he found among his scrawled-upon
pages an allusion to sympathy
specifically Sympathy for the
Other *
it sounded like him sympathy and
the Other he was a strong proponent of both
however beside it in another colored ink was printed
the date April 1 2007 which was unlike
him
he would have written it 1 4. 07
foolish boy
April Fools Day?
he wondered if he would fall it if he hadnt set himself up long ago and
now it had been forgotten amid all the trash
and extraneous debris that spun hopelessly
on the whirlwind of his mind and imagination
a candied apple offered by
Sleeping Beautys hag
would he take a bite
would he
fuck if he wasnt curious
how could he resist
it was twined with the
familiarity of the Stones Sympathy for
the Devil
the simple enunciation or
evocation of sympathy for tickled him to conclude the phrase with the devil
perhaps he had intended it for
himself
an insinuation that the Devil
and the Other may be one in the same
of course not
tho he had met and known enough
cows of human beings who desperately would affirm the Devil and the Other
as one
in the same
frightfully ignorant
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us ~
Sartre
a nice insight or insartre or
insert to wrestle with alone
he couldnt write with someone
around him or in the same room because he talked and brayed to himself conversed played the parts in the innumerous ways the
parts could be played sartorial satirical scatological sadistic
on an on an
these red words on a white page were only fragments or fingerprints
on a sheet of glass
revealed only where he chose to
place his hands
proof of something
for the bulk of him his
physicality his thoughts anguish his humor
they twisted unseen beyond the mere evidence
of his fingerprints
they werent needed they werent unwanted they were not to be shared or captured
he took the bait
he didnt fool himself
there actually was a Sympathy for
the Other
1451, Thursday,
29 10. 15
