epik high

[reproved]

Title: predestinations
Focus: Tablo
Word Count: 188
Notes: Prologue to HELLOBEAUTIFUL. For airpilot.


You fill the room with mirrors and then with sound: your keyboard, but really you are filling it with you.

(Why do you play in a room that’s filled with mirrors? All you can see is -

So I can watch my fingers, make sure the form is perfect. It has to be, you know, or else the sound will just be. wrong.)

Day after day, you play in that room and you watch yourself, but sometimes it’s not you, because you are Daniel, you are Armand, and he is Tablo- who. is. Tablo?

(Sometimes… do you ever feel like you could fall in love with yourself?)

You paint your walls white, take black paint and -

( I want to write .) you paint a face,

your face but not your face and maybe you

imagined it but at night the lips

move.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and you

practice            practice          practice

until you’ve memorized the way your fingers

move. how they look in the mirror

( your fingers are beautiful. yours)

you think.

( Too much time spent together - alone?-

and you could learn to fall in love.)