Content Warning: discussion of depression and suicidal ideation
I can’t remember what came first, us or the Book. What came first: Book arrives first flesh and first fire. The Book arrives bereshit blessingway and I arrive way Witch Woman. I arrive Women Witches and I dream too youth. I dream the youth YHVH asleep.
I can’t remember but I remember Kindred Book tangled Kindred Book
The asleep center last supper
Asleep the center semicircle last supper
Asleep centaur semicircle signature
I can’t remember but Book remembers body lighthouse house body steam fucked lone (Our love can put an end to this fucking world and I dream Kindred now fucking. Kindred dreams now fucking and now fucking and our love lifts ladder lighthouse many Books. I can’t remember what came first but Kindred reigns King Felix). Remember Kindred signature and signs gospel and gospel cycles epicycle epistemology. Gospel misremembers and repeats canonical gospels.
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I recall / remember gospels and Book First Fire / Flesh
(We will go to the Trinity Monastery, and you will make bells and I will paint icons). I continue to paint incessantly: I write and rewrite the painted Book and the Book black body canvas. I paint and repaint the icon of Christina, and I cut her portraits into shaped-canvas minimalism. I pour paint over her face and her mouth emanates pink beam hydrogen bombs. Her mouth drops big fucking bombs. I paint and repaint the icon of Kindred and my mouth expands Philip K. Dick pink beams
Her mouth drop blonde
Mouth blossom ben breast
I breathe bereshit I breathe the Beetle Book bereshit Beetle Book bark Beetle Book bereshit / Book wings bridges Beetle Book bereshit Beetle Book bereshit breaks the beetle (Beetle breach beach / bark breathe books bereshit Book)
Break beach breaking Book beach
Break Book ben hinnom upward
Bereshit breaches ben hinnom upward, the coral reef of the Body Beach (The beach of the Body brooks beetles brush stroke ben bodies Beetle Book of Birth)
Her mouth drop beetles
Mouth break beach beetles
I recall / remember Book gospels and gospel Kindred
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I can’t remember what came first, Kindred or the Book / Book arrives first flesh and first fire
I’m having a hard time, I say to Christina. I can’t articulate anything. I’m sorry you’re feeling that way, says C. Miles had a bad meltdown this morning. He said his brain was running away and he didn’t even want to try and get it. Relatable, I say. I figured, says C. He just wanted me to stop trying to help and just sit with him. He was late to school, but I told him sometimes the consequences are worth it when we need a break. I’m getting him an Icee for when I pick him up from school. I highly suggest you get yourself a treat, says Christina. I feel like dying often, I say. Same, man, she says. For me, it’s a part of life. I struggle with wanting to live. It doesn’t go away if I don’t acknowledge it. What’s your preferential response? I tend not to make a big deal, I think. I’m not sure how to deal with it, I say. I would love for you to learn to love yourself a little better, she says. Do you love yourself? I say. To some extent, says C. There are some parts of me that are harder to love than others. It’s something I continually work on. What parts are harder to love? I say. What some stoics call “the creature”, says C. Shes’ the one who comes out when I have bad depression. She doesn’t shower, she makes bad decisions, she’s a bad example for the kids, etc, says C.
I can’t remember what came first, us or the Book – Kindred or the Book – Book first first flesh and first fire Book arrives I tend not to live Book arrives it doesn’t go away if I don’t shower / she makes bad depression
First fires I’m trying treat if to having it
First I love a help
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The Beetle Book barks the brash bash of my Beetle Book
(Book I don’t than hard and feel acknowledges others time)
My beetle body bursts open into the Oneiric Beach and Book Ouroboros / metamorphosis with beetles’ wings
I sit dying what’s something can’t with often your I articulate her
I’m was far I or sorry late me ties
Beetle Body brooks hooks rhizome blues Beetle Book
(I’m sorry you’re feeling that her. Muses had a pad meltdown this morning. He said his brain I am running away and he didn’t over wind to try to get it)
I listen to “The Microphones in 2020” by The Microphones. Its nostalgia and recollection of personal history resonates with me and I want to write my own nostalgic journey but it’s my first night back at work in a week and the night shift destroys my brain and I have no memory. My brain archive disappears with my dilapidated body. I copy Past Ben – he always wrote nostalgic beetles and beaches (Christina memory – Kindred memory – shared memory – our memory – before the Book).
Tag: depression
It’s Always Everything
Content Warning: discussion of alcoholism and mental health
It’s not stealing if it’s everything
I give speech and I spare no speech, but it strikes spear chaoses. My speech spins whirligig chaoses, soda cut matches eye machines. Speech at eye-level levels skyscrapers room for more speech. Speech spies speech split liminal. I speak from original human – Child of Humanity and Daughter Of Men. I speak transforming-word and transfiguring-word new heaven and earth languages. My human one splits liminal total human experience – obscene graffittis, pornographies, pulp fictions, graphomania multiple maniacs.
It’s everything: multiple maniacs / gangster emblems
Multiple maniacs son of a hundred maniacs blue suit medicine men
It’s everything: puzzle piece aporia aporia palindrome puzzle
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It’s everything: body, death, stolen body resurrection
I die easily – how difficult and how easy to kill a body, and body drinks death stealing new life over and over. My body electric shocks early polarization / depolarization / v-fib fractals. My body dies while Christina drinks to her early death. Christina breaks three years of sobriety and I give her the benefit of the doubt until she drinks enough to get kicked out of the comedy club and vomits in her car. I love her anyways and sometimes she’s difficult to love but I find pleasure in loving her. I love her endlessly and unconditionally and unconditional pursues speech death / fractal fuck creation. I love her everything – drunk Christina and sober Christina, Christina suicidal and puking her guts out. My body and Christina drinks: I speak prophetic bodies and body humanity and Christina drinks. Everything Kindred steals death and resurrection, and we survive through self-destruction (creative deconstruction). When I talk to my therapist (I have a therapist now), we talk about tools and activities on how to measure the severity of my bipolar cycles and distress. For level 5, I say my emotions resemble plasma – everything including anxiety, depression, agitation, restlessness – all mixed and one excited state – completely tangled and undifferentiated – it’s everything. I mention my drive towards self-destruction. I imagine Christina also, whether consciously or unconsciously, drives towards self-destruction.
