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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Has My Brain Taken a Turn For The Worst?




   I don't know the true answer to that, I have my theories but since I don't have any sort of medical degree I can't really make any sort of legitimate diagnosis I take meds for my heart so I don't count these, they are maintenance drugs that I am told has been keeping me from dying from the result of heart disease. So I move on to the brain ones

   I take cipralex, an anti-depressant which could be working but I still feel depressed most of the time  but maybe it would be worse if I didn't take it! The side-effects are mild, loss of sex-drive, dry mouth and general anti-social behaviour, i.e I am very introverted. Don't know if they are working.

   I take valium, keeps me calm but also leaves me what I can only describe as zombie-ish. Do they work, maybe, what would I be like without them and would I be the same person. The only way I could find out is if I stopped taking them and  I have been warned many times not to do this.

   I take zopiclone, it puts me to sleep, zombie-sleep, but sleep nonetheless. I sleep-walk. I have awoken in the middle of the night setting the dining room table, I awake on a plane with a security guard pointing a gun at my head. I stay very sleepy for at least four hours after I wake up, it affects my job but I work for the post office so make your own condemnation here!

   The drugs have changed who I am and I don't even remember who I was and people tell me I ma not the same person they once knew. My family has ostracized me to the point where I want absolutely nothing to do with them anymore I have become a lost soul and I worry I might actually lose the people that really mater to me.

When Did The Lies Start!

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Dysfunctional Denial

 


 I have found that the burden of dysfunctional behavior is well accepted by some, i.e. they want to talk about it ad although they are not proud of it they are certainly not averse to investigating the reasons that have made them the way they are. They want to know why they are the way they are and if asking some very uncomfortable questions to find out the answers then this is what they have to do.

   I have run into both groups and have become very dissatisfied as to the reaction that I am receiving especially from family members. My mother is dead and has been for a number of years. She held all the answers to the problems my family went through and now they are locked away in an urn in my father's study. My father is either in complete or utter denial or he is ready to take all the family secrets to the grave with him. His choice, obviously but I don't think he realizes the absurdity that was once our family unit.

   We have completely disintegrated. There are a number of us who have given up any kind of relationship with him and then there are the others who appear to just be waiting out an inheritance which, I could be wrong, is going to be very disappointing to them. I have a painting of my mothers' which I basically stole, I thought it would look good in my house, nobody put up a fuss and I took it! Their is a cane of hers that I want but I might find that a little more difficult to procure. As far as money goes, proceeds from the sale of the house, I'm sure my sister has sold the diamond rings already, there is nothing in the contents that could possibly be worth anything. So I would happily join the proctologist shoving any rewards up their asses.

   My older brother is the only one I will maintain any kind of relationship. I have another brother in northern Ireland but the distance would make things difficult. My sister is the devil incarnate and always has been, she will have the most difficulty trying to find someone to look after her and put up with her bullshit. She could do the world a favour and jump off a large building now and try not to hit a car so nobody's insurance would go up! My younger brother hopefully will get an oversize dildo lodged in his anus and die, it could happen! I think I hate him the most!

   Back to my father, I hope he dies in ignorance although I know he must know something, how could he not? His inability to discuss anything with me have produced such hatred in me I doubt it could be fixed.

   Nobody in my family reads my blog!

Friday, December 12, 2014

Depression, valium and zopiclone.



The battle between the brain and the pharmaceutical companies is a complex one and there is yet to be a clear winner. Doctors are so ready to prescribe you the one that I suspect gives them the largest kickback and help them get their well-needed sleep at night when they are realizing the patients thy are serving are getting better. (My apologies to Doctor Don Williamson) who I don't feel I am in any position to judger. I am sad, so sad that there is no way to describe it.. I can be sitting at the table thinking of nothing and my min immediately turns toys I can solve my own problems. Solving my one problems never sees to contain the get off my ass and make something out of myself,. These solutions are very few and far between! So I take a cipralex and while I am waiting for these effects which never take place, it seem to get even worse. What's a guy to do. Let's move on to the next panacea!




