Strip-26.08
remove everything
no pretense or subterfuge
strip for me
Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress
Celestial navigation-25.08.24
looking everywhere
Not even sure
When I lost it
Only
that I did
Waiting for sunset those sienna shades
as the city drops into night
Where I will
Find
her soul
my body lost
seeking
What
I
cannot name
Knowing
one way
Celestial navigation
looking everywhere
Not even sure
When I
Waiting for sunset those sienna shades
the city drops into night
Find
her soul
my body lost
seeking
What
I cannot name
Knowing
one way
using the stars(or breathing holes in this box)
. Celestial navigation: navigation by observation of the positions of celestial bodies.
Celestial na
Goofball-21.08.24
Summer day
She breaks
a pole routine long legs wrapping telephone pole
Addictive Combo
clown
And
siren dance
lover dance
Goofball: . an extremely i, eccentric, or silly person. 2. a pill containing a barbiturate or a tranquilizing drug. 2)term of endearment betwixt friends
Goofball dance
Fever dream later-03.08/24
Sunday starts slow
Cherry-flavoured lip gloss, blonde, LBD
Gone
waking
missing
Pollacks daughter
Long dark hair loose
cafe au lait tan
Paint splatters hands feet perception
He brought us together
Frenetic love
Explosive chemistry
Fucking goddess, fucking
Wrapping around my neck
Wrapping around my waist
Wrapping around my mind
Broke needle no I can’t sew?
Sweet lies to me and he( both victim and villain in this “ romance”)
to herself
nothing could keep us together
herr art went silent to me
From waking and sleeping
to her
Fever dream:a state of mental delirium experienced due to intense sickness. 2)a very strange experience or situation, that seems like a dream 3)a dream of passion
just a fever dream
Raw-31.07.24
Redeemed me
Dueling daemons of isolation and futility
I remember you then in that dress that I loved best
loved you then
loved you now
no filters
no pretence
gifting me
your truths
your pain
your ecstasy
distilled
purified
into your art
into the art of you
standing in front of me
starkers
resplendent
ravishing
resonant
Raw: f a material or substance) in its natural state; not yet processed or purified 2)powerful and emotionally charged.
raw
Siren-26.07.24
Siren guides me
Singing lež so mnou hraj sa so mnou
Swimming through the storm (walking artillery)
Straight
to
Lovers’ rock
Love on the rocks?
Pink spiders do EXACTLY what you think they do
Funeral mass of the soul
Secret rites of Heart soul
C Composed of love /pain(one in the same)
channel higher knowledge
in the realms of spirituality and mysticism
The secret lives butterflies( messengers from the other side )
Public lives of birds(spies)
coffee and smoke
the blue bunny prophecy
Talking clouds
Feral pussy
Every planet we reach is dead
still, I follow
Siren : 1)seductively beautiful or charming woman, especially one who beguiles men: 2) mythical? human like beings with alluring voices
Siren
Beyond-22.07.24
Love you girl
I said to no there(I felt you smelled your human perfume)?
I think WE exist always
Just
Not
Here
a space
Beyond
Time
Beyond
Good and evil
Beyond
Body prisons bond
Misery of human
You were
Pure light slowed down
Poured into
Flesh sculpted
By God herself
beyond
Beyond :happening or continuing after (a specified time or event 2)on the other side of
Emotion sickness-03.07.24
Nauseous
Muse
COLD(how are you alive? You’re barely on fire)
Siren song (love on the rocks)
Silent
Shaman pours me a potion( surrender to the ancient fungi, herbs, cactus flowers)
Conjuring the wild Gods and desolation Angels
levitating
torments of St. Anthony
Emotion sickness washing over me
Like a knife to
The heart(scar tissue )
disconnected { later maybe next weekend}
above
milky way(holes in the box so we can breathe)
below
heaven/hell underground poppies and pink spiders
all apologies
Emotion sickness: a common and complex syndrome that occurs in response to either real or perceived emotion. 2)When contemplating the speed and rotation of muse leaves you dizzy or light-headed. Thinking about how fast the muse is moving right now and above Milky Way makes you dizzy and nauseous
emotion sickness
pink spider venom cure?
