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Jun. 5th, 2003
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Jun. 5th, 2003 03:52 pmnormal people sleep at night. yes.
i don't now what this says about people
or night.
it says nothing, probably. and that is why
i am repeating it.
there are a million trees in the forest.
exactly a million. a mockingbird is somewhere.
under the lake there are stones
on top there are geese.
unchanging: trees. birds. stones. birds.
trees outnumber the birds. the birds outnumber
the stones. the stones beat scissors, which cutteth
paper.
changeable: clouds. hours.
it says nothing. i will repeat it.
my hand has five fingers. if i cut one off
i would have four. i would be in pain.
i would probably be screaming, and bleeding
on the keyboard.
but i would have four fingers.
changeable: fingers. pain.
i am listening to music. the more i understand music
the less i understand it. life is similar.
the more i live, the less i live. human things
are understandable, they've got forwardses and
backwardses and datum and erratum. other things,
however, make as much sense as
people die every day. i'm glad i'm not one of them.
when i hear about a particularly gruesome death i have to
reenact it in my mind, as closely as i can imagine, with
myself as the main character. i don't know why. otherwise,
it would be just another death, meaningless. i don't want
it to be meaningless. by imagining it i make it understandable,
it is diminished, and therefore, i make it meaningless.
unchanging: more. less. meaning.
this says nothing. pass it on.
normal people sleep at night.
unlike bats. or things like that.
they're called nocturnal
because, they don't sleep at night.
things that sleep at night don't get a name.
only aberrations get labeled.
some people find being a minority empowering
and they embrace it. maximizing
marginalization. others do this with opinions
or lifestyles, sexual habits, gripes, poor childhoods,
basically anything you could have a parade about.
they don't have parades about poor childhoods.
they call it something else.
I like parades.
My favorite is the coney island mermaid parade.
everyone dresses like they came out of the ocean.
they're lying. none of them came out of the ocean.
this is why i like them.
unchanging: ocean.
changeable: ocean.
in the field stands stalks. dry stalks.
upon the stalks stands crow. crow croaks.
scare, crow. flee, fly. it blinks,
a thousand years go by. i have died.
that was a memory.
i don't know what this says about time.
nothing, probably. let it go.
sway, rustle, bend, shift. tweet, tweedle
tooweet. clank, sit. quack.
ocean sea waters blue brine drink mer mar mare
cyan. blue. white. blue. grey. blue. purple. violet.
orange. gold.
orange. violet. indigo.
black.
the more it is day the more it is night.
what does this say.
i don't now what this says about people
or night.
it says nothing, probably. and that is why
i am repeating it.
there are a million trees in the forest.
exactly a million. a mockingbird is somewhere.
under the lake there are stones
on top there are geese.
unchanging: trees. birds. stones. birds.
trees outnumber the birds. the birds outnumber
the stones. the stones beat scissors, which cutteth
paper.
changeable: clouds. hours.
it says nothing. i will repeat it.
my hand has five fingers. if i cut one off
i would have four. i would be in pain.
i would probably be screaming, and bleeding
on the keyboard.
but i would have four fingers.
changeable: fingers. pain.
i am listening to music. the more i understand music
the less i understand it. life is similar.
the more i live, the less i live. human things
are understandable, they've got forwardses and
backwardses and datum and erratum. other things,
however, make as much sense as
people die every day. i'm glad i'm not one of them.
when i hear about a particularly gruesome death i have to
reenact it in my mind, as closely as i can imagine, with
myself as the main character. i don't know why. otherwise,
it would be just another death, meaningless. i don't want
it to be meaningless. by imagining it i make it understandable,
it is diminished, and therefore, i make it meaningless.
unchanging: more. less. meaning.
this says nothing. pass it on.
normal people sleep at night.
unlike bats. or things like that.
they're called nocturnal
because, they don't sleep at night.
things that sleep at night don't get a name.
only aberrations get labeled.
some people find being a minority empowering
and they embrace it. maximizing
marginalization. others do this with opinions
or lifestyles, sexual habits, gripes, poor childhoods,
basically anything you could have a parade about.
they don't have parades about poor childhoods.
they call it something else.
I like parades.
My favorite is the coney island mermaid parade.
everyone dresses like they came out of the ocean.
they're lying. none of them came out of the ocean.
this is why i like them.
unchanging: ocean.
changeable: ocean.
in the field stands stalks. dry stalks.
upon the stalks stands crow. crow croaks.
scare, crow. flee, fly. it blinks,
a thousand years go by. i have died.
that was a memory.
i don't know what this says about time.
nothing, probably. let it go.
sway, rustle, bend, shift. tweet, tweedle
tooweet. clank, sit. quack.
ocean sea waters blue brine drink mer mar mare
cyan. blue. white. blue. grey. blue. purple. violet.
orange. gold.
orange. violet. indigo.
black.
the more it is day the more it is night.
what does this say.