I store alphabet beneath the ground I store ground alphabet god gruppen (stone groups groups gods stone gruppen)
I store alphabet alphabets beneath underneath ground ground
Additional alphabets bloody additional unsteady echo
I store alphabet beneath the ground gruppen alphabets. I store alphabet stones aleph and beth numbers. I store stone cardinals: infinite cardinals and the stones stir greeter explanatory power (I explain gruppen gods with very large cardinals)
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I store alphabet stories and alphabet letters: Kindred letters and numbers stored beneath the ground
Tue 23 Sep, 22 years ago. Email to Christina.
I’m afraid of the day where you become so popular that you do not need me anymore. And it seems like everything you wanted about college is coming true – you are going to numerous events and concerts, making lots of friends and everything. I’m just scared a bit, that’s all. - Ben
No, sweetheart. You don’t understand. None of these things even begin to compare to talking with you and everyone from P____. These are just things to keep me from killing myself or maybe going crazy. I will always have time for you and I’m even ditching free food to watch Gilmore Girls with you. So… consider yourself lucky! Actually, I do consider myself lucky to be able to talk to you. Anyway… later. (Christina)
(Copper, you’re my very best friend. And you’re mine too, Tod. And we’ll be best friends forever, won’t we? Yeah, forever!)
I bury alphabets and letters beneath the corpse of Kindred (Every day your memory grows dimmer It doesn’t haunt me like it did before I’ve been walking through the middle of nowhere Trying to get to heaven before they close the door). Christina’s memory-absence haunts, but perhaps not as much as 3 or 4 months ago but the amount I miss her shows itself as abrupt and erratic – a nonlinear or a high degree polynomial
I store alphabet stones and alphabet letters Letters grieve Kindred abrupt abrupt Letters loot grief dark lights and no lights, and stone ground coppers (Tod foretells death)
Christina couple castle car hen mixed desert Christina couple Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid easter eggs (Christina lays lags eggs slipping omelets)
Christina catches cable cars by running after them really fast and throwing a gorgon grappling hook. Hook hangs on the wheels and drags awhile but Christina seethes teeth big fat goalie.
Christina clocks sonoran desert cactus crown Christina creeps into the canyon book of sand and library of babel everything bagel Christina keeps the forest in the furrow of her brow (she selects forest fragments and steals palm trees from Southern California) Christina keeps the forest in her brow / tyger tyger burning bright in the forests of the night Christina at night stalks cable cars
Christina stores stone letters and babel alphabet Her stones store Kindred stories – other world and underworld stories
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I drive alphabet alphabets beneath grounds Alphabet alarm body bodies biofilm: ground gathers them up the slime of alphabets
Alphabet derives alphabet driven into ground grounds gruppen alphabet Gruppen ground grinds alphabets into slime water and blood separate
Tag: grief
It Is Scribbled Along The Body
It is scribbled along the body
I scribble along the body holy spirit (Holy Spirit scribbles proportions and harmony: in line with the law of proportional division of the chord, the matrix of all earthly phenomena unfolds as a network of coordinates, fractions, and multiples)
It is scribbled along the body and I scribble the body holy ghost Scribble flesh fractions invert factorial flesh / flesh unfurls chord multiples
I scribble along the body holy spirit I scribble along the body long body bad bad brains Scribble asemic scrawl brush blown body beach (long screech scrawl owl Taryn language long body Lilith Taryn) I scribble along the body crab canon riverbanks
Scribble scribbles something other. Scribble scrawls cave murals and cave magic, and my body comes alive in shamanic animals. My body alive draws spirit to spirit and I draw animals of my body. I draw my body animal animal other on walls and the scribbles fall large stones. Scribble scribbles stones and falls stones my body all stone. Animals carry my body all stones equally animal.
I have tried different planners before and none of them worked, says Asia. What did work was incomprehensible notes scribbled next to grocery lists, lecture notes, and drawings of snails, she says.
Incomprehensible notes scribbled only body work. I scribble the incomprehensible and the apophatic on my body: I sign the cipher King Felix in the shadow actions of my body. The incomprehensible works in the contradiction of bodies, and the scribbles of snails work in the mystery of bodies.
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It is scribbled along the body of Christina
I feel unreal without Christina and I awake in this dream you see. I awake alone and I disappear: only desert remains. No ben, no Christina – only Book of Sand. I choose my body in the notes and scribbles and I scribble different futures with different versions of my death. I feel unreal without Christina but I continue to prophesy every possible dream awake and all desert remains. I prophesy my bodies as the unknown provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codex.
I struggle the writing and it all appears as scribbled and language abstract expressionism – it means anything, everything, nothing. I continue to struggle writing and I don’t know how to integrate other material (e.g. conversations with Asia) with the passion passages in the play of grief.
It is scribbled along the body of Christina.
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I scribble along the body spirit Long beach scrawl scribbles Taryn screech owl and Taryn Lilith Taryn scratches my body esoteric sigils (sigil sign citadel / flesh fortress of solitude) Taryn spills sigil and signature the bone scribble of my asemic body My body broods cursive and sign blues (the sigil of my body leads to the rhizomic river)
I scribble my name on river and riverbed. Far away fires flare up red fox tails along the river. I walk the stream bed with a knife: I walk the stream bed swans and geese armed with bronze swords, and their feathers swing hot jazz. I adorn my nude body with bronze blades and bronze mirrors (It is proposed by some authors that the northern warrior tradition originated from hunting magic… Three animal cults appear: the bear, the wolf, and the wild boar...). I walk the wild riverrun rivers and animals jump up from the riverbed. I worship the animal Asia Rivers. I worship the animal Asia Rivers Riverrun Rainforests. I walk her river insect word and I scribble complete metamorphosis on my wings. I worship animal mother Asia Rhizome, and we trade giant weta in her seven waters.
Taryn scratches my body esoteric sigils and I sign my body nonsense (Toward tense present nonsense Tense tension Taryn instead of Christina nonsense) Tense Taryn scratches moonshine nonce monstrous moonshine Tense Taryn meteor myth and mathematics (Taryn tensor myth / how do I get unstuck from my paralyzing grief and write fluidly I prophesy fluid phantoms monstrous moonshine) Taryn scratches toaster oven ostinatos on my french fry body / Taryn bakes ben bodies and creepy crawlies I crawl dead mall millipedes by snail scribble shopping lists I crawl mall rat king sigils
It is scribbled along the body (I scribble the body and Taryn articulates a talking dog on television. The second articulation establishes functional, compact stable structures, and constructs the molar compounds.) I scribble on my body cadillac constructs constructs noise electronics
I try different planners and none of them work (I have break different crisps before and none of them worked. What did pink new incomprehensible notes next to grocery notes, dandelion notes and drawings of brooms.) What did work planners before as drawings of snails lectures lecture notes scribbled next to grocery lists, lecture notes scribbled next
It is scribbled along the body lecture notes scribbles next to grocery notes, lecture notes scribbled next
I scribble along the body holy spirit (I started to teach my daughter how to draw letters, says Asia. She drew good A’s so I took a picture to show my partner but circled the A’s she drew, so she started circling all her A’s. In the drawing I sent you is an A with a circle around it. It is a sigil, says Asia.)
