Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
You cannot. . . .
Think
Reason
Argue
Deduce
Solve
Resolve
Cogitate
Ruminate
Meditate
Contemplate
Consecrate
Dedicate
Ossify
Signify
Dignify
Sanctify
Ordain
Refrain
Unchain
Supersede
Supplant
Enchant
Imitate
Infiltrate
Hallucinate
Excavate
Educate
Exercise
Evacuate
Eviscerate
Domesticate
Your way out of a nightmare:
You can only
Wake up.
The building up of the words created the proper tension and the ending words made an impression on this reader, a profound impression almost to the extent of compulsory expression. We live in a nightmare and there is nothing we can do until we wake up. Now, the matrix theories spring to mind but given your previous themes, I think you mean the more down to earth (though as if not more horrible) nightmare.
ReplyDeletei am more than content with this being interpreted either way or, frankly, any other way. there are brands of nightmare in life that, thank goodness, the young rarely have to confront, and when i use the word nightmare here i mean it keenly and deeply realistically and not as a dream state. but as i said, this one is strong enough to be taken many different ways.
ReplyDeleteThe middle section reminded me of the song "Inside" by Sting :P.
ReplyDeleteE.B.: Do you think that we have the power to consciously and willingly 'wake up' from our current state of consciousness?
ah, i almost neglected to answer your question, isca.........
ReplyDeletelife is a pulseflicker in which an astonished soul struggles to come to terms with the phenomenal universe _out there_, although social concerns most often burn this central awareness out of us during childhood. those of us who can't forget it end up writing bibles or subscribe to freud, or some other compulsive witchdoctor. being awake is the natural state, but it's hammered flat as a pancacke so very early on and w/o the proper ego it's very, very hard to remember consciously that the corporate _Maya_ slathered across your eyes at birth (the same time they drop the silver antitreponemal cream in) is a form of lie that's been pulled across your entire sensorium. but this is the only task of being alive: trying to penetrate the barrier of your skin and penetrate to what's _TRUE_ out there. well, as i said, jolting pain can cause you to break on through to the other side, or the right pharmaceutical or (more likely) herbal product. and of course education, although this may or may not have anything at all to do with what's called (w/o irony) one's _formal_ education. it is possible; how possible, i'm not sure, but if you know anything about san francisco in the years 1965-1969, then i think you must conclude it's very possible for many people to have that experience all at once, although probabilities are another matter. and yet time is infinite and two thousand years are a quarter of a heartbeat; one tricuspid valve snicking shut, maybe, and besides, i think that all physically possible temporal branching points are equally valid; everything occurs; reality continually diverges, bifurcating outrageously with every keystroke in this long-winded reply. we are each of us a spectral aura confused in the realm of concrete objects. can we wake up? what baffles me most often is that some can stay asleep.
"What baffles me most often is that some can stay asleep." Hmm. Perhaps their dreams are too enthralling.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, thanks for answering my question. :)