Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Feels like fog

If only the one voice that matters would still.

Then the relentless, slave-driver lashing would stop.

Perhaps, then there will be peace.

Monday, June 10, 2013

I am: A Note to Daddy

I made a model of you.


I have always been afraid of you.


burn, burn, burn I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.


One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.


But the gods are fallen and all safety gone.


I took a deep breath
and


listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

Daddy, daddy, 

I’m through.


I'm not good.


I am, I am, I am


born in fury


burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding


I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved desirous of everything at the same time


till i drop


the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world


I am, I am , I am.


If ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest’ not.


One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple:


I took a deep breath
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.


I’m through.




Words taken from Dharma Bums, On the Road, “Daddy”, The Bell Jar, and East of Eden