Diazepam! The wonder drug that seems to take all your problems, put them into a bag, set the bag on fire and then put it on a neighbours porch and hope that they come and crush it into oblivion  Doesn't wok, your problems are still there and seeing that the valium hangover seems to last one hell of a long time only seem to make  the matters worse. Valium seems to work if you are willing take twenty some tablets toy and you have very little to get accomplished for the rest of the day!



Don't take zopiclone! Sooner or later it will kill you. Sure it puts you to sleep for a couple of hours but thats it. Then you will find you up for the night, setting the table for next nights dinner for next nights dinner or arguing with the local convenience store owner about the quality of beef jerkey. Something definitely to be worried about. Use your own judgement, I am addicted to all three!!!!!!!!!!11



Saturday, December 6, 2014

Zopiclone Poems


Contact for ordering info, will lower prices for schools, shelters and family centres.
crane4366@rogers.com 

My anthology of poetry which is still a work in progress but is not far from becoming a completed work Tells a lot of my story, what made what I am today and unfortunately full of a lot of bitterness because of what I am today. Written for everybody although few will understand, this kind of things need hands-on experience and this is not always available. Arms are spread wide for questions and critique, do not be scared about telling me the truth, I will not be offended!!!!

Chocolate Flowers by Jori Nunes

CHOCOLATE FLOWERS BY JORI NUNES



A must read for anyone who is in crisis recovering from any kind of sexual, mental or physical abuse. Its not an easy read but the discomfort can transform that introverted part of you that is afraid to show people what is under that rock you are dragging around. Here is book review I wrote for Jori after I finished the book, and I will be the first to admit to the difficulty of reading and accepting it, the astounding part is the author is still alive and recovering and healing even after the excruciating job of writing it!

"I read Chocolate Flowers with some reservations. I have read many books on the subject 
due to my own childhood which was marred by sexual abuse. I didn't know what to expect 
from Jori, I had joined an online group which she is very involved in and I was impressed by 
the way shewrote and I realized that she was one of the first people I had ever heard that 
seemed to understand the stigma of sexual abuse. In short, she gets it. What she tells is
 an incredible story of survival and perseverance without shame. She is not looking for
 pity for what she has endured, nor does she ask for laurels for her determination to
 survive and perhaps help as many people as she can. For many of us who have 
survived sexual abuse life has become a jail cell that you are afraid to leave and 
I think Jori is trying to throw us a key. Nobodycan open the door for us and she has 
given me the hope that I can get myself out of this desolate landscape and take a 
chance to thrive. Chocolate Flowers does not beat around the bush but it is told
 with such candor and honesty that you might hope to believe that some of the
 evil in this world can be overcome. To anyone who has suffered any type of physical or sexual 
abuse this book is a must-read, but anyone who still hopes for the triumph of the spirit won't be 
disappointed."



It is available on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Find link here http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Flowers-Jori-Nunes/dp/0991013263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417905872&sr=1-1&keywords=chocolate+flowers

More Attention From Me Required!


   How does the struggle continue and what are the effects of the everyday problem of a semi-recluse become interesting to anyone besides themselves? I have asked myself this question on a million occasions and have yet to come up with a superlative answer. Memories have become more vivid and as vivid as they are I still question their existence, did my mind come up with them at the spur of the moment or have they been lurking in the deepest recesses of my brain and are only now attempting to make their appearance known? I cry about certain revelations and while I try and dismiss them as fast as I come up with them its hard to ignore them as I have my head in the toilet retching every fluid I have in my stomach. It takes all the energy I possess to discharge from my body the things that were done to me.

   One particular incident that comes to mind is when I was for to perform cunnilingus on a woman and I threw up on her as I was doing it. I paid for that dearly with a beating and not only that, I was forced to clean it up and then do it again. This happened over forty years ago and I can still picture and smell the act as I am sitting here right now and writing about it. No drug or psychotherapy is going to pull me through that! Even if I was by some miracle trained to accept it as something that happened that wasn't my fault I still have trouble imagining that I could make any sort of peace out of it.

   As you can see I am still in a complete mess over the situation and that was one of the mild days, I have a child so I have cleaned up piles of vomit and they have not bothered me to this point. I take valium as if they were jelly beans, they help for a while but you always come down, I take zopiclone as well and although it helps me sleep a bit I am still awoken to anxiety once more on the next day. Cipralex? Well I take that stupid drug everyday like a robot and it doesn't do fuck-all for me yet if I miss it I will spend the whole day freaking out about it!

