I would like two days: 48
hours all by myself, in a small room.
Which is my height (5’6) by 5’6. Painted
or unpainted in neutral colors.
Carpeting would be nice, but not nescesary.
A few pencils and notebooks (college-
ruled) would also be nice, but not
really nesceasary. In this room I
would have no communication with
the outside world. If I was given
food or water, it would be while I
was asleep, I would just wake-up and
find it. But I wouldn’t really need
food. I can go a long time without it.
And no-one could come in. And my
parents wouldn’t know I was gone, so
I wouldn’t have to worry about that.
Of course, that isn’t going to
happen. It’s impossible. But what I
would like is a two-day vacation
from the family, maybe even from everyone
I know. Two days to find out who I
am, beforeI am not. Because I
won’t care if I die, as long as
I die knowing who I am. Because,
because until I know who I am dying would
be sort of redundant.
I’m supposed to be working on my Barbie-doll
costume, but I need to write. I’m going
psycho. Yesterday during the workshops I
could see colors, floating across
the surface of the air like brightly
colored drops of oil floating across
the surface of the water. I could even
see the air ripple underneathe them as they
shimmered about, the way water ripples
gently under moving oil. After
some practice I could even make the
colors move in different patterns, side to
side, up and down. It was cool. I’d
write down what color they were, but
they weren’t. They were all the colors, but
they weren’t white. They were no colors,
but they wren’t black. It was so cool.
Like a place where all the colors in the
world gathered to a few intense spots.
I sort of think sideways first.
Then I see sideways, and you can kind of
see light images of things, like when you close
youreyes, and open them to a bright
light, like a camera flash. Then you stare
at one of them, and theres place in reality.
You have to stare at the right reality check
spot, otherwise it doesn’t work, but I
always know which is the right one. I tried
staring at the wrong spot once, to see
what would happen, and I just faded back
into reality. Boring. Anyway, you stare
at the right spot, and you can see the
air dissolve, and get thinner. First all the
little light shadows come dance around it.
Then the air dissolves into a clear
sandy thing, sort of like staring through
a screen of transparent sugar
granules, and watching them slide away.
Then a few drops of the, the, the
un-colors (yes, that is what I will call
them) the un-colors ooze in from
the place that was beyond the grainy
air. Then the drops float around on the
air. So do the light shadows and they
sort of play with the un-colors.
Sometimes the light shadows look like things
but don’t. One beautiful one, for example,
looks like a running horse that is
standing still. It doesn’t look anything
like a horse. But I can not-see
it, and I know it is the light
shadow of a running horse that is
standing still.
Back to the uncolors. As I said
several times before they are very much
like oil on water. Making
them move works the same way. Try
putting your hand or finger into a jar
of water someone put some oil into.
When you move your hands different ways,
the oil moves different ways. Just
because you puch your hands
to the right doesn’t mean that the oil
will go to the right. The same goes
for the uncolors, except that you use
your thought to move them.
You have to use a special kind of
thought though, and I can’t put it into
words.
I was in the school auditorium Saturday
night watching a play called Talking With ,
and all of a sudden I started
flashing. Hallucinating stuff, I mean.
Seeing stuff thatwasn’t there. I flashed
that there was a sky blue train car
with a black roof and black wheels
rolling upside down and rightside up at the same time. across the air in
front of me. And I knew that it wasn’t
real. The sacry thing is, I wasn’t even
on anything. I mean, how can you flash
to stuff if you’re not even on anything.I used to belong to places. But
the places always get tired of you, and
move you along to somewhere else. They
don’t always do it on purpose.
Usually the places would like to keep
you, and sometimes they tell other places
about you, and to be friends with
you. Especially the tree places. They
are always very friendly if you know
how to unspeak to them. But
the olive-trees are a bit thought narrow
and flirtatious. Tree places you can
alwaysgo to. I miss the violet places.
And the rose places. The bergamot-mint
places here are kind funny snobby.
Anyway, the places are nice, but you need
a manyplace place. Then I had Greyspace,
that I could carry with me, and that
has thegrayshadows of Violets, and a
rabbit and some other things. But grey
shadows are as empty as the images on
a television scren. Emptier, in fact. Like
the image that escapes with the sound from
a radio. but now I can find light shadows
and uncolors no matter I am.
So much energy. It’s wonderful. But the
energy is only for me to borrow. To use
to create more energy and return.
Like a human energy bank. A white
hole. sometimes, though, there are black
holes. Energy consumers. Vampyres.
Things that consume energy and destroy it.
For no purpose but to destroy energy.
They use a kind of anti-energy.