CRAZY MORE SENSE

CRAZY MORE SENSE
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
I’ve just gotten so tired of going to the toilet. It seemed ridiculous. Do I really have to do that? I couldn’t believe that it just comes out of me like that. What a thing, to have it leave me like that. I thought of how many times I’d gone before. I could no longer be bothered. I let it happen. Right down the left side of my trousers. It felt good, hot and wet. I’d been drinking so I wasn’t afraid of it being smelly. It felt good ‘til it felt bad. I had just pissed my pants. I looked around and no one had noticed. It suddenly felt bad, cold and wet. I had to go outside. It had felt hot but now it felt cold

A homeless man walked up towards me. He carried all of his possessions in a black plastic rubbish bag. His face, scowled by a million drinks, hung until he saw me. His long jet-black hair was dirty but looked clean. His big black beard was long thick and greying. There was a big piece of tomato stuck in the bottom of it. A mad smile stretched across his face as he pointed my way. He barked like a dog and walked towards me. He stood in front to block my way. I wondered if he’d noticed that I’d pissed myself? He had or he hadn’t. He hadn’t. He wasn’t looking at my urine. He was looking into my eyes. It felt like I was inside him for those seconds. We were both within the eye of pain. His pain was my pain and my pain was His. He asked me what I knew? I don’t know anything so I’ll tell you what I said

 

 

 

 

 

 
-I keep looking for signs…
-What do you mean, neon signs or stop signs?
-Neither
-What, give-way signs or sign language? What kind of signs are you talking about?
-If you shut up a minute I’ll tell you a story
-Of mice and men?
-…I keep looking for signs; I mean I keep looking for indicators, if I meet a woman one day I’ll tell myself it’s a sign if I see her the next
-That’s a sign?
-Probably not but I’m always looking for signs so I take it as one. Or if I see a woman smile at me I’ll think she wants me. I always look for her but it normally turns out to be a mirage
-A Mitsubishi Mirage?
-I used to have a hot girlfriend that my friend named Mitsubishi.
-Was it stolen?
-What?
-The hot Mitsubishi
-…?
-…
-Mitsubishi was Japanese and couldn’t speak English. She asked me to move in to her studio with her
-It’s pronounced study, not studio
-I can speak English, I didn’t say study I said studio. She needed to study
-How could she ask you to move in with her if she couldn’t speak English?
-She spoke enough for me to understand that
-What else could she understand?
-Not much else really. All we did was fuck
-That doesn’t sound so bad
-It wasn’t
-What did you mean used to live with?
-Just that, I used to have a girlfriend called Mitsubishi who asked me to move in with her
-Used to, what happened?
-I tried to get it on with her and her best girl friend
-What?
-You heard me
-So you lived with a Mitsubishi and tried to root her best girlfriend? What was it on the same day?
-No I mean I tried to have sex with both of them at the same time
-So you lived with her and she had a girlfriend?
-I meant she had a friend who was a girl
-A lesbian?
-No if she was a lesbian I might have had both. I was just saying that it’s getting frustrating misreading all the signs
-I think you should learn sign language
-I’m not that deaf you pri ck
-I know but I was just saying you should learn to sign
-How would that help me?
-Well at least then you would know a sign when you see one
-…I dropped an open bag of utlra slim filter tips the other day. They went all over the pavement and I had to stoop to pick them up. I saw the sign in that
-Wow did you stop smoking?
-No, I zip the bag closed now. By the way, you’ve got tomato…

 
 
 
 
He smiled and his eyes closed as he stopped listening. He was insane but there was bliss and sanity in his insanity. There is sanity because we could all be mad. I lowered my stare and went past him. He took it to silence. I hadn’t been able to stop looking into his eyes. His eyes gave him away. He thought he was twelve. He looked like he was playing. It was like staring into the eyes of madness. The sun burned brightly on me and it reminded me that we are all on fire. Some of us know how to put it out.;’]+> Sometimes crazy makes more sense