I scribble across the body sigils and sigils circled holy spirit Taryn spills sigil and signature the bone scribble of my beach body Body beach babels desert kingdom (free your mind and your ass will follow the kingdom of heaven is within) I scribble along my body black bundle beach nerve light neon nervous
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It scribbles along the body Christina
I listen to True Love Waits by Radiohead and I reminisce Christina:
I’ll drown my beliefs to have your babies I’ll dress like your niece and wash your swollen feet Just don’t leave don’t leave I’m not living I’m just killing time Your tiny hands your crazy kitten smile Just don’t leave don’t leave And true love waits in haunted attics And true love lives on lollipops and crisps
Christina left but but the Kindred lives in haunted attics. Kindred grows impoverished on lollipops and crisps. I live in haunted attics (I wrote a prose poem in college about haunting Christina’s attic. I should find the poem and rewrite it). I always haunted her attic / I was a prisoner inside her skull.
I write with or without Christina but she always haunts my attic – she spelunks holy spirit skulls. She spelunks my body scribbled holy spirit. She sketches my skull skinned hauntological or body horror happening. (What would my performance art body horror look like? What would my scribbled memorial to Christina look like expressed as body horror and slasher movies? A videodrome monolith vision stirring moonlight.)
I witness to my life with Christina and without Christina. I fume and despair: I dedicated the Book of the past few years writing my friendship with Asia, and Christina appeared less and less in the Book. Ironic how Christina’s absence utterly interrupts and corrupts the Book, and I fixate on her absence. Christina’s absence and the death of the Kindred strangles the writing and dislocates the hip of the Book. Her haunted but absent absence seizes my brain and I slag slate sleets of sound nonsense to create any writing at all. I ponder if I write more about Asia and I, I could write more fluidly, more often, with greater continuity – but how could I ignore the dolorous wound and Christina waste land left in the void of her love. My true love waits for her eating lollipops and crisps.
It scribbles along the body of Christina
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I hack the stream with sharpened insects I scribble with mutant knives / mutant knives knit gnarled bodies Gnarled bodies swim scribbled insects (ben bodies between ben bodies book roses)
It is scribbled along the body (ben body between ben body book roses)
Bright Stones Scratch Towards Death
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation
Bright stones pass bright white the light bringers I bring light bone bright bleach bleach screech book white screech book bank river bank
Bright stones pass bright white the light: bright stones search white the light: bright stones search spontaneous light Stones pass subterranean light spontaneous addition stones add stones pass light (she lights the lights bright stones)
I drop my body as a stone. I drop my body stones and the stones open eyes. My eyes eject jet fumes and insect fumigation. Eye fumigates stone insects and the stones clash folk punk cassette loops. Stones loop no wave funk James Chance and the Contortionists. Stones strike stones contorted cassette tapes and I jam contrabassoon bodies.
I drop my body stone tape and tape melts into magnetic magma: from magma emerges Tetractyls Tetragrammaton
Bright stones pass bright white the light bringers I bring bright I bring bright bright light illumination I bring light minimal bright light height Light brings buzzing stones (bright stones search spontaneous light subtraction-addition Bright stones stick light laugh lamb search light)
(I drop my body stone and bright stones search spontaneous light. Bright stones stick to my body spontaneous radiation.)
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The light bringers buzz my body mourning morning mourning
I look at the mourning language and its languages something between. I mourn between winnow lines and lure lines longer mourning (I will mourn Christina for the rest of my life). I look at Christina void and Christina looks volume visions. Void Christian mourns at void vaudeville and I live absurd light. Christina a cartoon or comic strip strips desert erotic dancing.
I feel myself shorter fragments: sections spilling into sections cellar door mourning (I fear the fragment but fragments crowd the coastline of my skull) I mourn moss fragments dead mall / dead mall fragments mixed multitudes Dead mall repeats dead mall wake minimal mass minimal mourn mathematics mass spring fragment mathematics I mix mourning with music, mathematics, and mythologies (this repeating math of Kindred, of Christina Christianity messes)
I look at the ocean void mourning. I look at the ocean void grief intense grieving (my grief becomes an excuse to explore grief and experiment grief: my grief becomes an opportunity for transformation). My grief feels like a deprivation of material and I need to use what little material I have and explore at its possibilities and use everything. I use my material to creative exhaustion can impossible exhaustion.
(I watch a YouTube video from Jazz In American, and it features performances and interviews from the band Snarky Puppy. Band leader and bassist Michael League states he wants to use as little material as possible to create and immersive compositions.)
I grieve and the light bringers buzz my body mourning morning transforming mourning
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Bright stones pass bright white light bringers
Bright stone stick light lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world Stories search searchlight streetlight switchboard stethoscope (I listen to the stones and they beat stone tape arrhythmia) Streetlights scorch streetscapes scrape stitch board bog bodies (I switch from body to body bog blow bog)
Stone streetscrapes a streetcar named desire (Well they’re going to the country, they’re gonna retire, they’re taking a street car named desire Looking at the window at the pecan pie lots of things they’d like they would never buy)
Bright stones pass bright white light bringers / jazz messengers
I bring birds. I bring stone birds and birds fly minimal material. Bird minimal material hold stones and glycogen bodies. I bring bird bodies and their wings embody Books. I bring birds embedded in the bone of the Book and white stones light the background. Birds drop stones on my skull.
Bright stones bring bird lights bamboo stone Stone burn light bamboo body bagatelle tor tetragrammaton / tor taryn tunic stone steppe
I scrape the past sleek the language last scroll / I scrape scroll lull light palimpsest I scrape page park stone submersible book bull subterranean (Store burns screwdriver subdivisions – subdivisions sacrifice desert hyenas – I fist fight sporadic stone fire)
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Bright stones scratch desert towards death: from death, stone light
I study suicides. I miss Christina and I study suicides, not because I will die but closer to what Nietzsche wrote: The thought of suicide has proved a comfort for many to survive the night (a terrible paraphrase – Ben, look at the actual quote) (The thought of suicide is a great consolation by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night). I study suicides in geometric configurations and I miss Christina. I study I miss Christina in different geometric arrangements and I wake room for all my suicides. I study my suicides in different geometries and different gods. I open my guts grainy photographs (In the beginning of photography I used to make very grainy things. I’d be fascinated by what the grain did because it would make a kind of tapestry of all these little dots… But when I’d been working for awhile with all these dots, I suddenly wanted to see the real differences between things… I began to get terribly hyped on clarity…). I dot the pages of the Book with the grain gods: barely and wheat and corn commingles in dotted leaves or sheaves. I dot the pages of the Book with rolls of my grainy body in bulwark death / bullhorn death. Dots arrange death in the desert, death details detailing Kindred death always an ending. I dot direct suicide an an incessant suicide brat summer.
