Saturday, July 30, 2022

Criticism Made Gentle

 

Maybe too resolved, a myth, too aloof, for fear, of some nature, non-cute. Maybe too neat, not filthy enough, somewhat anti-human. Maybe a narcissus, unbeknownst to self, where most sense it. Maybe afraid to be intimate, leaning on masculinity, unknowingly sadomasochistic.

I’ve understood a mechanic: to speak it is to agitate it; and most depend on perception.

            Stairs seem endless. Like rooms keep getting tighter. Like expectation on a safari.

 No attachments—are we still with behavior?

            It’s suggested—the womanizer is wrestling with the first woman; absentness creates dysfunction; and to argue over normality.

Too heady.

Over berries and melons and lemons—the juice of souls made to need alienation; by complaint to have life, by deficit to have fury, by humanity to feel the sun rise.

            At some point, it seems, life became hypothetical: love, sex, religion.

            So much the wind blows to and fro—thunder inside, many reasons to presume estrangement. More to feel awkward; less to rationalize; and senseless to criticize.    

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