"Looking Like a Little Ghost"
I couldn't sleep last night. I forgot how. Like the time I spent ten minutes staring at the word "wide," not remembering what it meant, what it sounded like, if I'd ever seen it before. Last night I stared at my bed and wondered how it worked, what I was supposed to do there. Sleep suddenly felt so ridiculous, like a magic trick, like a stunt where you make yourself die, but then after a few hours you come back to life, and the audience gasps and claps and weeps and laughs and screams your name.
I've been thinking a lot about naming, and how scary it is to articulate something, even if that something is a Good Thing. I've consequently been thinking a lot about Max's totally psychadelic porno story Namer. Someone's asleep, and I'm tip-toeing around them, afraid of waking them or saying their name. When you wake up my mother, she says, "Oh! Ohhh! I was in a DEEEP SLEEEEP. I was in such a DEEEEP SLEEEEP." It's the worst feeling in the world, to wake up my mother. She makes you feel like you accidently slipped a dagger through her ribs.
I think today I'm going to stomp around and wake everyone up. Their torsos spring forward (boing-oing-oing), jaws in their laps, crying MURDER MURDER MURDER. By the time they've figure out what's happened, I'm already asleep.
Love
Dan
I've been thinking a lot about naming, and how scary it is to articulate something, even if that something is a Good Thing. I've consequently been thinking a lot about Max's totally psychadelic porno story Namer. Someone's asleep, and I'm tip-toeing around them, afraid of waking them or saying their name. When you wake up my mother, she says, "Oh! Ohhh! I was in a DEEEP SLEEEEP. I was in such a DEEEEP SLEEEEP." It's the worst feeling in the world, to wake up my mother. She makes you feel like you accidently slipped a dagger through her ribs.
I think today I'm going to stomp around and wake everyone up. Their torsos spring forward (boing-oing-oing), jaws in their laps, crying MURDER MURDER MURDER. By the time they've figure out what's happened, I'm already asleep.
Love
Dan
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