A warning … It is not enough to be in the same space. I am a master of masks and double mirrors. To find my path . . . ? (but why would you wish for such a thing?) You must perceive, recognize the ghosts Who haunt my resonant yesterdays, Spectered memories of how things really were. You must see beneath the tattered rags Of the mundane days I wear as camouflage. I will not invite you in. Subterfuge and artifice are my mother-tongue. The passwords are, ah, how does one say? – “ Caché [1] ~ le dessous des cartes [2] ” – Too far inside for anyone to find. Recondite and esoteric mysteries and memories Coat the inside of my world like concertina wire. You make a perilous and jeopardous request. The corpses of the cats should have been warning enough. [1] hidden [2] inside information
The dictionary wasn't as much help as I thought it might be when I looked up "convictions"; it says: a fixed or firm belief and gives such synonyms as : confidence , creed , doctrine , dogma , eye , faith , feeling , judgment call , mind , persuasion , principle , reliance , say so , sentiment , slant , tenet , view Those words are OK...but they feel a little "milk toast-esk" ~ have you had milk toast? When I was young, when we got sick we got milk toast...and it is just like what it sounds like ~ lightly toasted bread with milk poured over it. Yeah. As you eat it -- soggy bread not quite melting into the milk -- it looks like something to eat, but you realize it shouldn't ...
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ReplyDeleteYeah . . . you are blogging . . . that makes me happy! I'll put you on my "roll" :)
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