Twenty Shades of Grey - No. 9

[wibby]

I Learned Today
I learned today
that once I tortured.

But it was only silence.
I did not know.

I raked a claw of silence
across a face I loved
and left a mark
on cheeks as pale
and gently curved
and pure as drifting snow.

But it was only silence.
I did not know
that time would drag
it's rasping nails
across the itch and scar
those cheeks as

Comments

[wibby]

Thank you. That's a fair summary, but sadly sometimes the lights are too bright and the crowd's too loud so I close my eyes and ears. That's just selfish of me and not a reflection on anyone else.

It's just as scary when you open up your senses again and everyone has gone. How does one become invisible without being forgotten?

Like you, our dear Hannah (I would guess), and all the other creatures on earth I want to love and be loved, but how can one take when one has nothing worthy to give back. Yes, that's just one frame of mind we all have from time to time but despite our perception, it is the cause of our isolation rather than the result of it.

Reality is much crisper when one is depressed. Perhaps I can start writing again now. Destruction is just another form of creativity - Demolish a cathedral and you have created a heap of rubble. Perhaps one will win the Turner prize for it and be remembered alongside the iconic Tracy Emmin. (No cynicism or disrespect for Tracy intended, I admire her success.)

(I will continue this rambling in the darkness of my cave now. I am alone, dusk is falling, and I am about to become very drunk and drown my brain in a clarity distilled from intense emotions.)

[ankle_grabber]

If you admire the work of Tracy Emmin, perhaps you should go into hiding.

JKJKDFHJGFSDF JUST A JOKE PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY and stay forever.
THANKS.

[wibby]

I'm not particularly exited by Tracy's art, But I admire her success. I've seen her interviewed on telly and decided she is thought provoking and intelligent. For a poor girl from thanet I think she deserves recognition. I would consider going to see her work out of curiosity about the person rather than to stare gobsmacked at masterpieces. I think she has stuff to say about social issues and relationships that challenges the mainstream. I feel no need to agree or disagree with what she has to say but it's refreshing just to absorb other peoples thoughts without judgement sometimes. I admire that she has found her own channel to reveal the workings of her mind.

[ankle_grabber]

My art teacher was an Emin fan, because he liked how she "broke taboos"... though that hardly makes her worthy of the fuss she's had, in my opinion. While it's good that she will write down what everyone else is thinking, or draws (poorly) what everyone else is afraid to... I still don't think she deserves much credit for it. It's frustrating when you take an A level in art and every day you are in a classroom where the ideas are so much fuller and the work is at such a more thought out and progressive level than the Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin's we're currently celebrating. Looking at her work, most of it seems accidental and clumsy and I'm struggling to believe that was intentionally, it's rushed out and blah blah blah poo weiner frog.

[wibby]

Haha. Now I have your thoughts to absorb without judgement. They seem to be full of poo, american willies and a french person served up in a vegan blah blah sauce. The poo seems to be a recurring theme. Maybe it's the way that it steams that appeals?

When you are famous you can write "POO!!!" in elephant dung on a stale pitta bread and sell it for ten thousand pounds.