Bright stones scratch desert polka dot death and bending dot death
I photograph ben bodies book geometries: I photograph assorted suicides I miss Christina I miss Christina dot canvas disintegration / disintegrations pulverize pointillism death voyeurs (grainy visions sneak peeping tom thomasine gospels)
(I go up and down a lot. Maybe I’ve been like that. Partly what happens through I’d get filled with energy and joy and I begin a lot of things and think about what I want to do and get all breathless with excitement and then quite suddenly either through tiredness or a disappointment or something more mysterious the energy vanishes, leaving me harassed, swamped, distraught, frightened by the very things I thought I was so eager for!)
I work and write endlessly towards death – my own death – several suicides last supper suicides (She wrote the words “Last Supper” in her diary and placed her appointment book on the stairs leading up to the bathroom) I work and write towards my many deaths, each chord in a slowly rotating circle (rotating circles circular rosaries / I pray rosary bead for every suicide, summa circles of hell)
Bright stones scratch desert desert towards death many deaths (October 29 How strange: her voice which I knew so well and which is said to be the very texture…) My writing fails to capture any of this fragmentary grief gulf no… I must give myself permission to record this nonsense and absurdity, the voice textures touching idioglossia… None of this makes sense – this is not how I’d write the Kindred movie and in the movie we would have survived…
Bright stones scratch nonsense and death idioglossia glosses and glisses in the desert
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Bright stones pass bright white light bringers I scrape the past future language language last lull light palimpsest I scrape stone palimpsest pulse stones submersible I scrape stone fires and I superimpose fire on other light I superimpose sporadic stone fire on fiery palimpsest I translate fire to fire and forest to forest: my stone body
Bright stones bring my body blood in blood gather blue stones bring body blood gather stone blood water dug roses
Bright stones pass bright light light bringers Light brings stone scratched in the fiery desert
I Have Cut Book Bamboo
I fall into the well awake or want work what / I have cut Book bamboo
I fall into the well awake and want work what what work worm who What works who winter wings (I wing lancet. I lancet wing two cent pieces sword breaker. Sword breaks bread with wings and the bread flies what.) I fall into well awake and I direct sword to night desert night
(Night new no nightmare. Night brass knuckles narrow natrium. Night natural saline holy spirit speculum.)
(Speculum that doesn’t sine shines night the very night)
(The night is on my mind The sun’ll still shine But now the night is on my mind)
I fall into the well awake and I direct sword to night desert night Night desert snow slow row
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I have cut Book bamboo
I have cut Book bamboo, the large leaves of grass of Christina’s body. Christina keeps watch and bends the tall grasses. Christina keeps watch over night sword and cave word. Christina watches the word cut cave desert wyrd.
I sleep with ghosts. She cuts the bamboo word and I sleep with ghosts. Ghosts sleep living room crickets. I sleep with ghosts living room locusts and their wings project haunted castle Christina. Locusts project haunted cattle longhorn languages. Haunted cattle mourn hot hostages and hot hostage pantyhose theater. I sleep with ghosts imaginary pantyhose (pantyhose haunted piñatas).
I have cut Book bamboo
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I fall into the well awake and I direct sword to night desert Sword sweeps ship wreck snow: snow snow reveals anus is night Now night knocks strange body stars (My face complex builds night. My face spirals and nautilus shell fractals repeat night. Night complicates by my face surfaces surface night. My face surfaces night of a rose and the rose of circular ruins.)
Night now knocks strange body stars Stars stick canned guts body undermining umbrella (Ben body face night whooping crane Ben body crane night cataclysms ben body Body cataract eye music museum cataclysm) Nude night knocks nude body nude stars Stars direct sword to night desert and in desert mummified guts Under night now nest bulletproof veil full proof moonshine night
I fall into the well awake or want work what / I have cut Book Bamboo
I cut into the body of the Book: I cut raw interior interiors of the Book or pen. I cut quick into the Book – quick, quicker this what. I fall into the cut of the Book. I fall into the open well of the Book, itself a night and itself a body: Book radically body and sometimes the only body (This body holding me reminding me that I’m not alone). I fall into into to the what and the what weirds my body.
I have cut Book bamboo: I have cut Book bone steel bar I cut cant carnal language canal coffin collarbone (I cut can’t cane cane car cross car bamboo bamboo bicycle black iron prison)
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I have cut Book bamboo and Black Iron Prison pours out The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick and his novel VALIS prophesy Christina and the Kindred:
The changing information which we experience as world is an unfolding narrative. It tells about his death of a woman. This woman, who died long ago, was one of the primordial twins. She was one half of the divine syzygy. The purpose of the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death. The Mind does not wish to forget her. Thus the ratiocination of the Brain consists of a permanent record of her existence, and if read, will be understood this way. All the information processed by the Brain – experienced by us as the arranging and rearranging of physical objects – is an attempt at this preservation of her; stones and rocks and sticks and amoebae are traces of her. The record of her existence and passing is ordered onto the meanest level of reality by the suffering Mind which is now alone…
The novel VALIS goes on to say: If in reading this, you cannot see that Fat is writing about himself, you understand nothing [Horselover Fat – author surrogate sometimes identical and sometimes not-identical to Philip K. Dick]
I copy this passage because I too am a suffering Mind experiencing loss – loss of her, Christina my primordial twin and the other half of my divine syzygy. I miss Christina. Although she lives, I imagine if I die I will end up in the same absence she exists in for me now. I want to meet her absence with my absence, and the imaginary absence would combine and arrange-rearrange the information we perceive as the world. Our absences combine absurd and useless and impossible, and the existence and nonexistence proves equally absurd.
I copy this passage as changing information and Christina Coltrane Changes. I copy changing passage and changing passion the pursuing absence of Christina (The changing information always constructs the narrative and myth revelation Christina and revelation Kindred).
I copy the myth of the woman: Christina and Christina and Christina sleeping with ghosts. I recall Christina and I do not wish to forget her.