SENSE CRAZY MORE

Andrew Stuart Buchanan

i arrived early and sat in the waiting room reading out of date woman’s magazines

i arrived early and sat in the waiting room reading out of date woman’s magazines. everybody that walked in looked crazier than me. it looked like they belonged there. the man sitting to my left looked like a serial killer. he had a large hardbound book on his lap and looked down at the ground. i looked at the cover to see it was called Abnormal Psychology. i pointed at the book and asked him if he was studying psychology? his face changed like he had awoken from a trance as he saw me and said, huh? i started to ask him again when I saw that he was Abnormal Psychology so I didn’t bother to repeat myself. i just sat in silence. he didn’t seem to mind. we sat and didn’t talk to one another. i didn’t mind. the room was quiet. and then it was my turn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
She looked at the pages in front of her before she locked eyes with me and started asking me questions

 
 
-Do you still hear a voice telling you what to do?

-It’s getting worse

-Worse?

-I hear two voices now

-Two voices?

-Yeah

-What do they tell you?

-One tells me to go left and the other tells me to go right

-So what do you do?

-I try my hardest to ignore them

-Do the voices ever tell you to do harmful things?

-Just to myself

-To yourself what?

-The voices tell me to do harmful things to myself

-And do you?

-Do I what?

-Do you do harmful things to yourself?

-Kind of…

-Like what?

-I drink and smoke and drink and smoke and drink and smoke and I drink and smoke and I drink and…

-Ok stop. You seem to be sane enough to know that smoking will kill you

-Will you last forever?

-Remember this is about you, not about me

the room went silent as I thought about what to say next, i figured she was trying to figure me out. her’s is only best guess. there is nothing to understand. i know and she knows what she knows but she he will never know what I know except for her best guess. all these doctors shit me. this is a waste of my time. her eyes locked mine and she nodded telling me to speak. i couldn’t be bothered but did for formalities sake

-I’m sorry, I said. The other, new, voice speaks in another language. I’m not sure if it’s Russian but it sounds like it. I can’t understand a word and he will not shut up. I just have hours and hours of that language. He normally talks from about 6am till about 4.30 pm. I’ve asked him to stop many times but apparently he can’t hear me. He talks louder than the tinnitus so buddy you know that’s loud. I call him Jimbo

-She had not written any of what I had said down

-And the other voice…?

-It’s a lady begging me to fuck her

-She speaks in English?

-Yes, but she is fluent in over four languages

-Really?

-Yeah that’s all she ever talks about, it’s just skiting

-And so tell me how does she ask you to fuck her?

-With her mouth?

She started writing now. She had a pen grip like a four year old with all four fingers on the pen. The angle of her head changed and her tongue hung out the right side of her mouth as she wrote. I had started the fire in her. She scribbled two paragraphs on her pad then asked

-And what do you mean with her mouth, she asked? How, does she gesticulate and what does she do when you are inside her?

-No… I said, I’ve never been inside the voice in my head. You asked me how she asked to fuck so I said with her mouth meaning she asks me to fuck her by speaking aloud

She took the pad in her hand and I watched her surreptitiously put four lines through what she had written

-And does she ever ask you to do bad things to yourself?

-That’s all she does. She either screams or whispers. There is no normal tone. She won’t shut up ‘til I hit the hay

-Who did you say you’d hit?

-I didn’t say I would hit anything; I said the second voice will not stop until I go to sleep, ‘til I fall asleep

-And how do you sleep, she asked

i looked at her and realised that none of this is important. she thinks all of this comes from my head. hers is and she is just another process. this process is just another waste of my time. none of this is actually necessary. it actually means nothing in the end. she wanted to see inside me but I will not let her. that is just for me. what I am is mine. i showed her with two fingers going down in front of me face as I told her

-I close my eyes

her face closed first then her mind as she realised I am just me.

 
so that’s about all I can say. this is about all that is worth mentioning. i have finished this piece but it will never be over. with no end in sight all I can do is hang on

 
 
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Andrew Stuart Buchanan Stuart Stuart Buchanan

THE LONESOME. ALONE AND A HAND-FULL OF PUBES

THE LONESOME. ALONE AND A HAND-FULL OF PUBES

 
 
 
subtitle : IF THERE WAS NO BAD LUCK THERE’D BE NO LUCK AT ALL
 
 
dysfunction art woman

 