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear-19.06.24
rendezvous is set
My back is to the door (Alberto providing special effects in the form of rain bands
Tweaking
Watching the mirror
Tanqueray comes in succession
Before I see she(object of desire/affection/lust) in the mirror
A soft hand presses on mine red nails touch lightly
Then across my back I leam in)
stopped a reflex (a collection curated from several continents)
of a glass flying over my shoulder
a kiss
a clench
a let’s get out of here
a quiet( not (much longer)
a redemption
transubstantiation
a Transfiguration
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Empty-01.06.24
That scar on your inner thigh( north star )
taste of your kiss(bliss)
Bittersweet(you belong to him)
Passion(a pyre)
And
Regret(do you tell him everything? anything?)
walking by so early
the place
we
shared
coffee
smoke(laughing like children)
tenderness(lust and affection)
now
empty
Empty: containing nothing; not filled or occupied
Crashing-25.05.24
I know that
Look in her eyes
I am going to its a fast ride
must get squirrel and moose
Growling in my ear
Engine revving
Whisper to as scream
from terror to euphoria
Pop the clutch!
No one’s steering
Fish tailing
Catching traction
Launching into
That wall
knew in the
Beginning
The end
Crashing : The effect you get when a stimulative substance (Drugs, alcohol, caffeine, person ) wears off/. When crashing, you'll suddenly feel very tired and/or sad. 2)it involved in an accident, usually a serious one in which the vehicle is damaged, and someone is hurt
I am always crashing
The insane beautiful car
Talk-19.05.24
Out of the blues into the pink
Pink Spider legs pulling me into her pink web
Love is sanctuary
fashionable, spoiled, sexy, emotional, and often distraught to the breaking point
Talk: give information or express ideas or feelings; converse 22)To confess, especially implicating others.
We never talked much anyway
Yet here we are 03:00
You want to
talk
Seen-09.05.24
You people
wouldn’t believe what I ‘ve seen
looking for Camus
in Algeria
smoking opium with Bedouins
blue Saint ascending into bliss
me
descending into hell
in the village
the insides
of
jails
of
hospitals
of
skies
of
hearts
ecstatic dancers conjuring divinity
sacred rivers
Thames, Spree, Tiber, Phraya, Vrishaba, Seine, Hudson
a woman on fire
have you
Seen : past participle of see c[2): it is a response you give when someone tells you something 3): to see and be noticed by important people.
seen
me?
Moody-16.04.24
your call has been forwarded to an automatic message system.
At the sound of the tone leave your message when your done
hang up or press pound for more options
we get it
you’re
in a
mood
you’re
not in a mood
leaving this morning
taking you in
as you lay across that big canopy bed
long champagne coloured hair
hair like a halo
arm reaching (for me?)
café’ au lait tan and pale patches of skin
when you’re
in you’re in the mood
Moody: When a person emotions go from extreme high to extreme low in a short period of time 2) possibly bipolar(crazy in the head crazy in the bed)
my moody mistress
Orphues-11.04.24
we were never of this world
why Angel of death
our favourite lover
you always said
we’ve been here before
Orpheus
I go
underground
to you
To hear you
Say
See
Love
We’ve been here
Before
Orpheus :a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet. He was also a renowned poet and, according to the legend, descended into the underworld of Hades, to recover his lost wife Eurydice.
Ritual
Candle .spoon, needle
Now I am Orpheus
Tango-02.04.24
Roses stole from a grave
I bring you
This is part of our dance
Do you want more
Than this dance?
We take 2 steps back
We take 1 forward
Ask your doctor if demonic possession
Is right for you
More than this
If you want to dance
Tango: passionate, emotional form of dance in which the dancing couple hold each other closely and make abrupt — yet graceful — movements.2) phonetic for T
Let’s Tango!
Poison girl-15.03.24
text 999( when life is on the line)-poison girl
answer
Just us
When we’re
Together
Nothing serious
delirious
Fucking
Rapture
wild joy
exuberant embrace
Spontaneous combustion
You can love me like I was loved
Temporal moments
Existential quest
We escape.
Beyond
Good and evil
Beyond
Space and time
beyond
want
to
Cook her poison
shoot it straight into my neck
feel it coursing through my arteries to centre of my brain/soul taking me higher.