I have cut the Book bamboo and Christina grows the Palm Tree Garden within Black Iron Prison
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I have cut the Book bamboo and I grow bamboo black iron prison I keep the cut and although I cut, the cut keeps the cut (I want your opinion or something, I say to Asia. You know my Book mixes both experimental types of writing but also our conversations as well and metacommentary about the direction of the Book. Do you find the conversations embarrassing or non-literary? I say. How can a conversation be non-literary? says Asia. Today I was copying this long message I sent you several months ago, I say. It was me struggling with my doubts in our friendship but coming to the realization that despite my doubts and anxiety, our actions continue to show unconditional love in our friendship. I made a note to myself to leave it in the Book but cut it out from the blog post. I felt it was embarrassing to express open doubt publicly and that me talking about unconditional love and doubt and action didn’t make for beautiful prose. I guess what I mean by nonliterary I mean open, exposed, no metaphor or flowery language, I say. Wow, OK, says Asia. Art is human, Ben. You have to embrace it. There’s going to be ugly bits. You can’t separate art from the messiness of being human, says Asia.)
I fall into the well awake or want work what (I have cut Book bamboo)
You Write It Proves Every Bit A Dream
You write it proves every bit a dream
You write every bit a dream and dreaming every You write every
You write the dream drinks the dream drop stones Dream drop stones sting flesh drop art I rationalize the dream denominator ratiocination of priests in the desert
I dream the eye as the eye and I dream the eye as her eye and I dream the eye as my eye. The razor cuts open the dazzling eye of the young and charming woman. I take her eye into my eye socket and her eye is my eye. I take her eye in my coffee spoon and her eye reflects my spoon the same eye. I spoon my eye into the coffee cup: coffee cup of the rose and rose cup of blessing resting on five fingers and five eyes chimera.
You write it proves every bit a dream and dream haunts Haunted House Christina dreams haunted house or hospice (we’ve always lived in this castle)
Every bit a dream this Christina castle and Christina eye socket canal Christina carp cut canal chrism and schism
(Look, man, I’m telling you right off the bat, I’m high maintenance, so… I’m not gonna tip-toe around your marriage, or whatever it is you’ve got going there. If you wanna be with me, you’re with me. Okay. Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked up girl who’s looking for her own piece of mind; don’t assign me yours. I remember that speech really well. I had you pegged, didn’t I? You had the whole human race pegged. Hmm, probably. I still thought you were going to save my life… even after that. Oh... I know. It would be different, if we could give it another go around. Remember me. Try your best; maybe we can.) Every bit a dream this Christina castle and I remember Christina. I remember Christina – here and here and here (I remember Christina in the bookstore and the library and on the radio gaga and videotape. Christina remember me – it would be different if we could just give it another go around. Christina keeps the dream in the keep and karst catacombs and we’ve always lived in this castle. We live castles and changelings. I rewatch the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and I think they reconcile and figure it out. I think they accept it might end up terribly, but they try it again anyway and reconcile successfully. I interpret it in this way because Christina and I tried again and we eventually figured it out – it took many years but we figured it out. I protest the sudden end of our friendship and cry my god my god why have you forsaken me and the spirit leaves me. If god exists – Christina knows and loves this god – fuck that god because this feels wrong. The end of the Kindred feels against the laws of nature and the laws of the universe. The Kindred has endured how long, but these eternal circumstances leaves us separate and apart and in the ravages of the unknown. Fuck whatever transcendent and insidious force – if it exists whether god or platonic mathematics – fuck that force. How wrong – the Kindred apart wrong wrong wrong.)
You write it proves every bit a dream The dream drinks the dream and I rationalize the dream denominator / dream desert delicatessen The dream drinks the very eye and the story of the eye eviscerates my own eye My eye inserts as a phallus into an anonymous eye, and the eye eros erects bronze age collapse Human eye lights spiraling from spiral nebulae galaxies distant
Every bit a dream drive deer proto-gospels: I synthesize gospel and proto-gospel syzygy / I synthesize gospel and proto-gospel a bit of dream (I dream strange dream. I dream that I remember Christina here, here, here, and here. Dream undresses and reveals proto-gospels beneath her skirt, and the skirt drops inscribed stones. The dream stones speak fiery parables and dark sayings. I say the dream and the dream speaks me.) (Am I a butterfly dreaming I’m a man.. Or a bowling ball dreaming I’m a plate of sashimi? Never assume that what you see and feel is real!)
You write it proves every bit a dream You write gospels proves every bit a dream I synthesize gospel and proto-gospel: not a gospel harmony but a gospel harmolodics Surreptitious gospel dreams secret gospel of mark / Kurt Cobain’s Journals and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s notebooks
It proves every bit a dream and I realize the dream real as the human eye. My eye spins spiral galaxies. My eye hangs low gravity and gravity low blow. I realize the dream real as the human eye and eye isolates eros and erosion. Eye erodes eros now an isolated pornographic but an essential pornographic. Eye eros eats the conducive and erosive eye. The erosion dreams the landscape always interior landscape collapses into the interior and I see through my eye real and dreams. I see a bit of eye and a bit of dream.
Human eye only eros or erosion / human eye only erodes in the excess of the erotic
Human eye only erodes (At this present time, I long only to sleep. I am sick of humanity.)
You write proves every bit a dream: I feel my human a dream and I feel human a dream I feel human real dream
I had a dream that my family in Louisiana wouldn’t let me leave until I worshiped god, says Asia. Which God? Their god the Christian god, she says. I was hoping in the dream they didn’t specify, I say. Then you could pick your own god.
Every bit a dream which God. Their god, couldn’t hat me sine waves worshiped god. Green the scrapheap god. Oh I cut desert inn I had the sleep King Felix. Then eye sleep that so madness in Louisiana could tips your own god.
Every bit a dream disintegrates disintegrates (Dreaming of God an x-ray beam, he was hit by a cab while crossing the street Lying in his bedspread, he struggled to breath The light bulbs exploded, the air filled with wings)
You write every bit a dream You write I had a tree that my mess which why god and couldn’t let me mirror until I worshiped their mess, the splendour mess
You write a bit of dream and I was family in fibers in the trees then Louisiana you could pick your mess
Human eye erodes exploding x-ray eyes. Human eye instills the chalk human eye. Human eye sidewinds cable car variations of the cross.
In the dream I pick my own god. This is how I know entirely dream. This is how I know this entirely dream. I dream stress restless god. Louisiana gods engorge the swamps. I share swamp swamps dream gods.
