Crippled by Liz
I’m having trouble distinguishing the difference between a shotgun and
a telephone. Yesterday I picked up the phone and announced, "I have no
legs." There was never a moment when I sat wistfully, wondering what life
as a cripple would feel like. In my vain attempt to conquer fear, I just
wanted to hold a gun. We hold this absolutely mind-blowing power, this
massively destructive capacity to blow more than that.
Human beings struggle like flies, and as such it is only fitting that we
insist on pulling off our own legs. We can’t see the web, that invisible
spider silk that holds everything in mathematical order. It spirals out
from a logical center, the epicenter of our aftershocks, the “point”
we’re all debating. In the struggle to find an escape, the flies are
overwhelmed and devoured.
Está nuestra tragedia... pensamos que tenemos que sufrir para ganar la
derecha de la verdad.
I think in Spanish now, more often than I realize and most often when I’m
drunk. I’ll catch myself with a phrase stuck in my head and realize it’s
familiarly foreign. Sometimes I wake up scanning the remnants of my dream
for evidence of a comprehensibly bilingual construction, believing earnestly
that my successful existence on a second plane of communication will bring
me closer to… what? This endless pursuit of knowledge is riddled with
mindless equations.
It is our tragedy... to know nothing, yet feel everything.
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