Epiphany A.
I will not let kamikazee missions,
or vigilante's pidgeons,
excite my ability to transcend into a ghastly reflection of past-being,
where absence of light meets four walls and births a child of ill-mannered manifestation.
Before I congest myself in doubt and self-pity,
I will drive with the windows down and shoot shrapnels of flippancy at everything in sight.
Where I was:
cruising the wrong direction down a one-way lane, wondering,
"Why can't anyone trust me?"
as others swerved out of my path.
or vigilante's pidgeons,
excite my ability to transcend into a ghastly reflection of past-being,
where absence of light meets four walls and births a child of ill-mannered manifestation.
Before I congest myself in doubt and self-pity,
I will drive with the windows down and shoot shrapnels of flippancy at everything in sight.
Where I was:
cruising the wrong direction down a one-way lane, wondering,
"Why can't anyone trust me?"
as others swerved out of my path.
posted by John @ 6:58 PM
3 Comments:
At 9:53 PM,
CarolKristine said…
John-
I have no idea what I just read but it was one of the coolest sounding things that I have read. Nice work. I'll work on understanding. Haha.
At 11:15 PM,
John said…
Carol -
Haha, I am glad that it least sounded cool to you, phonetically or whatever. Yeah I can try to explain it to you.
-Okay so the first two lines represent things that get me down, for example, kamikazee missions can represent like, war or whatever. Oh yeah, 'vigilante's pidgeons' represents people dying for unjust causes, ex. James Moore. Those first two lines are sort of bullshit lines, though, because they arent extremely relative to the rest of the peice.
-so i will not 'excite my ability to transcend into a ghastly reflection of past being' would be not to revisit an old way of life or thought.
-absence of light=darkness. four walls represent the doldrums of everyday life. Those two elements join to form 'ill-mannered manifestation,' sort of self-explanatory.
- 'shrapnels of flippancy' just represents anything positive i guess. That whole line is representative of the struggle to stay positive, or something. Thats almost like the theme of this entire passage.
-the last few lines there are just a metaphor that I think summarizes my being as of late or whatever.
I hope that helps at least a little bit. I just read over what I just wrote and it doesnt really make much sense, so i am sorry. I could probably explain it much much better in person.
A lot of this crap that I write is deeply rooted in metaphoric and figurative language so it is impossible for anybody reading to pick up on every meaning of every phrase.
Thanks, see you later.
At 9:53 PM,
CarolKristine said…
John-
Thanks that does help. I like reading your stuff like this because I'm trying to teach myself to think more deeply. We read stuff in English all the time and we're supposed to "go deep" but it just doesn't happen all that often for me. Haha. Anyway, thanks for the explanation. Next time I will think about it more...although I will not guarantee that I won't ask for an explanation again. Until later...peace.
-Carol
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