he told me
about learning
FRENCH.
.
+ then
he told me about
VENICE.
.
not many people
seemed to ever
LISTEN to him.
not many people
seemed to notice
him AT ALL.
/ consider him
A THINKING BEING.
.
+ so,
he stayed in the
SHADOWS
of the art works
he was guarding.
.
music: Mr. Cellophane
by Larry Dale Sowell
.
NO ONE
will ever move
exactly the way
YOU DO. + there
lies beauty
within that
UNIQUENESS.
.
CAN WE
take a moment
to let that sink in.
+ ACKNOWLEDGE
our individual beauty.
.
ALSO:
who decides
what movement
should look like.
.
EP walked
the floors of her realms
again + found his way
STRAIGHT TO THE
core of her heart.
.
THERE you are.
.
you were
ALWAYS
ON MY MIND.
.
are you lonesome
tonight.
DO YOU MISS ME
tonight.
are you sorry
we drifted
APART.
.
music: Can't Help Falling
In Love (Acoustic Cover)
by Chase Eagleson
.
sometimes
THE MAGIC is buried
deep within people.
+ you can’t see it.
YET, it is there.
DIG DEEP.
unleash that spark.
(OH, cheesiness).
+ YES,
it might be
UNCOMFORTABLE
to get there.
sometimes
I lose track of
WHERE I AM.
with myself.
with the world.
with all of you.
all of you.
all of me.
all of this.
IS THIS REAL.
.
music: Into the Abyss
by Jackson Mullane
.
I FORGOT
how to believe
in love at first sight.
LIFT ME UP
from the cold ground
+ embrace me with
the warmth of your light.
but anyways,
that’s not the point,
IS IT.
autumn came.
others did the same.
I MEAN, HEY.
why wouldn’t they.
but anyways,
that’s not the point,
IS IT.
someone might have
taken the point.
WHICH IS FINE,
you know.
sharing is caring
+
OTHER HASHTAGS.
.
music: Into the Abyss
by Jackson Mullane
.
the body
might be
THE MOST
honest mirror
one will ever
LOOK INTO.
if you do
look into it.
WHERE AM I
closing my eyes
from seeing
the truth.
the world is more
than you see of it.
SO IS
YOUR BODY.
.
.
my intuitive reaction
would have been
to CLOSE THE GATES.
which of course
is just a time-out,
not a solution
PER SE.
except for
if closing the gates
was a metaphor for
RUNNING AWAY
(which it isn’t).
ALTHOUGH
that could
merely
be called
a part-time
solution.
what about
DISSOLUTION
then.
I’ll take that.
THANK YOU.
ALSO:
do I have to
justify my existence.
.
music: Save Me
by Aimee Mann
.
with many things
of the past
I WONDER,
whether I will ever
do them again.
WHAT IF NOT.
.
+somewhat
that very hug
stayed with her.
.
+maybe
because it was
ONE OF A KIND.
.
music: Wolf Like Me (feat. Shovels & Rope)
by Lera Lynn
.
IN MY HEAD
we’ve had that
conversation
many times.
IN MY HEAD
I’ve written you
all of it + explained
myself.
IN MY HEAD
you know exactly
where I am + what
I’m at.
IN MY HEAD.
…
wosi gangenisch,
hends die meischte ned
TSCHEGGT + sogar hüt,
vell schpöter, immer no
s GFÜHL, dassie neumeds
ganz anderscht isch
als det wosi isch.
okeii,
es isch au chlines durenand,
ich chume sälber ganz durenand.
DU-RE-NAND.
#schtorieofmeileif
WAS WETSCH ODER.
.
music: W. Nuss vo Bümpliz
by Patent Ochsner
.
she felt herself
HANGING
when she furiously
stepped her feet
to the ground.
.
TO BE
easily dropped.
TO BE
turned away from.
TO BE
left hanging.
THERE
in that space.
.
DON’T GET ME
wrong.
I would probably
have done the same.
.
sometimes
I don’t know
what I’m doing,
but I do it
ANYWAYS.
.
PICTURE:
a domestic still.
.
music: Staying Single
by The Jane Austen Argument
.
PICK ME UP
when I fall.
CATCH ME
when I run away.
SLAP ME
when I kiss you.
WATER ME
when I’m a tree.
HOLD ONTO ME
when I’m pulled away.
.
PINA was sitting close,
when the women
dropped the stones.
.
their bodies were soft,
perceptive + YET
distinctive in their expression.
SMILES WERE REAL.
the stories
they were telling
were their own.
.
everybody in the room
WAS THERE.
.
apparently
I didn’t want to be
in the picture
this very early morning.
