(Segment 6)
Onion smell.
Perfume of the over-ripe red onion.
Instructions:
Cut many onions with a knife.
Make sure to cut at least three onions.
Cut another onion.
Ten onions should do the trick.
An onion per person is a safe way to measure quantities needed.
My eyelids are thick and weighty, and a perpetual screen hangs just out of eyeshot, in my peripheral vision. The screen is ready to collapse inwards any day now, I scratch my stomach. Furniture stares me down with the angry looks of one previously, and unceremoniously, sat on. Naked cheek adorning naked seat. But wait, new energy. Spoken words like shots of caffeine straight to the blood stream.
Injection Alpha : coffee vaccine approved, roll out human trails.
The amount of space I own in a remote, off-the-coast hotel in California is minimal. I didn’t book. Brain buzzing like a bee hotel without any bees – empty bee hotel. Sludge is what I sat down in a while ago, sorry about that, I am currently trying to fight my way out of the jelly-matrix, but to no avail. Lubricant-matrix. No, I am not lubricated. Pondering onwards, pondering about why I am sitting here. Pondering the pile of dirty clothes that is appearing in the corner of my room. Pondering how my clothes will get clean. Pond earring.
W H I T E S E
A M S O N M Y
P A N T L E G
Time suddenly accelerated. Apply the breaks by noticing. The only occasions on which time stops turning are those of active contemplation. Think about how time has passed. Necessarily the fewer thought sessions you have dedicated to thinking about the passage of time means that the ‘always referential time soup’ will have entered warp speed by the time that you eventually do take notice.
-It’s like dunking your head into a cold pool. The more often you do it, the less surprised you will be by the icy sting on/in/through your nasal cavity (and the other less important parts of your facial anatomy).
Instructions:
Dunk your head into the water contained within a cold pool.
Repeatedly.