 

 

 
We haven’t talked in days although it feels like months. It feels like, have we ever talked at all? She’s in one of her moods. I can’t even remember what it was about. It was probably something I’ve done. Who knows; it could have been something I’d forgotten to do? Normally all I would have to do is give her a fuck when she’s mad but she is too angry for that. Every time we pass in the hallway the energy she is giving off makes the hair on my arms stand up. She walks past me with a tone of haughty indignation. If only humanity could harness the power of a woman’s rage, it would make coal and petroleum obsolete. What would derision smell like if it had a smell? It would smell somewhere between burnt hair and a stale fart.

Work, work, work, is that all you do? She told me I should join the art place up the road so I did. She tells me that I always talk about being in a wheelchair. She once asked if I thought that it made my life much different to hers? I picked a course and turned up at the art class and asked a lady standing in the hallway where I had to go. An old man walking towards me with his canvas under his arm pointed up two flights of grand oak staircase and said, good luck. I looked back at the woman and saw her nodding. It was a white heritage property with lots of rooms. A man with a badge came walking down the corridor towards me. He shook my hand and apologised for the lack of accessibility. That’s all right, I said, as he led me to his room down on the ground level. This is the only class that you could get into, he said.

I tried to concentrate on what I was doing but I couldn’t. The controller had sent me on another wild goose chase. The teacher asked me what kind of painting I liked? I told him that I liked Jean Michelle Basquiat. He said, wasn’t he the junky that overdosed? I nodded at him and said, he also painted, {boom for real}. He looked at me like I was a simpleton then led me around the room. He introduced me to each of the students and showed me what they were doing. I felt embarrassed looking on their work. They were all more talented than I will ever be.

One of the students looked right at me when I entered the room. I saw her pupil’s dilate. She was old and looked regal. She had silver hair and big saggy breasts, and I mean BIG saggy breasts. She was wearing a tight thin pale yellow see-through dress. It looked like she was carrying two watermelons. She did not wear a bra. I saw her nipples erect when she saw me. I had to pass her as the teacher lead me around the room to see the other students work. She opened her mouth and made a small hissing sound as I neared her. I poked out my tongue then looked down and saw she was wearing sandals and that her calves were hairy. I’d bet good money that she hadn’t trimmed her pubes in years.

She wants me to apologise but I won’t. I am nothing but nice to her. I’ve noticed that her moods are triggered by what she experiences when she is not around me. That’s why I won’t. Small, trivial matters become a reason for her to hate me. Her rage comes from what she experiences during her day and cannot control. I am the easy target. If she is ever mad at me when we are on the streets she will purposely flirt and try to grab men’s attention. I only ever paid her back once when a cute blonde woman started flirting with me as my woman had stopped and flirted with her man. They stopped and talked as we went up the street together. I looked back and saw her face changed when she saw me doing the same thing as her. She got so mad that she stopped flirting. She ran up behind the blonde shouldering her in the back. I turned and saw the man she had been flirting with was just as surprised as me. Look, she screamed and pointed at me, see look what you made me do! I went and bent down and picked the blonde off the ground as she started beating me with one opened hand and one closed fist. I cowered as she rained blows on me. The blonde mouthed, I’m sorry at me as she wearily stood and backed away from us. I mouthed back, I’m sorry too.

I went back outside. I was not interested in painting what they were. The artists were copying from photos they had next to their easels. I want to paint what nobody has ever seen. I looked down onto the street and then looked back inside. The lady with big breasts came charging out the door scanning both ways of the street. She smiled when she saw me. She pulled out a packet of cigarettes, walked up, lit and started talking. She shook one loose of the packet towards me. I took it and said thanks. I could smell them on you, she said. I smiled and accepted the lighter as she handed it to me. Come around the back, she said, it’s less noisy than on the street and we can talk. I followed her as she took a right turn. She sort of half-skipped away from me and took another turn out of my sight. I drew on the cigarette. As I turned the second right I saw she had pulled her pants down. I was right, she hadn’t trimmed her pubes in years. I told her to take off her skirt and she did. Her breasts looked exceptional.