It’s everything: body, death, self destruction, inevitable resurrection
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It’s not stealing if it’s everything
Suzanne explained the film to me / Christina explained to me
Thrills and chills from the screen!
See hypnotic love create shocking bestial desire!
See beauty subjected to frightening horror!
You actually see the weird fantastic ritual of the headhunters!
Terror Of the Bloodhunters
It’s everything: I laid down last night I laid down last night – I laid down last night, tried to take my rest I laid down Christina lights across the body I laid I laid down her lights across the light embedded in my body (body self-destruct towards stolen resurrections) I laid down downward word toward body (devil words and deviled egg words) I laid down demons, daemons, and devils I laid lay lady lay across my big brass bed
It’s everything: I laid down last night I laid down last night I laid down last night I laid down last night Last down last I laid last night even everything
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Surreal steal from you but also have to do anything because we do love your life anymore and I was thinking about reaching the ground grind by all the different places or the way I think like it’s hard alright! I just mean I can chase it for me and grows it not true abort god damn. I love the first thing that comes from insincerity to the process of being more
Surreal life places charge first steal any or if thing
Tarantula corona close my brain boiled bastard potatoes concentric circles
You and way me comes but I from
Concentric circles surrounded by a complete network of fractures
You can think grows insecurity also thinking like it to have about it is the
Thing are always different they are always the same
It’ s always everything. It’s not stealing if it’s everything.
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Surreal steal from you and I steal from you everything Surreal steal from you but also you have to do anything Christina and everything Christina and I love your life anymore I love Christina any more and more this steal grows ground
I Blade Open The Book
I blade open the Book and the Book dream dreams me equally open. I blade open the Book always open and the Book comma commands me to me / write Book. I always write Book first time every time. I blade open the Book broad carcosa and intensities of the Book fire broad blonde. Blonde Book branches breakaway Book branches additional beak intensities. Blonde Book raises its banner of love over me.
I blade open the Book cascade slate locusts. Locusts swarm Books death and deaths. Book swarms warm death crucifixions as if the locusts crucify (for dying is manner of seeing invisible insects).
(A labyrinth fully known A labyrinth fully gnostic A labyrinth fully mazes madison)
Book grows the dandelion labyrinth Book grows dandelion cellar door opens cellar door leads cellar door continual doors (Doors multiply in the ribcage of the Book)
I’m having a hard time and I’m continuing to try, I say. I’m not going to give up… You still love me even through in struggling, yeah? And we are still Pando even though I’m struggling? Yes, says Asia. I feel like a drag, I say. A drag queen? says Asia. Be a drag queen whose whole shtick is being depressed. Like blanket cape and slippers, she says. Here she is… BIPOLAR BRIANNA, I say. And then you’re like “COULD a depressed person DO THIS?” says Asia. And you show them something crazy niche artwork that shows you are in fact depressed, says Asia.
(A labyrinth fully known drags open the Book A labyrinth fully gnostic kneads fire fully blonde A labyrinth fully library struggles through the maze murder mystery)
I blade open the Book ACT and DO: I’m still feel depression like DO Blade intensities of Book caring love like blanket THIS Book cascade called call girl girls drag in DO (she was ready to try anything)
Book swarms erotic crucifixions / I was a surfer’s orgy girl Book hard even drag and show (soft flesh and orgies of death)
Do – do whatever this crucifixions calls crucifixion. I do the call to crucifixion before the Book blade cascades. I’m not too clever, you know – I just continue to carrying these crosses and write the Book wider and wider. When the Book drags, it leaves wider labyrinth behind it. Book hard drags and shows time mates through slippers. Do and continually do, whether show through slippers.
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(Can I be that, in the book, dying means becoming invisible to all others, but decipherable to yourself? Could it be that, in the book, writing becomes legible to all others, but undecipherable to yourself? For dying is a manner of seeing the invisible…)
I steal the above passage from The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès and translated by Rosmarie Waldrop. I exist in this book / Book and this Book always re/writes my act of dying. I act in death. My invisible death to myself but open – opening of opening and the blank of the Book scarred with blood – to all others. I do not belong to these others – I only belong to this acting dream of the Book. My so-called body opens and spreads out its surfaces. Surfaces disappear into the Book invisible / surfaces erupt into crack train korakoram. Writing inscribes the unknowable upon the apophatic avalanches. Negative snow covers the Book not-quite-legible but existence.
My body is dying – all bodies die in recognition of the unknowable Book but my body dives in process possess death. Book possesses death a different death which drags glacier labyrinth. Book spins death pirouettes (Book wines and dines death silhouettes and shadows sketch excess death imposing the excessive line sketch sketch death).
My body dies in sketch pursue death stretch unsteady (I feel I’m going to die and paralysis stretches my body unsteady – not paralysis but stretches my body unsteady – but paralysis parathesia) For dying is a manner of seeing the invisible
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I blade open the Book and open the so-called body (body spreads out its surfaces) My body spreads out Book and invisible death and undecipherable Book
An open body overlay down to osseous overlay
An open body often other body blood blood this grass body
This grass body gathers gross bodies This grass body gruesome bodies
(A labyrinth: we are in fact depressed like a drag A labyrinth depressed like blanket cape and we artwork that show then your could a drag A labyrinth a drag a drag a drag a depressed blanket cape)
I’m working on a blog post where you tell me about poems disintegrating language and the poem “Beware: Don’t Read This Poem,” I tell Asia. How that kind of poetry you have to learn how to swim. If I want to write that way, I have to expect people having bad initial reactions. I then use your conversations and the poem and disintegrate the languages together, I say. Nice, says Asia. How do you interpret the Ismael Reed poem “Beware: Don’t Read This Poem?” I say. To me, says Asia, it’s about the stories we consume, the news we consume and how it shapes our reality. I see that, I say. I interpreted the poem as a mirror and how writing inflicts a certain kind of violent transformation if we aren’t careful. Don’t read this poem because it might devour you cogitohazard, I say. [I send Asia the snippet incorporating some of disintegrations.] Enjoy this stanza especially, says Asia.
