Leave everything
Leave Dada.
Leave your wife, leave your mistress.
Leave your hopes and fears.
Drop your kids in the middle of nowhere.
Leave the substance for the shadow.
Leave behind, if need be, your comfortable life and promising future.
Take to the highways
-Andre Breton
back in canada, wondering why i'm not in the sonora desert. i need to go back there to find out why i was there in the first place. why did i ever leave? i need to get drunk.
i used to play video games because i really craved adventure. or maybe i crave adventure because i played so many video games. what a completely boring thought loop. anyways, i always wanted to feel something new. i wanted adventure. so i started experimenting with drugs, hoping in a flash of lysergic light i would be whisked away into glorious insanity, insight, somewhere new, be it physical or mental...and it worked you know, but not really how i wanted it.
travel works a lot better. i've gone crazier, woken up in more unexpected places, and gained insight beyond whatever the lords of cough syrup can teach. no diss to drugs here. but. travel works a lot better.
i feel like i am on the cusp of something big, that i am about to fall into something serious, something either terrible or wonderful, yet, what's changed?
so it goes!
Hey come over
ReplyDeletehey mike do you want to coordinate a visit in edmonton? i'm planning to go there in late spring or summer sometime. for somewhere between 5 and 10 days. i just want to smoke a lot of weed and walk around a lot as a visitor who doesn't live there you know? i miss that place.
ReplyDeletematt where are you now you're not welcome in my land you fucking stool pigeon
ReplyDeletematthew. whoa. holy shit man (this is Mitchell btw, hi from Australia to my single active goodreads friend) - this blog rules and your stories rule. travelling, especially round south america, is one of my plans soon, once I finish up my degree. damn! damn!!! i'm jealous. if only i lived so near, somewhere in the americas. but chile is first on my list, perhaps for 6 months. here's hoping. well done on your travels.
ReplyDeletesup mitchell. thanx for stopping by! i cant say anything for south america yet but if it is anything like central america it is amazing. maybe one day we will meet in chile and be irl goodreaders....
ReplyDeleteha oh yeah central america. even though I had JUST READ all your talks about doing panama and all that, once I read the mention of santiago I immediately thought of the chilean one of course--and so my mind immediately went to s america instead.
ReplyDeleteand regardless of that I'd been thinking of south america (as in, going there) in the first place anyway. but I'd do central later for sure.
:) I love you guys.
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