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"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there." "Where we going, man?" "I don't know but we gotta go."
On the Road
and into the woods we ran - at 75mph
300 some-odd miles outside of Louisville, KY and we awoke in a bed with the sun shining in the window and a group of trees shaking their leaves, wishing us "Good Morning." This place is Warren Wilson College outside of Asheville, NC.Â
So far, we haven't seen much of either Warren Wilson or Asheville, but immediately knew this place was a dream. After a long haul of 8 hours of driving we found ourselves here. We pulled into the campus parking lot yipping and yapping outside the window. Only two months felt like ages since seeing Melody Paige. This beautiful red haired wonder shows up in front of our car screaming and waving her arms in rejoice. She'd been waiting for us, most likely sitting by her phone with a cup of tea, grasping, ever so impatient.Â
She took us up a wooden stair path through a small wooded area into a culdesac of buildings. As she talked about her new home, she whipped out an ID badge and waved it in front of the door. There are certain of these moments when the child inside of you still jumps with joy every time you see something like out of a Star Trek movie, so futuristic and cool. Melody opened the door with her badge and lead us into a place that was a far cry from an image of the future. It was a regular dorm building, but with students sitting around making meals instead of a security monitor keeping a close watch on your activities. Melody introduced us to the group and they all smiled, waved and said a howdy doo.Â
She then lead us into her sweet suite, the coolest dens of all the campus - the punk suite. The walls we're lined with white fabric, reading things like "Up the Punx, 666, Smash Hippies" and "Society's collapsing, Defend your garden (with a gun and pitchfork crisscrossed)" I knew I had to have found myself in an anarchist dwelling place.
My experience with Anarchists back in May, during the Chicago NATO protests, was not a very pleasant one. They (the chicago kids) we're black-blocking Anarchists (a form of radical protesting in which a group of individuals dress completely in black, hide their identities, and try to provoke the police into acting violently) Simply put, they can be very dangerous people to find yourself around. Nevertheless, they have a cause and they aren't afraid to fight, giving them a certain obscure nobility in my mind.Â
However, the people in this lovely little suite didn't suit me as being the violent kind. They we're peaceful creatures. Having separated themselves from society and the unnatural world of capitalism, these gentle being seemed to find joy. Joy in one another and in this land. They we're quiet, shy to new visitors. Which makes you realize that a lot of the people here found themselves in the underground world of their high school. This college is somewhat of a misfits world, and one where everyone can get along.Â
We proceeded with the activity of playing board games and drinking moonshine. Sipping on the strong stuff, completely clean and pure, we laughed our asses off and exalted in our seeming freedom from society. We played Cranium and racked our brains for hidden knowledge and want of old songs we couldn't remember. We felt in place, the two of us. Like a couple on wandering beings who had found a home right away from home. If ever I find myself going back to school, this would be the place I want to be. It is a beautiful campus, surrounded by nothing but trees and nature.Â
After drinking the shine, we found ourselves in bed. Melody gave up her bed and slept on the couch, a true sign of Buddha to be. We slept soundly, with smiles on our face, prepared for a new adventure tomorrow.Â
And thus begins that portion of our lives on the road. (Taken with Instagram)
Goodbye room. (Taken with Instagram)
such a simple song
Everybody knows it sucks to grow up. And everybody does.
Ben Folds
the world. the work. and everything that exists.
Sitting here wishing on a demons spell. I feel trapped in this city and can’t get out. Something so fucking so fucking so fucking with me. I feel like I don't exist sometimes and can’t wrap brain spinal cord around just what I’m feeling. Old men ask me how I feel and I ask them back. Tell them that’s their answer. That’s what your looking for. Young children shake straw swords at me at breakfast and I look inside, don’t say a word. I know what they’re thinking and the answer is this: never grow up and start doing that now. Never let go of your straws, wrap them around your hearts. Start working on being young because it’s taking a lot out of me being old. And I’m not even old. I’m young. By all reality and in all definition, I’m the youngest of my kind. But you all look to me for misinformation and of course that’s what I’ll give you, but I promise I wont feel good about it. I promise I won’t be honest, I’ll promise I won’t be rubbed raw but that really won’t be anything at all. Someone get me a fucking car so I can get out. I thought about it tonight, If I just drove somewhere and slept in my car, woke up and came back to chicago in time for class. I honestly thought about doing that and maybe I should. I don’t know what I need. Maybe go for a run. I couldn’t even help move you into your apartment, my mind was so goddamn wrapped around my own existence and whether or not it was true. I’m blue. I’m shuttered and there are no christmas presents that can bring a smile to my face, no amount of money in my hand will help me eat more, no love, no care, I’m in this world and I don’t like it anymore. That doesn’t mean my soul is leaving anytime soon, it just means my body might be on the way out. Where I’ll go? I’ve got no idea, no money to push me forward into the world. I feel portland calling my name, but do I really want to be surrounded by a group of people that changed a town when they could’ve changed the world. What do I want to do? Work on a farm. I want to work on a farm, live in a different age, I want the dust to settle, I want my brain to not melt into oblivion. I