She pulled my pants down with one quick tug. Why aren’t you hard yet, she asked? Because I’m not warmed up, I replied. She said, don’t you find me attractive? No, I said, not really. Then why did you follow me here, she questioned. I don’t know, I said, it seemed inevitable. We both studied each other silently. Are we going to fuck or what, she asked? A bus changed gear as it went up the hill and woke me up. I shouldn’t, I said, I’m married with three kids. Don’t you want four, she asked through a smile? Do you still get your periods, I asked? She took a long drag on her cigarette then stubbed then stubbed it on my right ball. Oooowww. My penis started to slowly harden as I brushed off the cinders. Aahhh , she said, I’ve been with men like you before as she reached out and slapped me across the face. My penis stood up. Yeah, she seethed through her clenched teeth; I know what your type likes. She reached out and grabbed my right nipple and twisted it. Yeaowh, I screamed, don’t. I don’t like that! I know your type, she said as she slapped me across the face with her other hand. Stop it, I commanded! Stop means go and no means yes, she said as her eyes narrowed.

In the classroom I found that the teacher wanted everybody to be friends. He kept showing me everybody’s work and introducing me. They were all happy to meet me but I wondered what it had to do with art? Some of the students were good and some were bad. That is a perfect form for a still life. When I join the class I will try and sit at the back. I studied once before in an adult education class and I found that the loudest people got the most sway simply because they were the loudest. My nerves shuddered as I imagined having smoko with all these old ladies. I already knew Nipples would be the loudest and in charge. When she came back into the room she glared at me as she barged past. Her left hand opened on the collision. I looked down and saw a fistful of black and silver pubes on my lap. They all had the little white gland on the end. She had pulled them out by the root.

I left the class early to get away from her. She wanted to fuck me and it was making her silly. I can tell heat. My head hung as I left the building. I kept asking myself questions that I didn’t know the answer to. I had to find the way back. I got home and opened the door. She was singing. She was happy. She likes it when I go away and come back to her. I smiled as I went up and cupped her behind for a kiss. Do you think you’ll go back, she asked before she kissed my left cheek? She looked at my face and asked if I was hot. Pardon, I asked? Your cheeks are all red. I nodded and said, yes. I didn’t tell her about my confusion or the woman or the fact that this is it. She wouldn’t understand. There is something to be left behind. {Art and Sex} I don’t know, I replied. I can’t figure out if I enjoyed it or not

 

 

 

 
Andrew Stuart Buchanan

Ddrunk – to write about it, it being the, it, of I me he him her she it

 
 
I was drunk when I started writing this so there are errors and repetition. It is from lack of inspiration for a whole story. It is just disparate thoughts from iver a month of chaos left in their chaotic order (asa I found them_. I put the bit about my dick first not because it happened first but because my dick is always on my mind. A pieco (I’m drunk again now) of me has stayed alive and looks on in horror. The errors are not intentional but I have intentionally kept them. I liked how they looked on the page when I was sober so I left them in because I was drunk when I started writing this
 
 
Dear Santa Claus,

You know how I got here so I’ll start like this, thanks for my two front teeth. Now all I want is unc0nditional love
 
 
 
 
I showed my cock to a man today. Don’t worry. I had to show it to the doctor. I had several other issues but that was the one I was most worried about. Thyme had asked me earlier in the week how many times I had been to the doctor in the last year. Pass; next question. If it a competion I win. I go to the doctors so often that the receptionist knows me well enough that I don’t even need to show her my card. I got all the forms out the way first and then told him that I have a something wrong with my dick. I started telling him that I have had trouble maintaining an erection since I’ve become disabled and have been using a cock-ring as I loosened the drawstring on my pants. Don’t tell me, he said… it fell off? No, I said as I laughed and pulled my pants and undies down. I took it in my hands and removed the Primapore to show him the damage. I hadn’t felt the pain as it happened but had seen it when I removed the ring. There was a centimetre long blood blister running down it that I waited a day and a half to pop. It has never really healed properly sitting so close to my big sweaty balls

