Textual DériveThe Kinetic Phonetics of a Terminal Fool
These are the writings of Savage Henry Lee, known to many as "that guy" or "him" or "y'know". I am... maybe a poet, maybe a loser. Either way, a perpetual happening. ØØØ
I live, I breathe, I write. I feel a need to share my writing with the world. I don't know why, but it just feels better that way. It's a process. XXX
Despite all my rage, I am still just a word on a page.
misusedwords asked: When you close your eyes, what is it that you see?
I look through walls, at barriers of smoke. Big solid walls of ribboning smoke, drifting off and up towards rooftops of clouds of a jet-engine exhaust.
I look through my hands, I look at the space between my fingers, and I try to see what there is of the world that I don’t occupy. The universe as a perfect me-shaped glove that encompasses every thing around me, everything that isn’t me. Nothingness swallows me down, but it does not chew, and it does not choke me up. Nothingness just swallows me down.
It’s like a wordless conversation. Lots of eye contact, and hands on.
When I close my eyes, I see you looking back at me.
When I close my eyes, I see the city from a thousand stories up, sliding down sheer glass towers towards an endless plateau of rolling cement; a flat plain ocean of grey to dive into, to skate across.
When I close my eyes, I see the clock, counting down.
When I close my eyes, I tend to wander straight into things.
She Asks Me,
She asked me, anonymously, “why don’t you love me anymore?”
I told her, “I never did. I just loved that costume you’d wear for me. I never even realized there was a person under it all. I thought it was a series of automated responses. I thought it was battery plugged into something mechanized.”
Her eyes are soft and sad, like somewhere I could lay down and stay for a while. Curl up tight upon yourself, and just cry yourself to sleep. Cry me to sleep. Cry me a nice little river to drown in. Hold me down, tears seeping into my lungs like ocean water. Like dying under perfectly clear waves.
Like dying frozen under glass.
She asks me, anonymously, “do you still think about me?”
I tell her, maybe. I tell her, sometimes. I tell her, what I think she wants or needs to hear. I tell her what I have to, the words forcing themselves out of my mouth like a viral attack. My ideas in her head, my little letters spelling out messages in her head.
This is one of them. Her robot head was swapped with yours, and now you’re thinking her same thoughts too. The plagiarism of ideals; a pirate radio broadcast of internalized frequencies. Get off my heart-beat. She gets off, on my heart-beat.
She asks me, anonymously, “do you think we’ll ever fuck?”
I’m not sure what she’d call this.
Her clockwork heart slows, and spits a broken gear into the sand.