You write it proves every bit a dream I dream charmed into backing snow / charmer black ice armor show snow serpents Snow snapping turtle synapses chop and screw sackcloth blood clots I summer dream sackcloth secret gospel of mark: mark map sap map map couple desiring-machines
I write it proves every bit a dream
I write it proves every bit a dreamer and I bite dream dodecahedron deconstruction Dream bites wormwood awake better ben adam: ben marry mara noise naomi
I write it proves every bit a dream and I dream the work waking dream and dream in the a dream I dream a doll in a dream and a woman in trouble
It proves every bit a dream and I dream the deuteronomist redacting my brain red blood torah dream I erase scribework industrial chair crosses and I cross myself antinomian I erase dream work injected molded plastic targets tongue torah (I taste Torah embedded on my tongue; my body digests Bible and bible and bible scrolls and codexes and manuscripts. My tongue targets Taryn Torah and she redacts future river time / time the by-product of motion between two poles. My tongue tastes words: words meander time transformations and Torah tremors).
I dream time between words and I wake birds between time
I dream it proves every bit a dream Words measure the time transformations and Taryn stripteases street magic I duplicate the dream synoptic gospels downstream (I had a sleep hoping ray me. I worshiped Louisiana; their god their splendor god I sleep city god your own god.)
Words Point At Those Nearby
Words point at those nearby
Words point at those nearby / ben bodies boil skull stations of the cross
Words point nearby nearby station to station Words point at point at point station to station ben bodies
(I point to this and I point to this and I point to this – all words neighbor words)
I point to this and this and I ask Christina into my ground. I appear in the ground and I write on the ground with great difficulty. I record ground and ground with great difficulty and ground points to grief intensities and the stretch of this Book labyrinth language. I write the ground in long stretches with great difficulty and dark darkens my intentions and continuities. I loosen and lose the intention and continuity (loose anarchic and floating language form continuity). I point to this neighbor Christina and cry from the ground Christina.
Words point at those nearby Words point pointillist nearby pinprick (words porcupine word porcupine)
Words point at those nearby / nearby ben bodies boil skull stations of the cross Point cross cross across nearby ben bodies (I body skull stations of the cross chrysoberyls / combination red by artificial light)
Words point to Christina in my ground: dark was the night and cold was the ground. I ground the long stretch and embarrass but I graft my embarrassment into my body boiling. I journal and make diary. The ground spits text texting texts that never end up in the Book but the Book still secretly archives them (The Book records what the seven thunders said). I embarrass with the desolate creativity and grief but I adapt the grief anyways – the sentiment, the movement, the gesture – and I let go of the Book. I let go of the Book as art and beautiful or even comprehensible. This grief forms a private language and the words nearby point to an apophatic language and mystical language. This Book contains an apophatic and unspoken language that points nearby to void and void the very human nothing. Not everything I write should be for public interpretation but if somehow it wants to be in grafted into its roots, I allow that. I surrender the entirety of my life to these hermeneutics and if someone wants to unearth this void language, I surrender to it. I embarrass as the void open and the Book secretly archives it. I allow myself a posthumous Kurt Cobain Journals and look into these notes and rough drafts and letters and see (Look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid). Now alive, I allow myself to write without purpose and without art and without beauty… I allow myself to mourn without beauty, to mourn Christina and not make it art. I allow art and not-art always pointing nearby and nearby and nearby.
Words point at those nearby Nearby psalm eye skin stellar tunic / tenor saxophone star multiphonics I step consciously from stone to stone so they tie back and forth and around
Words point to nearby stones and I move the stones light combinations. I move the stones nearby in artificial light combinations and permutations. I point tenor saxophone free improvisation and I step consciously from stone to stone and the stones point nearby to other stones. Stones point to words disguised as stones and stones disguised as words, the wild width of stones. Stone combination and permutations pour rose light and electronic light illuminating stations of the cross.
Words point at those nearby I strewn stones future rivers overrun with human eyes (an immanent eye cut transcendent desert indentations) I string stone straw river futures and futures flower flashing light siren eyes (an immanent eye improvises cut collected coagulated gods) I dissect the eyes early stone drone I dissect eyes cricket stone desert sail
Words point at those nearby Words point nearby nearby Words point nearby human eye skin (Thrill-crazed space kids blasting the flesh off humans! Teenagers From Outer Space) Words point nearby human explosions (When 10,000 biceps go around 5,000 bikinis… You know what’s going to happen! Muscle Beach Party)
Words point nearby and I allow art and not-art. I allow not-art art, and Christina appears no apparitions (apparitions approximate line art dot grid and dot matrix). Words point nearby and allows myself to grieve in nonsense and the absurd. Christina always stretches the syntax: Christina stretches the syntax slaps Stax Records robotics rhizomes. I keep searching for some meaning or cohesiveness to these experiences, to Christina absent airplane rabbit ear antennae (antennae insect enamel enamel insect erasers). I listen to Tesla’s Hotel Room by The Handsome Family. Christina loves – loved? – The Handsome Family and she bought me that CD and had Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family sign and write a message to me: “Your Muse’s Last Inspiration” Christina continued to inspire me for many years after though. In the last days of wonder when spirits still flew we sat holding hands in half-darkened rooms.
Words point at those nearby Words point sawed-off shotgun clipper ships ship stone sails (I said stones polar eye ocean desert)
Words point to those nearby like this eye I eye eyes / eye light first arose old light I eye eyes / eye light nonlinear road rose
Nearby word crop circles and ghost lights
Nearby apophatic light language
Light language first arose in old light rows sows cylinder cinders (I surrender to cinders my life hermeneutics and my human texts) Light language sows nearby matchstick cylinders cylinders staggered tower of babel Staggered strangled tower of babel light bubbles rose bubbles Light bubbles baubles babel black painting nearby eye canvas and word painting
Words point at those nearby Words point those nearby nearby Christina Words point at those nearby and I step consciously from stone to stone the language of Christina
Asia Among Rivers Maps River Agape
Asia Among Rivers nomads maps maps mirror rhizome maps
Asia Among Rivers nomad river maps: I see rivers I seer maps and rivers I seer map rivers and nomadic prophecy
I see rivers and seer rivers: I see the body of the rivers. I seer rivers and the body of the rivers map boiling bodies (Ben bodies boil elephant skulls and skull of Christ. Golgotha turns god gears coin defleshed no tail but Tetragrammaton). I see rivers and I seer the river of the body – no tail and no sail but crucifies clipper ship stations of the cross.
Asia Among Rivers nomad nomads maps nameless maps river names River drinks dam dirge Book desert sludge (human sludge meets earth river of the Book and Book rushed rivers rivering maps) River drinks sludge slinky sew human skin
My humanity empties rivers and river skin. My humanity sloughs river sludge and the river skin sews human maps anew. I glue together rivers. I knot the rivers into human knots.
