like orphaned Brazilian mutants. only without anything to gird their loins...


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Saturday, May 24, 2008

We don’t want a revolution, (orginially written 9/03 after 4 days with no sleep)

dont need a sans culottes

These body aches return every night. Prelude to mind aches. Fuck Cartesian dualism and its inherent dilemmas. Body wants sleep, mind wants to kick some ass. My ass to be specific. I can’t explain what happens from the time I sit in this chair to when I lay down on that bed. The body never wins. Mind runs wild, shows the body who’s boss. Puts the heart on a treadmill and turns it up full blast. With every beat it bitch-slaps my self worth with a palm tattooed with my personal sort comings.


Take my pants if that’s all you want

the UPC code is all that matters anymore

is this the independence that you sought?

I can’t leave if you own the store


I don’t even know what I’m saying at times like these. I just want to feel like I’m doing something. I can’t sleep, so I write this trash. I’m no Henry Darger. I just ramble about my shit with articles falling between the cracks. My mind puts articles in, because the mind is the only place articles exist. There is no concrete “the.” When we say “the” there isn’t something physical that we are trying to describe. I guess if I’m losing my articles, I’m losing the immaterial, the agentic—I’m losing my mind? maybe. Impressionists have a point. You just have to fill in the articles for yourself. You have to have a mind. You have to think. You have “to be” in the Cartesian sense. Here we are at Descartes again. Bastard. Criticized by neuroscience, he gave them their one-sided dualism that they treasure so. No respect. But there’s a difference between me and them—they drop their articles on purpose.


the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the


Have to compensate for the material determinists. I promise I’ll never drop my articles because I have to. I’ll only be an impressionist. I’ll only do it on purpose, only do it if I can do otherwise. Thus, I’ll keep them for myself while intentionally withholding them from others.


Take what you want from this village of ruin

speak without regard for those now upside down

Thanklessly call for god to care about what you’re doing

Silence your laughs at my shoes, I’m no fucking clown


I’m not here to make you smile, think, feel, spout advice, or laugh. I tire of being used as a jester—or worse yet—a walking encyclopedia, ready to be opened with bright red tabs. “S” stands for suck my dick. But then I’d be using you. Using your face as Adam’s cave of wonders while your knees ache as the grains of the concrete forge their way into the skin that covers your bone. Then I’d be the villain. Then I’d be using you. Maybe that’s the only thing that hurts worse than being used—using someone else. Just don’t confuse me. Don’t share the intimate with me just for some free counseling. Don’t fuck with me using agenda-driven disclosure. Did it ever occur to you that I want to be close to you? Inside you? Did it ever occur to you that I need answers? I’m not a damned answering machine. I want a home. No more you, no longer me, I want an atom of us. Not you leeching me for advice about your dumbass relationship that you value less than the one you have with me, yet give your lips to.


They honor me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from me.


Dammit Descartes, leave me the hell alone. The only problem is modernity doesn't have anything to replace you with. Mind and emotions can never be shared with the same person that the body is shared with. How can the immaterial interact with the material? That would give one person everything. There would be no escape plan—it would be total bondage. Take my Pineal gland, and you take it all. It’s total black leather bondage every step of the way up mount, hands tied, but with no ram in the thicket. Abraham holds the knife, and you must sacrifice.

It’s almost 3am now. Isn’t this useful? These bits of binary bullshit that no one will ever see? But I will know. just like I know things most people don’t. I know these things because I don’t know other things. It’s all economics, every trade is a fair trade. I trade peace, home, happiness, optimism and naivety for rationale, truth, and insight. I just never remember making the choice, I guess. Lack of memory doesn’t write history.

Do I even exist?

I’d hate to think I’m in all this pain only to find out I only make ant hills

A double-quarter pounder with cheese is about as holistic as I get these days

I’ve spent my days in reductionism, cutting out independent variables with paper scissors

Too bad I can’t super-size my internal locus of control

I shit, therefore I AM THAT I AM

Just found out that all my intimacy is binary. This keyboard is what I come home to. I caress buttons, not bodies. Cut, copy, paste, kiss, hug, taste. Zero one, one, one, zero. I am my own taskmaster, my own Hero. But where is the two that are to be one? Just me and these codes that no one knows. Just these files that I’d kill myself for someone to see. I just want to be heard—maybe even understood. This is too much to ask, though. So I google for love. I google for binary representations of bodies. Others loving, others living. I wish the proxy-power of the atonement worked with porn. But it doesn’t. I haven’t been touched in years. My afferent system wouldn’t know what to do. Not enough RAM. Will you be my screensaver?