[Oceanic park dark oceanic swallows modular dark her antler word (beware her word anarchic antlers beware her word oceanic antlers / antler ambulance blues) Park dark oceanic swallows beware do not read this poem and this poem has had you up to here]
And MULCH MULCH MULCH, says Asia.
I blade open the Book, and in the Book, dying means becoming invisible
Open the body create other
Open the body create one other body bronze body without organs
Can open body orients onward word open
Blade open oceanic large MULCH on Dark Book MULCH then through dark MULCH
The so-called body spread out open its surface ocean (my so-called body surfaces upside down depths / upward roots and radials)
(A labyrinth fully known branches post your swallowed body A labyrinth fully gnostic where conversation modular and brush A labyrinth fully library you and dark large and you drag mazes)
I Float Above My I In The City
Content warning: mentions of suicide and depersonalization/dissociation
In the city, time becomes visible This is where visible time becomes space: this is where visible time insists visible space
Slim time terror hammer matter
Slim time tremor hammer hangman and NBA Jam hangtime
Slip different times visible in the hanging
In the city, time becomes visible: this is where time becomes space. I spin space on my spindle spin various mathematical singularities. I spin space memorable singularities and it singles this is where time becomes space. This is where time becomes space: the speculum that doesn’t shine. Space mirrors infinite space visible time (time tumbles through singular time sharp bark through spaces). In the city, time becomes space, the varying wavelengths of light (light lurches left lift lift left lurch light church lightning). Light lurches church’s holy space, the unscrolling often light (a little bit of light splits the city into water and atomic waters and radioactive waters and waters islands of stability). Time becomes visible text.
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In the city, time becomes space: this is where times become spaces
In the city, my voice disappears deterritorialization In the city the voice my voice deterritorializes The voice my voice disappears city delirium
In the city, anarchic ayahuasca anarchic cryptography
Codes and ciphers divine names
My name disappears in her divine names
(The so-called psychosis… The person in whom its invisible agony reaches
a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person
will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise…)
I never jump but I understand the jump – Christina understands the jump too. I never jump but I never but never / I never jump but I understand the jump because I jump and survive. I survive jump apocalypse apocalyptic material message. I survive but I disappear in the city. I disappear strange city and I do not exist and the jump does not exist (The city does not exist except in the residue of an abandoned human body / haunted house hungry). I disappear strange inside always house interior radically interior city disappearances.
In the city, time becomes space, and the interior room / space swallows my body entirely. Desert disappearances awkward jump.
(I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend you could cut ties with
all the lies that you’ve been living in and if you do not want to
see me again I would understand...)
My life exists entirely in quotations in the queue of the city – in other texts and texts-space-rooms and never my own textuality
(But that you see, my dear Kermit, would be altogether impossible. I could
never be myself… You see there is no me, I do not exist…
There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed)
Perhaps I never existed. I disappear from times and spaces and cities. I do not knot of previous existed and now have becomes nonexistent or if I have never existed. I do not exist in this time-space and space-city
(And if he left off dreaming about you, where would you suppose you’d be?)
(With relief, with humiliation, with terror he understood that he too was a mere
appearance, dreamt by another)
Freely, that you’re seeing your thoughts, feelings, or body or parts of your body from the outside For example, you may feel like you’re floating in the air above yourself
The sense that your body, legs, or arms, appear twisted or like they’re not the same shape
A sense that your memories lack emotions, and they may or may not be your own memories
In the city, time becomes space but the space swallows my body outside of time My body exists outside of time and outside of history / memory (I do not exist / Christina leaves off dreaming of me)
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In the city, time becomes visible: this is where time becomes space
In the city, I feel like a citizen in this parking lot county fair
I feel in time drifts to greyhound and come back as space-time put it all in one body
City city
City gate for the dead / dead drift sift slow sweep copper
City gate is open solar flare sidewinder book of sand
City of the mutinies solar flare missile silo
(Missile silo grain silo sackcloth clawhammer halo)
In the city, time becomes my absent consciousness and conscious city seeps into my skull haunted
Park Dark Into The Stone Of My Head
Content Warning: discussion of mental illness and suicidal ideation
Park dark dark park Park dark dark stone of the head: stone heading crown of my cranium
Park dark card shark suits central park in the dark Risk dark – always risk – risk fool juggled fool park dam precipice (dark ben hinnom precipitation – participating rain runoff dark body ugly) (risk park dark ugly – even ugly in the dark)
Any truly new art seems ugly at first / risk persistently ugly and perpetually ugly and ugly ungulates umbra – my face the shadow knows
Drowned park dark porno drone Drown drone dark park porno grooves / drone porn rocks is less than legs (My body – budding rod skull – blossom volcanic shields drones round park circles and the park drives circles around downtown. My body buds my body pornographies play away hums and drones and bomb blasts of the body. Bodies in general drone an erotic horror almost as kelp forest gods. My body buds ugly – legs breast buttocks – hard stones and tumors. Tumors tighten and constrict my body around dark joints – pits which double as pornographic peep shows.) Drowned dark park plays pork peak skulls Drone climbs my skull jacob’s ladder and shekinah on the eight rung of circumcision
Drone porn rocks is legs is breath Drone porn dune dark park sharks fucking Dark dark fucks erotic horror (The virgins sacrifice to the gods of a ghastly galaxy The Terrornauts) Drone something else – something risk new ugly the bare beware vulnerable
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Melancholy becomes a pornography and I exploit my depressive episodes for creativity (or sublimation?)