Asia Among Rivers nomad knot maps and knitted maps Her rivers knot future nets fingernail nylon
Today one of the teachers was telling me how the autistic student was having a bad day and that he just wanted to go outside and feel the rain on his face, says Asia. That makes sense to me, I say. Rain makes better. Sometimes it feels like I’m trudging through poetry, says Asia. There is something poetic about a kid grinding everything to a standstill because he wants to feel the rain. There is something poetic about a kid leaving an unfinished letter to no one apologizing to god. It’s also painful but it’s a pain a lot of us know, she says. That’s true, I say. I started writing poetry because I felt a pain within me that I could not find in the outside world. I couldn’t find it in song lyrics, so I started writing poetry to express that interior pain I felt, I say. The world is painful but we don’t have to be, says Asia.
I go outside and I feel the rain on my face
Go outside facing rain rain face Go outside facing rain many rivers Outside face rain Asia Among Rivers map nomadic Asia Among Rivers
I’m god of the find to painful poetry (I go outside and I feel the rain on my face) Sometimes one song feels face like apologizing (I go outside and I seer rivers and her rivers) We would something be to writing want everything (The world is painful but we don’t have to be)
Asia Among Rivers nomad mad maps map riptide rhizomes Her rivers knit my body knots in knots (chalkboard bantam hunger body: body basketweave thumbprint whorl)
My body weaves rivers and my body weaves rivers. My body basketweaves rivers and my body basetweaves rivers. My body rushes rivers sea of reeds and reeds knit and knot the renewed human body. My body weaves river word and wild rivers. I seer rivers and I go outside and dip my faces in rivers.
Asia Among Rivers remembers river maps and reinscribes maps with river words Asia Among Rivers reinscribe my body with mapped word river I print body ink haste hunger river room River futures knit hanging man / hanging human one
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River reveals grief: this narrative tells the death of a woman and it is ordered onto the meanest level of reality by grieving… Suffering mind, being now alone, does not wish to forget her.
River reveals grief and it tells the narrative of a woman: the narrative of Christina
An email from Christina dated from September, 22 years ago:
Ben, I’m sorry for being such a jerk tonight. I wasn’t really listening to you and I’m sorry. Athenna was over and we were being really stupid. Anyway… I need to talk to you. I think I’ll call you tomorrow. Anyway… Just wanted to say sorry, I really do love you and I’m just falling on bad times right now. I’m really scared and I don’t want to leave and everything is getting really stressful. But it’s not an excuse to be mean to you. So I’m sorry. I hope you forgive me. (Christina)
Of course I forgave Christina: I always forgive Christina. Christina could kill me and I would forgive her Book Blood and Ben Bloody Body. I don’t remember the incident Christina referred to and I don’t know why I saved this email except for the fact she says “I really do love you.” I cherish Christina’s “I love you” and the “I love you” in general and only Christina indulges in saying it to me. My other friends, although they love me to the same degree that I love them, do not say “I love you” or rarely. Taryn sometimes tells me; Krystal will say “Ditto” or “Me too.” Asia and I use “unconditional care” although sometimes we say “unconditional love” – they mean the same thing for us. But I often saved documents where Christina said she loved me and I recorded it in the Book.
River reveals grief memory and grief archive I remember rivers and rivers revelations and grief engraves apocalypses Grief inscribes and reinscribes Christina apocalypses
River reveals grief and it tells the narrative of the woman: the narrative of Christina
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Asia Among rivers nomads maps human rhizome maps River future feelers heterogeneous game god hangers Hangers have margins machine marginal machine margin margarine molotov mirror mixed river time Mirrors mixed rivers time time and the river (echoes of time and the river)
I always experience time and I always experiment time. I always experience time many durations at once and simultaneous times. I experiment time entwined with story and narrative, and I tell the story within time and without time. I follow time through rivers (today there a outside was day). Today a outside day no telling rain it’s rain something unfinished (I go outside facing time and the river).
Among rivers, I cast the net
Among rivers, outside I cast the net facing rains (Haunted by a lovely face… Haunted for an other’s crime!)
Among rivers, I cast the net into the future (A man! Trying to run away from his past! A woman! Trying to escape her future!)
I cast the net work watchmen writer medicine I cast the net medium black mass lap dance Taryn lightning I cast the net net now no units I cast the net non net net no op art (ben clam body optical illusion bunker buster mollusks) I cast the net mollusk masquerade mixed multitudes weevil travel I cast the net word weevil travel taryn lighting’s lap dance I cast last light and the last net new lights: new light body apocalypse curve a face (I go outside and feel the rain on my face)
The conversation with Asia about saying “I love you” from a little over 3 years ago:
Bear with me because you might think this is dumb and I’m going to take a long time to explain it, I say. I was talking to Taryn, and I said to her, I told my friend Asia that I loved her and she didn’t respond back. Taryn said, She’s the one you’re writing the Book for? What’s your relationship like? Close? Pretty close I think, I said. I insulted her when I implied our friendship was more important to me than to her. Close like me and you? said Taryn. I think so. She supports my prophecy and writing. And she said nothing? Ask her then, said Taryn. So that’s a long winded way of asking you about it. Do you love me? Do you feel uncomfortable saying it? Etc. In any case I feel embarrassed asking so I hope you’re understanding, I say. I honestly freak out a little when you say it because it means different things to different people and to respond means I’m agreeing to your definition, says Asia. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to freak you out, I say. So when I say I love you, I mean the love of agape. Unconditional love, when Paul says, love is patient, love is kind, love does not boast, etc. I also think it’s the love when Jesus says, There is no greater love than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. So when I say I love you very much, I mean I love you unconditionally and I would lay down my life for you […] positively, I live my life with you, I say. Oh OK, says Asia. I still might not be comfortable saying it back, she says. Our definitions of love don’t match up? I say. That’s not it, says Asia. I didn’t know what your definition of love was previously and I have been in several occasions where someone has used that word against me to manipulate me, says Asia. I see, I say. Is that why you’d feel uncomfortable saying it, because of that history of manipulation? Yes. That makes sense, I say. Can I at least ask you if you love me in that sense? Yes, says Asia. I love all my friends like that, she says.
I love Asia unconditionally and Asia loves me unconditionally, and I’m grateful for my friendship with her. Christina’s absence has strengthened my friendship with Asia – that’s at least one good thing that happened from Christina’s absence. I miss Christina but Asia’s support eases some difficulties. She understands how Christina’s absence impacts me.
