Tag: observations

Silence is its own sensation.

Silence is its own sensation.
It does what you wouldn’t think it would do.
It rushes hushed into your ears and stays there, a silent perpetual waterfall, a whirling cyclical sound as soft and static as cotton ball clouds in your ears.
The oscillations of a tower fan.
The breeze gently rustling the curtain before the openscreened window.
The clickwhirwhoosh of the ac kicking in.
Such soft susurrations filling the air void within your ears.
A silent friend, always there.
A mother’s whisper wishing the world away to silence to quiet a child’s worrying mind to sleep, to dream …


There is sound in silence.


You just have to listen for it.

My mind at midnight – movies in medias res.

The stories run, as soon as my eyes start shutting, in medias res.


Every time I fall asleep, I’m in the middle of the movie. No credits opening or closing, no title card, just narrative. Films I’ve never seen, words I’ve never heard, dialogue I hear with my inner ear, novels whose print my mind’s sleeping eye follows. No dust jacket nor book cover, no opening page nor publisher information.


Only secret texts whose characters and plot only I know. And I never know how they end, just that they are.


It’s been this way since college, even further back perhaps. They stream, they print, they scroll, they project only on the insides. On the inner surface tissue, the wet and wrinkled matter of my hippocampus, deep within my temporal lobe.


I never wonder, what I’ll dream tonight, during my waking life, during the work busy day.

All I know is that only heavy sedatives can keep the words away

There is a continuous miracle that you might not know about and it’s you.

Hey.

I’m going to tell you something.

You’re probably not going to believe it.

Maybe not right now, but you will.

If you want to.

Take a moment.

Pause.

Do you feel that?

Just a moment longer.

Listen.

Can you hear that?

That’s your heart beating.

That’s your lungs breathing.

Do you know what that means?

It means that you’re still alive.

You.

It means that you can make it to the next moment.

It means that you still have a chance.

And don’t you know what that means?

It means you can do anything.

Like Planets in a Single Galaxy We All Are.

It’s a funny thing, isn’t it?
How much like planets in a single galaxy we all are,
caught in the great gravity of a common star.
With the attractions and oppositions
that occur during our passage,
the arc and swing of our orbits,
differing densities generating their own gravities,
affecting us,
either negatively or positively or indifferently.
Some disrupting or disturbing us for the worse,
others aligning our own paths for the better,
gliding in gentle sympathy,
and others still,
who never affect us at all,
their orbits aligned in harmony with ours,
but distant, impersonal.

Dispatches From Biosphere Station Moore: Friday Night.

6: 45.

Friday night.

I found myself staring out the living room window. The sun was setting on the top left corner of it’s outline.
I blink.

Bright. A glint cometed across the middle third.

A truck passed, an older kept up Chevy truck. Custom. Bowling ball white and gray iridescent paint job. Recently washed.

Another blink.

It occurs to me. I wish that was me. Oh just to go on a drive. To go out and beyond past my small borders.

Another profound realization.

One I felt.

Not as acutely as the other time, thank God.

To quote many of the The Uncanny X-Men characters during Chris Claremont’s epic run:

“It. Hurt.”

Question now is, do I leave my curtains open or closed?

Biosphere Station Moore out.

Words Like Whirling Dervishes …

What do I do with these words that swirl around my head, night and day, and night and day?


Whirling dervishes spiraling in ecclesiastical ecstasies of euphoria, subjects and predicates, subordinate clauses creating expansions of thoughts, blossoming into petals of prose, linking daisy chains of randomness together to form some fractal fractured pattern using common commas along with their elitist Oxford cousins combining phrases that trail off on tangents winding their way like Thorin’s company of thirteen through the Misty Mountains, the wrinkles of my cerebrum and cerebellum, that sometimes somehow find their way there and back again threading the needle to make my point – even if you find me a prick.


But a pragmatic prick who suffers from grammatical gigantism stuffed into my overfed overfat cranium. This over large head blooms sentence stems so big within that they beggar imagination.


What I want is what you wish.

So full I really wish my head would explode,

unless …

unless …

you’d care to be kind, and with your delicate hands you could hold this head gently. You could cradle it carefully. And maybe that might make the words slow down, your cooling hands on my fevered head to slow this mad merry-go-round. To silence this lunatic syllabic laughter.


Wouldn’t it be wonderful?


If that were to work?


You say my words are too much for you.


They are too much for me too.

Little Thoughts on Paper Posts – my Mother’s Facebook.

Every night, almost invariably, my mom will leave me a note on my bathroom counter.

Little things – like thoughts, factoids, ads, that she shares with me.

She’s going to be eighty years old, and she’s becoming forgetful, but she always remembers to write me a little note, a small reminder, for me.

She keeps me updated.

It’s a such a sweet simple act – at times silly, surreal – but it always makes me smile.

