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Experience #23: Cooperation

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Started on Saturday. No idea about timeframe. No idea about structure. Experiment 23 is involving people that I never met before. Cooperation.

Experience#19: Wax seals and paper

Oz and the Wairakei Children

Experience#16: Lucid dreams

Lucid Dreams.

I was talking with this guy. Taller than me. Long jawline. Golden hair. No particular focus in his eyes.
I wanted to understand something, but he was not making my life easy.
We were in both in jail. And it was me who was to do the locking.
Nothing precise against him. But he behaved like he wanted lock-up.
He was moving about like he was home.
He was drinking my coffee. He started talking.
Sometimes serious, sometimes stories. “Choose the ones you want to take, sunshine.”
I was listening and really, I didn’t care so much about anything else than listening. He could have taken me anywhere.
I think he just about took me anywhere.
Somebody from the outside called me.
I had to rip my dream lucid.
I asked him about heroin.
His eyes widened just enough for me to see.
He took a good look at me and said he’ll tell me if I can find his twin sister.
He didn’t tell me where sister was.
I locked him with my coffee.
I took him with my mind’s eye outside for fresh air.
I was carrying him everywhere.
After a while, I realised. Next to me, there was another woman. Slightly taller. Long jawline. I looked at her.
Nobody else paid attention to us. She was walking with me. She said something looking at the sky.
She said: “when I was little Mum used to love me”. I knew she was lying. She didn’t have a mum. Somebody swung rounds at her. But right there, she sounded okay because of me being next to her.
I tore myself free from her. There was no blood. Just those teeth all along the fresh scar. Like a long croc jaw.
I went back in jail. I said “Suppose I found her”.
He said: “It’s about time. You not supposed to have some special heroin clothes?”
I got that man out of the locker.
I took him for coffee and heroin.
He takes me for lucid dreams.

Reves Lucides

Je parlais avec ce type. Plus grand que moi. Longues maxillaires. Cheveux d’or. Pas de point fixe a son regard.
Je voulais comprendre quelque chose, mais il ne me rendait pas la vie facile.
Nous étions en prison. Mais c’etait moi qui avait les cles.
Rien de précis contre lui. Mais il s’etait comporté comme s’il voulait souper en cabane.
Il se déplaçait comme si il était chez lui.
Il buvait mon café. Il a commencé à parler.
Des fois des verites, des fois des histoires. “Choisis celles qui te plaisent, bijou romantique.”
Je l’écoutais et vraiment, je n’avais pas tellement envie de faire autre chose que d’écouter. Il aurait pu m’emmenner n’importe où.
Je pense qu’il m’a emmenne à peu près n’importe où.
Quelqu’un dehors a crie mon nom.
J’ai dû déchirer mon rêve lucide.
Je lui ai demandé à propos de l’héroïne.
Ses yeux se sont agrandis juste assez pour que je les vois.
Il a pose son regard sur moi et m’a dit qu’il me dirait si je me debrouillais pour trouver sa soeur jumelle.
Il ne m’a pas dit où était la sœur.
Je l’ai enfermé avec mon café.
Dans ma tete, je l’ai emmené prendre l’air.
Je l’ai emmene partout.
Après un moment, j’ai réalisé. À côté de moi, il y avait une autre femme. Un peu plus grande. Longues maxillaires. J’ai regardé son visage.
Personne d’autre ne faisait attention à nous. Elle se promenait avec moi. Elle a dit quelque chose en regardant le ciel.
Elle a dit: «Quand j’étais petite maman m’aimait”. Je savais qu’elle mentait. Elle n’avait pas connu sa maman. Quelqu’un lui tapait dessus. Mais là, elle se sentait bien, grace a ma presence. A cause de moi à côté d’elle.
Je me suis arraché d’elle. Il n’y avait pas de sang. Seulement une longue rangee de dents tout le tour de cette nouvelle cicatrice. Comme une grande mâchoire de crocodile.
Je suis retournée a la prison. J’ai dit: “Supposons que j’ai trouvé ta soeur”.
Il a dit: «Il etait temps. Tu n’es pas censee etre habillee en héroïne?”
J’ai sorti cet homme de prison.
Je l’ai emmené prendre du café et de l’héroïne.
Il me m’emmene faire des reves lucides.

Experience#16: Fast-forward

I am marking today with a new experience. I am working to make a booklet for a CD. I have started writing songs. They’re in English. And this is where I go experimentalmag mode. The principle is to work the illustration concept of a serie of texts. They all have a different feel considered both separately and as a whole. That’s my part. And I am not letting you out. I will post the song to let some free space (will translate them, but I am finding it hard to make it sound the same, maybe I could use your help there Euridice). I know a few people that have skills, feelings and creativity. If there’s any chance I strike a chord there, I am certainely not going to rule it out. And I will try to include them within the booklet, I-don-t-know-yet-how-but-I-will style.

So, let me start with song1. They are not in a particular order.

Fast-forward

You and I were watching something.
Our arms were intertwined as one.
We were watching some live performance.
There were actors.
There were sounds.
There were changing places.
Some were tugging our arms or waiting for answers.
You and I were watching something.
Some live performance from the distance.
Our lives.
Avance rapide.

Toi et moi, nous regardions quelque chose.
Nos bras liés en un seul.
Nous regardions un spectacle en direct.
Il y avait des acteurs.
Il y avait des sons.
Il y avait des lieux changeants.
Des gens on tiré nos bras en attendant des réponses.
Toi et moi etions spectateur de quelque chose.
Comme a travers une vitre.
Nos vies.
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