Weird

Originally inspired by Elijah Wood's fate in the film 'The Ice Storm'...but I can't remember what happens. Anyone?

Being weird

tends to mean

destined to be found dead,

alone,

near some interesting,

beautiful, fatal thing.

Author's Note

I can't remember the old lay-out. Does it look ok how it is? Thanks.

Reviews

[Hedra Helix]

awhh gawd thats awesome. I feel like that when im on mushrooms in the desert.
morning headline
"girl found impaled on cactus, body was found in a position rather resembling a bear hug."

(ps just read some reviews, dude...how do some ppl not get it?
Doesn't everyone have those "ooo pretty.." moments where you black out and just walk like zombie toward the shiny thing? errr?)

[Zane Mathias]

Great piece; and very true. Keep up the great work!

[Lesley Wood]

It makes sense, though a bit of a downer-hope you meant 'bad' weird not 'good' weird ha ha, but I liked it-it was short, simple to the point-more a 'quote' type phrase. But strong and clear-thanks for posting.

[Rain]

I don't grasp it all, but I wish it was longer, so I could get the thought process behind it. I never saw the movie, perhaps that would help. Rain..

[J. Hampton]

Abstract....yet profound

Oddly we can be understood in the way we die...and looked over in the way we live.
clarity comes through contrast sometimes.....didin't see the movie
but ....." to be found dead,alone,near some interesting,beautiful,fatal thing "

this reminded me of the monolith and the fetus on "2001 Space Odessy " a movie from the 70's

Love ........this !
J~ sent it ( along bit ago sorry )

Blesssssssssssss

[Damien Dsoul]

How come almost everybody who was in that movie "The Ice Storm" was such a sinner just waiting to be caught in their nefarious act? However, Signourney's performace in the picture was very vicious alongside Kevin Klien's. Your poem captures a unique sense of irony that cewrtainly threw me a curveball when reading it.

[Touché Armada]

Like that huge shark?
Or something more minute, like a poison arrow frog..
I dont know the movie, so I have to just look at what is here.. One day we will all be found in that way, so perhaps where ever we happen to be will contain at least some small thing of beauty, isnt almost everything fatal? Like air,, yeah that aught to do, and its beautiful.
Hmmm, well yes hmmm.

[Sir Fusting]

I love it! it's going on my favs. This sends a lot of images through my head and stimulates other thoughts. The vague box asking to be opened. Thanks for sharing.

[J]

I love it. Such spontaneous, free thought
captured just like that
it seems.

Philo.
Sophia.
Brilliant.



I read this again, and the meanings I got from this were so varied. I thought of a fatal flower, coloured violet and magenta--spirit and passion--and what it represented to me to be weird, eccentric, mercurial and absorbed with emotional and natural processes: a crazy poet perhaps (how I relate with you, and others of our kind, of course)--how that spectrum is infinitely diverse--and, well... my mind just wandered off a million miles away thinking about this...
Hah.

Another recent-ish tidbit which I think relates:
'Serendipity, a grave'

We know nothing of existence when it's mirrored, you say.
Right back atcha. And I stumble. Bumble a whole darn lot.
Insensible. Magical sometimes. Pure violet and doleful grey.

J

[Just Manoosh]

Holy cow! Now I have so many images going through my head, I mean from my own life to those oh-so-famous-people that died in such a way. The verse has a distinct and weird truth to it, but I loved it. Don't ever change it! it completes itself. Mx