{"id":643,"date":"2004-07-02T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/07\/02\/there-may-be-mountains-but-theres-no-stones\/"},"modified":"2004-07-02T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T22:51:00","slug":"there-may-be-mountains-but-theres-no-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/07\/02\/there-may-be-mountains-but-theres-no-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"there may be mountains, but there&#8217;s no stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever&nbsp;say stigmata, I think of a picture I want to exist. Someone screaming flowers, bleeding them from thier hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;you are mine to do with as you wish&#8221;<br \/><\/strong>damn fingers!<br \/>*grabs them*<br \/><strong>Brain?<br \/><\/strong>check<\/p>\n<p><em>sunday is slow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; +&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;it crawls on inane fingers and toes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*quick cut image of paint and sweat*<br \/>You are just never going to win.<br \/>I&#8217;ve gotten older. Sharp, sharp and sharper. Twist you like wire to make a silver necklace to drape upon a naked belly.<\/p>\n<p><em>:then the snap of mountains:<\/em><br \/>I had a wonderful thought today walking home. &#8220;I hope that when this ends, and he leaves again, or I leave, or we demolish in some quarrel. I want there to be some place that hurts to walk by&#8221;<br \/>like the very earth under your feet<br \/>It made me smile<\/p>\n<p>I have a table, where we sat and you asked me a question. I have every single game of pool and billiards. There is a bar that&#8217;s dead and gone and a bench next to a terrible coffeeshop. The suns painted on your cousins mantle, near the end. The fact that I don&#8217;t have a black pillow anymore. There was a canoe outside Bretts new apartment, and it was in the dark. <strong>Skin like paper, love. Pale and willing to be written on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;smoke and mirrors&#8221; the other day and I&nbsp;couldn&#8217;t stop laughing&nbsp;and couldn&#8217;t tell anyone why<\/p>\n<p>I can&nbsp;so beat you at this one. Which girl do you think Brett ended up with the night we left them in the apartment next to the skytrain?<\/p>\n<p>red nailpolish &#8220;I&#8217;m an artist &#8211; I can work a brush&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brett was an odd one to hang out with &#8211; like sort of a window into a Nice world. Joe Average, wierd for his normalancy<br \/>Voted most likely to get married with 2.5 children.&nbsp;Why wasn&#8217;t he living in Kits?<br \/>and Nat? my portait of him? I dunno &#8211; empty angel playing with pencils maybe.&nbsp; Pretty, pointless, and a lack of someone<\/p>\n<p>I felt something die when it hit me. No one knew me. Or anything in my head or anything about me before 2000<br \/>I think I&#8217;m lucky I don&#8217;t believe in angst<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like the Enola Gay of arguement<\/p>\n<p>I think I may have just evened the use of words. I may not be a writer, but you make pictures with pictures so stab me in the dark with memories, why don&#8217;t you?<br \/>I&#8217;ve got the crumpled paper in my head, the one with phonenumbers, the moments, the memories.&nbsp;You&#8217;ll just have to trail those words past me, and catch me like a kitten.<br \/><em>chrome and glass and the songs we played on the jukebox<\/em><br \/>I can breathe through the years far far better than most, darling. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I remember and there&#8217;s no effort. It&#8217;s all dead and alive all at once and there, at hand<\/p>\n<p>My pity though, it&#8217;s all still capture images. snippets of film, unwinding. Doors that opened into the room, with the bed on the right hand corner. Coal Minors Daughter, and a metal bowl because we didn&#8217;t have music. You said your name coming back into bed, because I&#8217;d been restless in my sleep, and you didn&#8217;t want to wake me, except we were on the couch, and I&#8217;d been watching you paint a Five onto canvas, in a red circle.&nbsp;I asked why the five and,&nbsp;&#8220;maybe, if you get to know me better, you&#8217;ll find out&#8221; and I&nbsp;still dont&#8217; know. But the shirt you had on had a little smear of red paint. I know that like waiting for you at a busstop in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>I can almost imagine you sitting and sketching for me in a coffeeshop, doing this in pictures. Whatever you give me is more than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I felt that. Like a catholic part of my brain has decided that I only ever made&nbsp;someone happy so I could take thier joy<br \/>It&#8217;s untrue, of course, but I can still taste it as I eat it. <br \/>you&#8217;re catching my breath in those fingers<\/p>\n<p>Blood and breath and tongue and bone, darling. the body and heart that pumps it. <em>And the lungs the bellow it? <\/em>the tongue that shapes the bellow, the rage that heats that air<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t tempt me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever&nbsp;say stigmata, I think of a picture I want to exist. Someone screaming flowers, bleeding them from thier hands. &#8220;you are mine to do with as you wish&#8221;damn fingers!*grabs them*Brain?check sunday is slow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; +&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;it crawls on inane fingers and toes *quick cut image of paint and sweat*You are just never going to win.I&#8217;ve gotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/07\/02\/there-may-be-mountains-but-theres-no-stones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;there may be mountains, but there&#8217;s no stones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}