.
music: Lass mal ne Nacht drüber Tanzen
by Julia Engelmann
.
the RACING MIND
was not of any service,
neither was I,
trying to follow it.
…
‘OK, keep doing that,
if you think it’s FUNNY’,
+ I turned my back
towards it,
starting to walk into
ANY RANDOM direction.
…
the mind,
YOU SEE,
is an attention whore.
the moment
I turned away from it,
it COLLAPSED
to the floor
in exhaustion
+ fell
ASLEEP.
…
I picked it up
CAREFULLY
+ we could
finally go home.
.
music: Where Is My Mind
by Puddles Pity Party
.
as ALL I TAKE IN
informs my state,
the choice is
MINE to make.
.
MOST of the time.
SOME times.
HARDLY any time.
.
to which extent
is what I take in
informing the state
of my environment,
WHICH
I am informing.
.
how DO WE DEAL
with this now.
.
music: Anti Love Song
by Betty Davis
.
if ANYTHING,
the familiarity of
YOUR TEXTING
was comforting.
+ as I thought about you
my MIND made
a connection to the songs
I was listening to.
+ NOW
those songs will always
remind me of
thinking about you.
…
when I was doing
everything I could
+ it wasn’t enough,
I HAD ENOUGH.
such a human thing
to write.
let’s call it a humanism.
which makes me a humanist
/ what
QUESTION MARK
+ EXCLAMATION MARK.
all marked out.
+ other markeding.
(MARK, das ding.
sorry MARK,
if you are reading this.)
…
OH DEAR JULIA.
she looked at herself
with an expression
that clearly reflected
the INSANITY
she saw in her own eyes.
.
.
if any movement
CAN BE DANCE.
if any sound
CAN BE MUSIC.
any idea
CAN BE ART.
CAN, but doesn’t
have to.
.
CANCAN + other forms.
.
it wasn’t anymore
what it had never been.
EVERYTHING I mean.
seemed like a distant
dream, IN FACT.
+ I tend to make those
more than they ever were.
.
IF WE COULD ALL just
cut the shit + say
what we mean,
ME INCLUDED.
thank you
very much.
.
verusse schtürmts
+ DINNE AU.
.
+ please, instagram me
to the depth of your ability.
= INSTABILITY.
.
.
POSSIBLY
I am full of
IRRATIONALITY.
.
+if so: why not.
.
as the body clears up
the mind does so,
TOO.
+sometimes
I need that to be
a slow-motion
PROCESS.
.
don’t worry, BOY.
it will WORK out
just FINE.
+BOY, did he worry.
however,
FINE WORK
was made.
.
music: Regaschirm
by Sandro Dietrich
.
take that piece of me.
+bring it
where it needs to be.
in its REFLECTION
you might see,
it is YOU,
not only me.
.
magic had not
been planned.
+YET
it happened.
.
moving alongside
each other in silence.
+YET
having a profound
exchange (of many).
.
to be together
in our humanness.
LIKE WOW.
can we do that more often.
as our borders soften.
.
music: Get Together
By The Youngbloods
.
standing naked.
/ exposing you
to your own
NAKEDNESS.
speaking
from the depth of my heart
/ telling you your own truth.
.
it wasn’t about her
AT ALL.
in fact it was
utterly + foremostly
about ALL OF YOU.
(+ maybe
this is what art is
ALL ABOUT.)
.
I saw my words
up on that wall
+ honestly
I loved them all.
(they) CATCH ME
when I freely fall.
seasoning fall.
let all reason fall.
I’ll take that call.
let us stand tall.
.
+ with the new moon
WE’RE RISING ALL.
.
if we genuinely love
each other
for WHAT WE DO,
what we do is
EMPOWERED
in its expression.
what does that mean
to what you do,
WHO YOU ARE
+ the rest of the world.
.
make me laugh,
would you sweetheart.
.
.
+ then
all the COLLECTED WORDS
were there in that space.
she had brought her
ENTIRE world + identity.
.
everything happened
to make sense
as she found her voice
+ EXPANDED beyond
the limits of who she
had been to this
POINT IN TIME.
.
what needs healing
right now + how
can we do so
COLLECTIVELY.
.
sound: people reading
my words to me
.
release my cells of
all the stress
of the past.
.
let my body reside
IN THE SAFETY
of the present moment.
.
make me understand
(in my entire being)
that I will NEVER
have to go back.
.
the past is not my
POINT OF REFERENCE.
.
no one to hide from.
nothing to apologize for.
.
my point of reference is
WHERE I AM now.
.
also: karma is not a bitch.
karma is what I make out of it.
.
music: Judy Blume
by Amanda Palmer
.
