Hello! In reality there are lots of stuff going on in my life, but somehow I don’t deem it worth writing about, instead I write about how I move big rocks with my wheelbarrow to construct a secluded copse where I can sit obscured by the foliage and yet have a clear view of my surroundings
Or how I see mother sitting on a miniature ATV connected backhoe, how that makes her look like a toddler operating a sandbox excavator in my mind’s eye.
And that that’s always the way it’s been, but I see it now through the foliage through my new round prism glasses, which are strong.
My current quest of introspection is figuring out why I didn’t see this before, blatant though it is.
I fear I might not like the answer
If there’s one thing I regret in my life so far, it’s that I didn’t start smoking at an earlier age.
In the red Volvo, I was listening to Looptroop — Long Arm of the law,
It’s an awesome track,
The lyrics crack me up every time.
It’s about being oppressed by the system, and especially the police
About getting “fucked by the long dick of the law”,
And then somewhat disproportionately
Wouldn't even give me a public defender
For such a small case, not paying on the trains
Still they wanted four thousand kronors, from my bank account
I thought that was a too big amount
But the judge didn't had no sympathy on me
there’s a tiredness in me which stems from more than just lack of sleep
Sometimes, as you are driving, a loud bang or a scraping noise comes from somewhere in the car, maybe from underneath? Like say you ran over a pothole or maybe not even that …
But no warning lights flash, so it’s probably nothing, right?
It’s that exact feeling from somewhere inside my body, an ancient feeling maybe
And so therefore following the taco buffet where I sat inside sweating I now feel several hundred years old
I’m listening right now to Jon Schaffers favourite songs playlist which right now is playing a song by Ghost.
The blinds are shut and windows closed, but yet light and sound is spilling into this apartment.
Last week there was a school concert where my nephew performed on his loop station, it was awesome.
On another act where some students dressed in white shirts were performing Jesus He Knows me, in the silence right before they were gonna start, from the row in front of me came a fart sound from a young woman who started laughing and her boyfriend (presumably) started laughing too and then he was playfully head banging to the music and they were holding hands, giggling
And their playfulness filled me with joy because they really seemed to be in love and having a great time
And it reminded me of that scene from the new spider man movie where spider man is unmasked in a train car but somehow the little folks stick up for him and protect him
And it got me thinking about all of these beautiful things people do
Their displays of kindness
And so thinking, I feel too that I got the power to muddle through this life
A life I do not understand
My mind keep thinking about this quote by Clive Barker from ome of the Abarat books
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
I have been trying to describe the mess in my head by likening it to a room with bedbugs in the antique furniture, which is covered by stacks of important papers.
From somewhere there is a stench, maybe a cat pissed on some carpet or something, but it’s impossible to deduce the source exactly among the clutter
And every type I enter this room I am unable even to remember what errand brought me there, so I go instead to fill my coffee cup,
Then outside into the summer sun where dandelions are growing in the newly mowed lawns.
The past year of my life has been a mental tornado
And I am sure now I have died another one of these little deaths from the quote above
And I am certain that I will come out of this experience a different person
I get these patches which might be gray or colourful, even some with flowers on there, but there’s so much missing, I feel like
It’s going to have to be a quilt, then
That’s the best I can do, unfortunately
I remember one Walpurgis fire, or say Beltane (for I am a heathen), and I was eating hot dogs by the giant fire and it’d just started to darken and I might have been with my friend but then suddenly some neighbour’s kid (technically also a neighbour of course) threw a firecracker or shot a rocket which exploded near me. I heard it ringing in my right ear, and I started crying because I got a shock and I walked home with the ringing in my ear and I think back now that I feel sorry for myself then
For the child I was.
And I thought that that was a breakthrough in a sense, because thinking back on who I was then always used to fill me with contempt.
Now that I think on it, I haven’t got any pictures of myself from this time either…
the night isn’t so dark this time of the year
The moon shines on a turquoise gray sky with clouds
And its raining
And during the day I am outside when the sun shines.
I am happy then,
But on the other hand, I am happy during this rainy night also
And I have eaten tacos, of course.
The hen I buried in the compost heap last year is now mostly turned to soil.
All I saw of her remains was one single grey feather
I wonder is she looking down on us from her roost in heaven
Or whether she’s just gone back to the shapeless void?