CTRL+ALT+DEL

I can’t sleep with these dirty feet

Give me rest, give me a sequence of peace

Take me home Father, taste the crumbs of your feast

When I slip into eye exercise, I have recycled dreams with reduced themes. Okay, just one theme. here it goes, but I already know, and I’m really just talking to myself. In these dreams I have to expose my genitals to a girl in order to solve some gigantic, life-threatening cataclysm. It’s not awkward, it’s not weird, it’s just what needs to be done and we both know it. It’s a matter of life and death. Somehow it always makes total sense in the dramaturgy. I don’t even need to ask anyone for what it means. It’s pretty damned transparent. Pure, uncensored truth usually is.

(nothing censored is pure)

Black lights uncover hot nights of

never ending fictional friction between those who

want to be discovered and those who die to be covered

with acceptance that they are incapable of drinking with

their lying lips and sharp, tilted hips

I wish you could see me now. Read this while I sit here with a hood on my head, a cross in my heart, and no pants on. Watch me struggle with these Saphir-Warf semantics that speak of my limits more than my talents. These words free my anxiety, my soul, but like all patriots, they are also my captors and my jailors. I can’t think what I can’t say.

There’s no word for “jam” in Hebrew.

But that’s okay because we’re all Nazis here. Du hast, motherfucker. I’m rigid on the inside and open on the outside. Like a Skor candy bar I guess. I give everyone else my sweetness and leave the rock-hard reality for myself. It’s a beautiful, life without the French.

Excuse me, but you dropped my name on the floor next to his—

this must have been a mistake because I know that you keep

us in separate containers that have completely different

scents of axe body spray and reinforcement intervals

King James never stops his commissions. Neither does Joseph Smith. They are demanding architects. Keystones or seer stones, they keep a hammer in my hand and a weight on my back. Hymns are scripts sung to lull the sweating. Sing ye sirens, sing until I believe again! Sing until I see, or believe, or whichever comes first. I don’t know what to believe anymore. If God is perfect and perfection is an absence of sin, the God cannot be sinful. Yet, sin exists, and God is everywhere. God has seen every rape, every slit throat, every child that knows that taste of her own blood and her uncle’s semen. He was part of that. He witnessed it. Further, he didn’t do anything to stop it—apparently, he is no Samaritan. Even further, he ultimately created it. So either God isn’t perfect, or sin isn’t really sin. Then he has the audacity to call this shit the plan of happiness. Life is for us to be tested, suffer, and be exposed to sin. No clever nomenclature can convince me that this torture is happiness. Plan of redemption, then. Wrong again. One must fall to be redeemed, so it’s really the plan of push-you-off-the-ledge-and-let-me-save-you-so-I-look-good-plan. Plan of salvation works just about the same way. It’s for our own good. But that’s not answer to the questions that the existential “answers” have stringing along behind them.

Just purchased, for better or for divorce

This wedding dress never felt so good wadded on the floor

We’re just going all the way—back to the source

We all live and die on the threshold of the cervix door

Never wear seatbelts. They only keep you in, they don’t let you out. Pulling safely into my parking spot is my deepest regret. No life-ending wreck, no obituary to heralding my dream has at last come true. They will mourn the loss of another bright-eyed youth with his life ahead of him and cry tears for my all my potential. That’s what I long for. Cut me down before I grow twisted and knotted in the corner of the forest where the Son refuses to shine.

This is how it has to end, you always knew it

No matter what happiness spills, fate sees through it

Face-down in a tangle of limbs, I threw it

Square in a circle, there is no new shit

Decadence without recompense is robbing innocence with broomsticks. That rhymed, but that’s about all it means. That’s all any of this means. Unfortunately, they weren’t even good. Sorry about that.

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