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Sunday, May 23

obviously

hating life is an incomprehensibly large number like the diameter of the sun or the age of the sun or the temperature of the sun or anything at all concerning the sun really

and

the longest parade is where the head comes around & meets the tail & comes after the tail

the longest parade is two people facing each other

you said that it made you hate life

i said that ha ha yes it made me hate myself too

you said is something wrong

i said no

hating life seems impossible

hating life is an incomprehensibly large number

i said i hate myself but the best way to love yourself is to fall off a bike going really fast onto the ground and not get hurt at all because of reflexes

or i mean

the best way to love yourself is in the backyard but to not run away when the family dog is covered of a sudden in hornets

if you fell asleep at the window and woke up in the bright yellow green outside the window would you think that you fell out of the window or would you not think about it very much or at all?

you said it was the western canon and that you did not like the western canon and that the western canon made you hate life

i asked if the western canon is a kind of parade and you said yes the longest parade

longer than the parade which proceeds from the inconceivably hot center of the earth into the inconceivably hotter center of the sun

yes the longest parade which like the sun cannot be looked at except only in very high speed instants or thru the smallest openings like the openings thru which light now points out from the family dog at all corners of a cover of hornets

which projects like a star chart on the side of the house

loving yourself is a constellation which turns out is an airplane and this excites you more

loving yourself is an unutterable complex of rotations occurring at very high speeds

and hating yourself is an unutterable complex of rotations occurring at very high speeds

well

and are you going to bed i guess and is something wrong because you're not going to bed and

no i just fell out of my

bed

4 comments:

s.swan/spookyguts said...

i love this matthew. you have a way of putting anxiety onto paper in such a way that makes anxiety wonderfully beautiful.

your writing is human, more human than anything i can put forth.
just wonderful.

~otto~ said...

Damn, dude. This was a joy to read because it hurt so bad and in the best possible ways. you dug deep. Gold. Way way good.

My word verification was "summysco."

matthew said...

thank you sarah and otto, these are the nicest comments i have ever printed out in triplicate and faxed to a strangers' table's fortune (cookies)

they all agreed and i taped the strips like streamers to a rotary fan and on a hot summer day, boy, let me tell you

s.swan/spookyguts said...

how 'bout that