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Banana <platinumbloom>

"ten minutes, once gone, r gone 4 good. Sort ur life into ten-minute units, and dont waste even a min"

	deep interesting thoughts	233 weeks ago
	the history of the world you need a lot of water - from above and below. the water of heaven fills the lakes and rivers. now add equal amounts of darkness and daylight. while there is light the sun draws the water back up to restock heaven. step two. man is created out of dust. at the end of his life he returns to dust. restocking again. step three. the most important ingredient of all. take a rib bone and create a woman to keep the man company, righteous and fed. add a spoonful of sugar for pleasure and bitter herbs for tears. there will be plenty of both, and the rest just follows on from there. a history of memory white people don't laugh in the same way as islanders. they laugh in a private sniggering way. teach our fathers to laugh properly. i miss the warm sea. every day us kids used to jump off the wharf. but never on sundays. you know why. i miss the colour blue, and fruit bats at dusk. i miss hearing the thud of mangos falling. dreams the girl next to where i grew up used to sleepwalk. it was amazing how far she would get - still fast asleep. one time she paddled a canoe out to this tiny reef, came in and went back to bed. or else you'd see her marching up the dock like she was late for church. one we found her in our house sitting up at the table, her eyes closed, while every other part of her suggested she was wating to be brought something. i was going to wake her before mum stopped me. what if she was dreaming...? dreams are private, she said. and she is right. a dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read. thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars. how to find your soul if you tell your mother a lie you may do nothing more than blush, grow a bit hot under your skin. but later, at two in the morning, sitting in that dumb car you will begin to feel deceitful. all that feeling has to go somewhere and it does. it has been stored in a vault deep in your body. don't ask a doctor to find it. like your father they are next to useless on these matters. don't ask your father about hell. his geography is limited. your shoelaces your shoelaces are useless on their own. they need a shoe before they can work. boundaries boundaries remind us that sometimes it is hard to know where goodness ends and badness begins.
	posted by Banana