Friday, November 16, 2007

23: Relax

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automatic

this is an automatic position
scary, because, who am I now?
my eyes are blurry, and I see
something is wrong
just this moment, I was
just plugging in my laptop
behind my bed
who am i?
they are so loud
in the next room
god my throat stings;
my eyes watery
“what if she can’t see?”*
this shall be for myself
and I will love myself
immersed in this feature
because myself otherwise
is only a disappointment
and myself, without that
inner soil is Platonized**
and what I wish for.
I am still learning.

*what alli just said

**in this case, the idea that all that is solid and "material" is not real; that the things like nourishment and sex is what is needed by the body; Plato (or Socrates {see the Phaedo}) concluded that these are not real, and therefore did not matter in the metaphysical pilgrimage towards contentment.

***Title track: Relax by J*Davey; the bonus track on the Marco Polo disc.


God I cannot wait to be drowning in that cultural richness of San Francisco.

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