Thursday, October 29, 2009

Now, Ghost Hands / Instructions to Finding Your Answer in the One Lit Window of the Quiet Home on Stilts in the Saddest Gentle Ocean You've Ever Seen

Now, Ghost Hands

She had see through hands.
I placed my hand over them.
Then they were ghost hands.

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Instructions to Finding Your Answer in the One Lit Window of the Quiet Home on Stilts in the Saddest Gentle Ocean You've Ever Seen

Climb to the highest point of the rocks at the shore of the saddest yet gentle ocean you've ever seen.
There will be no winds to blow you from the high rocks because it will be safe and windless.
It will be sunrise and the sun will be in livid flames.
With the skyline lit by the heat of the suns temper, you'll spot a quiet house on stilts in the dead rippled water.
It will make you sad when you see that one lonely lit window..
When the sun finds its place to rest in the sky, the light will turn off and you'll be able to hear the creak of the wooden floors in the lonely house from where you stand on the high rocks of the shore.
You'll wait for the sun to go down and the moon to settle in its grey shaded spot out in the darkness.
The one friendless light will turn on under the moonlight.
Then you'll jump in the night ocean and swim to the small house on stilts.
From the dark waters you will see a life size teal fish with thickset black bird wings sitting at the edge of a bed.
It will be weeping with its bird wings fluttering slowly, lifting it a few inches from the bed.
In that second you will have your answer.
You then will swim back to the top of the rocks to see the quiet home on stilts in the saddest gentle ocean you've ever seen.
Then you'll go and make a family.
You'll have a child.
You'll buy a generous boat filled with wooden posts and nails and hammers and saws and large tree trunks and a tarp and your partner and your child.
You will build a home right next to the sad creatures home.
You and your family will settle in.
You will build a rocking chair and sit your child on your lap rocking back and forth and explain to your child who the creature that lives next door really is.
You will tell your child that nature is unfair and cruel and the creature living next door is living proof of that.
Then you will pick between these two conclusions to your internal question:

1.) The uninterrupted waters needs some form of life to interfere with the water's steady tranquil so that nature can set a new course for the wind to blow the birds into a new direction they've never been before so they wont evolve into mixed creatures like the odious teal fish with black wings all due to the gloominess that nature's repetition brings upon them.

or

2.) Nature can never be controlled. The more humans believe that they are controlling it, it's wrath grows powers that can never be stopped because God is nature and nature is God. It's wrath will never be stopped.

About the time you come to one of your conclusion you'll feel two sharp pains in your back underneath both of your shoulders blades.
You will feel your house move a little bit and you will look out of the window and see the water that you used to know as gentle become furious creating white tips at the crease of each wave.
Nature will pick you to follow the new winds over the water that you've interrupted.
As you realize this you will feel yourself inch all little from the wooden floor and your eyes will grow smaller and blacker and then you'll feel yourself inching a little farther away from yourself feather by feather...

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