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Mindspatter Matters

Emphatic truth spew of indelicate intensity. .

By C.J. JayePublished 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 3 min read
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Mattersome Mind Spatter.

I hate everything. Had my fill of it all. Please don’t take offense, it’s a “me” thing. Surely, you’re just a peach. Entrenched in my microcosm, I barely even eat anymore. Still, do kindly back off of my biscuits. Who knew fasting brought out latent food aggression? The people who actually have nothing to eat. That’s who.

I inundate myself with words and plots and characters. Futile attempts to push back the tide. Count the grains of sand. Carefree cloud watching…in someone else’s imagination. I overstay my welcome as provocateur protagonist.

My story is not your story. You will never grasp the insanity that pervades and detains me. Wracks me with bare nothingness while flooding my reservoirs. I wouldn’t drink the water, you can’t be too careful. Ergo I, possessed by the urgency of mania…Another self promoting, attention whore cricket, chirping for validation. Yearning. Crooning Cacophonously. Still unseen. Unknown.

I do feel pity for boot crunched crickets. Animals are never really bad. Karen doesn’t need another foot scrub more than that rabbit needs its skin. Leave the fucking bunny alone. Stop killing pitbulls in shelters. It’s an ignorant, abhorrent practice. I feel “breed profiled” my damn self. Let’s just euthanize me and move on to the next nonconformant.. Maybe you would calmly inject my body with poison, while checking your texts. I am one of many that have gone, countless, confused consciences. My discorporation is unremarkable.

Just doing your job, I guess. Isn’t that the path to redemption? Did my presence while alive make you ill at ease?

You felt compelled to watch me die? Moreso, to bring my last breath of disappointment? Never caress the carcass. Stiff meat and fixed bones elicit no emotion. Jaded is an understatement.

Asocial. I’d rather recognize myself in the bathroom mirror than drift a dead sea of unfamiliar features. I hate this rattle of chains in my head. If my skin were a window, I’d open it wide, and jump out as if my hinquarters were ablaze.

I hate that I’m addicted to anything and everything, consider it faulty programming. My doctor says surely the pills make me better. My doctor talks over me in superlative tones. She has the questions and the answers. I’ll need to find a new doctor. Some things need to be heard. When they need to be heard. Vexing. The direness, subject to blind eyes. Ears that hear keywords only. Clocking hours in the name of psychology and “healing”. Blasphemous. I fucking can’t.

I hate that I’m irretrievably distant when I’m needed close. This smacks my face red, as well as theirs. It’s not a choice. Cease then your efforts to eat from a fruitless tree. Wantonness skewed your perception. What survives here isn’t safe for consumption, as is. I am a different kind of hungry…panging for solace. We need to buy hay. I hate that dried grass requires a dedicated budget. I love my horses. They’re intractable assholes, but what of it? Better to spend my time with quaripedal assholes. I do not keep anyone’s company. Not for long.

I hate that credit scores exist. Another intangibility to lean on. I’ll use paper money. Credit my left tit.

I feel old. Unarguably older today than yesterday. One day closer to enlightenment. Missing pieces of a discordant puzzle.

Not knowing my expiration date is a paradoxically liberating form of oppression. Direction eludes and befuddles…I’m ardently working in simultaneous realms. Detached from each concurrently. Conclusively. I do not despair. I don’t blame the truth. It is simply itself.

I’ll take that book please, you can go fuck your shelf.

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C.J. Jaye

Queer, neurodivergent poetess (occasional author of short fiction)...creating magical works from her home office (kitchen table) in upstate New York. Certified riding Instructor, horse and dog lover...Thriving despite mental illness.

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