I disappear from the face of god and his face of the deep. My melancholy exploits and I hope I die. I hope that I die (I hope our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us). I wave and work to die and I never die but to die delivers difficult perpetual motion machine clutch crutch ben body. I think always a death and my death turns sideways and orthogonal death, and I ascend into death kingdom of the skies. I hope I die difficult drone dune pornos hidden in sand cats, and how difficult death scavenges (In my life I hope I lie and tell everyone you were a good wife and I hope you die I hope we both die).
What does a poem about death and suicide look like? What does this poem look like – what does this poem die to itself die – what does this poem bodily death and ego death – why does death go for poetics and theopoetics – a poem that destroys itself in suicide. What does this poem cook like? Death poem – I want to write a death poem before I die – bad poetry but true to myself – risk ugly and ugly (I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me).
Death demands an ugly body – body bruises ruse detective stories – bullies through the back of the head or through the jaw – my jaw falls off from licking radium brushes. Death demands death additive death and multiplying death, and how strange the ears and hard canals death (the most remarkable thing about thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and you’re standing in the doorway). My death is but a doorway – I will be back. My death jams drop-tuning doorways, and remarkable doorways and door drones porno ugly ben mangled bodies.
If I stopped existing in your life, you’d live on and continue living and doing life things and becoming a better Asia, but you also wouldn’t be the same, I say. That’s true for just about everyone, says Asia. That doesn’t give your life any less value. We would want our loved ones to keep going, finding beauty and making beauty, says Asia. Do you mean everyone experiences this with relationships in their life, or do you mean this is true with you with everyone in your life? I think a lot of people experience it, yes, says Asia, but what I mean is that everyone learns to keep living when they lose someone. That people in your life still keep living their lives doesn’t say anything about your value as a person, says Asia. I would like to explain where this thought came from, I say. Christina has been going through a hard time. Yesterday an event happened that broke the camel’s back and she experienced severe suicidal ideation. She alluded to us doing a suicide pact and in that moment I realized something odd for me. I thought I could never live without Christina ever. This is what I wrote her:
It could be I could make a suicide pact with you. Today is probably not the day though. I feel today I have much prophesying and creating to do and I cannot die yet. […] I would probably unfortunately live without you. I would write and prophesy my grief and even in death you’ll affect me as you did in life […] I wouldn’t be able to follow you if you did give up but I will take it into my body and make it into something else…
She is safe currently. I felt sad I didn’t want to give up with her. I felt I betrayed her a little. I couldn’t go gentle into that good night. I know that might sound silly to you but it’s a big revelation to me. Her death would become a part of my living instead. That’s how I imagine you’d feel. My death would become part of your living. You’d turn my death into something else in your life, transform it. Your living would mean you valued me because you’d take me wherever you went, I say. I’m so happy to hear you say this, says Asia. I’m also sorry that Christina is going through a tough time; that is an important revelation despite the circumstance, she says.
Do you think it. Failure do you think. Do you think death unrest death. Death determinism (superdetermined deconstruction). Death do you think if you mean you’d want me living. Do you think it I’m so happy to give on any less valued yeah you right.
The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and you’re standing in the doorway (But when you are a young writer, boys get this idea that to really… to really show a woman the depth and purity of your love, what you have to do is something drastic and stupid, right? And uh.. and young writers think it would be really intense to have a guy, uh, always harm himself real bad, and y’know, and tell stories. So well I was a young writer once and here’s a story about a guy who travels someplace with a gun.)
I still think myself a young writer – I still think myself young and immature, and I only experience BIG emotions and INTENSE emotions and I travel somewhere any woman and the woman stands in the doorway (the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway because it’s you and you’re standing in the doorway)
I hope I die in desert – supernal desert and supernatural desert and my man bodies entirely death-desert. I hope die door nor story living else in you in you also something and conversations a death poet look like – a third of the stars go out. Out out bodies and the stars go out out. Side slice bodies tennis court oaths what am I doing here – it’s all desert. What am I doing continuously smoking stars (watching X-Files with no lights on).
My melancholy becomes a pornography and I exploit my depressive episodes prophesy death eschaton eschaton desert
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Park dark drone porno / dark gonzo journalism Drone porn minotaur horns your writing world write and she experiments to be OK or not she (She alludes drone horn morning not she alluded to is legs is breast)
(Your life world becoming I’m so happened that: that what death dune park park sharks fucking)
I live dark and park droned death death desert death poem central park in the dark (park dark undetonated explosives)
I live central park in the dark and death contaminates everything. Death connects to everything and death follows everything.
Each Line Equals Its Own Hole
Line loom lure equals its hole whole Line loom lunar its own complexity / holes made by motion
Changing line – unchanging line
Line loots line liminal hole threshold Each line equals its own completion / each line equals its own complexity
Line looms lure lure loop loop Loop holes only made by motion / wholes only made by motion
The whole vowel intones holes in my body. My body in holes vowels these vowels and sounds punch holes in my body leaving me naked. I feel sad. I feel melancholy. (To acknowledge FEELING without any redactions). I feel sad. I do not know. I do not. This feeling. Sad embedded in my body – sad embarrassed. Sad embarrasses. Sad embarrasses cursed candlelight earth. I watch The Sandlot and I kiss city ball melancholy. Milk of magnesia melancholy magnetism. I watch The Sandlot and one reads Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow (these midwives emanate nonsense and in nonsense, gnosis. I accept nonsense but not my sadness and melancholy. I accept my nonsense too contains midwife melancholy, and it births sad gnosis. Gnosis searches my body: gnosis searches my body holes wholly trash layer. The PKD trash layer and science fiction schlock – my sadness and melancholy – burst through the speculative fiction clouds and reveals Zebra and the number of the beast emblazoned on Richard Nixon’s name. 666 and 616 selects my sadness as a conduit and I speak sad beasts and valley of the shadow of death. The Soviet Union conceals my body with satellite rays which cause hypertensive crises. Satellite rays punch my body full of visible and invisible holes and the vowels ooze out black bile melancholy. I always exist in crises. I exist in that anxious claustrophobic space that splits my skull in halves and each half crumbles into holes.