   I have become a very confused individual, one thing I do have going for me is this blog, I wish I wrote more in it but I tend to write freehand first and then transcribe to hear but there are sometimes not enough hours in the day to get that accomplished. I have volunteered at CAMH recently but have yet to be contacted, hopefully there is some way I can contribute to helping other people even when it seems I have given up on myself, I do feel like I have something to give. I greatly appreciate the feedback I get from this blog and look forward ro more of it in the future, I will try and pay more attention to it and try and make it worthwhile to someone besides myself.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

ORAN DAYDREAM

Oran Daydream
PM 1311022


Sometimes it hurts to read but the
words must somehow press their way
out of the book and into my brain,
it doesn't hurt but I can't resist the call
and I can't resist the feeling I get to
press on and find out what has been
presented to me. I feel and hear the
rattling in my brain as I need to know
what is going to happen on the next page,
skipping forward in impatience only to have
to go back when I realize I've missed
something important.

Visions of The Pink Panther drowning in
a pink asbestos pool are replaced
by a couple dead arabs on the beach and
I realize I have gone too far and need
to retrace my steps, get the hell out of 
Algeria and move on to safer habitats
in the world, moving forward but not
averse to hiding in the shadows as long
as it might take.

Oh, how mighty I am and I easily 
defeat all the snakes and monsters in my mind
only to be frightened by a small dog
as I walk to the store to buy a package
of cigarettes. Why be afraid of a 
small dog when lung cancer should be
weighing on my brain in a much
more profound way.

The barriers are so high and so many
survivors are keen to tell their stories
about how they leapt over them while I am
most concerned about finding the secret
door to sneak through when nobody is watching.

But the East German guards are always
there at the top of the wall,
waiting this time to shoot people trying to sneak
under while helping others who are braving the
elements and trying to get over the top.

I will never be one of those survivors, I don't
have it in me and if I did, I would only try
harder to get rid of it.

I cower behind the chairs in the cafe across
the street and wonder when it will finally be
my turn to shoulder all the responsibility the
world has to offer. How can one mature in a 
world that has so obviously crowned youth
as the ultimate victor and ageless wonders
land in the Guiness Book of World Records
still starving to death and wondering how to
spend their welfare cheques.

MCC


HOTEL LAS VERBENAS

Hotel Las Verbenas
PM 1311021



I paint myself a bright, neon orange
but it still comes out black,
as black as the most evil night,
like in Argentina when the power goes 
out and there are no cars around to
at least show intermittent light.
No beacon to lead you back in from that
stormy night or just to remind you that
you are alive and not just gone blind.

Lying in a bed under a window I see nothing
outside and from the inside all I get is
the glowing ember from a cigarette
quickly lighting up that face and then I
wish it had never been lit up at all.

I lie there, so scared and so frightened,
we are in Mendoza, a beautiful city
but so frightening at night when all the
lights are off.

I hear so many motorcycles in the 
distance and hope none are coming for me.
Bike gangs take on a different meaning here,
a means to travel cheaply and nothing
more, I had seen a raven that afternoon
as we arrived at the city and stopped for gas.

Hotel Las Verbenas, I saw the sign but had no
idea what it meant and I couldn't get my
mind off the stupid raven.

It haunted me even more as I lay there
awake, dreading the moment I might hear
the crash of the door being broken down by a
jack-boot. They wouldn't bother to 
interrogate children, we didn't know 
anything, they would just shoot us and
dump us in an unmarked grave somewhere,
or leave us dead on the roof for the crows.

What was that raven doing at the gas station
and what did he know about us? What did
he know about me and the things I had been
up to? Once again, the strike of a match, a quick
glow and then only an ember, more pronounced
upon inhalation, just enough to shed light on
the devil.

I had seen so many spiders that day
and now I was at their mercy,
there could be one inches in front of my face
and I couldn't do a thing about it.
Maybe there was a rat right by my pillow just
waiting to gnaw my nose off,
sharpening his teeth on a rusty fork,
I could scream but nothing would come out,
but then the power comes back on,
at least the air conditioner is working again.

