Thursday, July 31, 2008

Psychic TV in me

I spend half my life waiting for half witted fuck for brains to get their shit together.

I am sure they laugh.

Because it is so goddamn funny... but after too much accumulation of history, we have lost our integrity haven't we?


lame.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Batman

d.d. & batman sitting in a tree...

b-e-i-n-g a-w-e-s-o-m-e.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wild tigers I have known

Still a sadness.


Found filth in the whole of room.
Dillusional mirrors that tell me nothing,
and I am cleaning till four am
just to have an excuse to complain tomorrow.

When I found those tiny metal triangles
on our bathroom floor
I wanted to construct towers
out of them.

This isn't linear.

Nor are we.

Monday, July 21, 2008

BDD

Sad today, crystal castles, and I am trying to come to terms with what I actually look like. 

Isn't it weird that we will NEVER see ourselves the way other people do? Even in picutres. No matter how many poses one strikes in front of the shutter... we always look different.

blah. I think I have body dis-morphic issues.



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Sunday, July 20, 2008

the living dead

Just listen.

Yesterday I am working (I work as a receptionist for a massage/spa place) and this guy comes in, he is a new client. He looks a little gray faced, and all around un-well, which I notice. I ask him if he would like water while he fills out some forms, he just shakes his head and asks for the rest room. I show him the way and shortly after he is escorted to his massage. 

When he comes down, I try chatting with him, saying he looks relaxed and ask if he enjoyed his massage. He nods his head, attempts to smile and again asks to use the rest room. I cash out his gift card (given to him by 'The Philips Design Group' , he uses the facility and then leaves. Minutes after, I use the rest room. While I am in there I smell this awful fetid smell- I have smelt it before, but I can't place it. It definitely was not the normal odiferous splendors that one would smell in a loo, but something more awful. It was chemical, and earthy, if at all possible. I wanted to say a cross between burnt chocolate, rat piss, and some kind of pungent cleaning solution. 

I wash my hands and walk out into the kitchen where three of the massage therapists are eating lunch. Jackie, who was Martin (the man's) therapist is there but not eating. I am so sick with the smell that I say something about it. I am trying to explain the smell and she looks at me wide eyed...

Was Martin just in there? she asks (in her beautiful scottish accent)

-Yes....

My god, do you know that in the fifteen years I have been a massage therapist, I have NEVER smelt such acrid odor? I nearly passed out and vomited from the smell. Never have I had a client with a smell that just radiated and lingered the way his did.

We all stare at her, and I believe it. The whole back hall leading up to the bathroom was drenched in his stink.

It was rotten, and just what you described... You know what I think it was? I think it was formaldehyde. 

She goes on to tell us how she had taken this anatomy class in which they had to dissect a cadaver. I knew she had pin pointed the smell exactly from tenth grade biology when we examined preserved cow hearts.

The therapists go into another appointment, and while Jackie is waiting for her client to undress she says
The thing that is really baffeling, is his skin texture. It was as if the man had no 
elasticity left in his skin. Truly, bizarre.

At this point we are all a little freaked. We go about our day, all keeping Creepy Martin in the back of our heads and the tips of our noses. The stench was nearly impossible to air out. But the more I thought of him the more the pieces didn't fit. He was middle aged, could have been any of my friends fathers, or even one of my professors. And the skin slag! I have possibly read too many books detailing the decomposition of a human corpse, how after the rigor subsides, one is left with wilting flesh. I then am transported to daymares of this walking cadaver coming into our spa, using a found gift card to cash in for one last humanly indulgence. ::shiver::

I google him - Nothing.

I type in the design firm who had given Martin the gift card - Nothing.

On the form he filled out he lists no ailments, he is on no medication (which can sometimes attribute to a person smelling funny - just think of your grandma's home), and has no places in particular he would like the therapist to focus on.  Fucking weird. 

I reiterate my findings to Jackie who has come up with some theories of her own. 

Maybe he is an undertaker who works with advanced decomposing bodies.

-He got it from a design firm.

Damn. Well maybe he is on medications?

-Nothin'

Shit. Drugs, maybe he is a meth chef?

- A meth chef Jackie? no. I mean did he seem like he was a drug user?

No... no, not at all actually. Then what on Earth?

-Not on Earth. Maybe he is dead. 

I had said too much. 

Nothing has come about for our mysterious Martin, but I am still convinced he was a part of the living dead. 




My faultline

so I have a lot going on in my head. Nothing different from what it usually is except for this uncontrollable sense of doom. Like the walls are going to splinter and dissipate and I wont even have time to grab my keys. 

I wonder if when it all ends I will still grab for my passport and birth certificate? About four months ago we got into this bizarre tiff with the upstairs neighbor. Some macho bot boy with a big labido and immense ego from Scotland. Anyway he unpinned the fire extinguisher and sprayed our door with it. we were breathing in the awful chemical fog that had settled into the air. Angry, we planned on striking back- but the fire alarm sounded and we thought maybe there really was a fire. Barely thinking of anything but safety I grabbed my purse, cellphone, meds, rat cage, and this little portfolio that I keep all my really important papers in... I was out the door standing on the sidewalk in 3 minutes. 

There was no fire, but I was ready, I set myself at ease and it was fine. 

I was laying in bed last night, the image of this cartooned globe cracking in two, a shift of tectonic plates conspiring against my even footing, I feared the end was closer than I thought. I was torn between wanting the earth to open her mouth and just swallow me whole, or the spine of the earth missing my house by mere inches... 


W


oh and....

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Start

I am not sure what direction this all will take, how far it will go, or if all these viral dreams will come to fruition the way I hope they will. But it is worth a shot. I need a place to vent since I am with out a therapist or anything for now. I am on my own and maybe okay with it. Ask me when I have more in my system. 

I need to free write. 

My love letters to 1000 girls are spread over this city. The thick phlegm of masturbation, the sound of fucking ones self to the face of a stranger, and I am windblown. Shoes that dirty beds from walking on these piss green streets. Gutters choking with disease, to the blossoming trees bursting with perfumed birds. These love letters I have are burned into this shit city. I smiled my way through sonnets only to see them paved with chipped nails deep into scratched dirt. The names of never lovers. And I cry over small bits of chalk that once held so much word and promise. Now wasted on dillusional configures etched into these goddamn sidewalks. When I am done, I play hop scotch on them. The clinking bodies of charcoal. I sail down avenues knowing they have felt these words, scarred backs and I am going to do this again.