I feel sad and melancholy and I let the melancholy fill the holes and orifices in my skull. Melancholy fills my skeleton like Wolverine adamantium. Melancholy fills the space in my skull and I regenerate skulls and I regenerate livers toxic tongues licking holes in unsettled bodies. I keep finding my bodies in old soil soylent green deck sealant. I allow my absurdity space and I allow the nonsense to produce melancholy, and my sadness persists heavy metals in my bloodstream. Sadness eats my thoughts and I try to outrun the sadness like The Sandlot / baseball diamonds. I cast lots for Christ’s clothes in center field.
I try to remember human voices in my melancholy. Voices orbit the moon carried by aether – when under ether. I swim with parrotfish and I parrot Metal Gear and Metal Gear adheres to my skull half rain forests. I parrot metal melancholy punching bodies time card holes. Melancholy rains nonsense dollar dollar bills ya’ll. Rain nonsense many amens (Sometimes I only speak in song lyrics. Sometimes I can only speak in other texts. The bluest eyes in Texas are haunting me tonight.)
I feel minimal melancholy and minimal melancholic music, sand sad melodies voice moon rays and satellite rays – holes in the aether. I submerge beneath the ocean to the hole at the bottom of the sea. I submerge beneath ocean pulses sad satellite pulses pulse ocean continual melancholic circulation. This is why events unnerve me – they find it all a different story – Notice whom for wheels are turning – turn again and turn towards this time.
I feel foolish and nonsense and I feel sad. I feel melancholy and I do not know. My sad nonsense leads to immanent eschatology and I appear in this picture of the apocalypse / my face surfaces in the star Wormwood. I feel foolish in time and out of time (Time out of mind. Melancholic mind. Mind dematerializing and only holes remain.)
Each line equals its own hole and holes hint at an unknown complexity Holes hint space loom line lines what line (What line? This line. This line cut halves by holes. What line? Line threaded through loom melancholy lunar forces. Celestial spheres / speak melancholy and lines point holes spread my brain across space holes.)
Holes only made by motion wholes only made by motion Holes hatch marginal marriage of heaven and hell holes Holes lines happenings drop art marriage of heaven and hell – hell holes chase slack paces paw and rope
I line my skull with holes holes nonlinear loom loon (What line? Line liminal linea loupe loop loop line. What line? I line my skull space holes whole open sores gore space. Where and what line? Line questions the whole and its what happens line my skulls.)
I like the line “I knock threshold no door but gnosis”, says Asia. And I like the lines “Asia prophesies fuck syntax and they hand sew syntax into my exoskeleton.”
I like the line mostly holes Line mostly holes melt shake hell cell snakes Hole shake cell snakes fuck syntax Syntax lines “Asia prophesies fuck syntax and sews syntax and sews syntax and the lines Shake cell lines slaked praise in flux of fire / construct clouds fleshing balances
(I like the care “I knock threshold no seek but gnosis” and I like the tower “Area prophesies fuck cycler and then busy sews cycler into my skeleton.”)
Holes cycle cycle syntax lines holes gnosis exoskeleton like I into prophesies Asia the fuck threshold and knock sews but I no I. My and I door syntax
Each line equals its own hole / wholes only made by motion
I Burn The Letters And I Never Die
I carry rod of Aaron and staff secret names Secret serpent gnosis and snake-of-mirror causes all things All mirror creation opens a fan from the night near night hidden (night of the hidden nails divine serpent) It pours out from the Outer Circle Taryn tetragrammaton and her mother letters air aleph
I carry aleph and I carry aleph to aleph and aleph with aleph, and the aleph sometimes carries me. Aleph and alphabet carry me widow of the letters (be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves). I carry aleph ant colony alphabet and alphabets carry my prototype body within alphabets and aleph permeates with the carrying and chariot.
I carry the numbers hand minimal where when how to through numbers (noun number member noun how) I carry and announce numbers noun neon pet numbers (announce net net notch knock network announcement)
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I carry death with me and I often meditate on my own death (The way of the samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. […] And every day, without fail, one should consider himself dead.)
I carry dead with me, and whether Kindred present or absent or gods present or absent, death speaks through the barrierless barrier and ambushes. Death ambushes hidden in aleph and alphabet, shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.
(Oh death you hector me and decimate those near to me you tease me with your sweet relief you are cruel and you are constant)
How what witness but death moves – but death bores Death bores for whom the bell tolls What death with but death bores whore of babylon (babel death brick ben hinnom) Death bores through thought I had more to say (The ultimate in suspense Die Screaming Marianne) Death bores aleph and alphabet death ambushes (When the dead start to walk you’d better start running… The Dead Pit Drop in any time)
What death with but death bores where hair (my tired body clashes whore of babylon slashed / I am Caligula glutton of gluttons men over man over woman the whore over man)
Death dune buggy bell bottoms (bottom texas hold’em bottomless pit pit rain death – dire dire docks death) Death dupe dunes my body trespassing bell bottom for whom the bell tolls (as a chemical engineer, he might have chosen a better way than jumping into a narrow stairwell with the risk of remaining paralyzed)
I carry rod of Aaron aleph death and rod reveals its secret names: death and death and ben death: aleph fucks death death fuck my flesh carry: death carries ben bodies shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. Death carries alphabet delicious death (death drumming death death endless gun violence babel my body – my body endless drums ripped apart by minigun bullets and blowdart bullet ants)
I would like to die (I don’t know how you house the sin but you’re free now won’t you settle down baby here your love has been heavenly father it’s definitely lava why don’t you carry other names). I would like to die. I don’t think I can explain that to you but I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. Do you understand what I mean? I want to die.
Multidimensional death multidirectional (her body was badly decomposed and the precise date of her death could not be determined.)