Tonight, though, the realization hit me –
these little notes are my mom’s own version of Facebook.

I’m seeing it being created in real life, and in real time.

And, when she is gone, I will have this big collection of little thoughts, and I will be able to hold these paper posts in my hand, and know, that once, her hands touched them, and I will still have that physical connection to her.

Time taken, thought given, to write a note by hand, meant solely for one person.

Who does that these days?

Who still gets notes written by hand, from a loved one?

Why do I feel, somehow, that this is better?

New Podcast: Uziel’s Adventures in Detention Land.

Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Uziel’s Adventures in Detention Land.

https://anchor.fm/mark-moore06/episodes/Uziels-Adventures-in-Detention-Land-e4nfg5

An open love letter to no one.

“People tell me that it’s a crime
To feel too much at any one time
She should have caught me in my prime, she would have stayed with me
Instead of goin’ off to sea and leavin’ me to meditate
Upon that simple twist of fate”

– Simple Twist of Fate, as sung by Jeff Tweedy, lyrics by Bob Dylan

I’m a strong man. I’ve been through a lot, and I’ve been broken a lot. I’ve faced tests and trials, and I’ve come through the other side. I have the scars on my heart and my mind to prove it.

You see, there are a lot of things I can handle, but there are some things that I’m just not strong enough to handle, at least not just yet, anyway.

You were one of those things.

I wasn’t expecting you.

I wasn’t expecting how starshinebright amazing you’d be.

I wasn’t ready to hear the things you told me, the kind, honest, funny things you told me, the sad, heartbreaking things you told me.

I had wanted you for so long.

But I wasn’t ready.

I wasn’t ready to hear that there was a moment when I could have had a chance with you, but I didn’t see it through my depression.

I wasn’t ready to hear that I could have had a chance with you, and I missed it.

I wasn’t ready to hear that you moved on and you gave your heart to someone else.

I wasn’t ready.

I wasn’t ready for the things you remembered, things that really mattered to me.
I wasn’t ready to discover how much we had in common.

I wasn’t ready for your playlist. Your goddamn playlist. Your playlist that was almost exactly like my playlist. Filled with favorite songs from bands no one I knew had ever heard of.

I wasn’t ready for how strong made me feel.

I wasn’t ready for how weak you made me feel.

It was all too much.

Too much too soon.

At a time when my fragile heart had finally finished healing, I simply was not ready.

But that’s the story of my life – bad timing.

I wasn’t ready for you wanting to stay in my life, because I know how this story ends. I’ve lived it too many times. But I listen to my heart. My head, not so much.

And the more I got to know you, the more I realized how astoundingly perfect you were – even though you saw them as imperfections, I saw wonders. And I hoped.

Stupidly, I hoped. Even though I’ve been through this before, I hoped. Maybe this time. Maybe just this once.

Stupid me. Foolish me. Foolish old man.

You decided what you decided.

You wanted what you wanted.

What could I do?

I wasn’t going to push you. I wasn’t going to guilt you. I wasn’t going to try and convince you. And I sure as hell wasn’t going to get mad at you or insult you for your decision.

Those are the actions of a weak person. Those are the actions of a coward. Those are the actions of a person with no self respect.

I’m a grown man.

I’ve been through too much.

I’m a gentleman.

I have character.

I have integrity.

And because of that I live my life with rules. And a gentleman plays by the rules.
And if I compromise those, then I have nothing.

A grown man respects a woman’s decision.

And I’m too damn old and too damn broken to believe in bullshit fairy tale endings, because they don’t exist for me.

What exists for me is solitude – a life alone, and I’m fine with that. I like my life alone. I just don’t want to know about the would haves and could haves.

I should have known better. Next time I will. I hope.

And with the wisdom of old fools who’ve made the mistake of living their lives led by their hearts, I know this:

I will not take the backseat.
I will not hang around, a ghost, insubstantial and thin.
I will not lay at your feet, like a dog, scrambling for whatever crumbs that fall from your table.

I will not do that to myself again.

I know my value, I know my worth.

I’m worth much more than that.

It’s time to stop dreaming foolish dreams.

So I’m writing you this letter – even though I know that you probably won’t read it to tell you two things:

I’m letting you go.

I’m walking away, because your happiness is all that matters to me and if I’m in the way of your happiness then I need to remove myself from the situation, and because my heart has been broken too much, and I need my heart whole for my mom.

And the last thing, the wonderful, terrible last thing that I need you to know:

I love you.

I didn’t think it was going to happen.

I didn’t want it to happen.

I’m sorry. I really am.

I wasn’t ready for this.

I wasn’t expecting this.

But life is filled with unexpected twists of fate, and who, really, can prepare for them.

I love you, goddamn it.

I love you, and I always will.

Goodbye.