TC aspie ranting

aspie ranting

If I seem a little distant or incoherent, it's because I am. I am not a NeuroTypical and I have no desire to become one. This is simply the area in which I stim my creative impulses. (WARNING: All entries are either ENTIRELY TRUE or ENTIRELY FALSE and anything claiming to be one of the latter is, in fact, one of the former. There are no exceptions to this rule.)

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Monday, April 21, 2003
 
facing my faceless demons
unlocking the Chapel Perilous

but anyone who knows me
knows
that I will always come out ahead...

"Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us..."

Sunday, April 13, 2003
 
"I thought i was
running in circles
try to find
someone like myself.
but I have been
running from
everyone since the beginning...
and while running away
the person I was
looking for
ran right into me!


    right now...
there is a crisis in
the white house.
our constitution
is being questioned,
and our president
is at risk of
being impeached.
    this is serious
a historical landmark.
    our kids will
ask us where we
were and what
we were doing.
    I was in Love and
didn't give a damn about
anything else.
"

-- Taylor Ford, 9/11/1998

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words of Love offer little
condolences
when goodbye is painted
(when goodbye is pained)
on the wall the writing shines

words like "forever, never, always"
and all absolutes
absolve the heart of virtue
and often lead astray
or to strays
and the affection is nothing
mere illusion

I wish I could explain to you
(I wish I knew) why I
sit alone at night
singing songs I wrote for you

though the words never come out right
I slave away writing to you every night


and now without you
I feel like a choose-your-own-adventure book
with dog-eared pages
and scribbles in the margins
and all along, you were right
and so was I

so now, the science of Love
(we started)
is supplanted with damnfoolishness

and if the science fails,
maybe the damnfoolishness will work


Thursday, April 10, 2003
 
*ring*

copper wires
strung out over wires
and waves of sound can hold you
and smear your makeup
but the world is lighter where you are
and my life is incomplete

we will trace the ears of our lovers
but hear a faded pall falling on cold pavement
and if we ever met,
all bets are off

*click*

a cold click, like a coffin closing
offering you comfort
(the light is shut out
and you can focus on your makeup
and adventures in the back car of a train)
the line is empty now
and your pixel proxy
is in full effect

alone beneath a sea of light

Tuesday, April 08, 2003
 
my vow is to truth, not practicality
and I would surely drown
in the tears I kiss away from her black eyes

a catafalque follows with malice in my footsteps
often making as if to stumble
as I stumbled

and I long to kiss her neck
her smooth and wingless shoulders
and seven seraphic whispers

gaunt ribs of poor innocence --
The guileless young scapegoat

Monday, April 07, 2003
 
"Yet, what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together?"
-- Lewis Carroll

 
"The Matrix is the most philosophical film ever made, every step of its fast-paced plot pivoting on a philosophical conundrum. If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more real but less pleasant one--to take the red pill--would it be a moral failure not to do so? Why do humans have a value above that of intelligent electronic mechanisms? Can the mind live without the body or the body without the mind?"

if I may...

Confusing levels is always prevalent when humans are confronted with these philosophical puzzles. (This is why most humans worship the finger rather than the thing at which the finger is pointing...) In the absolute sense, none of us is real. But in the relative sense that anything is real, if something kills us we will certainly die -- in this universe. Since this is the only universe we know, we would be dead, in terms of our own knowing. Does it matter how deep the rabbit-hole goes?

Personally, I think the descent (down the rabbit hole) would be an absolutely destructive one. No matter how many levels or masks you peel back, there is always the possibility of another. One loses sight of the goal for the process... and gets wrapped up in it. We take ourselves way too seriously...

and as for the last query... the fallacy of life lies not in the body living without the mind, or the mind without the body, but in treating them as two orthogonal entities. All is one; n'est-ce pas?

Thursday, April 03, 2003
 
eternal thanks be to the two after Q for being there when they were exactly who I needed... right when I needed them.

Wednesday, April 02, 2003
 
conclude no rash decisions, enter into
no random friendships

in my heart, a phoenix flies

mind fixed in a caul of doubt
idle intervals for gaunt times

in my heart, a phoenix dies

night covers the shadows we bear
and my love is naked
awaiting the moment
when the windows blaze to a resolute sunrise

long letters written and mailed in my head
long letters never get delivered

Tuesday, April 01, 2003
 
"Does nobody understand?"
-- James Joyce's last words