Poison : substance that inhibits the activity of another substance or the course of a reaction or process. 2( my habit.
poison
Heartbroken-28.02.24
There are only 2 kinds of people
not race, nor gender
Those who have had their heart broken
those who haven’t had their heart broken
have time is marked before broken heart
and after broken heart
they be come phantasm
goad fighters (can’t kill what’s dead can’t hurt what is numb)
each blow letting pain to surface
taking solace in loose exile
playing underground swimming in secret seas
becoming urban legend
loving (no better lover than a ravenous wraith)
leaving before dawn
because nothing matters
Heart Broken: expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss 2) existential tiorture
Heart broken
Sin-19.02.24
Sweet lies\you told him
You told me
I told me self
is it a sin?
to still want you in a haze of gin, and controlled substances
desire fuelled us and leaked
on your canvas
I know better
thoughts
still your dark hair
spilling across me pillow
legs’ wrapping around me
screaming Ó Bože!
the divine pleasure
illicit trysts
Sin: utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law
is it a sin?
Sin-19.02.24
Sweet lies\you told him
You told me
I told me self
is it a sin?
to still want you in a haze of gin, and controlled substances
desire fuelled us and leaked
on your canvas
I know better
thoughts
still your dark hair
spilling across me pillow
legs’ wrapping around me
screaming Ó Bože!
the divine pleasure
illicit trysts
Sin: utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law
is it a sin?
Sin-19.02.24
Sweet lies\you told him
You told me
I told me self
is it a sin?
to still want you in a haze of gin, and controlled substances
desire fuelled us and leaked
on your canvas
I know better
thoughts
still your dark hair
spilling across me pillow
legs’ wrapping around me
screaming Ó Bože!
the divine pleasure
illicit trysts
Sin: utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law
is it a sin?
Sin-19.02.24
Sweet lies\you told him
You told me
I told me self
is it a sin?
to still want you in a haze of gin, and controlled substances
desire fuelled us and leaked
on your canvas
I know better
thoughts
still your dark hair
spilling across me pillow
legs’ wrapping around me
screaming Ó Bože!
the divine pleasure
illicit trysts
Sin: utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law
is it a sin?
Sin-19.02.24
Sweet lies\you told him
You told me
I told me self
is it a sin?
to still want you in a haze of gin, and controlled substances
desire fuelled us and leaked
on your canvas
I know better
thoughts
still your dark hair
spilling across me pillow
legs’ wrapping around me
screaming Ó Bože!
the divine pleasure
illicit trysts
Sin: utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law
is it a sin?
dreaming-21.10.22
Close my eyes words flow
Over the lids
I want to dreams
Are the only place
We exist in the same place
The conservatory gardens @105th in Central Park -where I would have a cigarette with St Jill on our way to the man in central Harlem
In dreams you join me there
The double helix the pattern
Of
Star nebula
Of
Ying and yang
Of
Sex
Wrapping my troubles in dreams
For a hot minutes long time. if you ain’t seen someone in a while or if you ain’t been someplace in a while or done something in a while it will be hot
Idiosyncratic affair 04.02.24
we come
Together
in passion-volcanic
in darkness -lost souls
Leave separately-this isn’t forever -now is good
in
darkness strangers again
Affair :act of which a person in a committed relationship or marriage isn’t faithful to their partner. It can be an emotional or sexual.
Your average volcanic
idiosyncratic affair
Symbols 03.02.24
I cry out your “secret” name
symbol of intimacy
no difference waking
or dreaming
spontaneous combustion
psychic maps
lead me to you
I make love to your essence, even as You keep a distance
symbol of fear or distaste
May this mingling of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal life to us who receive it?’
Symbol of faith
symbols to absorb
symbols to reject
a kiss
symbol of love
Symbol: something that is recognized to represent a certain idea generally
Walking away
A symbol of no longer giving a fuck
The janitor of absurdity-02.02.24
Night shift
Wonderland
By order of the Queen of Hearts
Mop up Aisle 3
Mop up om aisle 3! Reality bleeding all over the floor!
Go time!
