The Beginning of Winter
Monday, December 31, 2018
chester giles
a man needs a woman or a man to be a man
bill callahan put it best when he said a man needs a woman or a man to be a man.
i don't like work that references other work but i don't like myself that much either so it makes sense to me when i do things i'd rather i didn't - and i can live with that. this tongue in my mouth was grown from out of other peoples bodies and handed down to me, trained on the words i heard other people use. all the words it forms some one else has spoken.
meteor shower last night and i thought of kate, and i thought about thunder storms and being there with kate as the sky fell to pieces and tore apart and made all that music and all that theater. and a strange girl in another place sent me obscene messages so i thought about her body and being inside of her but without desire and the whole time i just wanted kate and wanted to be close to her watching that sky, and knew she was across town seeing the same things. the meteors sparking and flaring above the roof tops of the houses.
a man needs a woman or a man to be a man to know what he is, and it's her that makes me feel the things it's good to feel and without that the whole world is seen through the filter and film of longing.
man alone,
man without woman or man
man searching for woman or man.
a soft filter, blurring everything at the corners.
this is a document and testament of mans loneliness on this earth, still led with the same masculine narrative. still concerning "man" not "the human" but i barely feel human - i rarely feel humane and there is this organ which hangs down between my legs and there is this power in my hands and a great strength all through my body, all across my chest holding me up making me "man".
so this is how i talk and what it is i think.
i stood close to the waitress in the cafe this morning (the same sky above the same roof tops, the same ceiling closing and holding down the same city in longing) as i lit my cigarette.
she stood closer,
arching her neck to the side as she put the coffee on the table
and i knew the movement and i understood the scent and language written in her body and
felt it talking through mine.
" i wanna snatch you up and do those things to you.
lift you by the waist and tear you all open and apart inside
take you and move you with all the force inside me
leave you gasping needing air on the other side of all those stars and white noise and
dilated pupils."
short breath and our bodies close, the smell of sweat and the morning and perfume.
she smiled at me with the side ways eyes, wide and full
then
walked away.
the woman i wanted to belong to living on the other side of town.
the soft filter making everything blur at the edges
Meteor Shower -- Denise Deiloh
bill callahan put it best when he said a man needs a woman or a man to be a man.
i don't like work that references other work but i don't like myself that much either so it makes sense to me when i do things i'd rather i didn't - and i can live with that. this tongue in my mouth was grown from out of other peoples bodies and handed down to me, trained on the words i heard other people use. all the words it forms some one else has spoken.
meteor shower last night and i thought of kate, and i thought about thunder storms and being there with kate as the sky fell to pieces and tore apart and made all that music and all that theater. and a strange girl in another place sent me obscene messages so i thought about her body and being inside of her but without desire and the whole time i just wanted kate and wanted to be close to her watching that sky, and knew she was across town seeing the same things. the meteors sparking and flaring above the roof tops of the houses.
a man needs a woman or a man to be a man to know what he is, and it's her that makes me feel the things it's good to feel and without that the whole world is seen through the filter and film of longing.
man alone,
man without woman or man
man searching for woman or man.
a soft filter, blurring everything at the corners.
this is a document and testament of mans loneliness on this earth, still led with the same masculine narrative. still concerning "man" not "the human" but i barely feel human - i rarely feel humane and there is this organ which hangs down between my legs and there is this power in my hands and a great strength all through my body, all across my chest holding me up making me "man".
so this is how i talk and what it is i think.
i stood close to the waitress in the cafe this morning (the same sky above the same roof tops, the same ceiling closing and holding down the same city in longing) as i lit my cigarette.
she stood closer,
arching her neck to the side as she put the coffee on the table
and i knew the movement and i understood the scent and language written in her body and
felt it talking through mine.
" i wanna snatch you up and do those things to you.
lift you by the waist and tear you all open and apart inside
take you and move you with all the force inside me
leave you gasping needing air on the other side of all those stars and white noise and
dilated pupils."
short breath and our bodies close, the smell of sweat and the morning and perfume.
she smiled at me with the side ways eyes, wide and full
then
walked away.
the woman i wanted to belong to living on the other side of town.
the soft filter making everything blur at the edges
Meteor Shower -- Denise Deiloh
Inam Hussain Mullick writes
Haiku
daylight
dies quick, drowns;
epitaphs,
episodic—
daubs of
Satanblood.
Pinewoods in Seuse at sunset -- Benvenuto Benvenut