I carry death with me and I meditate or death but death never takes me (oh death clearly I’m not ready)
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I carry rod of Aaron water mem fire shen I carry rod of Aaron pronunciation of names and numbers Letters loop serpents lathe ladder of Jacob and ladder of laughter Laughter loops leviathan letters (inner circles with ten divine names in sparkling cycles) Letters loop sparkly cycles followed by further helixes detailing the Christian-Platonic graded cosmos / Taryn ash
I burned the letters. I burned that letter. I burn the letter letter and letter interlaced letters (lacewing letters larger). I burn the letters larger longer. Large the letters together burning Taryn ash. Long letters gather ash passes long letter sludge and I carry the letters continually burning. Luminous letters lengthen aleph ash and aleph death and death looms luminous letters. Luminous letters look into the serpent mirror of luminous letters, and aleph shines all death sleeping letters. I carry rod of Aaron burning letter and luminous death.
Some days, I don’t feel like I’m going to make it, I say to Asia. It’s hard to live. Life is hard, says Asia. I don’t think anyone needs me around so I don’t want to be around anymore, I say. That’s a weird way to think about life, says Asia. You only have value if you are providing value to others? Yes. That’s a recipe for always pouring yourself out and feeling empty, says Asia. It’s also very reductive. You wouldn’t talk about anyone else like that. OK, but I don’t feel happy that I feel nobody needs me, I say. Define “need,” says Asia. I don’t feel I add anything irreplaceable to anyone. I’m replaceable. No one does, says Asia. I’m not really here. You are very much here. Nobody adds anything irreplaceable to anyone? Depends on what you mean by irreplaceable. If I die, I’m replaceable to other lives, I say. Oh my god, shut up, says Asia. I meant that no one created anything that lasts. No one will leave anything behind that lasts. The only thing worthwhile is our love and relationships. That’s what we can offer and it’s the only thing we can leave behind, says Asia. I feel really hurt you told me to shut up, I say. I don’t think I did anything wrong in how I expressed myself and you told me I’m always able to express my feelings to you. You kept going on about no one cares about you, says Asia, and you don’t mean anything to anyone and I’m tired of hearing it and it’s insulting […] That’s what pissed me off because it felt like you just bulldozed over what I was saying, like you didn’t want to hear it, says Asia. […] I was just thinking about Christina, I say. I felt so easily discarded by her. Replaceable. Could you elaborate what you mean by the only thing worthwhile is our love and relationships? I don’t want to be replaceable. By “worthwhile,” I mean outlive us, says Asia. I really try to be worthwhile in your life despite conflict. I try hard to be “irreplaceable” and make a lasting impact on you. Am I worthwhile to you? Am I irreplaceable in your life? I say. Ben, all your friends value you, says Asia. The answer is yes.
I carry rod of Aaron / rod burns letters longer Rod burns luminous letters Taryn ash Ash lives ancient of ancients tria prima (letters linger tria prima primordial will ouroboros materia)
You know I will never die. I carry the rod and aleph ash and ash rains secret letters serpents. You know I never die and some days I don’t feel like I’m going to make it but you know I never die. I carry luminous letters look ash swings sheets of sound. Aleph sheets of sound share hard death and erect death and phallic death but you know I never die. I pour out my body aleph aleph aleph until empty (way aleph weird way way ash death), but you know I never die.
I burn the fiery letters additional fires: I burn the fiery letters additive fires (fire recursive fire flirts fiery letters)
I burn the letters – I burn the letters – burn the letters (I burn the letters longer fire and larger fire) I used to feed that fire
I burn the letters later lateral lateral: I burn the letters left swift left larger (Larger fire water wavering) I burn aleph death but you know I never die but I keep burning (wavering radiant Adam radar fire fever rhizome)
I carry rod of Aaron and staff sows secret names sprout serpentine (serpent burn aleph and you know I never die)
I Oracle An Original Religion
content warning: discussion of mental illness and suicide
I prophesy a novel religion from root to root: I oracle an original religion and it plays transmigration of souls
Remember the Shaman when he used to say man is the dream of the dolphin
Birds always chirp tritones / nonsense games Nonsense names salvation: nonsense knocks doorway gnosis
The dream eats me. The dreams eat me often into the dream but dream also devours waking. The dream eats me awake. Dream eats me (eater even earth that either over eternal). Dream eats my man awake – Ben Son of Man and Ben Human One and my humanity dreams the dream eating humanity (eaten emit dead mall mystic now enhance chase mace maul scald skull). I dream the dream and the skull devours: skull scrapes shell swell dream shapes tape taller.
I prophesy a novel religion and a religion aleatoric: open form religion and flexible religion possibilities. My stomach spills vegetation through a glass darkly (dark glass disgorged and expands pencil eraser and eraserhead). I spew a magic: vegetative magic and violent magic, and this alphabet sprouts vigilant and virulent. My disgorged head channels grimoires / green lion. Glass casket tears through my skull four seasons of the scythe.
I prophesy the rootless root of religion and this religion without religion demands the deep. Deep in my Christianity without Christianity, I dig around in all the things I packed away and everything I fear unravels. My fears unravel into chirping bird tritones and dolphins dreaming humanity (The universe machine creates gods and the Universal Turing Machine creates god hypercomputing. I dream my universe painting and I dream painting the universe and I resurrect infinite paintings: universes painting universes.).
(People deep in Christianity cannot know themselves on a deep level so therefore they cannot really know others or allow themselves to be vulnerable, says Asia. They cannot know themselves because they are afraid to…) I fear and I fear myself. I fear myself as my self and I feel myself intensely. I feel intensities in myself intensities – through a glass darkly and through the density of the Palm Tree Garden. Not deep in Christianity but deep in the Book and in the entangled mythologies of the book. I confess I am both this Book and not this Book, and I hide away my vulnerabilities and embarrassments, but those embarrassments and vulnerabilities are me – and they are the Book. My bipolar depression (and hypomania), my bouts with suicidal ideation, my struggles in my relationships – I prophesy these and I prophesy my Human, my Ben Adam and Book Human One.
