Saturday, June 29, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Hold
Apologies because I don't now how to format this blog.... Oh, well, you got me under your spell, and I don't think I've been kidding around. Don't think I can forget you now. Remember: the only thing we need sometimes is chilly nights and warmer thighs... cause nothing's like being held sometimes.
A Powem:
little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won’t flinch and
I won’t blame
you,
as I drive along the shore alone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do not leave,
i won’t blame you,
instead
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.
little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife. The knife is
mine and I won’t use it
yet.
—"Raw With Love" by Charles Bukowski
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
"Living Well" excerpts
"Our behaviors and emotions, according to evolutionary psychiatry, are adaptations the mind has made to recurring problems. You want to know why we get depressed? Well, maybe it had something to do with ensuring that the inevitable losers in those prehistory tribal power struggles accepted their lot and didn't do something that would get them expelled from the group or worse. Even the winners probably needed some discouragement against getting too big for their breechcloths. There's even a theory for postpartum depression, if you're prepared to believe that Mother Nature at her most brutal was willing to step in and sacrifice the newest born for the sake of the other members of the family."
"...we are the beneficiaries of a group of genes that did not anticipate credit cards, artificial light, processed foods, digital timepieces, rush-hour traffic, and rap music blaring from twelve-inch subwoofers mounted in oversized SUVs. Still, despite a world that seems booby-trapped to make us fail, many of us rise to the occasion to lead full and productive lives. Call it the twenty-first century Darwinian challenge. Our ability to feel on levels deeper and higher than the rest of the population, crippling as it may be, has also given wings to our thoughts, ones that motivated us to climb out of our cozy rock condos in the first place and now seem destined to have us reach for the stars."
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Inspirational Conspriacy
Against my years of denial of what must have been the case(s), this year I allowed myself to be diagnosed mentally ill by a credentialed doctor. I have been reading this big book called "Living Well" with a subtitle I am choosing not to disclose... The stigma is alive and well like the tech industry. They must be related.
A lot happened this year to me so far. My grandfather died. I crashed my car. My Dad's business partner from a drug overdose. "He left her with all of his shit," they said. I reread my other blogs, as I usually do instead of reading the sustained minds of professions. I deleted my latest blog in this fit of rage. I must not have read far back enough last year. So much has happened that I can't differentiate them mostly because they include the presence of one person. The previous two years I made and lost significant people in my life and they were all female. Their exit introduced a new male in to my life. Of course, we fell in love with each other. We have either passed that or have given up on it and are using each other because we don't want to "be alone." I think it might be impossible to be alone at this day and age in our story book.
Where do I even start? I could write about the wedding. I could write about the title.
I have one hour and fifteen minutes before people come home and I have to stop being myself
I feel infinitely betrayed by my mother. Seeing her this way makes me want to revert to my old, obviously happier ways of dependency. Now that I'm not allowed to be dependent on things I have nothing. I have nothing because I'm not making anything of it. I read my old blogs with constant self-reminders about the road that I was on. Recently my vehicle has broke down on the side of the road and I decided to kick it for a while. My dream had become a reality for a little while there. I was able to partake in an organic little garden of love, companionship, friendship, and sex. In late blogs I was a single fireball till I met another. Now we are too hot to be of any use. We should separate and slingshot each other into dark caverns and sharp crevices like the Spring St. exit off the 101N... if you've never turned off of it, just plan on the fuckass u-turn you're about to make and settle with getting it next time. Tangent. Anyway, I'm trying to say that we are being selfish with each other and it makes neither of us happy. The incredible sex is becoming less and less worth it, or is it because it is becoming less and less incredible, or is it because it never was because we were both celibate prior? Is this what getting hitched must be like? Responsible and stressful? That seems not worth it...
He is leaving and I could have gone with him. If I accepted his reach the day of the invite I could be here, now. I didn't accept the help because I didn't really want it. Now look at me, blubbering in solitude as if they last years showed me nothing. Based on my actions, they really didn't. The breeze carries my tears off my face and drops them more visibly on this gray T-shirt. The volume of liquid is not equivalent to the ounces that gush from my cunt. Something we experienced together. Something we'll both forget if we leave each other's lives. At the rate we had been seeing each other, I could not tell you where I'd be without him. I told him once before and he told me to shut up, snap out of it, or get over it. I started it...
My feet are dirty and happy. I feel safe at this house, only because I now know that they won't say a thing and I enjoy the silence. I yearn for sprouting tunes of mindful voices and genuine conversation in these walls by no one else but us. I can't say that I'd become an alcoholic too if my entire family died in the span of the last five years. Now we HAVE to be friends in order to not be alone.
"…to simply tolerate another out of loneliness and call this one friend - how pathetic!"- Wolfi Landstreicher
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