Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing AmericaSills, Steven David Justin
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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
Sills, Steven David Justin
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In her bedroom she listened for the door of scurrying boys to open and close.
Then she began to smoke her cannabis like Shakespeare and let words in thoughts
rise from the ashes of the mundane. As they rose in a cani-beer cloud with the
levity of laughing gas, she stayed in the bedroom and began to write. She did
not feel sick enough to go to the bathroom this time. She thought that she
should really lock the door of the trailer but she knew that the Nathaniel
would stay outside busy unto himself or with his friend. Less and less would
her company be needed. She wrote: "Dear journal, I've been thinking that the
personal life should be banned. This socializing and lovey-doving just slows
down society's progress. Everywhere, clogging sidewalks, there are these
Cornell University girls holding hands with their guys. Makes me sick. If I go
to a waterfall or a park to paint or pick up some milk at the 7-11 I have to
wave my hand and shoo them away like pesky flies. And you know that each of
them is thinking about what he's thinking about her. So apparent! They are
orbiting around their guys at all moments of the hours. They are everywhere
subservient to chemicals of love in their heads that make them subservient to
his whims; and I want to be the demolition of those ties. I see my vocation as
roller blading down sidewalks through those linked hands while I get to my
destination. I see myself on sidewalks leading to the grocery store. I'm on
roller blades and I'm breaking a few arms and blading a few lovey-dovey hearts.
Sometimes I dream of shouting through a megaphone, 'About relationships and
needing people I caution everyone to be circumspect. Can another be water or
oxygen? Can another one be your sustenance? Stop this delusional MTV thinking!
You are letting one simple neurotransmitter banging against a pleasure receptor
control you. Females, don't be foolish enough to be women! What are you doing
wasting all the minutes of your life trying to get someone to be with you? What
on Earth makes you want to block off your own thoughts this way? A man won't
stay with you forever. They never do and sooner or later you must confront your
own inane foolish selves that have been underdeveloped and unchartered all this
time. Find a deeper awareness than the personal life. Find a vocation that will
allow you to tap into the entity. Tap, tap to not be the whimsical dictates of
a selfish man. Tap and confront one's real aloneness. Be intrepid by aloneness
for from it one finds oneself. It is by being gregarious that you lose yourself
. Befriend your aloneness. To do otherwise makes men think that your highest
duty is to be ridden in like riding on a horse. Tap Tap. Buck the man from
vaginal penetration. Watch him run away like a horse slapped on its side. Plug
into your special talent that links you to the entity and you will never be
lost again. You will be part of the new invincible species.' Still, what can I
do? I'm just a mere me.
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