In the poem “Wanting To Die” by Anne Sexton, she writes the following stanza: But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters, they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Which tools: WHICH TOOLS I tinker tools tool language lottery language tool latency Language lectures me on Batman’s tool belt (Tool belt? Utility belt? Ben skull recess bell batarang) Tool bell ballroom beetlejuice joy division post-punk suicides
I am going to be struggling with suicidal thoughts for a time to come and I know you’re with me despite that, I say to Asia. […] I do care for you unconditionally and I know you do for me too, I say. You can feel free to tell me you are feeling a certain way without hurting me, says Asia. Like “I currently feel like a bad friend” or “My brain is telling me I’m unworthy of love.” That’s just telling me how you feel […] Reasons to survive. Create stuff Eat good food Continue to build friendships Heart corny jokes Tell corny jokes Read poetry Look at art See cool bugs, says Asia.
Which tools: create stuff and see cool bugs I root around deep Book and deep divine, and I prophesy deep Book: create stuff and see cool bugs
I prophesy a novel religion from root to root: I oracle an original religion and it plays transmigration of souls
The final type of Green Man: The Bloodsucker Head, which sprouts vegetation from all facial orifices (e.g. tear ducts, nostrils, and mouth). I meditate on my mouth both a disgorged head and a bloodsucker head. I meditate mouth to mouth, the mothlight of many kisses. My mouth melts into the kiss khora and kiss kenosis (an empty set and reset). My mouth emerges from insect mandibles – create stuff and see bugs. My mouth emerges from molten moths and occasionally the meat of animals and birds the food is steamed with pleasant odors.
We suck young blood. I suck vampire blues absurd animal mouth (Christina chupacabra sucks young blood). My mouth manipulates a memorywork magus machine medicines (create new medicines and magics – prophesy with beetles and stick insects). I mouth medicine – grasshopper medicine and cricket medicine – and I machine medicine magic. I create stuff – Book stuff and collage stuff and prophesy stuff. I create medicine magic doubled blood. We suck young blood.
I create stuff and I mouth a bloody exploitation (Too much for one man… Russs Meyer’s busty boxotic beauties… titillating… torrid… unstoppable… Too much for one man!) I enjoy the words buxotic and buxom and bosom – they amuse and field fun. Not amusing but playful: the play of my buxom body without organs and my bosom burden of valley of vision (I dream a buxom Christina, a voluptuous Christina tilting whirlwinds as a buxotic Quixote. I mourn Christina in the sense of missing her and knowing her absence, but I do not mourn her in the sense of profound and quaking pain and ache. I hope I rework us, our archive of Christina and Kindred, with more joy – more context – more gnosis and understanding. I create archive and memorywork, this full stuff of Christina Creation.
I prophesy a novel religion from root to root: I oracle an original language and it plays I plays buxom and buxotic book
Exploring I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
Content warning: suicidal ideation
It’s not filler it’s exploration It’s not repetition but the refrain displaced by time made strange
It’s not filler it’s exploration (The soft variety of soft playing that a single presentation invites Soft risk Soft risk kick quiet rhizome The next step is no sound) It’s not filler, it’s exploration / next no sound slow now slow silence Take a piece of paper and give it a sound
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It’s not filler it’s exploration I explore mourning Christina although someday this mourning will end and perhaps soon door door soon
(I’m thinking of ending things). Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks, it lingers, it dominates. There’s not much I can do about that, trust me… Does Christina think about ending things – her life, our friendship, the Kindred… I think about ending my life. I think about life without Christina – certainly a lesser life than with Christina. I think and I overthink: I think about not ending things and I think about endings things and overthink. I overthink the oracles and the burdens: oracles and the burden of the valley of vision, oracle and burden of dumah, the oracle of everything desert (all desert an intensity of the body without organs). I overthink my organs. Desert corners my organs over: overture sand intensities. I’m thinking of endings things: an end to theses on history and an end to spectres of Marx. It sticks, it stays, I went to school and I was very nervous. It sticks stick insects impale my eyes on sticks strict bedrest. I overthink strict bridal chambers executions and suicides (bridal chamber stripped by her bachelors bare). I’m thinking of ending things.
I’m thinking of endings things and I never end. There is no end but addition. Where there is an end, there is no end but addition: additional deserts, addition bodies bodice bondage book beguiled. No end sends winds and there’s a balm in gilead. There is a balm in gilead grand guinol. There is no end to it, the voiceless wailing. I’m thinking of ending things. End enters text entrails or snail trails on titanium. I tune the titanium to army ant antennae.
In the beginning is my end. In the beginning is my end and my beginning is my end. I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks steady-state universe her unction. Universe arrives jigsaw pieces. I piece together a perpetual motion machine. I piece together a perpetual universe perpendicular to perpetual universe.
I’m thinking of ending things. I think the theater of the absurd or the living theater. Theater thinks too, passion and mystery play. I end in mystery and I begin in mystery: it sticks, it lingers long light cadillac and ten-gallon hat. Hat lingers lavender gasoline and gasoline guzzles link to the past party pasta. Hostile hat attacks and decapitates. (I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks, it lingers, it dominates. There’s not much I can do about it, trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat, when I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s always there when I wake up. It’s always there, always.) I’m thinking of ending things: suicides – side eye suicides – sharpened scorpion suicides – strange loop star sardine suicides – there ain’t no cure for the summer time blues. I’m thinking of ending things thread field fires right said fred I’m too sexy.
It’s not filler it’s exploration and I explore in my beginning is my end I explore never ending but adding as the way up and the way down draw and gesture the same direction
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It’s not filer it’s exploration – it’s not repetition but refrain displaced by time made strange
I work most material mallard sound mustard seed stray maximum Mustard seed seed of seth sawtooth wave weapon: weapon whip material magic squared stochastic matrices
It’s not filler it’s exploration and I fill the materials with experiments. I fill experiment doubled with experiment: sound waterfalls. Sound material slips quiet sound and sound stranges longer sound, and I mixed the sound with waters. I work the material and material always surprises me: materials construct ambushes and scrollwork guerrilla warfare. I fill the materials and I take a piece of paper and give it sound.