A friend said to me, I think you’re in denial. the blood keeeeps coming back. It hurt to hear it but they were right. All I have ever wanted was to be was a ******. My friend said, get over it. They told me that there is no point crying about it. I had told them that I cried myself to sleep two nights in a row this week. I didn’t tell them to make them feel sorry for me but just to let them know how and why I am the way I am. It’s not that I wanted to cry but it helped and I felt better the next morning. The friend told me about their lot’s troubles and it helped me realise that we all want ******

I was going to write about it, it being the, it, of I he him her she it but I can’t. I don’t have enough energy. Anyway writing about it only diminishes some of the sting. In my mind I survive. A friend of mine talked about the sting but could only imagine it. –PULLING THE STING OUT STILL LEAVESS SSOME OF IT IN THE BLOODSTREAM-. Maybe I could try and mix it up in a metaphor or speakin reverse? Man bites dog. god setib naM. The dog had to get a rabies shot. No, that is too obvious. What about, the water receded to reveal a lake? No. The Indians… no be more specific… the Native Americans forced the white man from their indigenous home? No fuck it; I shouldn’t talk about the Native American’s. I am a white man. Get real man, metaphors are for cowards. It’s probably best if I don’t write about it. The phone rang. It was a friend so I started speaking. They asked me how I was so I told them. I was repeating myself when my friend told me that they thought I was in denial. Wow. They said that was the way it was so deal with and get over it. I had told them that I had cried myself to sleep thinking about it two nights in a row. I told them that it was an easier thing to say than do but ever since our discussion I have learned to

The neuro-psychologist said I presented well for somebody with an acquired brain-injury. I had to fight to get a copy of her report and I cried when I read it. It showed all of my deficits. It said because I act on social cues I do not give away that I will not remember. What has just been said no longer applies. I met a man the other day. He asked me if I remembered him. I shook my head then he told me that he once pushed me up the hill from the Icebergs one day. I shook my head and he looked sad. He said, that is the sort of thing that most people would remember. I told him I landed on my head. He nodded slowly as he said, yeah you told me before. He had caught me out. It’s not hard to forget. Remembering problemmssssssss..

 
I surrounded myself with apathy. I wasn’t a nice person before. I lied, I cheated – and cheated – _I cheated – and stole and I ended up like this.

it being the it of I he she it but I can’t. I don’t have enough energy.. eve felisseddddddd
 
 
 
the morning of my birthday I spent three hours on the toilet. I know I’ve said it all before but how I defecate is complicated. Not on my birthday. I sat on the commode chair and I couldn’t stop. Later in the day a friend text me fto wish me well and tp asked how I was. I text them back that I was sick. They asked me if I was sick or sad. I told them that I was sick and explained my bowel problem. My friend asked a profound question. I have thought about it ever since. I put a wad of toilet paper in my undies and considered it finished,

it has never finished. The poohs kept coming out my bum. My sickness was Salmonella and being disabled the way that I am it has stayed with me for months. I have never gone back to a consistently hard stool (why am I writing this? right yeah) and my shit often smells sour. If I had the guts –ha ha- I would take a video of the procedure to defecate. Clinically Disgusting. I have been sitting over the toilet for two hours at least twice a week. Even after two lots of antibiotics I am still sour and runny at least once a week. There has been so much sadness that I wouldn’t be surprised if it has decided to join in,

and so yeah, the days went on and on just staying alive. I spent all of my time next to the bathroom in case of boom-boom. I got to the gym once but have never been healthy since. Has the bug stayed with me because I was sad? Fuck. I’d never thought about it like that. Just like my brain holds on to the tinnitus my heart holds on to the sickness. Okay, I said aloud, get up out of your chair and walk. What I am is what I am. By being sick you are attracting sick. Come on brain, this body Iis not broken.Your mind is holding on to the source. Don’t hold onto anything. With your mind you can do anything so come on, do it. Come on do it. My legs crumpled as I tried to stand face,

my face is now different. I pretend that I am normal every day. I often try to think about the way it went down but I never get very far, remembering. Christmas day I spent over three hours on the toilet. Three hours just getting all of the sadness out of my guts. The body is trying but the mind holds on to it. My brain and body have been linked but never connected. Does that make sense?? of course it does, to me. Nobody else understands. People get mad with me for missing appointments like I have a choice
 
 
Thank you so much for my two front teeth, all I want now is unconditional love! Animal mineral or vegetable will do. I’m not too proud to be seen hugging a tree. I have an excuse. I was never taught how to love properly. I mistook affection for love and so now here we are

I surrounded myself with apathy. I wasn’t a nice person before. I lied, I cheated – God how I cheated – and stole and I ended up like this.