think I’m losing my grasp. I truly worry that my mental state is deteriorating and I can’t help but wonder if I’ll ever make it back out. I’m frightened, truly truly fucking frightened. I don’t think of this as a plea for help, but please fucking help. I’m a stuck pig in this cold COLD city. People, cold. Weather, cold. Buildings, cold. Cold food. Cold hair. A dusty, cold disease seems to be running up and down my spine. I spent so much time trying to keep my head up that now my spine seems to be permanently  damaged. Or at least that’s what the doctor said. How much of my money does she want is the question. She said she’d help me out, but someone is still paying for it. Maybe it’s not me, but that company, that doctor, they’re still making money off my misfortune and good for them. You can’t help the poor if they can’t afford it. That’s the way this world works. Go get a job? Fuck you. Give me a job. How easy do you think it is? You’re life is so simple, you do nothing and make everything. Do you have no brotherly love, no sense of family, community, respect for human fucking decency? Am I the only one who has a dollar to give to the homeless, a car to drive food to a shelter. I can’t be and I refuse. Maybe I should just stop thinking about it and realize I’m at least thinking about it. Maybe I should stop pushing and just gently show. But who knows how to show, who knows how to just live by example. That doesn’t work. You can’t just do good and expect others to follow. No, they’re going to call you a faggot, they’re going to do anything to make it seem okay, because what it comes down to is this: anyone who judges a human being for helping another human being (despite the helper’s ego, despite their attitude) is someone who feels so guilty for being such a fucking apathetic asshole that they will in turn make you feel their pain. Which is, in itself, the most fucked up aspect of this thing we call humanity. Homo sapiens. What that truly means is that there is a scientific term that describes us. There is evidence that shows that no matter how much we’ve evolved, no matter how smart we are, how progressive, how inescapably rational we’re still homo sapiens. We still came from animals, we are still animals. If we had evolved beyond that, then we wouldn’t be destroying this world that is so very dear to us. We wouldn’t be fucking so much and having so many babies. We wouldn’t be letting those babies starve. We’d be lifting one another up. We’d work for the good of the people and the good of the world. I’m not editing this because right now I don't care. I don’t give a shit that this is mere rambling - it’s the fucking truth. This is the world we live in and there’s no fucking escape. We aren’t a dying species, but we’re killing ourselves. Are we really, as one species, just a child who wants to watch the fire burn. Who wants to cry when he doesn’t get his cookie, who wants to bully the little fat kid all the way into high school until the moment that little fat kid hangs himself because it looks like there’s no where else to go but into a ditch. I don’t hate humanity, I fucking disrespect it. And what’s sad is I don’t have the time to help it because I’ve taken my own fucking path and decided to “do me”. Well fuck that, I’m done. Seven weeks left of this and my car will be filled with the necessities. I’ll find a way that I can help the world, because I’m sick of watching you fools tear it to bits.Â
sabbe satta abyapajjha hontu - May all beings be free from mental suffering.
Never let the world's problems ruin what you share with good people. They do not deserve the distaste you feel for the world. The world will suffer on its own, so let the people you love know you love them. This is what I've learned today.Â
to girl
She’s dead, darling, don’t cry anymore
Don’t lay down anymore, the drugs of which you partake
Don’t love me for who I am, love me for finding you
I’ll make love with your lips and control you from hips
With my hand on ribs, I’ll breath into you such sweet delight
Baby, I’ve loved you since the first light and my sweet sight
My eyes hath never been burned as they were when I saw your hair
Etta’s dead, darlin, but she said once “There’s nothing for you to do,Â
But keep me making love to you”
MmhmmÂ
Mmm mmm mmm! Sounds for the words that don’t describe the way
My lashes grow when I see you walking down towards me
Just wrap legs round bones and give me warmth beyond measure
Then lay my head in your breast and lull me to sleep with your voice
We’ll wake up and I’ll smell you and you’ll touch chest and I’ll know
Time to greet the new day with beautiful high pitched yawns
And maybe a brown dog with a smile
You are just what you are: a woman that should be loved
You’re the pure definition of a poet’s angst,Â
So much so that you keep this one from writing anythingÂ
Because nothing written seems to ever compare to just how unholy,Â
Beloved, rectified, unhinged, erected, corky, masculine, flamboyant,Â
So god damn struck dead by lightning bolts that shower down and can’t even
Touch my lavender hair
These are just words, darlin, and I just know that one kiss from you amounts
To a million pictures that are worth a thousand words
so pretty, so cold
See a beautiful home, a beautiful family
A beautiful child to make up for all the rest
Deep in the woods, past mountains and lake
In georgia where I find family, spiritual beings
In tune with body, mind, soul
A couple, trio, and four lovely creatures show
Myself in one night more than I could imagine
In tune jackrabbit, red-tailed hawk,Â
Wild turkey and turtle,Â
Four of us taking over love
The most beautiful creation you see
Four creatures wandering around earth,
With their existence and with every being that flows
I’ve seen people and places your heart couldn’t handle
It would swell o’er with such power, you would shutter in bones
Say to yourself, “this isn’t truth, but dream.”
You would be so right and so wrong in your markings,Â
But only paintings can show you existence beyond your own
"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie" - jean-luc godard
Ur the reason I've run out of metaphors
and I'm never going to answer this question