piano_gorillas e_o_i and raze in person for a limited time i thought it was ketchup. "water!" it said. "call me what i am, christ's sake!" so i called it what it was. it's such a freeing thing, calling a thing what it is, you know? thing. you be the thing you be. and i be too. but i be some other thing. that's me. I am the water. I have a friend, a donut from Tim Horton's, but his molecules aren't aligned right. They don't have the correct thinness to be free. i have that problem. I wrote "thinginess" but the gorilla corrected me. Gorillas are notorious for hierarchy. also notorious: drake. did you see that profession of love at the muchmusic video awards? didja? i didn't, but i read about it, because the arbiters of fuzzy slipper servitude felt it was necessary information. "enrich your life with this nothingness," they said. and so i did. I didn't see it, but I saw the sunset behind it. poetry in motion. geese in flight. anybody got a light? Yes, but I don't recommend you use it for smoking. It might explode. well, as someone wise once said, "ineluctable modality of the visible means never having to say you're sorry." I'm sorry, though. Water elements don't get along with fire elements. I was born in the fourth moon of Ketchup and math is my religion. i was born a lion, but grew into a boy. now i feel my fingernails clutching at some deeper truth, longing for a lost youth that never was. oh say can you see? I saw a sign that said "digital enlargement". I thought it wanted me to have bigger fingers. I also saw United States across the river last evening. There was a white tent, some tall buildings, and a sunset behind it. There's a sunset behind everything that matters. 160901 ... unhinged ' i didnt see it. but i saw the sunset behind it' like the infinite refractions of the reflections on the mirrors sewn into indra's net. or like when i look for the reflections of my eyes on the insides of my glasses shambhala_training 160901 ... unhinged like little boys that bang keys with closed fists just for the violent noise of it but even gorillas are capable of empathy (the empathyless conservative movement may just be subprimate at this point. for over a year now my thoughts always swirl back around to politics. maybe my goal should be how to really truly help conservatives be compassionate) 160901 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Thanks! I'm glad you liked that line. It was inspired by real experience: I indeed visited raze on the last leg of my exotic three-legged Ontario vacation, and also took a lot of walks here. I was walking along Detroit River last evening - there is a nice long path by the riverside - and I saw the sun slowly set behind the buildings. Not only was it setting, but depending on my perspective it looked like it was next to different buildings. There's a particularly tall cylinder on the skyline, General Motors or the like, that's circled by rectangular towers: a modern industrial castle. It's not really beautiful, but it's impressive. There was also a large white tent to its right, maybe for an open-air market, some smaller tents, and a lighthouse. Boats; birds. Freight, ferry, cruise, motor, sail; duck, duck, Canada goose, seagull. That is a description. On piano I was kind of a gorilla, not as in a social-animal gorilla with empathy, but just not really able to play well by myself (I can make things up, but I'm not the world's best performer). So raze and I improvised some stuff together as well as doing the same for two blathes here. (And yes, it was nice to see you! I am waving, in a textual manner!) 160901 ... raze (it was great fun to meet you, too! i am also waving, but i'm waving at the computer screen with my hand, because i woke up feeling literal.) 160902 what's it to you? who go blather from