turn of the lip during a smug smirk, or how the hand holds a cigarette. Even something slightly less solid - perhaps an unexpected word, dropped casually in conversation as though it is nothing special, though both knowing it is special. ((Words, afterall, weaken the knees. Tell me we're symbiotic and see if I don't melt.)) Happiness is the sound of a voice cracking under the pressure of too much whiskey and too many cigarettes. It is windchimes and warm winds and train whistles carried through the midnight air from downtown. It's running to the tracks to see the caboose pass. It's bike-rides at 7am when the morning smells of pen-ink and oranges and everything is still slightly damp from the pre-dawn drenching. It's anais on the road and JC on the radio, windows always down. It's cooking dinner, eating on the couch, watching law & order: criminal intent and making half-jokes about how if they ever put Vincent D'Onofrio's character in glasses it would be over.
But sadness, sadness is different because it's not so concrete, unless you choose to make it so - a cut, a cry, a fit. The sadness permeates all. It is like the tao - it is, it isn't, it's there but un-graspable. It's present, but you can't hold it, can't smell it. You can say, it's my feeling worthless, it's my body, it's my stupidity, but that's not the sadness, that's only desperate manifestations of it. In a way it is akin to how protestants see the wine and the wafer as representations of Jesus' blood and body, while the catholics see them as Jesus himself. The consumption of a metaphor versus the consumption of a corporeality.
Am wondering: is this good enough? Is this what you wanted?
A resounding no no no.
I have the sex drive of a typical teenage male.
Right now: I am not having sex.
To add insult to injury- the people next door... are.
Fuck everyone.
if there was ever to be one person to tame me, it would be her with her jarringly quiet ways. one who could clip my wings, one who could cage me. if there was ever to be one person to shut me up, bow my head... have me apologize to anyone. if there was ever one person with the ability to make me compromise, comply, listen, and submit myself... it would be her. if there was ever to be one person i would desperately wait to the ends of the earth for... if there was ever to be one person that could never hurt me but make me feel still-lake-calm, it would be her. if there was ever to be one person to have me completely, my entirety, my soul, my trust, my being, it would be her. the idea, the entity, the compassion... my entire life would be turned upside down... my entire life already has...
I'm not too sure how to begin this. Honestly, I'm not sure what beginnings and endings are anymore, or if it is a cyclic revival. There is a city with 'streets of insidious intent' growing and dying with every breath I take, and I don't know how to fill, nor whether to empty. It's like the moment you decide not to immerse yourself in living but rather in life, how do you make the transition without stumbling?
All I know is [and it bereaves me to be learning and relearning the same thoughts and people all the time] all I know is -- it seems that the more I let the rain fall, the more the floods want to tear me down. I don't like the deceptive feeling of invincibility; to my constraint, it's a mere decoration on Achilles' feet.
Do paths cross because feet guided them, or do we all walk with our eyes on the gravel?I was counting the earthworms after a rainstorm, these tiny creatures crawling away from home when the opportunity comes only to find out that they were better off, there's nothing to quench your thirst when you're not where you want to be. And when I saw the sky beneath my feet I wondered if we were meant to live backwards all this time.I'm still wondering.
Aide said to me, "It's not because a song has an ending that you can't enjoy it while it plays" and I was reminded of all the songs I write on my hands and my walls and my heart, the same songs that fill my lungs with stormy water from the Atlantic when I wanted was to be pacific -- and I think she's wrong.I want those songs to end now.