Asia Among rivers casts her net into river futures I face future river and speech rains subtle curves Speech rains curve summer scroll Speech scroll curves my face full snow / earth salt and leaven
I Loop Unity Capsule
I loop light I loop light loupe inoculating loop I loop light low light please be mine share my life be my wife
I loop light I loop light lure inoculating loop I loop light low light please shut out the lights Shut lights off loops screw in spirals
I loop light and Christina a proponent of new complexity plays Unity Capsule flawlessly (Christina a proponent of new complexity loops light light lit unity capsule loops) Christina a proponent of new complexity loops unity capsule lights
New complexity Christina calculates light loops. Christina calculates inoculating lops loop light loops. Christina calculates new complexity embedded in new complexity: she calculates the timing of nested tuplets. She times loop symmetry loop: Christina share my life – be my wife. Christina times the loop too concise with the light loop lops silence, and the loops outside time strike sound disintegration. Christina calculates light tuplets stretching loop tuplets, and the tuplets sprout tent of meeting in the wilderness. Tuplets spring factory fever machines recording Andy Warhol’s assassination.
I loop lights and lights lean into the rotations and translations of texts: texts in aggregates and texts in quotation (After I almost drowned, I decided I would never again be weaker than water, so I become a lifeguard. On my first day of training, my instructor told me that there are going to be times when you’ll see someone in trouble. You’re going to want to rush in there and do whatever you can to save them but you have to stop yourself. Because there are some people you can’t save. Cause those people will thrash and struggle, and try to take you down with them. [After a long pause.] What does that have to do with me?) (I want to save Christina. I want to save Christina or at least help Christina and I wish she’d let me help her – but she also shows herself wiser than me. She knows we’d be drown if we tried.) I loop lights and lights lean into the rotations and translations of texts: texts in aggregates and texts in quotations
I loop light I loop light loupe inoculating loop I loop light low light please be mine share my life be my wife Loop light low life light: be my husband and I’ll be your wife (a lucrative light meanders in amber light does not jeopardize your credit but melon-oil lamplights night) Lamplight sight circulatory system set light
I loop lights and lights lean into the rotations and translations of texts: texts in aggregates and texts in quotations (I’ll go up in to here, it can’t possibly hurt. All they will find is my beer and my shirt. The riptide is raging and the lifeguard’s away. But the ocean doesn’t want me today) (I survive any depressive cipher and I connect slow lights and waters. I connect nets ocean and lights, each light blinking water void and void oceans. I survive any depressive cipher and I wade deep ocean and death and I never die. I never die but dive cipher ciphers walking oceans. I never die god kind of blue and the blue will swallow me up chariot Elijah and Enoch.) I loop lights and lights lean amber lights and salt light sulfur, and lights burn television texts: texts translate and rotate texts X texts assemble anew
I loop light I loop lamplight light slowing circulatory systems I loop light and see light (With her light I see the light: with light I see her. Christina calculates lights and she arranges lights in circles and corners. Christina a proponent of new complexity plays Unity Capsule and with her lights and I see the lights.) I loop light and I see her lights: I seer light and prophesy blood I prophesy light blood bare black painting bath I loop lamplight whale sight seeps seer sorcery and ben bodies book subterranean
I loop light and I condense new complexity into Christina Unity Capsule superimposed on Gin Blossom’s Hey Jealousy (You can trust me not to think and not to sleep around and if you don’t expect too much of me you might not be let down ‘cause I really want is to be with you feeling like I matter too If I hadn’t blown the whole thing years ago I might be here with you). Christina made me feel like I mattered too; without Christina, I feel I matter less. How selfish, but Christina would accept that selfishness. I miss Christina and she calculates my embarrassment nested in my embarrassment. I miss Christina and I expected too much of her: I expect her as a constant friend but I knew and she knew she couldn’t fulfill those expectations. I loop light and I condense the light into blood blossoms and black paintings scroll that project into the amber light future futures.
I seer slate lights and I prophesy blood: slate bathe lights blood black paintings hanging her light I prophesy lamplight whale sight seeps light seer sorcery and ben bodies book subterranean lightning Ben boils boil light from light and light to light and the light loops loops black paintings hang
Lights loop seer subterranean Lights lop loop see sorcery slate light
Lights loop see ben bodies / bodies nest body unity capsule
Lights loop lights and by her light I see the lights By her lights ben bodies boil elephant skulls skull Christ / coin defleshed no tail but tetragrammaton
I loop light I loop light low Christ share my life be my wife
Open Speech Form
Content Warning: discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation
Open form speech samples speech scroll open
Open form speech samples speech scroll open Open form speech flees scroll spree Open form speech screeches scroll speech feeling Open form speech screw in scroll speed speeds
Open form speech samples speech scroll open: I open strings of speech
I open strings of speech and strange strings of speech. I open stings strings of speech and the speech samples ritual. The speech samples ample ritual and abundant ritual, and the ritual opens. I obsess with a certain kind of ritual and the ritual reveals additional speech. The ritual reveals additional speech. The ritual reveals additional ritual, the aggregate or accumulation of strange speech. I speak the ritual of speech radically open, and the open overlaps open the accumulation of open opening.
Open form speech samples speech scroll open Open form speech string scroll sample Speech switch switches switch signal open steady (not a smooth steady-state universe but strange chaos and chaotic desert dynamics desert never completely smooth populated dynamic chaos and silly string sidewinders.)
Suicide, as with all actions, involves a tangle of complex motives and feelings. In my case, a vague sense of unease drove me: an intense anxiety and unease towards the future… I don’t remember why I felt suicidal when Christina wrote me that email 22 years ago. Perhaps it was because Christina told me she was engaged or some dramatic fight we had – we often fought then. I felt overly dependent on her and any perceived slight or trouble contributed to intense feelings of suicidality… I wasn’t entirely aware of this, but I tried to weaponize my depression and suicidality like Bojack Horseman to Diane (And you were clearly intoxicated and you were talking about swimming. “I’m going swimming” you said “since nothing matters anyways and nobody cares about me, I might as well go swimming, right? … Call me back if you don’t want me to go swimming. Otherwise I’m just gonna assume you don’t care.”) I try not to be emotionally abusive or manipulative anymore, and I’m sure Christina and Asia would agree that’s the case even when I still suffer from depression and suicidal ideation.
Open form speech flees scroll open Open for speech flees screeching scroll and screaming scroll open skull Open form speech sleeps open scroll open speech open (My ritual speech populates the desert smooth-chaotic. My ritual speech puzzles over desert populations and desert dynamics. Strange chaos populates dynamic desert.) Universe populated desert dives birds subterranean / birds bandy brandy bastard sprawl (Bastard bender lost boys blood sucking brady bunch) Open form fire speech fire fire open fire speech form Speech form fractal fragment studio stereo skeleton sampledelia / drone shroud sound desert
Open form speech screeches scroll speech fleeing open (I open the door and I open the door. I open the door on fire and I open the door on fire. I open the door and the door opens bright fires. I open the door delivers the door open speech as the speech spills open. I open the fiery door open.)
