...and they lived happily ever after. Smith & Lady: poets, artists, photographers & adventurers.
Our relationship was forged to the soundtrack of Yoko Ono's magic,
frenetic, love-laden song, "Walking On Thin Ice." ( play song )
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it was a big old house, many many floors. all the people had been turned against each other, so they were misusing each other, abusing each other. and we convinced them to work together.
one bad guy even apologized to the rest of us for bullying. then the people who had turned everybody against each other–the controllers–came, and we pretended that it was discordant like before, and we fooled them.
but somebody had left a note on the banister on one of the stairwells that would have given us away. the bad people stopped by and were checking us out. we fooled them; they thought everything was normal.
but they were walking up the stairs and we were afraid they were going to see the note and find out, and that’s when I woke up. it’s the wake up dreams you remember the easiest.
- smith & Lady
Personal disclaimer by Lady: I do not believe that bad people exist. I believe that the situations have sometimes been such that we sometimes have perceived some people as bad.
I dreamt I had a child, an animatronic child. Smith & I fell in love with him. Smith rubbed his shaved head against the synthetic skin of our child’s head. Looking into our child’s eyes, I could tell he was sentient, the depths of things perceived and revealed like a human.
One morning he went from gooing and gaa-ing to full blown language. “You’re a military project, aren’t you,” I asked him.
“You have nothing to worry about from me,” he said.
“Well, you have nothing to report,” I told him. “We’re liberal, but we’re lazy.”
Once all that was dispensed with, our child revealed more and more strangeness. He showed us a movie about the first animatronic project produced by the military, which was this plastic robot bear.
I began to have difficulty understanding our child. He opened a pda of some sort on which he revealed wiggling equations on which he was working.
He put an earpiece in my right ear, one in his left. “What are you listening to?” I asked. It was a high pitched eerie sound that streaked by and faded out.
“I’m listening to electrons scream,” he said, and turned up the volume.
It hurt my ears, so I took out the earpiece and wondered about the direction this super sentience could take.
Maybe Heaven is supposed to be this Planet. This is the butterfly that’s going to carry me home, and this is the trash I’m going to pick up later, I hope.
I used to be past participle until I underwent pluperfect perplexions and entered pre-present perfect.
“You I think I’m crazy?”
If you’re crazy, you’re crazy in a crazy world, so that’d make you sane because it’d be insane to be sane in an insane world.
I’m sane in a crazy world which makes me crazy because my logic no longer computes in an insane asylum system. I am One-Eye in the Kingdom of the Blind, the final magic rationalist remaining, the lone lover of logic. I should be worshiped as the Sole Sane in this Land of the Crazed. But am I? No. Not one bit.
“I worship you.”
You do? Does that mean I get collection money? Incense? Burnt offerings? I want burnt goat on high round alters please. And foreskins. Give me your first born’s foreskins. They’re quite tasty fried crunchy with a bowl of mime Jell-o. In fact I like them so much I’m going to have penises genetically altered to grow fiveskins instead of fore, make them bigger and bigger so the foreskin becomes larger and thicker, so large in fact the penises become third legs. Boy will that change the pants industry. And the third-leg penis will need some covering to protect it from the sidewalk which’ll help the shoe industry. Of course guys’ll sound sort of funny walking because it’ll be this step-step-thunk, step-step-thunk each six steps. This’ll give guys driving cars new possibilities because there’ll be a foot for the clutch and a foot for the brake and the leg-long lingam left over available for gosh knows what — signaling turns, wiping the front window, perhaps putting it around your honey holding her close and sticky as you drive along singing a song about your two feet and a penis.
And to keep things equal gender-wise we’ll elongate the female clitoris into a third leg which will revolutionize ballroom dancing and open the options for which limb the slit of the skirt exposes.
By day, Smith works the sails. By night, he checks the stars. The sea is silent, calm. I sit on the floorboards, working on my transcendental trapezohedron device. I look up and see the constellations, but they are wallpaper. When I am hungry, Smith feeds me. Mostly I forget to eat. When I lift my face up to him, it is like a dream, I touch his cheek softly and run my fingers around the outline of his beard. I am ever thinking of my transcendental trapezohedron device. But my open eyes dream Smith, dream stars, dream calm seas. The eyes inside my mind work the internal lattice of a problem, and what I see outside my mind is a visual artifact I use as an abacus for meditation.
Won’t, 1997, 15″ x 19″, by Steven B. Smith – foto by Smith
Diogenes
Buried beneath
Your borrowed beliefs
A moon toad
Asleep in the river
No beginning
No end
No place to be
Or have been
- Steven B. Smith (thnx to Lady for rediscovering this one)
There are two reality paths flowing through our apartment: I walk the everyday task path in this world of the mundane using logic while Lady works a world of alternate beliefs in shamans, miracles, magic message iPods, and direct communication with God/s. Same third floor apartment, two different universes. (We did move in on April Fool’s Day, so maybe this is Reality’s little joke on us).
It does make communication awkward though since we’re dealing from different systems, beliefs, mythologies, dictionaries.
Have to wait to see how two such structurally different planes eventually reconcile into one life-couple collaboration – although we had a similar situation eight months ago down Mexico way, and I’m not sure that one ever did exactly reconcile.
I guess reality depends on what philosophical path you take down which rabbit hole.
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, 1967
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ‘em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said;
“FEED YOUR HEAD”
Stephen Strange, 1977, 7″ x 12″, by Steven B. Smith – foto by Smith