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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Fuck

It is what it is, always.
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I never clearly understood the Id, Superego and Ego till today. Now I can’t stop thinking of all the people, and how I recognize all of this at play. I think about Bukowski, and how he seems to be at ease with his Id, and closer to it, yet the moments of special connection are found in the tiny bursts of shadow that live closer to his Superego. Larry said it’s not a continuum, and I understand that, but what’s fascinating to me is the shadow continuum that occurs as a result of the conflict between the two. I think about myself. I lived so close to my Id and Superego for such a long time. Now I’m closer to the in between. Shame is a good lesson, in that it’s almost never quite real or tangible, yet it teaches us about where we may be unbalanced. It reminds us of our scars. If we can keep that in mind, and recognize that it isn’t as large as it feels, but instead a teacher, maybe we can embrace it and not let it overpower us. This is a new lesson for me.
I don’t know how to do this on such an academic scale. This theory (all the theory we talk about) becomes so fucking important to me. It becomes so personal, almost instantly. I can’t sit here and say, “On page 22,…etc”, although I appreciate it and think it’s a lovely process when that occurs with others. Maybe I can do it tomorrow, or ten minutes from now. Now I’m somewhere else, somewhere between the halls of my childhood and the reality of my now. It’s full of Dire Straits and Abita root(beer) and chunks of rocks at the bottom of my brain breaking apart my façade: true and fake silver plates on my shelf….I’m trying to let them fall, and break on the rocks, and fall apart and not fall apart simultaneously. Does that make sense? I’m trying not to listen to Mazzy Star. I’m listening to Boytoy’s “Blazed” instead. I’m dreaming about being touched in circular movements on my eyelids. It feels good, sexual in a way, parental comforting in another, and worthy. I feel worthy in my dreams. The rift between what I wish for and what’s my reality becomes too wide at times for me. I feel the old pull, yet the old fix doesn’t work. It never truly did. It just prolonged the feeling of want, need…the feeling was the addiction. I’m practicing abstinence. It’s so hard not to hit the streets running from myself. I’m trying to do some work here. 
“There’s a difference between being judgmental and making judgments.”
I do not have an excellent history of making judgments. I could sit with this one for ages. I think I’m slowly getting better though. I see myself now in a way I didn’t before, and get that doing too much is a form of prison also. How important is freedom? We need first to be free before we can judge anything. I’m trying not to be a prisoner to my life scripts and habits and morality and differences. I can’t help you make the right decisions if I can’t judge anything with a free mind. What a struggle this is.
“We live in a time now where intimacy is repressed more than sexuality.”
How often do I give the invitation, only to have the game played instead.  I want to scream sometimes, “Hey! Do you see what’s happening here? I’m offering you something different…WAKE UP! Let’s do something different! Let’s be intimate with each other. It’s ok to be imperfect.” I’m guilty. How often do I turn away from the moment because it’s easier to play the game. Intimacy means being real. It means doing the work to not play the game, to not be lazy. Yeah. How often do I turn away from it because it’s easier for the person and I see that and I love them too much to make them aware of a painful past. Is it selfish? Maybe. Maybe it’s about love over intimacy. Maybe that gift is intimate also.
“This is a psychology of conflict. This is a psychology of ambivalence. This is a psychology of loss.”
What is lost, what’s the cost? What do we get to keep? How can I hold the ambivalence of my experience and accept that it’s the truth and there is nothing I can do beyond becoming blind to change that? How do I accept the suffering and pain of that? How do I simultaneously experience the joy? Now that I’m gaining the tools of understanding the conflict, how does that change my understanding of the experience of me and those around me? How can I use this to chip away at that rock of pain, to putty up with my hands some understanding and relief? I’m so grateful for the tools. Jesus. It seems overwhelming to even begin without them.
I want to give my ego a little medal and say, “Godspeed”. If it weren’t for you I’d be in big trouble.
“How would you live your life if it were up to you?”
Much like I am, with a few changes. It’s hard on nights like this. I remember what it was like to get swept up in something. That doesn’t happen anymore. Somewhere along the way I became too conscious. I’m mourning the loss of that tonight. Maybe what I want sometimes is to be swept up forever, because that feeling is so grand. It’s the swirling of a finger on an eyelid by a mentor that becomes a worshiping. It’s the dance of a dream. It’s wish-fulfillment. It’s worthiness.
Bukowski says,
“it will never
let go
with the women
you live with
or wherever you
go, supermarkets,
bazaars, hang-glider
meets, it will
find you, maul you,
piss over you, let
you know
about it
again.
and there will be
 nobody
you can talk to
 about it.

I hope that isn’t true. I hope we can talk to each other. 
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    I sped read the rest of War All The Time by Bukowski after I wrote this and turned off my light and tried to sleep.
    I couldn't breathe because I kept writing, writing like him in my mind, and I had the thought that I will never breathe
    until I have a typewriter to type the thoughts that make me gasp this night.

    I suddenly hated him.
    I found a lighter, and Fiona is asleep so I couldn't ask her for a cigarette. 

    I've quit (but we never really quit)
    So I went outside with War All The Time and a lighter I still had and I smoked three buds I found in the ashtray
    and I hated him
    so I tried to burn the book
    but it wouldn't burn, 
    I was suddenly mad at the chemicals, and thought that some time ago books were made of PAPER
    and could BURN 
    and I was mad at the world I live in where I can't even get a book made of paper anymore that burns like a book should.
    So I burned the tips, the corners that I had folded.
    They had been folded before; it was a used book I bought.
    And I remember at the beginning of this night, thinking
    "Why would anyone get rid of this book?"
    Some reader somewhere folded the same pages as me
    and I couldn't understand.
    Now I understand why
    Because

    Sometimes I just want to live in a small white house
    and love not too much
    and feel not too much.

    I burned the folded edges for me and for
    the reader
    who did her own burning
    when she 
    sold the book to the bookstore
    when she had 
    her 
    own moment of
    wanting a little white house

    where we don't feel too much
    love too much
    where we don't

    too much


    I won't sleep tonight.

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