Open form fire speech fire open fire speech form
Open form fire speech speech form fractal fragment studio stereo skeleton sampledelia Open form fire speech speech form studio steady skeleton crew sampledelia (Stereo sampledelia drone drones shroud sound desert) Open form fire speech stereo form fragments fires
Open fire speech fire open fire speech form Open fire speech drone shroud sound desert (Desert shroud drones serpents. Desert shroud drone drones serpents. Desert shroud surrounds ben skin stone binds. Desert drones serpent revelation and drone reveals desert in desert.) Desert drones stone birds (Birds bind my body boiling Book. Birds bind my body boiling Book and Book bitches brew.)
Open form fire speech fire open fire speech
Open form: I cannot write anything but Christina. I miss Christina. I miss Christina and I listen to songs that remind me of Christina and I copy the lyrics (I have to keep writing even of its nonsense or the same lyrics over and over. I feel deprived of creative energy without Christina.) (Well, tell me, do you think it’d be all right if I could just crash here tonight? You can see I’m in no shape for driving and anyway I’ve got no place to go. And you know it might not be that bad – you were the best I ever had. If I hadn’t blown the whole thing years ago I might not be alone.) Right now, I am alone. I am alone and I write Christina nonsense which sustains itself and Christina language and languages. I blew the whole thing years ago and I felt close to Christina almost romantic or soulmate – the Kindred, but the Kindred was never romantic. The Kindred was never romantic and aromantic and asexual Christina seized the edges, but the Kindred exists as something – exists as what, I don’t know what, but something uniquely Ben and Christina (I imagine every relationship exists in the unique space – unique up to that isomorphism). I fill up the pages and it comforts me: a task to fill up time and my mind.
Open form fire speech fire open fire speech form Speech opens desert and stone birds Speech opens birds bind my body boiling boiling bodies (the ravens river black body radiation putrefactio) Open form fire squirms tenor saxophone screams / swans speech archangel albedo (peacock plays pantonal cargo tonnage phases of bright colors / pulses of bright colors collapsible cathedrals)
Open fire speech open: Christina a proponent of new complexity plays Unity Capsule flawlessly. Christina articulates the timing of nested tuplets (tuplet tent of meeting machines fever factories / Andy Warhol’s assassination)
I’m in no shape for driving and I’m in no shape for writing: usually if I write, I can figure out the writing process and prophecies, but without Christina, the prophetic spirit ceases. Christina’s absence stops up the prophecy and creative processes. The writing more and more remembers Christina, and the language circumscribes and spirals through the prophecy writing Christina does not make me miss Christina less, but I write it anyways (Without Christina and without God, I prophesy anyways). You see I’m in no shape for driving and anyway I’ve got no place to go, so I keep writing Christina and I keep prophesying Christina. I prophesy Kindred: I write and rewrite Kindred to keep Kindred alive.
These Are Embarrassing Words
content warning: discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation
Multiple alphabets alphabet autumn leaves and massacre alphabet Multiple alphabets mud dandelion alpha and omega Red roast through the cut of my body rib burner violent red violet-red bright body waterfall
Multiple alphabets and dandelion dandy orthogonal multiplicities / multiplicities alphabet multidirectional orthogonal alphabets
Multidirectional alphabets bite alphabets alphabet devour multidirectional alphabets (red runs through the cut of my body: body rib burning burning violet red and violent red) Ben body burns bright body waterfall
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Multiple alphabets spill Christina sorcery and Christina sigils
Christina wrote this email to me August 3rd – almost 22 years ago – an antisuicide email. I suddenly realize how long I have been suffering from bouts of bipolar depression and suicidal ideation.
Ben, I hope you read this tonight. I hope you wait on the suicide thing. Just wait a year. They say everything changes when you’re in college. Just see if things turn out for the better. Plus, I’ll probably be back in P_______ by next June. Then we can see where things go. See? There’s things to hold onto still. You don’t have to die. Ben, this could be the greatest year of your life. But you have to give it a chance. And maybe it won’t be, but still, you could wait it out. You’re stronger than you let on. I know you are. Just wait on it. Please Ben, you know how I said we’re both dependent on each other too much? Well, here’s where it kicks in for me. I don’t know what I’ll do if you’re not here tomorrow. I honestly don’t know. I know that sounds selfish, and it really is. But all I can think about right now is the world without Ben and I can’t stand the thought. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what magical phrase will make you want to stay alive. I'm really bad at this (obviously). Just know that my heart’s with you. I’ll be praying for you. That’s all I know how to do. Maybe you could do the same. I don’t know. Live, Ben. OK? Please? Just live for awhile longer, anyway. Please, Ben.
Christina’s desperation and repetitious pleading embarrasses me: I feel embarrassed some past iteration of myself – still Ben and still residing within me somewhere – caused some past iteration of Christina – still Christina and still residing somewhere within Christina – so much anguish and suffering. Her utter overdependence on me also embarrasses because I was and am a person not to be admired and dependent on. Nevertheless we cleave to each other and survive beyond iterations of ourselves, despite the embarrassment… I have recurring bouts of depression and suicidal ideation and this email from Christina almost speaks to me now. I feel this depression and suicidal ideation during this prolonged absence from Christina (Almost 5 months. I suspect we will break our seventh month record of not talking from 17 years ago). I imagine present-day Christina would provide similar encouragement although we aren’t as dependent on each other anymore – if we were, both of us would be dead, and my survival provides proof my resilience without her. Sometimes I wish I were that embarrassingly dependent on her so I could have courage to die (a thought equally embarrassing).
Multiple alphabets spill Christina sorcery and Christina sigils
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Multiple alphabets mud big mud desert dandelion Multiple alphabets burn aleph red cut straight body my body rib violent Red rib burns alphabet body violent red red-violet bright waterfall bodies (My eye rejects waterfalls in full triangles triangle fully-formed. My eye ejects waterfall triangled eyes. My eye ejects eye waterfalls full triangles. My triangular eye ejects triangular eyes. Waterfall ejects eyes and eyes emerge from ejected triangles. My eye ejects eroded triangles and triangles taste pyramid texts. The pyramid texts eject paranoid triangles and triangles charge the sigil. Triangles and pyramid texts charge paranoid eyes from the pattern of the eyes: waterfall sigils. Multiple alphabets charge patterns from my eye to my eye multiple alphabets.) Eye emits island insects / insular island deep sea gigantism My eye interrupts multiple alphabet: my eye interrupts eye dandelion wine syrup
Multiple alphabets alphabet autumn leaves and massacre alphabet Multiple alphabets mud dandelion alpha and omega