~ I remember one time (yet again), when I encountered a truly historic
solemn soul just a spit away from my property. I was on a comedown, which means
government agents spraying SmartWater from treetops, police cars following me with
their sirens blaring, and general secret society members pretending to pull
guns on me at every available opportunity. Maybe they are actually armed with
real guns, so not pretending. I wouldn’t know, for I don’t stop to ask questions. Be hurrying on by ‘ya. Casting a rueful
glance.
How do you gaze at ancient sinister powers? I cast them rueful glances.
~ I was in this kind of hyper-vigilant defence mindset policy expecting
the worst. My loyal fan base (my new term for hatemongers) often release
dangerous animals in my vicinity, to give me the creeps. The neighbours laugh
from behind their double-glazing like rubbernecking shutterbuggers*
slowing down for an automobile accident. So I was forecasting the sighting of a
mutant strain of rodent with bloody blunt incisors as I turned the corner; but,
instead, I was greeted by a pretty girl I recognised from the fellowship, sat
innocently on the parish brickwork reading a book.
~ As I was peering at her with something like reverence and stupefaction…stupified
by the sheer simplistic solitary oneness of her uplifting presence…she lifted
her head and waved; the wave was accompanied with a smile that touched her
courteous eyes.
We had a brief chat. She’d tried an attempt on her life just the day before. What startled me, instead of self-pity and sorrow, was a primo excellence at self-expression. I forget exactly what she yarned about, something to do with striking right into the Unfilled Pitted & Empty Hollow-Voided Heart of Deficient Darkness with impossible-to-extinguish personalized light (I think). Either that or small talk about the new prime minister. Or it may have been that poor chap who got eaten by a Tiger on the radio last week. No such thing as negative female fellowship. Not unless they are slandering you to their SAS husband.
~ No, honestly, we had a fleeting but meaningful conversation. She raised
me up exorbitantly. I’m sensitive and positively fickle in that regard. It
doesn’t take much. A greeting from a child will do the jobbie. We both felt the
same way, fed up of being fed up, yet she had a shining vitality about her
which I was struggling to manifest within me, namely due to a barely-concealed
trepidation of something rushing out to bite me. A Tiger wouldn't surprise me around these kooky manors. She was so calm on the other
hand: Dressed casually, postured non-threateningly, speaking so thoughtfully,
looking so prettily. So I took a chink from her, offered via a wave and a smile
and a few words, and I imbibed it into my present mood. I walked away from the
encounter feeling genuinely boosted and almost falling in love.
* rubbernecking shutterbuggers are most typically tourists who commute at a slow pace taking pictures of everything. Not to be confused with Chinese Man Utd supporters.






