It was intense, I suppose. The look which was meant to be sorrowful and Holy became one of sympathy and a mild disgust. Outside the window the World turned in it’s heat as she plussed and pulled at the day with those darting hand gestures she used. She was catching imaginary Birds. Hands also flapping as she called out to whatever Gods she had. Whatever strange beliefs she clutched. The Cars outside the house discordant Summer tickover. Injected fuels forced under pressure. Oil lubricates and smothers heat for movement. Mass energy control. Engineered wants, advertised movements, budgeted empires bleed a blacker blood than us. She had artificial angst and made targets for her anger. These targets a spread of passionate media grift, Political polarisation and hand movements jitter to a stop and float for a moment as a fragment of confusion passed over her face for a short second that fell between us like a heavy weight.
IT WAS ANTI-SOCIAL. Eyes blind, Corpse rains and stones of old. The heat rolled in and I sat down on an old chair she had saved from the Landfill just down the road a little, past the Coal place and the Foundry then left, bear left, hang a left. Past the abandoned things. The Chair was ugly. I spoke through the filters and then she would listen a little. Then I would filter the view and it was a beautiful Summers day and someone was playing Dub through a few loudspeakers. It wobbled on the heat. The notes and the Bass. It frittered away at nerves rolled between nicotine stained fingers. A memory I suppose, one that hung on. We can hold onto them of course, maybe by fingertips and maybe through a hard grasp but they flutter away in the end and become weird shattered narratives that squeeze between the filters and become as pressed flowers in the leaves of a Book soon put back on the shelf. They have no identity except that which is manufactured for them. They wear it proudly of course and become Memetic and frazzled.
“…and fuck the Tories” she exclaimed before violently turning on the cold tap to fill the kettle. But we had no sugar and I’m not drinking my tea without Sugar. She and others have been ‘fucking’ the Tories for a long time and still haven’t worked out that they are the ones being fucked. See the filters? See how they work? They pull you in if you aren’t careful. They pull you in and you get chewed up. The first thing you notice are the subtle tang of excitement as the idea that you are communicating effectively fill your being and you think it’s like being the same as them. But you aren’t and you are not special either. Just an emanation. A dribbling psychosis of sorts manipulating your way through the Eigen. Even the filters lie in the end.
What do we do as the Kettle boils and twists? We navigate. We find ways to move through it. Sit and be quiet. Everything is worth nothing. My hands older have scars uncounted or measured but look disgusting on softer skins. It’s nothing absolutely fucking nothing. Nothing is real, there is no fucking deal. What’s the point? When is the end? What’s the deal? Nothings fucking real except fucking and fucking around. Pleasure beaters and our own litanies, our own lies mirrored by theirs. You build your own walls you know. You build them high, too high to climb. Sunblocker brickwork. Clouds that are simply walls. You move past me and I smell you. Vanilla something.
Everything is real but the pain
It comes again and again
It drives you fucking mad
It drives you insane insane.
The landscapes heat is sick. You roll and swerve through it while the rolling smothers whatever words you had. People dance to music that has no origin in love at all. Smashing notes jar, intense rhythms bleed. Take my flash and encase it in arrogant plastic. Tear the sinews out as ropes. Bring audience to watch and learn. Frozen muscles slathered in Ice. Bring notes from Elders twisted and sick upon beds. Pull the sinews from deep places and knit them into what we are. Annihilate the blinded eyes. Grasp the hidden jokes, the pyres of intent and the sticky afterbirth of your means. What laughter from the rains from a long time ago. Months possibly. The cold splash of a raindrop as we lie still and listen at the beating on the dust covered windows. The Bananas slowly turning black in the bowl. What you are is hated. You are Mouth and digestive system. Mind alive to sure finance. What you are is nothing of course. Isn’t there evidence here for this? For if there is evidence there is existence of an act. Extrapolation of evidence leads to a narrative and the narration soon becomes dogma and litany. We build fake House and artificial roof, we fling up walls and make doorways and those words will soon become built and real. To collect Moss and algae. To become and melt at the same time into the bleached out places we live.
Gods eh? Trundlers and loiterers. Us, small things not worth a thought. Passing through and travelling. Always Hate and Hating. Always murk.
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