Knowing your brain is about to grow outward, a flower in full bloom

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(idea) by junkpile (2.9 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Jul 27 2000 at 2:14:05

When the movie is about to start or you're on the first page of something, do you ever stop a second and think, This is going to be a big one. Do you ever just know when something is going to change you? By the time I finish this, my brain will be a slightly different brain. And you have to sit still and think, knowing you will not be the same in a few hours. Of course everything changes you and you could apply this to every little thing, every trip around the block. But you'd never get anything done.

This is why I left the letter in the envelope for so long today. I tried to drive normally and forgot where I was going until I was there and I had to turn too fast and the car in back of me got mad. The radio had been on the whole time and I hadn't heard it till now. But now it was making me think stupid things like How can I drive while my brain is burning?

Later. Now I have read the letter from Lowell. And now I am different. But not in the ways I had expected. I always forget it happens that way.

He has done it before, written to me using the only words that would work. I do not mean he is manipulative. I mean he uses the right words like someone very very talented might use the right notes on a violin. I mean these words come out of him like the right music.

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I mean these words come out of him like the right music	'Get married soon,' he says. 'I want an excuse. I want to know you'.	You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.	The "future" does not exist
The Brain Within its Groove	Where there was fire I brought the gasoline	How to hypnotize someone	The Letter
never trust a minty brained man	Principia Discordia	his whole life, like a thundercloud, out in front of him	You forget about everything for a few months and everything changes
Listen, we ended up ruined. I find my answers where I can.	tongues poverty	I will howl in a deep lagoon	Rez
I can't have an original idea anymore	soda condom bracelet	Daydreaming on a lazy Sunday afternoon	Freudian slip
Metatarsal	Death	Sublime Optimism	Charmin

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