There is a feeling which escapes me as soon as I start on its
trail...like stairs which disappear in small alleys, sleeping and
yawning out of non-existence, yet reaching somewhere- we don't know
where and to whose last house on the street...the trail creates its own
path when the feeling escapes and sometimes I just feel that its a trick
with words which plays out on the paper, its not me who writes but a
trickster conjuring up images which I have not lived or which sieve
through numerous stacks of books which stare bored in my direction and
deceive me to a trail where one is caught in the absurd...the situation
is not mine, the moments are not lived, the days emerge out of nowhere
and the people dissemble their masks to wear another one, yet they are
all very present there when I sit and write like a possessed idiot who
garbles his own thoughts to escape them and just to take someone on the
journey without announcing the destination...some do join, fellow
travelers who want to be lost, who had already known that the
destination they always cherished was the one which will throw them
apart from the world, the reaching itself was a discontent, the pain
which illusions create when they start living......in those moments one
just lives when one has created rather than live to create.....the words
seem to have broken the chains of memory, the dams of meanings and
flood my papers seem to be coming from far and not from me- maybe here
is the tiny gap which exist between those people who trick you with
words, for they know at times even don't know whether it comes from them
and those who know the words are coming from far and the only sense
they will be able to make is when they have fully appeared on the paper.
Both are not present in the moment when it writes itself and opens up
its tenuous relationship with the writer, both chide us, bore us down,
want to know their meanings, their appearance and their authors and
their authentic experience of being, of why they are placed where they
are, why they sit around with a word they don't like, why appear at a
moment where nothing has a meaning...in a certain sense writing is to
escape the existential angst of words, to give their absurdity a meaning
and to conjure up an existence for them where they feel homeless,
always willing to escape their temporality .....its in these moments
where I know what I feel and what i set to write has been discarded, has
been betrayed many times over, sometimes slaughtered and maimed on
pages reeking and smelling of dying carcasses and corpses carried by
the same words, all quizzically interrogate me as to why I had to enter
their domain and why I twisted them and turned them apart where they are
not to be....and these turnings themselves gives me a poem, a writing
which I dint live but where and when will i live them or will it be
something which does not exist always appear in the writing is to be
seen.....
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