and this is what i do
so i live with people who kind of care, especially when they need something, but they don't see me when i am standing in front of them and they don't hear me when i ask for what matters most to me and they don't care that their habits bring me down and enable my own self-defeatist and even when gifts are exchanged at holidays or birthdays or returning from trips or the normal human gift giving moments, i am not included… maybe i was once or twice, but i do not remember at time… still, i give expensive birthday dinners and three figure gifts and four figure loans that usually turn into gifts because they remain loans forever… and beyond home, i have no one else in my personal world outside of a few work people who i visit now and then when they have a party… and i see relative strangers at meetups, but then, who is not a relative stranger to me…
so this is what i do…
to keep in touch with myself, to remain able to feel intimacy, to continue to dig into myself just in case anyone ever really wants to know (and yes, i mean in the immediate physical world… most of the time i believe you really want to know, but then, i also know that is my illusion as well, for as much as we care, we are not reading and digging into every word, image, or whatever we post and asking for the depths behind it… who has the time… and long distance, depths must be at least partly illusion, at least from my experience, which has been quite amazingly deep, actually, maybe unbelievably so… i suppose closing this parentheses would be the thing to do now)… i leave myself and my world wide open… i tell people that i write a lot and much of it can be found on the web…
nobody in eye contact reads my words… that's one reason you matter a lot to me… because you loved into my eyes and still come around to read me a lot… if only you were the one, aye?... i know, you invited me to come live with you in SD and even proposed, but as much as i love you, you're just not my type… too hairy and you bulge in the wrong places… but no regrets, we'll always have space…
i really was trying to be serious here tonight… and probably was even when i burst out laughing… truth can do that, i suppose… part of the learning to be human trip, maybe… so much uncertainty, but then, deep down beneath the façade of silliness and irreverence and hopelessly hopeful romanticness, so little doubt… no doubt, probably, if i dared accept that anything can be such a superlative or absolute… being a relativist is not always conducive to every perspective i explore, even when it might be the one that is closest to the collective real… but then, that's probably just the failsafe that keeps ego from taking over talking…
most of the time i wonder if am i the only one amused… not that nobody else is amused, but i mean am i the only one who truly gets it, me, the big picture, the whole enchilada, the infinite eternity of the thought-feeling thing i am expressing at any given moment… but especially sometimes when i am touching core stuff… this may be one of those times, or close, but fleeting moments of absolute lucidity alternating with the utter chaos of random rationalizations and abstract distractions leaves little room for certainty, no doubt…
cha… ha even…
so this is what i do… after attempting one more time to interact with other humans… after hoping out hope for the one (always on my mind)… after bouncing around exchanging happy words and playing games and talking with people… hoping one would actually become a friend as i have known friends… after pushing the body to one more social experience at the expense of sleep… i smile and wave bye bye like everybody else (well, ok, so maybe i don't wave bye bye like everybody else… most people don't wave bye bye much anymore… but that's not the point) and drive off toward this place where i sleep… and sometimes i turn on the tv and find vegetative amusement to distract me… and often i reach for food cuz i've eaten little throughout the day and that tastes so good… and sometimes i sit down here to write whatever comes into (or out of) my head… ok, so maybe more than sometimes… and i hope… and i dream… and i write words that help me keep believing in me and my dreams… cuz what else is there to do?... i tried giving up, it sucks…
for the record, this post would have had at least twenty more tags or labels or whatever we call them if blogspot did not have a limit of 20... but that's an aside added after the fact slipped in here just to let you know because it mattered to me... and now, back to our regularly unscheduled rambling...
so alone in this world… so isolated deep down… is this the experience for everyone?... are the bondings and sharings and intimacies and communications i observe others having truly so superficial that they remain this alone and isolated deep down?... i hope not… but if they are, is there really some satisfactory sense of satisfaction that quells the desire to share deep down in the sharing they do?... i'd like to believe they do share deep down, that it is possible for humans, and that it will happen to me… even when i wonder if it ever did (the tornado of wondering if every intensely intimate moment i've known and shared – or at least believed i shared – was actually just an act someone put on to get something from me is a powerful wind of uncertainty, ya know?)… there is still no doubt in my blind faith belief that anything is possible, so my dream is possible…
logic, ya know?... and this is what i do… to remind myself… to prove i am alive… to never give up, never surrender… to infinity and beyond… to quote cult classic movies that are so silly and sentimental that i cry and laugh at the movie and myself all at once… and love every minute of it, except for the moment i lament about one more moment of a finite life going by not sharing the experience… alas, and sigh, and all the kings horses and all the kings men, and four and twenty blackbirds, and i love her, so, even, and the the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two opposing sides, and you can't jelly a cock into anything, then, and then, slowly i turn at niagara falls, and this is what i do…
random access distractions presented by the river of associations and references flowing through my candy-coated thought stream… maybe it doesn't actually have banks… but i still just want to love someone and be loved back, thanks… after all… and the wheel in my mind keeps on turning… where it stops, only the one knows… and anyone else who wants to share the time it might take to find out… in one way or another, in one space and time or another, we are all on the road to find out, the long and winding road… even if we don't know it… even if we don't think so… it's happening whether we want it to or not… and i am here to record it in my own particular way… cuz this is what i do… and this too (cuz rhymes are full of glee)...
so what do you do, really? :)
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