1.10.20


they resisted him when he suggested bringing a woman into their menage a trois

he argued Four not that either of you are shy doesnt make an orgy

No. they said  it divides us furthur, dilutes us, makes us les . . 
. . Useless  Not us less   Im hearing useless 

Don’t be ridiculous. You have a propensity for hearing things not that aren’t said. 


Or rather hearing things that are implied 
                                            Is it really ridiculous to bring another warm willing commiserate body into our play  our loving

they spokefell over each other I don’t want to share.

frankly he was shocked 
                            Yadon wanna share  more 


he couldnt help but argue with them

abruptly he reminded Miller what he wrote 
                                              I am . . . going back to a world which I can always touch with outstretched arms, the world of what I know and see and recognize from moment to moment. Any other world is meaningless to me and alien to me and hostile to me. In retraversing the first bright world which I knew as a child (Impossible – he interjected) I wish not to rest there but to muscle back to a still brighter world from which I must have escaped. What this world is like I do not know, nor am I sure that I will find it, but it is my world and nothing else intrigues me.

turning to Anais he reminded her what she answered him in her diary 
                                                                          When I first met Henry all he could do was hurl insults, to spit, to lie in gutters of Tropic of Cancer and drink, but now he can talk about having found the language of the night, and all the treasures he finds in his madness, a madness I cannot luxuriate in because I am the mother of all of them . . . I gave him what his mother and father could not give him. Henry’s own parents put him in the wrong world from which we had to escape. I helped Henry escape.

Do you see how selfish you are being

This world you talk of is dangerous place or rather a place arrived at after a dangerous journey  Dangerous because it requires forsaking anyone else to get there 
                                              Think 
We arrived

We have room

Dont believe I am fool enough not to see that I was invited in  I am the third leg

You write separately that not wife husband childperhaps friend might arrive  in this world that they have to be spurned like superfluous baggage weighty un-needed un-essential  But maybe I can see better than you because there have been times Ive bordered on such a dangerous place


he fell quiet

they may have thought he quit talking to let them think to ruminate or maybe converse over what he said

but he fell quiet because he recognised that when he wrote he didnt acknowledge his wife and children rarely ever the family he was born into 
                          when they should be as easily to write of as he signed his name  not forsaken 
                                                                                                               though not forsaken he argued with himself   I hold them at arms length

I hold them at arms length and tremble  tremble because I dont hold them closerclose enough so I cant drop them

Henry  he interrupted them  
                               If youre right  if it is your world and nothing else intrigues you  that pain would kill my conscience and its demise would hasten mine

I am too grounded in my station 

To be as you are  and Anais  would be selfish  cowardly 
                                                               though terribly artistic
 

Art is like cancer

It must have a body to consume
 
0037,  Twosday,  21  1. 92
1502,  Thursday,  1  10. 20


I have wanted for some tim . . 
. . Areya kiddin me 

                                                You  have  wanted
when have you wanted anything

 

it wasnt a thing he wanted

he had sheaves of written pages titled by dates he didnt title anything anif he did it was rare 
                                                                                                    the pages were helter skelter stored in more places than he dare think about

he wanted them gathered in chronological order but he rather devote his time to crafting more than ordering indexing their content 
               no arrangement Oops  he almost Freudianly fraudulently wrote arraignment  he would be found guilty of voluntary disorder  possibly chaos

nothing gets anything done like capitulation ceding defeat
                                                               but maybe  in short spurts
NO!

Shaddup Henry

NO!

Henry Miller his ceaseless harrasser he didnt misspell it harassment is more harassing if its spelled wrong  harrasser

Henry prodded him

I have a Mudder
a Fadder 
and a Prodder

Henry spat NO! in his face and reminded him of his words 
                                                               There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.  & he was also fond of Henrys  I had no need of God than he had need of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet him calmly and spit in his face.
Henry was a spitter

he imagined a nonexistent God  to Henry  and a nonexistent he  to Henry  standing side by side with spittle on their faces 

it humoured him  perhaps more than it should have 

he couldnt speak for Godhe wouldnt speak for anyone that was their jobto stand up on their hind legs                                                                                                                                but had Henry spat in his face hed be getting off his back picking himself up out of the dirt 

he didnt care if Henry could get him laid by all the angels an whores in Heaven  or wherever Henry was hanging out now 


Millers writing goaded him 
                             he made him ashamed when he didnt have a pen and paper in hand ashamed that he didnt have a woman in his arms or on all fours in bed ashamed that he may have eaten his food and not taking the time to taste it taste the wine  ashamed that he wasnt drunk or stoned ashamed that his lungs werent bigger to breathe deeper to smell more to embrace odours and scents and aromas  ashamed of living because he couldnt live it more  time and life wasting   ashamed because Miller wasted life too  because it would kill us if we tried in the blink of the eye

he supposed Miller seduced him  he and Anais Nin 

Anais seduced him first

it was a heady imagined menage de trois

he was ripe for seduction  he ached for it

he was growing weary of seducing


when he kissed Anais  like sipping a goblet of red wine his head engulfed in the fragrant vapours  his tongue lost  searching  turning like a fish spawningbursting in soon-death its sex and eggs gushing out in the clear water onto the pebbled bed  blood milking twisting like ribbon in the quiet current  its body dying cell by cell quelling the innate circle of living 

he was incited by excess



distillation  he wrote 
                         I simply say what I think

having said so I think of it no longer

the thought I evacuate makes room for more

my brain like my bowels and bladder and lungs and heart

have to be emptied to be filled to be emptied an on anon

until death empties me completely

an finally  with a warm grateful spasm and squeeze

where in my bed on the floor in the earth

will gush the last vestige of what I truly was

and I  I will sorely miss not being able to sit among my things like a small curious child

to sort and pull through them

discovering again trembling  at my treasures  my funk and fuck

in them there will be my happiness and sorrow and horror

 

maybe my children will have the courage to look through them

smell the fragrances inside their odour

find and feel the small precious stones in the surly muck 
                                                                  maybe

maybe if their eyes didnt betray them

their senses and nerves steeled  not faint

and have a strong gut 
                             a distillation takes a very strong gut

 

2350,  Monday,  20  1. 92
1206,  Thursday,  1  10. 20
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