Inking Ink 11- with thoughtsdie

Q1: Does writing reflect your true personality?

My soul, fading ink

Too dull to reflect, but maybe you’ll see

Personality ponders in each utter, pause

Scribbling insanities

I think maybe my writings, my soul and mind, are the truest I can be with myself. But they never quite feel finished or concrete. Interpretations evolve over time. I’m not sure what my true personality is.

Q2: Have you ever dreamt of poetry as your Odyssey?

Poetry is my reality

Q3: Has a dream ever obsessed or haunted you?

So many ghosts reside in my mind, broken messages to be deciphered. I still run from demons, one plane to the next. It always finds me, appearing as someone I know. Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m awake or asleep, sometimes dying into another life.

Q4: Have you ever smelled your words with emotions?

I’ve smelled stale blood and fresh rains. The memories and emotions staining infinites in a second. Morning coffee breath fogging the mirrors dead eyes. Dirt under nails that dug my own grave. Dusty steps dragging towards death. Chemicals sprayed to numb the truth, mercy on others for myself.

Q5: Do you have a specific time to write or steal moments?

The edge of sanity and yet the closest to clarity. Alone far in my mind, places I only recognize when maybe I’m someone else. Or someone my mind holds hostage, chained by fear and self-sabotage.

Q6: Who are your two favorite novelists?

I don’t have any particular favorite novelist, but I do love Japanese authors. Here’s my two favorite books:

The Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura

Q7: What are your feelings regarding censorship in writing?

I think nothing should be censored in writing. I crave the full truth, no matter how dangerous it can be.

Q8: What is the difference between eroticism and pornography?

Eroticism reveals true emotions and experiences. It goes beyond pornography which is often limited to just physical mechanics of sexual acts.

Q9: If you were writing a novel, what came first, the chicken or the egg?

To write a novel

Is to be present in all times

The chicken and egg of minds conception

Two clock hands tripping into a dance

Where night and day

Become the sun’s blink

Eyelashes casting silhouettes,

Lines ready to sit and be pondered

Q10: Have you ever seen a ghost or a spirit?

I know I did because I was with someone who also saw it. A human figure shadow we caught skipping in the backyard, dancing in a circle until it got very close to us. Shocked, almost like it didn’t sense our presence, it stopped and then glided to a dark corner against the wall concealing itself.

Q11: What defines insanity in writing, and do King or Poe qualify?

Insanity is potential in everyone.

Q12: Is imagination a good source when writing, or do you think inside the box?

Depends on what’s inside the box, I like to think I bring things outside into it. The truth is there always a box, limits to imagination. Even if we think we are free. But the box is also a part of you, you may not want to lose it, or you may try to float as far away you can.