My morning pages today, from paper to tablet:
Just got up. Don’t remember what I dreamt but I slept deeply. Woke with This Song Isn’t Over in my head. Yes I’ve been thinking about how I thought Morrissey hated Kylie Minogue and therefore hated me. I was a moron. I’m probably still somewhat moronic. Maybe Anne did something to me when I was so young I don’t remember it, to cause me brain damage.
All I know, is that I never rejected Morrissey really. It’s hard to explain. I will shift from the subject because I don’t know how to explain any better than I have. I don’t think he’d want me very much now. Maybe he does, or would, in some capacity, if he understood my meager explanations for why it seemed I rejected him, when I really was only in self preservation mode, with misplaced fears.
I don’t know why, I’m not cold. I’ve got no sweater on, but do have my arctic fleece pants on. I imagine it’s cold outside. It’s windy. It was raining. Maybe tomorrow morning it’ll be dry for picking up toilet paper etc. I feel good. And clean and neat. With my jean shirt on. I still have Morrissey’s voice in my head “Do you recall, when I was in love with you? Do you recall, the lengths I would go to?” He must have been The Dancer. Even if he isn’t, but he is, he must be, or he is the same in spirit.
I’m glad to start out with writing morning pages, just after waking up and peeing, with my cold coffee full to the brim. Now I’ve got Jackie’s Only Happy in my head, and I’m sitting on the can. Now I’m back in the saddle for writing. I’m happy to feel no pain, no emotional pain, no physical pain, and to feel clean, and warm, and well shod, well clothed. I do believe I will paint today.
I think Morrissey has been paying attention to what I post, and we finally are communicating with understanding, albeit, with smoke signals, and with the possibility that some things I think are a nod to me, are really just him being practical or sharing the same tastes. The possibility he did, wear a flannel shirt for instance, as a nod to me, has to be enough for me to motivate me to continue posting, with hope he will understand me, and Love me.
These coffee mugs have held up very well. They’re my favorites, for coffee. Dollar Tree has a lot of them in stock now. Such good mugs! Perfect size, great handles. Back to This Song Doesn’t End, in my head. So, I do what I can. I maybe will understand why I acted the way I have, better, while I walk, or paint. I doubt it. But I can aim to be loving now. In every moment that is now. Because it’s all I can do, the best I can do.
I thought Morrissey hated Kylie for being a hussy, so I believed he hated me, because I identified as a hussy. My way of reacting to that belief, was to carry on with my own life, to fawn over Russell because I felt hated by Morrissey. Of course I wasn’t. I was deluded. But I felt hated nonetheless, and my response to that feeling was to glom on to other men. Ben, and Russell, but Russell showed up, and I didn’t recognize him the first time, and he was dressed like someone I didn’t like, so that started out on a bad foot.
Then he shows up at Buy Low, by the yams, and the first impression I have upon laying eyes on him, is that he looks like Rodney Alcala, the serial killer. Again not a good omen, not a good footing. Then, I think he must be there by coincidence, that he and Katy maybe have a condo nearby, a retreat, and I didn’t want to mess up his new marriage. Flirting with him online was harmless I thought, I believed he’d just be flattered, but, he turned out to have been there for ME alright.
I was looking at the ketchup selection, when he approached me from behind. I turned my head and saw, and my instinct was, in case he wasn’t really Russell, I would tuck my fanny in, to get my meager stash of money in the back pocket of my knapsack, out of his range, because it was all the money I had, and I’d been pickpocketed recently, so I was knee jerk reacting, to preserve my stash, but Russell was fuming as he stalked off down the aisle after he saw me tuck my ass in. His eyes lingered on my ass as he rounded the end of the aisle and walked out of view.
It turned out he’d not been there by coincidence, and now he was thinking I’d just played a mind game, f***ed with his head, so he ended up figuring he’d take his revenge, by hiring all the people I lived with in the house, to turn against me, with expensive science fiction like equipment.