REALITY IS A LEGAL TARGET
GET SOME1
Lunatic mop drawn fire upon reality
Reality turning into lightly salted popcorn
Another mess gone
Janitor: a person employed as a caretaker of a building; a custodian 2) caretaker
Janitor of absurdity
Concentration camp of desires-05.01.24
Desperation
Submerge: cause to be under water 2) you are overwhelmed by a situation 3) sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping emotion or media. Meditations on mermaids’ pink spiders
melancholy pleasure of hearing her accent-raspy
The janitor of lunacy
Seeks sirens
For this cageless aviary
Desirable contradiction
Capucine smokes a Gitane whilst French jazz plays
the holy and the absurd
submerged
in a concentration camp of desires
Sanctified-21.01.24
mouth open
speaking in tongues
arched back
eyes towards heaven
slain by the spirit
stretched across the sacrificial
inhaling her human perfume
as she slips from consciousness
I am sactified
Sanctified :literally means "to set apart for special use or purpose", that is, to make holy or sacred
Smell-16.12.23
I wanna sleep in your T-shirt
Can you hear me major Tom?
You smell right
why come back
Shadows dance and play
here in betwixt worlds
we Existential lovers
smell of love
smell of passion
Smell: power of perceiving odours or scents 2)To be aware of and emotionally affected 3) women’s radar
smell
Concentration camp of desires-05.01.23
Desperation
Submerge: cause to be under water 2) you are overwhelmed by a situation 3) sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping emotion or media. Meditations on mermaids’ pink spiders
melancholy pleasure of hearing her accent-raspy
The janitor of lunacy
Seeks sirens
For this cageless aviary
Desirable contradiction
Capucine smokes a Gitane whilst French jazz plays
the holy and the absurd
submerged
in a concentration camp of desires
Kiss-9.12.23Mermaid remix
You close your eyes and fall into me ravenous embrace
Eyes closed complete
Surrender
You put my hand on your breast
I feel your nipple stiffen
Your scent fills my head the heat of your body warms me being
your heart races under me bed
Nothing else matters
This kiss
My love
My world
This all we have
Kiss: when couples kiss, gently entwining their tongues with one another, there is an increase in the production of oxytocin, which is a hormone associated with building bonds with someone special 2) a sign of affection, respect.
A kiss
You close your eyes and fall into my savage embrace
Eyes closed complete
Surrender
You put my hand on your breast
I feel your nipple stiffen
Your scent fills my head the heat of your body warms my being
your heart races under my hand
Nothing else matters
This kiss
My love
My world
This all we have
Kiss: when couples kiss, gently entwining their tongues with one another, there is an increase in the production of oxytocin, which is a hormone associated with building bonds with someone special 2) a sign of affection, respect.
A kiss
Broken angel-1.12.23
Found her on the sea bottom of the desert
an hour out from Notre dame DE Afrique( or was it Joshua tree?)
She ultimately found life
without any spiritual solace unendurable
She was looking for that ecstatic space
I knew the way
Next day under my coffee mug
I am killer
I am clown
My shots are final
I knew that when I laid down
My crown of thorns hanging
From the sights of a C8 carbine
Needing a fix
wander
to the desert
to meet
that
Broken : having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order 2)Something/Someone that is so good in a particular context that it eclipses second place 3) wonky or conked out
broken angel
she would save my soul tonight
if I had one
Thanksgiving my phone is ringing amplifying the ringing from a hangover that is, screaming in my head like a siren, 08:00 it must be mumsy. “Hello love I answer.
an enthusiastic Happy Thanksgiving!”! rings through the phone I light a cigarette. The coffee could use a shot of something.
“Are you coming around 3?” I have a guest, and don’t know what’s happening.”
“Please! Please!
“Ask him, there’s so much food. I have veuve clicquot champagne.” My bottle was killed last night. My refrigerator has mixers OJ, and cigarettes Misty might want food.
“Hang on Mums. I put the phone on the table. walk to the bedroom my apartment is barely furnished bed, and stereo. Table a guitar in the corner. Albums, books random art. I hear the shower.
“Misty, want to go to Thanksgiving, casual my ‘rents some of the exchange students “
“All I have is what I had on last night and that might have your teeth marks only dress and 4-inch pumps no hose. “ Misty answers. Wrapping a towel around her waist.
‘don’t need hose you’re tan and waxed”
“We just met.”
