Free for all

Where is my mind? I’ve been wondering for a long, long time. I thought I found it once, sitting on a couch at a coffee shop where you used to be able to smoke inside, next to a midget but the midget went inside the bathroom with a friend of mine and everything I felt sitting on the couch next to him must have drained away with the piss in the urinal of their collective stream. Once, I peed standing up, but I do that a lot, what was different was that I stood atop the toilet bowl it was at Felipe’s after one too many margaritas. I think I drizzled just as much as a man would have, no less, no more. My fake green card said I was Giovanna Vargas, call me Gia, yes I am twenty-sex. I am worried about my subconscious, too much revealing always makes me uncomfortable, I wouldn’t care to know what I was thinking. My dreams horrify me too much, I must sleep with fuzzy animals and when I wake up screaming it is their snores that bring me back to the nightmares. I shouldn’t have cats who have sleep apnea. It makes me feel guilty, but I know what I’m doing. Leaving this city, I’m in love with a dead city no longer, it’s been almost eight years and gentrification and the American government have taken away my respect but I still love. Why is it so hard to emigrate with pets? My cats will take forever to die, I’m afraid one is eternal, is this why I overfeed them? Obese cats will die sooner than lithe, svelte felines, ones who actually catch roaches rather than lazily eye them from the depression in my couch—the result of years of sleeping behind my head. This sofa has seen more action than I have. I shouldn’t mind. I don’t. Came from a thrift store anyway. These useless spewings from my mouth are not as surreal as I suppose dadaesque techniques should be. Alas. Carnival is over and my sanity lost with it, all the crazy swirling images must have disappeared along with my numerous wigs. Everyone ignores me, and then they hear the rasp of my voice, a wraith speaking, and they say “If it isn’t that surly bitch Sheila” or its ilk. The roaches—they’ve won. The german roaches won’t die no matter how hard I try. They know it, too. They know I have relinquished, can they smell it in my indifference as I watch them scurry nonchalantly away? You would think I would eat less after finding roaches in my fridge, my microwave, and at first it was so. Sushi is the closest you can come to orgasm, sometimes, one love affair I will not let the roaches or failed humans take away. What do you say when you have nothing to say? It’s easy to think nothing, I do it all the time, I think nothing nothing nothing I will stare at something perhaps with seeming intelligence glinting but like a cat I am watching the play of dust motes as they shimmer in the rays, or the light refracting, or seeing the wind as it moves the light the clouds the shadows across the sky. Mardi Gras day, why can’t it always be you? Lost my voice, bloodied my feet, cut my hair out the flowers tangled through my scalp. Always I am a maenad, and unfortunately I cannot stop what is streaming through my mind, I am tired about hearing how terrible I think (wo)men humans are. Stop stop stop stop stop no words no words no words where are my thoughts? I shouldn’t creak so, my skeleton has skin, I want to the be skeleton dancing with roses dripping from his/her/its mouth. Delicate as bone. I am too much flesh, yellow teeth, lungs that are not pink like shells from the sea. Nothing is permanent, I hate change, but it is comforting to know that this state may to be fleeting, where to next? Connections are hard to come by, I have more cats than friends, is it the wanderlust in me that loves speaking to strangers—preferably with wolf dogs? One day I will find my perfect wolf dog and we shall travel from place to place, on the continent I have set my heart upon once I know it. My limp will be more pronounced, my crooked feet will never forget how to dance, and maybe I will have to scar my face. Would that prevent crimes against woman(people) that are naturally in men (people)? How long are my thoughts supposed to go on, and on, and on? My subconscious can be summed up quite simply; I wouldn’t like to know what it says about me. Sushi sushi sushi CATS (wishing for sobriety) lying human-hater the comfort found in when the dead sleep, in the dead sleep, no dreams. Dreams=thoughts; thoughts=dreams. No thoughts, no dreams. Can’t tap into my subconscious. There was no thought put into this. I’m not sorry for the lack.

My technique was Dada automatic writing, which is tapping directly into the author’s subconscious and writing as quickly and thoughtlessly as possible. Supposedly something like Freudian free association. Normally this sort of thing comes effortlessly to me, but lately I have been feeling unmoored, and I don’t know how effectively I employed this technique. If only I could transcribe the useless rambles I engage in on my cycling rides with myself! Still, this is an interesting technique. If one’s subconscious can be unleashed with all its random horror and delight in order to be harnessed experimentally, then perhaps schizophrenics have a vocation that screams for them to let go.