On Want and Addiction
Walls
Table
Shadows and cats
Green eyes
Many eyes
Millionfold eyes
The woman
Nervous scattered cravings
Inflamed life
Swollen lamps
Dancing shadow
Little shadow
Great shadow
THE SHADOW
Oh—the leap over the shadow
It tortures [me] this shadow
It martyrs [me] this shadow
It devours me this shadow
What desires this shadow
Cocain
Outcry
Animals
Blood
Alcohol
Pains- Kokain by Sebastian Droste
from Empire of Ecstasy
You can probably survive for: a week without food, a few days without water, a few minutes without air.
If addiction is the easily-subverted basis for perpetuating life, what would happen if you quit everything – the cocaine, the heroin, the marijuana, the sex, the religion, the television, the dreams, the hope, the love, the ego, and the pursuit of happiness?
… and could you survive having everything that you desire?
