she always had a pretty face the kinda girl you wish had hung around this place.
She calls me from the cold
Just when I was low, feeling short of stable
And all that she intends
And all she keeps inside, isn’t on the label
She says she’s ashamed
And can she take me for awhile
And can I be a friend, we’ll forget the past
But maybe I’m not able, and I break at the bend
We’re here and now, but will we ever be again
‘Cause I have found all that shimmers in this world
is sure to fade. away. again.
She dreams a champagne dream
Strawberry surprise, pink linen and white paper
Lavender and cream
Fields of butterflies, reality escapes her
She says that love is for fools who fall behind
And I’m somewhere in between
I never really know
A killer from a savior
‘Til I break at the bend
We’re here and now, but will we ever be again
‘Cause I have found all that shimmers in this world
is sure to fade. away. again.
It’s too far away for me to hold
It’s too far away…
Guess I’ll let it go
i thought about it today, and asu prolly charges the proper amount for tuition. i think of all the stuff that would cost the university money and im astounded they ever managed to get as far as they did, especially with freeloaders like me. yeah, just occured to me today. a much more important thought meandered into my mind today, mostly likely riding the ADD bus and was unfortunately chased from mind by the ever attentive “PAY ATTENTION DAMN IT OR THEYLL TAKE AWAY THE 32,000 THEY GAVE YOU” police that showed up and forced me to pay attention to math. it had been so long since i had had such an abstract far away thought. i didnt realized i missed them. you can get lost in such thoughts and then forget them just as quickly, but they leave there mark, an omnious, foreboding, and melonchally feeling. i thought about graphs. about how the slope of a line always has too very innocent looking arrows at either ending, pointing outwards towars infinite space. and thats exactly what got me. the idea of infinite space. those arows stretching on forever. i imagined a little sorta cartoonish looking guy (though nothing really comical about him) rushing down, and by that i mean falling faster than prolly 70 miles and hour. just falling. looking down and seeing nothing but the endless slope below him. no way to stop no way to slow down, just falling forever. he might look around and what would he see? i think the world would be a mix between sepia, beige and tan all mixed together. and across this near colorless world would just be black grid lines. faded, not as substantial as the slope, but there just the same. hed be falling forever and it would never be anything else. and now i wonder if he knew such things werent suppose to be and i think he must have known or he wouldnt have loathed the slope so much. wouldnt half wish that he could lean forward and simply fall off the slope and and free fall. but what if he should fall forever? then he wouldnt even have his slope for company…. i wondered what it would be like if somewhere along the line someone had graphed x squared. a shape looking like an upside down “U” and if he had come across it what would he think? for the first time in eternity, and most likely the last. the last time. he would see a curve, a remedy to the sameness, the savior of an incline. how would it feel. to have had your stomach constantly in your throat with your body threatening to leave it behind and then suddenly. the pressure of your body shifts with the incline and your feel it in your groin. almost orgasmic, or the closest youll ever get on this infinite stretch of slope and then, when you think youll surely die from such a coldsweat pleasure, you reach the maximum, and start to descend once again. and you realize too late. your only chance to stop the decline and you missed it. too distracted by carnal shifts to realize your chance for escape had come and gone. and then your falling again. eons later would it still be his most precious memory. of falling up for an instant instead of down? and in between such memories would he still curse his fathers name for not having done something? anything? could he not have ended this whole down mess? this mess that is further stressed by its paradoxical nature. in the sense that it is perfect and flawless yet still it is so inexplicably wrong. no man should live in infinite space. and yet somewhere someone fucked up and he falls just the same. i would pray for him that he would take the dive, risk losing the company of his slope just to see what else could be. but i know he wont, couldnt anymore than i could bare to part with my eyes. because you see, he knows. knows very well that he might attempt to fall but perhaps because of his sheer speed or perhaps because he simply wasnt given the ability, he would not fall. not part from his slope. for eternity he can ponder doing it, most importantly hope to do it. can believe very well that one day in the future (that would be the arrow pointing to the indefinite right) he would do (im really gonna do it! i really am… i’ll do, i, am gonna, ill, could… do it..) it. just fall. but deep down he knows he might not be able to. and he cant bring himself to try because if he fails, then thats it. there is no tomorrow just a cruel arrow which hell never glimpse but knows is there just the same. so he falls. slope.
he passes his homework to the professor. its a graph. a parabola stretching with an arrow on the left end pointing up and and arrow at the right end pointing down. local maximum is (5, local minimums are (2,0) and (7,0). range is shown as (negative infinity, postivie infinity.) the paper is docked five points. the graph was suppose to end at (9, -2). he throws the paper away the following day but feels a strange feeling in his throat as it leaves his hands. like his stomach is rushing towards his head and his body is threatening to leave it behind. he walks down the handicap ramp out of the building and the feeling passes.
maybe he was god. or maybe he was satan. or maybe he just is a man without carrying about good or evil or even considering the potential within the hands that guided his pencil. maybe to the slope the cartoonish guy was god.
i keep getting yeast infections. thats a sign of aids or HIV
i prayed to God that i didnt have it. but if i have it then i have it and i doubt god would just zap it outta me becaus ehe certainly hasnt done that for many people, maybe none. so why pray? would it do any good.
i do believe in God.
but i wonder about the man to. i wonder who drew the slope he rides along in life. i wonder if his slopes designer has a slope of their own. i wonder if slopes ever end. or if there just. infinite.
because all that shimmers in this world will surely fade, away, again.