Music emerges immersion bath material / bath ben adam drone material madrigal little black dress (Insect swarms stream lean sound languages light firefly fusion Nonlinear fusion flows flinging icon and fragment with word woman bewitched languages)
I work material exploration and insects scream material assemblages (rose thorn thorax threatened additional thorny material)
It’s not repetition but refrain displaced by time made strange
The Long Melodic Line Contaminated By Noise
Content warning: depression, suicidal ideation
I desire the long melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise I meditate on the long melodic line anvil or aether atmospheres
Long melodic lines language music long melody made Music long melody made more malleable indeterminate and aleatoric made Made I make melody malleable indeterminate and aleatoric: not atomic but a pendulum (pendulum this is not the place double pendulum double pendulum desert locusts locus stochastic desert)
Long melodic lines larger language lawn language rare room (I share room with red body blooms. I make room for Red Book visions and my new Book diverts the river into Book doppelganger. Follow this new Book uncannily similar / different than the Ancient Book but both shout with swarming voices. I share in red vision bloom: Book flower red blood cells, Book roses monastic cells, Book sunflower cells in black iron prison. I share the room differently and identically: swarming melodies.) Larger language loots rare room red bloom cell rest sinew sensual sabbath
I desert the long melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise and Christina, it’s all over now baby blue Christina it’s all over now baby blue / linger on your pal blue eyes (I pluck my eye out of the electrical socket and it becomes a peacock feather. I pluck the feathers from the plume and full bloom of my body and I have a little night music with my coffee. How difficult to survive without Christina and not just Christina but I nurse with difficulty and my patient sleeps terribly. I nurse night music desert derelicts and abomination of desolation. I nurse a little night music lingers into larger and longer melody, and my music prays to no god but the Christina who abandons. I have a little night music with my coffee and I know the night Dmitri Shostakovich’s 15th String Quartet. I know night negligee night jar my body ajar). I desire the long melodic line winding desolation and desert, and desert dissipate aether anvil atmospheres
Language music long melody mows mer absurd harbors: ampersand and what makes woman ampersand Ampersand wears suspenders and a tracksuit Ampersand dress skirt top dress dress dress You said if dance said if you want to dance, both with the withdrawal and return, and I return booze blues I bass drum BOMB pentecostal preaching hovers between speaking and singing Ampersand and what new shoes my shoes new
The weirdest thing about teaching middle school is sometimes you witness something and you think, ‘Is this a canon moment?’ says Asia. Like the other day, the student who wears Hello Kitty pajama pants, girl perfume, and everyone thinks he’s a girl, he looked at me and asked, “How do you spell dysmorphia? Like body dysmorphia?” says Asia. Your student is ready to crack their egg, I say. If I wasn’t such a coward, I would probably be wearing dresses and skirts and makeup a lot more often. Society and family pressures make it difficult and give me more anxiety though, I say. Do you think you would rather be a woman? says Asia. No, I feel I would like to be more androgynous and fluid in my gender presentation, I say. I think I still identify as a cis-man but I also feel even in a spiritual or divine sense, the commingling of male and female archetypes within me. Like the divine feminine stirring of my soul and stuff and I wish I had the ability to feel that more outwardly as well. Does that make sense? I think you won't be too surprised by that considering how I write about women in my Book. Yeah, that makes sense, says Asia. Maybe I just want to be 1970s David Bowie. Oh my god, same, says Asia.
Ampersand or divine sense and ampersand the commingling of male anxiety and stupefying and well in my gender presentation Ampersand dress skirt top dress dress and I think my gender presses I thin my gender female androgynous and I dress ballroom dance Between speaking and singing the commingling male and female archetypes
I desire the long melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise I stretch for sleek sleek snow sheets of sound (I enjoy the experiment, working on the material. I gradually shape the material into the flat machine canvas, and from the bloom of canvas, my little black dress. Sometimes I alter the intervals slightly, and sometimes I alter the canvas slightly, tailoring my body dressed melodies.)
I meditate and machine an altered Book engineered a gas station
I work both the long line and the fractal fragment I work the long line nonlinear and the fractal fragment simultaneously I work lines tangle lines half loops and whorls whip simultaneously
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I machine the melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise and noise embarrassingly nude. I machine the painful melodic line, and in the melody of Christina’s absence (my Christina monomania my Christina idée fixe), I suffer/ed and experience/ed severe depression and suicidal ideation. Now I look at all this writing Past Ben wrote in his anguish and I continue to honor the anguish despite the pitfalls of writing suicidal depression (how inadequate the language is, how contagious the seed of suicide, misrepresenting even my own feelings). I continue to honor and bless this hell and even love it, because it belongs to me.
(I’m killing myself because you didn’t love me, because I didn’t love you. Because our ties were loose, so I’m killing myself to tighten them. I leave you with an indelible stain.) When in doubt, write about wanting to die. I hope that I die so some people might listen to the songs I write or wrote. I hope I end my life and all this suicidal ideation doesn’t end up as cowardly whining [Spoiler alert from future Ben: it does end up as cowardly whining and I embarrass myself but I accept my cowardly and embarrassment. I love myself in that outwardly as a cowardly wellidentify welldent. I love the commingling dresses androgynous and skirts my cowardly welldent.]. Feeling empty, with some atrocious moments – to leave without having touched anything.
Whatever happened to the dream differed. I drink heavily and I dance irrationally. To dance before the Ark of the Covenant boldly nude. To make a potent pornography of the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies.
I drink heavily house of leaves leaves of grass gas napalm sassafras / sodium saffron I sleep a long time in the saffron and Himalayan salt I salt the sippy cup spiral staircase (Book body without organs / they look like people Tall telescopes waddle on six insect legs A little night music for your coffee)
I machine the melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise I machine the commingling of male anxiety androgynous and family presses and female
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I work mixed mirror metal experimental mass I work mirror indeterminate intermedia mass mirror glass (Sometimes I alter the interward is slightly Sometimes I alter the interwall slightly sometimes I alter the Book slightly body of hosts)
I desire the long melodic line contaminated by stochastic noise I meditate on the long melodic line anvil or aether atmospheres