In an attempt to understand. Currently, the writer has branched himself out—out of dishonesty. Cannot deny forever he has not always been this way. Is opprobrium. (Be aware. I was, in the last sentence, not remotely aware what the word opprobrium meant. Not consciously. Subsequently consulted The Free Dictionary. Apposite to the Nth degree. Spooky.) But if there were at all a point or real utility to a personal blog such as this, it’s: honesty.
I have fallen through land rays. Driven drunk, coked out, on varying strengths of psilocybin and LSD. On this one jellified tab, when the world and people in it in the bar that early depressed morning had acquainted their superreal fuzziness and depth and color, I played pool on a faulty table with inhuman skill. Knocking multiple balls into multiple pockets with single strokes. I have tried to kill myself by lying down on a train track in N Birmingham. And falling asleep watching clouds. I was set between the bracketing rails, on the wood slats and granite rock spacings with my shoes off and I was so relaxed. After walking past a dead end sign someone had graffitied “DIE” on in silver spray paint. Through a clearing. After dropping my phone intentionally. After destroying the front left of my car. Because I’d been angrily driving after being kicked out of the bar. And wanted desperately not to feel all that sadness melted from anger. Anyway. I have woken up under a speeding train with nothing but a cat scratch and my own screaming hoarseness and I’m Sorry Gods and the undulant sine wave warping of the rail under the weight of each massive wheel before my turned face. I have jumped between a man being beaten over the head with the butt of a pistol and a man beating him over the head with the butt of his pistol. I have been held by the neck at gunpoint and pistol whipped after telling the man with the gun to look me in the eye. I have had visions of infinity as my own legs on an orange sleeping bag in a room full of boxes—my legs on the sleeping bag together stacked forever like a tunnel of mirrors. And that vision occurred between the slits of my fingers though it seemed like the palm of my hand. After walking home on multiple strains of mushrooms seeing the sidewalk and trees and twigs and how in reality I was walking through the most remarkable painting with everything in its right place. I have heard the most heartbreaking, horrific, and awful stories of moments in people’s lives from the people themselves. I have held myself and I have held others and I think I am good at it I want to believe.
I have wanted to die and I have asked for signs and I am sure I have gotten them, but I have not been able to see.
I have had relationships with special women and lost them of my own accord. I have been brutally confident and I have been paralytically unsociable and anxious. I have seen the light in others’ eyes and cried because the world around them and myself felt so fucking dark. I have not known what to do at just about every moment of my life. That has been a constant. I have held in my feelings and ended up living a life I felt to be the sad terrible alternative to a much brighter one. I have watched men being beaten to a pulp by other men. I have heard pool water ripple beneath endless cloud and lengths of air on bright days atop very very tall buildings. I have approached darkened people in dark places on dark nights in a dark car with dark music blaring. I have concussed as a child and an adult, and both times seen utter sheer white. I have watched my father disappear. I have heard my older brother scream in pure agony through a surgery room door and seen my mother cry. I have caused many people to cry. I have been found wanting. I have had very very early memories young enough to be crawling and those memories have been terrible terrible sad detailed things. I have pitied myself while scarring myself while being alone of my own accord. I have pinkened bathtubs. I have cringed at photos and cried at photos and smiled at photos and screamed at photos and masturbated to photos and been lost in thought while looking at but not really seeing photos. I have met my archangel in a dream involving desert and oasis and his name was Ansel. I have pitied and pitied and pitied myself. I have hated myself very much. I have hurt myself physically, mentally, spiritually, chemically, emotionally, really, in a lasting way. I have felt great, great, great shame. I still do. I envy the sort of people like my big brother, who think openly what they want to about the world despite what the world thinks. Who walk their own paths. I have been unfaithful to myself. I have died and I have been reborn but not felt at all reborn and anyway only symbolically, and still symbolically not felt at all reborn. I have seen a couple ghosts, one of which was in black and white in the early morning in a colored bathroom. I have kissed and been kissed. I have been slapped in the face. I have been used. I have used. I have loved. I have disavowed my own understanding of love and existence and everything.
I came here initially out of some horny necessity to harp on the want for a beautiful female ass in my face. And my love especially for the butt. And my not knowing why. And it being something innate carnal and chemical. And psychological probably and spiritual. And definitely symbolic and definitely crude and definitely relative but definitely true. The asshole and the cunt and the taint between. And the undulant knoll risen up to the pubic bone. Or the tucked-inness of that dark winking ring within the anfractuous mirrored prominences of the impossibly angled rondure of cheeks risen soft and mosaic almost, from there to warp round to the warm inner thighs with their angel-eyelashed white micronic hairs and eddying valleys of soft beating warmth like a hush from some other dimension or a soul is love in the brush of a thigh they say human connection is distinct to the mind’s chemicals though the atoms never truly touch. But you could die a thousand warm deaths inside in an instant just laying your head there and stroking softly the extension of that leg. Down to the firmness of the ankle. Against the grain of the however-long-ago-shaved expanse like a chill and then back down again slow it is warm it is warm with a touch that worships and not just in how it is being soft it is not into-word-putable. And all these words essentially worthless. But apparently my heart must’ve had other things to say, above.
So then and here I am if this is at all me. I feel most like myself in bed nearly hypnogogic about to pass deep and beginning to notice my body has lost feeling and my thoughts can float free too sleepy. I am about to go out. Because dreams are the only things that remind me on a regular basis: This life is mine. In my body, in my mind, with the thoughts and memories they know. I am only guaranteed it once. And I am going to die. Like a movie only I will ever see. And only I will ever be able to judge. For myself.
I think when I die, it would be a precious gift to be alone. Like how Sailor went off behind the lampstand to be alone when he knew he was going to die. I loved that cat. I still remember a lot of things. And I feel terrible about a lot of things. But I think it would be a precious gift to be alone, when I die. Just as when I was so often able to realize, nearly fallen asleep—this has all this time been my life. And it really is such a precious thing.