PSYCH EVALUATION CARDS

6:30 a.m. .....time to "awaken the dead"....so much for my plan to get a 'good night's sleep'.......caffeine and pastry fix.......with some arduous 'hands adjustments' on some antique vest pocket watches.....distracted, easily enough, by a 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY......and, some Gabriel Yared and Nat King Cole, wafting from the kitchen radio, toppling thought dominos of not quite random poetic juxtapositions........ I felt particularly fragmented after re-reading some Highsmith ....... Fragmentation seems to be a Theme of her novels; consequentially, I made a rather unflattering self-portrait of myself as one of her pathetic characters.. seque into abstraction.....reflecting on Patricia Highsmith's studies of personality fragmentation......before returning from the Twilight Zone to the rising sun on a cold morning......10 am....time to 'get it together' for more mundane preocc...

Here's what I say: "they are looking for the man in the dark and blind alleys, so to speak. They will find him sitting under a tree. But since death will have already occurred, he will be in no position to benefit from the restorative drink offered." This 'prediction' was a hopeful balloon-busting prediction, of late.......Not that I held such hocus-pocus supernatural mentalism with that much regard.......even when I was a 'paid' Tarot Card Reader, at 6 Flags Over Georgia, in my 20's and 30's.......at least, I was in the room, facing the subject of my 'readings'.....All this 'long distance' stuff is just more superstitousness.......Nevertheless, all of this attention and concern for his whereabouts may have been, in ways, uncomprehsible by logic, to affectuate his Finding....hopefully, if fatigued and disoriented, still breathing and restorable.........but, I was not crossing my fingers or chanting, facing East...or West..... G...

 Today, I've been fixated on antique forefinger rings with hinged, 'secret'  compartments  and slide-out drawers; carefully replacing the worn hinge wires and tightening the closures.... .

 I am not very sympathetic......     How about smaller portions, aesthetically presented....on smaller plates, folks,  several times a day....with longer 'fasting intervals'.....How About It ?   

DURING THE PROMOTION OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY'S PROSELYTIZING 'ALL ELECTRIC POWER'......THE RELATIVE CHEAPNESS OF 'ELECTRICITY' GOT EVERYONE IN NORTH ALABAMA 'OFF THE WOOD AND COAL' AND 'ONTO THE RED HOT METAL COILS" OF ELECTRIC STOVES.......DURING MY SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE, I FIRST USED A GAS STOVE; HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT UNTIL TEN YEARS AFTERWARD THAT I COOKED OVER A GASS FLAME........i REMEMBER THE PROPAGANDA FOR 'CLEANER LIVING THROUGH ELECTRICITY' IN THE 1950'S......AND, IT WAS NOT UNTIL i DROVE INTO ROME, BEORGIA, AND WITNESSED THE ENORMOUS PILES OF COAL THAT WERE BEING INCINERATED TO MAKE 'ELECTRICITY' FOR GEORGIA POWER...DID I REALIZE THAT, FOR THE MOST PART, ELECTRICITY WAS NOT 'CREATED' ONLY FROM WATER, RUNNING THROUGH ENORMOUS TURBINES........I'M 'COOKING WITH GAS' NOW, OF COURSE.....AND HAVEN'T HAD AN 'ELECTRIC RANGE' IN MANY DECADES.. other than a 'MICROWAVE OVEN'.....D...

  or....just a nerve map of the human lips that express this exchange via vibratory exhalations ......even shaped language with  potential meaning......even intention with forethought.......even spontaneous kisses of affection or desire......