AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

11/30/15

Dear (_____)

Dear naked sleepers,

I understand the struggle.  I understand your frustrations at sleep overs.  I understand the hardship when sleeping on a friends couch after a fun night is the only option.  I get forgetting you've wriggled out of your clothes under your blanket when you've had a platonic friend spend the evening a few feet away.

Above all, I understand your Winter.  I know the fakers are out there.  The ones who say they sleep naked, but really only in Summer and really only on some days in Summer and really only under certain circumstances on those days.  They don't get it.  They've never walked halfway to the kitchen after waking up in the middle of the night and turned back because they would rather be thirsty or go hungry for the rest of the night, then put on pajamas or sweats or clothing of any kind.  They've never turned back halfway to the ice cold bathroom because they'd rather try to hold it til morning than dress themselves only to undress again.  Once clothes come off for bed, that's it!  I will not put them on so long as there is a sleepy cell in my body and not a minute before my alarm demands I do!

naked sleepers, I salute,

Sincerely,

a brother in arms

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