A Cheap Purple Notebook [6-8]
six
Truth #1: There is no truth.
Truth #2: “It’s all bullshit and it’s bad for ya.” “Bullshit is the glue that holds us together.”
Truth #3: omitted
Truth #4: omitted
Truth #5: omitted
Truth #6: Raptors are awesome.
Truth #7: No one will ever perceive things in the same way or completely understand. All we have is approximations.
Truth #8: omitted
Truth #9: omitted
Truth #10: “Everything is fleeting and everything is tragic.” (So don’t believe in magic)
Truth #11: Solipsism is really fucking lonely.
Truth #12: omitted
Truth #13: love makes you ill. It is a terminal disease with no cure or treatment. Symptoms include irrational thinking, desperation, moments of fleeting happiness, jealousy obsession, saying and doing really stupid shit among other things. If you exhibit any of these symptoms, please contact your cardiologist immediately, or remove your heart by hand. Bowie knives and hammers are recommended for such a procedure.
seven
Holy shit, it’s a song! —
wind-up girls and wind-up boys
all just toys
going over the table
we live in a broken world
like a cracked pearl
no longer precious
and we’re all broken people
selling our souls beneath a steaple
praying to an empty sky
you can ask him the question but he won’t tell you why
because its a wind-up world
and I’m wind-up girl
so grab my crank
and pull
eight
A list of oddly wonderful shit, poisoned by my own strange idealism —
-Slow dancing to “Tango till they’re Sore” by Tom Waits in a dark kitchen at three in the morning.
-Arguing about the merits of blue verses yellow without any particular context.
-Claiming to be able to understand me in 10 minutes.
-Eating shitty fast food cheeseburgers and crappy coffee on the hood of a car on a clear, starry night.
-Star gazing in general.
-Mutual bitching about how fucked up the world is.
-Sneaking books onto bookshelves with messages highlighted and written in.
-Being compared to just about any literary character.
-Borrowing books.
-Not sleeping.
-Confetti in inappropriate situations
-Being called a “Tuesday girl/woman”.
-Fire.
-Long drives sans destination.