… was going to write about it but I can’t. I don’t have enough energy. Anyway writing about it only diminishes some of the sting. In my mind I survive. A friend of mine talked about the sting but could only imagine it. –PULLING THE STING OUT STILL LEAVESS SSOME OF IT IN THE BLOODSTREAM

it being the it of I he she it but I can’t. I don’t have enough energy.. eve felisseddddddd

I know have a clinically diagnose d erectille dysfunction. If that is not karma or fate then surely Peter Sellers is the Mster of the Universse

if you have over a hundred friends on Facebook and you don’t work in advertising or marketing you are a prick. I’m sorry to put it like that. I was born in an age of pen pals and nobody ever had that many. I had to delete no.1 after they put a horrible comment on my page. I started thinking so I deleted no.1’s number two. I also deleted no.2 and their no.2. they are all too dangerous and trigger-happy. I started getting carried away and deleted every one of my “friends” that didn’t wish me a happy birthday. I too am itchey finger. A young girl that I had become friends with asked me if I had deleted her. I asked her if she wished me a happy birthday. She said no so I told her that I had probably deleted her too. I told her I was happy to email her but I felt embarrassed that so many people hadn’t bothered to say anything. They don’t’ care I don’t carem Facebook tells you when it is a friend’s birthday so that even if you are not online on the day you can still wish a belated greeting. If they are not ar reeal friend what iss the point.? She told me that people would be offended at being deleted. I asked her who would be more offended, a fake friend or a friend that was faked? I would rather not than you/ She still has not replied to that one,

she has not replied. And so I come home in agony and write all this nonsense that squirts out. It’s like ejaculating while having sex in my mind. back when I started writing I could spend a whole day. Now I pump out these dirty tales in a week. I take my time and consider every word. Even if it doesn]t make sense to you it means everything to me. I got told off by a women (a, not e) all about a story (drunk) that I wrote. SSsshe helped me set up my blog but was fucked off about/because of the content of what I write. Nobody believes me when I talk but as a sentence it is taken as gospel. I don’t even do half the things I write about. I take them from the back of my mind somewhere. It makes me feel good. I am writing about the right stuff. If their rage meant something it would be nice. Women actually hate men (((((( there, that’ll get some goat yahoo!Anarchy in Sydbey)

The battery in my good hearing aid had gone flat. The right ear picks up the sound from the left hand side of my head and mixes it with the hearing I have in the right. I reached down to the bag under my wheelchair and pulled out a packet of batteries. I looked at the wheel and I had used them all up. My memory is getting better but there are still holes. I cannot hear in the left without the right. The tinnitus had got louder without me noticing it. I concentrated on my breathing trying to lower it (a trick I have used once before). it only works a bit and for as long as I can keep focused. All I can do is breathe

The battery went flat halfway down Bondi Rd and I realised how hard it is when you can’t hear. It’s dangerous. I saw a blind man walking up the street towards me. He walked with a dog and a cane and I thought wow. I find it hard to accept my disabilities. The discharge note from the psychologist in the hospital I was placed at said, Andrew has had great difficulty coming to terms with having a brain-injury. No shit. It didn’t take a doc+or in a white coat to tell me that. A butcher could’ve told me. I leaned across in my wheelchair and told him he was an inspiration. What, he asked? I told him what I said again. I was counting, he stammered. Counting what, I asked?
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aa woman once made a piece of art talking about the complicated man. I feel lucky that I a m honest and/or dumb enought to be me. the try=uth is not as we know it. I I belieieve all f my dysfuntion to be beatable. i am only part man wheli the rest of me is still animal. Man )me( is so simple
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Andrew Stuart Buchanan