[The kids disappear. Some of their ghosts have grown too old. Nobody wants to know what happened to them, except from a vague closure. The imaginations haunting such disappearances can drive us mad. The reality of it is cruel, raw, unfathomable. And that is why charts and lists have been constructed. Try to put some sense into the insensible, try to put some order into the chaos. List the reasons, motifs, effects, behaviours, note down the steps and break the evil magic. Speak the monster's name and analyze its profile, and the scary randomness becomes tactile fact, the crumbs to a solution, a mumbled answer to the question, a light shed in the darkest cave of the human nature]
my comments keep fucking up..grrr
ReplyDeletewonderful piece here
eat your breakfast
and look at thge mssing kids on the milk cartons
drive to work
and wonder
could I
would I
Nick X
there are a lots of "would i"s and could Is here...I was feeling like shit all morning, for some reason emerging into the world of missing kids saved the day, are they maybe in some kind of heaven of the dead/abused/murdered childreen?I would very much hope so.
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i love diagrams even though i fiercely disagree wth the outcomes.
ReplyDeletei just broke my self imposed detox bigtime
& feel so much better
that felt so comprehensive,
ReplyDeleteand then you explained it.
i love the idea of explaining the steps
to make it less scary.
badass work,
all the beast,
dustyrose.
Changeling,
ReplyDeletethere is sth about diagrams, right? Especially such diagrams that have to do with human fuckedupness, thrilling, and maybe solacing, trying to put all the madness in the world in a few well contructed guidelines.
You were detoxing? From what? I keep breaking every self-imposed self-improvement thingy all the time. It's all so relevant.
Loved your new piece, will comeover there and comment properly.
DB
Dustyrose,
ReplyDeletei guess i shouldn't have analyzed the analysis, sometimes it's better to let the work speak for itself but i have athing for stating the obvious, or sth. I think that such diagrams etc. and all these reports try to demystify evil but only makes it worse. Someone might even want to try this at home. The tactile nature of such researches and information vs the obscurity and vagueness of disappeared kids, well, it thrills me as much as it scares me.
Be well, thank you.
Great Post.
ReplyDeletePaul,thank you, man. A bit crude, though.
ReplyDelete\take care, Paul.