Firestarter, drawing by Christine Lines, © 2009
You. Grab the closest pencil and paper. Or pen and napkin. Or your secret notebook. Scramble for it and tackle it into submission.
Now write something on the top. Like “First + Last Thoughts – Scribe your mind.” Something to tell yourself to write or draw something every day. It doesn’t need to be perfect. Just give it raw form.
It could be the first thought when you wake up from a dream you don’t understand. It could be the last thought before you go to bed after a fight. It could be on the bus to school as the driver nearly sideswipes a car blowing past another red light. It could be in your office when your boss is gone taking a leak.
Now you’re participating in the Mind Scribe challenge. Doesn’t it feel good letting go of your pent-up thoughts, brain-dumping your baggage, immortalizing your love song, organizing those haiku syllables, sketching the visage of your soul mate or arch nemesis?
That paper is for you and no one else. That is your mind written out, given form, kept in your desk or thrown in the recycling bin. That is you.
And this is me.
+XXX+
+ Stiletto boots, stacatto beat–
Barbed tongue blistering
+ Inside your suit is a kid
asking “What the hell happened?”
+ Do you or someone you know suffer from “Reality Deficit Disorder,” or RDD? Contact Dr. Gally, Md. Bf., for a free consultation. Her doctorate in Beat Face from Shut the Fuck Up University can help you today. Call 666-1337. [This scribble has been made into a business card you can freely pass out to those you feel need to STFU.]
+ The speck in my eye, the plank in yours;
You can’t see five minutes past your decisions.
+ I’ll turn you into my stress toy,
Squishing your eyes, squeezing your heart–
Throbbing, pulsating, popping–
Your insides slithering out.
+ You are not your parents, not your job,
You are not your teachers, not your friends,
You are not the labels the fashionists
try to brand on your unique body.
+ Does it matter to be alive when all you hold dear is gone? Do they make you feel important or do you give them importance? Are you still important without them?
+ I’ll choke the world with
the ardent stench of death.
+ Every night she cries, every day she lies,
trying to be something she’s not.
Bitter skin and bone, every flaw you must atone,
perfect, thin, plastic, mass-produced robot.
Art © Christine Lines 2009
Poems © Christine Lines 2009-2010
Blog post © Christine Lines 05.25.10
http://lestismitethee.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/writing-mind-scribe-volume-4/
lol. this is such a cool idea
Thanks! I like being spontaneous.
Four, eight and nine are particularly fantastic… they can stand alone as these neat little aphorisms or you can take them and make them into something longer, although I don’t necessarily think that you can make them any ‘deeper,’ or at least any more intense. Little masterpieces of laconic literature cramming powerful images into less space than it takes most people to ‘tweet’ about something inconsequential!
Three is just funny and the pictures is one of my favorites that you’ve drawn.
Hahaha, yay! Thanks so much, Chris ^_^ That means a lot to me!
This is why I always have pen and paper on me… I can write what I feel the moment it happens — pure and simple, raw and unspoiled, succinct — and it can be better than pages I’ve written. Quick sketches can have more punch and emotion than drawings I’ve invested weeks in. It may not be nice or pretty, but it’s somehow perfect just the way it is b/c it is what it is and nothing else can taint it.
It’s been a while since I posted one of these. Volume 5 will probably be in the near future.
You are extremely talented! I love your blog. Keep it up, stay with your dreams. You remind me of me a little (a long time a go), but you are much more creative. I too, married someone in the Military, when I was 20 (back in 1977) yes, I am old and still married. I will keep my eyes open for any way to help you network and get discovered. You are well on the way though.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Sandra! You’re such a sweet, talented person! I’ll keep sharing any resources I find with you as well :3 We can do it. I’ll keep working hard on my blog and writing so one day I’ll fulfill my dream.
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