It means to follow dreams and break curses, survive mistakes as we’re making them. It’s an abstract thought that made itself into friends and family and wine, unadulterated joy and possibility and you. They say that when the artist becomes involved with the muse, that veil of mystery is lifted. I would expect the same for myself, except this sense of normalcy I’m craving also involves passion, it requires sugar and damned be that sweet tooth! Also… we’re not artists and the muse may be just an idea, an abstract thought.
I had to move on, baby
For when I tasted my own tears
They were too sweet
And I knew that I had come too close -from “Deeper Than Love” by Antony & The Johnsons
Max had fifteen ways of getting out of trouble and when one would fail, the others became a matter of life and death; commitment meant just that, means to and end. The last time they spoke he was nervous, why has friendship become a scapegoat? If you are selfish enough to want someone around after you’ve broken their heart, then you’re someone that draws their strength from greed. This trouble entailed keeping her around for physical and pseudo-emotional reasons stemming from poetry and Belle & Sebastian songs. Calling her in the middle of the night and emails full of candied tears, nothing landed so Plan B became serious. Now we are all serious, where are your writings and where is your character? Max wrote himself in and out of charm the popular vote was created, “we were friends before falling” and fall flat did I. Besides, more like hiking than climbing, is the hope that survives the trip to the very bottom of the pit, measuring on our way down. “We will be friends in another lifetime, when we’re both cats!”
It’s queer how out of touch with the truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. -Joseph Conrad
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December 5, 2007 at 4:08 pm
yay cats!!