Wednesday, July 06, 2005

space-time's old hump

It might be true: Wednesday is the new Monday. Or, I’ve become a real slack-ass and dislike working. Or, I need a behemoth ch-ch-change that doesn’t lock me between four sterile and laxly oxygenated walls for eight and a half hours a day. Somnolence hangs here.

Book, poem, floppy eyelid syndrome, conflict-of-interest statement, ALMA edit and the caffeine challenge, insomniac, bill, supper, pronunciation, vocabulary, general knowledge of history, all of time’s gods, spinach—I’ve been letting a lot of things slide—misplaced waste draining out from rusty misplaced ducts—and it’s manifested as two red though healing zits in the center and a muscular sag in the right side of my face.

Everybody was asleep and now everybody is jacked up on coffee berries and sugar cane. Everybody has a headache.

Give me ultimate pad thai and a set of tiny strong hands to spice and push these nostrils to heave-ho’ing. Or give me Benny Goodman sing sing singin’ while winding through a stone-path town decked out in castles and ecstatically crumbling temples.

Or just leave these things somewhere accessible so I can locate and harness them my own damn self. Half the battle.

Re-location. Nonlocality. Planted in a field of poppies, find parabolas, ellipses, the furniture of language, a house tipping up on its side, lifting up out of the ground. All the roaches spill out.

Those things in the sleepconscious field—the boat, the plane, the floor where you lay your sleeping bag—they are nil importante. They are not germen. That is this week’s lesson.

Locate the darn curtain-puller caught unaware in apocalyptic helix. Then the quantum gravity in your face will perk to zen.

7 Comments:

Blogger {illyria} said...

floppy eyelids. that got me. it's a severe affliction of mine which follows right after severe boredom strikes.

12:34 AM  
Blogger Sara said...

got me too. it's actually the name of a more extreme syndrome of the eyes. need to do more reading to know more.

7:52 AM  
Blogger Sara said...

floppy eyelid syndrome (FES): a recently recognized condition, originally described in obese men with easily everted upper eyelids and chronic irritation of the eye; can also affect other parts of the eye (conjunctiva, cornea)

*in case anyone's interested

8:59 AM  
Blogger 8ZERO8 said...

Great words

2:45 AM  
Blogger Sara said...

well, thanks. (hey, you're back--)

5:49 PM  
Blogger glomgold said...

Floppy Eyelid Syndrome? My right eyelid does a little double-flippy thing, but I'm not obese nor do I have pinkeye or whatever.
Love that Benny Goodman song. Also his "Whispering" is great too.

12:25 PM  
Blogger Sara said...

No, you are not obese. Back in the day I had to play the Benny Goodman song on my flute. There I admitted it. I love that song.

12:33 PM  

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