MCC


Saturday, October 5, 2013

SHATTERING GLASS

Shattering Glass
PM 1310044


A slight disenchantment coupled with a complete
lack of interest, I can't tell and I can't put the
jigsaw puzzle together. I must be really stupid
or perhaps just completely insane,
I have trouble putting the two together and more
trouble admitting that I am neither.

I used to be strong, or at least I thought I
was, I can't move around like I used to
and nothing gravitates to me anymore,
I am giving off anti-matter,
and I don't know what it is.
how can I be giving something off if I 
don't know what it is?
I guess I just know that I am emanating
something and people just know enough to stay
away from it.

I used to be able to thread a needle at arms
length, but now if I don't have my glasses
on there is very little, if no, sewing being done in my
life. I can't fix a button and I never knew how
to repair a zipper,
Who does anymore?

No point in crying, salty tears only leave
streaks and sometimes it hurts to wash your
face, battery acid pools in the wrinkles,
scouring them for certain but not the
kind of clean you were looking for.

The bench in the park seems the most
likely place to take that load off,
watch as the world passes you by
instead of making any effort to become a part
of it, each passerby leaves behind something
in their wake, your choice whether to make
a positive catch or not, let out the fishing line
and don't try to hook anything,
let something bite your hook.

I lay awake all night and wonder how I will
make it through the next month,
do I have the where with all to imagine the amount
of scenarios it takes to make a complete day?
There are so many holes in the universe
and each step is a risk and a victory at the
same time. Walking on glass is not a metaphor
to be used wisely especially for those who live
in glass houses.

Feel the glass crack under your feet and
wonder when its going to break, what is
underneath to break your fall, will it save
you, will you kill it or will it kill you,
its too far to move off the glass
so you have to take the next step.


MCC



GREAT NEON GHOSTS

Great Neon Ghosts
PM 1310043

The surface is bright white, sparkling
when clean enamel, it brings out many
of the blemishes right to the forefront,
much like my personality, out in the open
yet hidden down a dark hallway
the doors all have cobwebs on them and
there is nothing to direct you to which
one to open.

People walk through this corridor
every once in a while but they fear to 
open the doors,
strange noises come from the insides
and it makes more sense to run than it
does to investigate.

Sometimes I sit out in the hallway
preparing ginger tea,
not to impress, just to settle my stomach
and I get the strange leer,
the dead eye,
and I cringe in my chair hoping that
nobody is on to me,
and I crawl back into the room leaving
the smell of boiled ginger in my wake.

Its cool behind the door, and I play the 
ever-looping tape of eerie noises and
dog's barking, just to keep everyone
else at bay.

Nobody would dare open the door with
any idea of what was going on in there.
A very lonely man, alone, sipping from a 
mug of ginger tea, wondering why the world
chose to pass him by, why his neon did not
light up, the gas didn't pass through the right
connections and left him lifeless.

The neon flashes so brightly in Las Vegas
beckoning all those stupid enough
to give their life over to reckless abandon
for a weekend of thrills and a plastic beer mug
full of tokens.

I toss my neon back into the clouds and bid
it a fond farewell,
my journey has to be different and with the
difference it becomes much darker,
an unlit path, careful on the turns
and stay out of the corners, there might be
something awful in there.

Who can resist not going onto the corners,
I am unable and even though I know I
shouldn't, I still venture inside every
time I am confronted by one.


MCC


приветствовать любителей русской поэзии!



To My Russian Readers!
приветствовать любителей русской поэзии!



I have noticed a lot of visitors from Russia lately, more than anyone else actually, please feel free to contact me or leave any message on my writing. I am very excited to learn of the sudden interest.


AMBER LIGHT

Amber Light
PM 1310042


The light has switched from red to green
to yellow a number of times but I
am unable to move forward when it
goes green and by the time I manage to
coax it forward just a little the light has
switched back to red.
I am in trouble, all signs point to
just go through the red light and hope
for the best,
face the consequences when you get there,
and if nobody sees you, you will be safe until
the next set of lights,
it never crosses your mind to take the car in
and get it fixed,
solve the problem before you get to the light
and then they will all turn green in unison
and you can sail right through
unimpeded.

