Self Improvement

Floral Passion 27,5 x 18,5 cm

SELF IMPROVEMENT

You meet someone who after a few drinks can shatter a life.

The kind of person only a Werner Herzog

would have the balls to open up to. Dennis Hopper

smile and David Crosby mustache. Amiable x-rayer of souls.

“I’ll tell you why you’re fucked up, man, just listen to me.”

Jungle boots and bush hat. Looks like he’s

just come in from patrol: long range

recon killer in full ambush mode. Calling every

bluff, exposing every subterfuge.

You feel you are up to it, however, you can deal.

So you speak to him of credit card debt, the girlfriend

who’s left you for a mysterious traveler in the carpet

trade who’s either a spook or merely a guy with a secret; that

you have given up on truth, that pleasure is what counts

now, and as cheap as possible. A six-pack of cold on a humid night

in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A stranger pressing ice-cubes 

to the back of your neck. Grace in defeat, a rare

moment of perfect coherence before the fog sets in again.

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