the room looks extra dark tonight
the lights of the lamps all off somewhere else
on, i guess, a kind of mental vacation
man, i could use a mental vacation
it feels like it’s the same damn thing
again and again and again and again
and then i’ll break free from the mad mad madness
and then again! and again! and again!
and i’m rolling myself up in my flea bitten persian rug
and i’m rolling around my walls at home
and i’m high on the ceiling rolling, rolling, rolling
eyes dizzying, eyes jazz, just fuckin busting out of my mind
weird
those weird days
they seem to be multiplying
rising exponentially and having so much fun
running around my skull and eating all the food in my mental pantry
and i’m trying, man, i mean, really, i’m trying to work through
the jazz and the chaos and it probably doesn’t help
that all i crave is the jazz and the chaos and the bouncing soul
of a triumphant bass line that slows down
it slows down. it slows down. and i can catch my breath.
and run a bath and close my eyes and sink into the water
and not think about what monsters are clawing at the other side
of the bathroom door
i can just relax
no errands to be run or calls to be made
no bills to be paid and no problems buzzing at the door
i can just be and find myself proudly naked and proudly alone
i don’t even care for the mirror
i don’t care to form my hair into a graceful shampoo mohawk
i can just sit and sit and sink into the hot running bathwater
and not think about the bills and the problems buzzing
and buzzing and buzzing and buzzing at the door
and the woman gnawing at my missed call list and the high wearing off
as the bathwater becomes luke warm and who am i kidding
i am still in crisis i’m living in crisis
it’s where i’ve made my home and if i’m not aware of the madness
i am searching for it
and i’m always searching for it
because i get just too damn bored
sitting in this room, in this room, my room
it’s not my room, i can’t take claim
it’s not my room
it’s just a place that i try and be
and stare into the light
but the room looks extra dark tonight
COPYRIGHT BRICE MAIURRO 2013
I must reblog this. Clearly, the best thing I’ve read in a VERY long time. Thank you!
Reblogged this on Shackled and Crowned and commented:
Brilliant. Pure wordsmithing.
Dude. So today I worked 10.5 hours….10.5 suck-the-very-life-from-me hours for a multi-billion dollar company using gnats like me to make investors rich and happy and how better to do that than to zombify folks like me and then ask us to donate a day off….”for the good of the company…I mean…we all have to give a little”….and so I read this post and it is spot on man…spot on. A great way for me to end my day…a seriously great read!
Thank you thank you thank you. That is why I write, dude. I am so glad it hit something in you.
Loved this! Great rhythm
Some things I read make me go quiet and contemplative. This is one of them.
By way of saying thx :
http://lampadedromy.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/on-the-verge-of-darkness/
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The darkness of light made immanent by these words.
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great wording