Why do I wallow in such stubbornness 
when I could easily soar above the land
and watch it as it blends everything up
into the turmoil that is life.
I feel it deep inside me, scraping the insides
and absorbing the refuse
instead of rejecting it.

How can I soar above such an ugly plain
and why does the fog always choose to
roll in just as I am preparing to lift
the front wheels off the tarmac.
Somebody left the side doors open and
now all the refuse of the world is pouring
in, unchecked,
and I can't keep up with it all.
I don't even want to, and as I watch it
flow by I realize that sooner or later it will
clear itself up and run opaque again,
I can't keep adding to it forever,
so if I stop it had to rejuvenate on its'
own, I am not in control, I never will
be so as I lay next to it I can only
pray that goodness will one day come through
and the stream will run free and clean.

Talk about biting off more than I could
ever chew, a small weight lifts off my
insides and reminds me again that I was
once a child,
but on that thought the darkness sets in and
the child I never knew is dead,
he never had a chance,
born without a bullet-proof vest
I took way too many shots to the head.


MCC


DISQUIET WEIGHT

Disquiet Weight
PM 1310141



I thought I had left my hard outer shell
behind, I know it had fallen off and I had
kicked it into the gutter,
it lay there, lifeless and I laughed at it as I
continued walking on, I should have
taken a picture of it because I now
forget what it looks like and now it may
be possible that it never happened at all.

In any case, the shell has begun to grow
back and its hard as steel this time. Nothing
will be able to penetrate it and this should
make me feel safe,
but it doesn't,
I am as vulnerable as the day I was
born and I know something is going
to land on top of me one of these days,
maybe not a grand piano, but something
heavy and the soft spot on top of my head
is the target.

I can't make it safe,
neither can I extend my shell over the
top of my head, it is always out in the
open, bare to the cold, the ill-will and
they try and enter it using a cold hammer
and chisel.

Every time I try to fight back, I grow cold
or I fall asleep,
something always happens to make me falter
and I realize why, always too late and
too quickly, I realize why.
Nothing can escape the final weight that
bears down upon you,
and I can't be strong anymore,
anymore.
I never wad and the lack of strength
has been my downfall,
and the reason the soft spot never hardened.

All would say its best to wear a hat but thats
only more weight,
and I do not need more weight on my
head, I can't carry what I have now.

Sadness is keeping me down and I am
drowning, not in tears but in pools of
self-loathing and mistrust,
unable to fight the monsters, I retreat
and berate myself for being such a coward.

I am not strong and never was,
I don't feel until well after its already
gone and by then is too late,
I can't get up in the morning and I can't sleep at night.


MCC


Tuesday, July 30, 2013

RAGEOUT

RAGEOUT
PM 1307301



Too many are waiting outside for my
arrival and I can't understand why
there is no one else who can look after
them right away.

I curse all of them inside as I throw 
out my cigarette and realize that my 
soup is going to get a lot colder before
I get the chance to eat it.

People are stupid, and the less smart they
are, the quicker they become more impatient
and more demanding.

I feel like they think I am the devil,
or at least his servant,
thrown here to abuse them and treat
them like the dirt they wallow in
day and night.

I don't care anymore, I treat them as
they treat me, relying on the first impression
to make a template for my future dealings,
but they eye me with such distrust that I have
no discourse but to bristle at them and this
is evident in my eyes.

Once they feel that initial stab, there is
no winning them back,
the poison was released in the
quills and the only antidote is to treat
me poorly,
no greater revenge than to remind me of
who I am and where I have ended up.

Instead of smoothing things over, I stir up
the water into a torrid whirlpool of hate and
animosity,
I stir and I stir until I have made
myself seasick from the motion.
Mal de mer which translates into more
distaste on their part and I know they 
hate me even more.

Even when I smile at them they feel
as though they are being spat upon,
my smile can only be fake now,
false as false can be,
yet I can now flash them at will
and at the very least, I'm not automatically
considered an outcast.

They still leave, seething just a little
as they have paid, and paid dearly
and though they think they are in control,
or at least that they deserve to be in control,
I am the one who has won,
at least for the time being, a shallow victory,
is still a victory.


MCC