Ashes

[skonen_blades]

My heart wears the beige overcoat of a secret agent.
Trying to look incognito and failing miserably.
It says the secret passwords to the wrong people.

She gave me a Braille love note saying, “Love is blind.”
I couldn’t read it.
I knew it would take me years of studying to be able to read by touch.
I felt like I’d disappointed her.

Her love in my heart was like a ship in a bottle.
I could never figure out how something so fragile got in there.
How something designed to float on water
And blow in the wind
Ended up in a place with neither.

Afterwards, there was nothing left of us but ashes.

Appropriately enough, she moved to Phoenix.



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[molasses.livejournal.com]

well!
excellent.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was watching a spy movie that was just boring enough to let my mind drift but still entertaining enough to keep my attention. I find that delicate balance usually has me repeating a mnemonic string of ideas by the end of it. I was walking to the computer going, "Beige, braille, ship, phoenix. Beige, brailee, ship, phoenix."
The film was The Good Sheperd, by the way, starring like about a dozen of the top teir and it's all about the beginning of the CIA. Probably ninety per cent fiction and it's loooong but it's well-acted and superbly shot if you're ever in the mood for such a thing.

[momiji12.livejournal.com]

ooh it was an excellent movie. but definitely one that should be broken up by a bathroom break. i found it a little intense to watch it all without any kind of break. matt damon continues to impress me

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. They make an awful lot of fun of him in Team America but he keeps doing great work.

[molasses.livejournal.com]

i like that.
i love when the words do the work

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

: )

[molasses.livejournal.com]

hey, but do you find that?
do you find that sometimes it almost writes itself?

you may be different because your output is so great...i assume you have a real discipline for writing (that i do not).

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think I'm exactly clear on what you mean. Over the course of the film, I noticed beige trenchcoats and I got the idea of a heart wearing one badly. Then I saw a ship in a bottle and the notion of comparing it to a heart and/or love came up. The braille came up, oddly enough, because of a charming deaf girl in the movie. I know that has nothing to do with braille but it resonated with a 'love is blind' thing. Then Phoenix showed up and I was like "You know, I never really realized that that city was called Phoenix before."

But I knew I'd never remember all that so as the concepts came up, I assigned each concept a key word. It's easier to remember four words. It makes watching a movie almost a meditative experience. Like I said, it needs to be a certain kind of movie.

That's what I was talking about. I do find that things write themselves sometimes. I see us all as conduits, some larger than others.

[molasses.livejournal.com]

ok. thank you. i like what you wrote here. teacher!

yes, i agree about the conduits.
i just meant in general with your writing.
for me, and i am not comparing, sometimes the poetry seems to write itself.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear what you're saying.