“You're OK it’s casual. “I am wearing jeans and a T, you’re pretty in anything in answer. We locked eyes across the room last night. Whilst a band cranked 3 chords at high volume.
“Do you have a hair dryer?
In the cupboard.”
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
“No, why?”
“There’s tampons in here.”
“For visitors’
“How many have there been? Don’t answer. None of my business. “ Misty stammers.
“Why so serious ?’ I ask.
“I am overthinking?” she asks.
Yes, if it's a bother we won’t go”.
No, I want to”.
I’ll tell Mumsy” remembering I left herb on hold.
“Did you forget?
“I am coming and so is Misty.
Love you cheers”.
Drive to the ‘burbs
Mumsy at the door.
“Was she waiting?” Misty asks. Relax
The dog barks when he hears my car.” I answer. I walk around and open her door Mumsy waving us in. There introduction table set we are seated across from each other.
Mumsy says say the blessing. Misty gives me a wink. Leans forward hands clasped in prayer ample cleavage and blonde hair spilling onto the table.
I begin, “Lord we thank you for the bounty on the table. Misty giggles, as does Mumsy. I excuse, myself for a cigarette as my father carves. Mumsy follows.
“I can’t believe you just said that laughing.
You can’t be mad you're still laughing.
She hugs me and goes back inside where Misty has charmed my father. Sayed is telling a chemistry joke. I just smile politely Misty gives a laugh.
The sky was Weeping -13.11.23.
Because
I can’t
But you know that
You were there when
I was born (screaming and bloody)
after died (screaming bloody gun smoke heavy in the air))
everywhere betwixt
Weeping my way
My stiletto opens
Sorry dude I meant nothing a
Move on
Weeping: to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry
I can’t yet
weeping
All-04.11.23
those
Years
All
those
Loves
All
those
moments
all
our
love
Fit in a small urn?
A million mad thoughts
talking
to clouds
Talking
to butterflies
driving you to the house
Because
That's
used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing 2) whole of one's energy or interest, love
all
there is
Shadow puppets-03.11.23
Surging on my rush
Songs for the deaf
Crown of thorns
Ground control calling(let it go to voice mail)
swimming in the clouds
Pale blue skies( the colour of St Jill)
angels rage and scream
mutiny in heaven roars
angels fall like rain
Free -take one
Waking
pistol in my hand
Shadow puppets are figures that are placed between a screen and a light. Using your hands and fingers
see your shadow (we are all shadow puppets at 03:00)
Click the safeties on
Jackson Pollack’s daughters
Good time girl
Blue Bunny is prophecy
Voices visions
writing my disease
betwixt-13.07.23
secret rites of Heart soul
composed of love pain
wrought from agony and ecstasy
higher knowledge
in the realms of spirituality and mysticism
flying
betwixt worlds
betwixt
pink spiders
the secret lives of butterflies
betwixt
coffee and smoke
talking with clouds
betwixt
Dreaming on you
Betwixt: between two people or things
Missing you
celebration-14.10.23
Reflections from the hall of mirrors
pavement morphing
“white sandy beach
Crescent
moons Shadows
mermaid
Dancing on the sands
to unseen guitarist
a heat break tango
we dance
celebrating eclipse
celebrating darkness (moon covering sun)
celebrating
each other
Celebration :a party or a gathering of people for reasons that are usually happy where the people interact and have a good time
celebration
Ravenous=08.10.23
How long have
I slept
Remembering an angel cries
Paint on her feet
Torn wings
Head full 0f Pollack
Passion world class pussy
Burning
long ago
Only polaroid from a tryst
Stolen moments
waking
ravenous
Vampyric hunger
Muse nervous
MUST feed
Ravenous: extremely hungry. 2)starved not necessarily for food. 3) bind desire, that must be satisfied
ravenous
01.11.15-veil(later)
neon beer lights
bored bartender
she
smiles
the veil
thin
tonight
living
dead
one
not
drinking
alone
shades follow
caressing
comforting
chatting
veil fiction
veil non-existent
never sure
what side of the veil
I belong
Veil: to cover, provide, obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil 2) to hide or cover something so that you cannot see it clearly or understand it: Thick fog 3) the thin layer betwixt worlds
Pulling away the veil
Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress