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“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping - and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake- and talking to one another in the waking state?” -Plato, “When a writer talks about his work- he's talking about a love affair.” -Alfred Kazin, Chunering away, Happy Talk, I feel you Within my mind, Just nod if you can hear me, Talk about a star looking like a toy peeking through the branches of a tree, The funniest farm
The question was;
“Do you ever talk to yourself out-loud?”
I pause…and say – “No. I do not.”
I stand at the window talking to you,
As the dishes are scrubbed within an inch of their life.
When sliding the back bags into their hard-shelled retirement home,
I find myself smiling, explaining some extremely pertinent fact
Regarding a mutual saga, that you should know of.
Scraping the greasy gunk from the oven walls,
I give the scourer a cursive, dirty glance,
And say something outrageous that makes you laugh so much,
You let out a large, resounding, snort.
From forty odd miles away.
From the other side of the universe.
Because I do not talk to myself ever.
I talk to you.
Esme's Cloud 
Phew! This is powerful. I sense an anger; or is that too obvious? I sometimes say a word or two, maybe three, out loud. I spend most days saying nothing to anyone verbally. And yet just now and again my body will blurt out those one to three words, as if to wake me up and tell me to take note. Quite often though, the words are inconsequential, and quite what the impulsion was to vocalise them I don’t know. Do you think thoughts travel sonmi – as Platonic ideas or something; is that what you’re saying, or is it just that sometimes we need to have the conversation we’re unable to due to the other’s absence?
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Thank you Hariod, I’m glad it comes across that way. Strong that is, for as to the question – there is no anger written in there at all. If anything…it is a pleasant land one travels to – the mundane fades, and you are there, right in the moment with someone who is nowhere near you, and only when you realise you are there, do you have to return. It could be anyone – your mother, your child, best friend, lover, the only specific is that they are someone who’s company, be it virtual or in the flesh, you enjoy. You miss. If you’re arguing with them though, you’re not doing it right. – nods
Yes. Thoughts do travel. First class if you’re really tuned in.
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And do you ever do what I do, which isn’t exactly talking to oneself, but comes close I suppose?
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No. I think it is always actual sentences. Not the odd word, unless it is ‘bollocks’.
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I shall say but one thing, ‘Magic’
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Thank you Mike – curtsies low, bowing along the way, very grateful for that one, rather special word.
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As an under aged barman (just) I once served said Tommy a pint just previous to him heading of to the gents for a jolly good cough…lasted for an age to the extent we were all rather concerned for his well being! He rather liked pork sausages fried in batter with his ale I recall. It was quite the loveliest thing I’ve read today by the way.
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What a nice little memory to carry around. He was very funny Tommy, a slice of my childhood is tucked in that fez of his.
“It was quite the loveliest thing I’ve read today by the way.” – You’ve made a dark day brighter for me there Mike. Thank you – beams.
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WOW. tis all.
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THANK YOU – is all and more with bells on it back at you in appreciation Jess – smiles broadly.
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Tubularsock not only talks to himselves but answers himselves and then we usual agree to out to lunch! Cheers.
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You have the perfect audience then Mr Sock! – clinks a glass with him. Thanks for stopping by good sir.
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Yes! Good.Like it. Reminds me of things I can’t quite remember which makes it that much better.
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I’m pleased about the exclamation mark after the ‘yes’ President and and Founder, and the words have lifted me up some too, so thank you very muchly. There are so many things that are forgotten forever, or hover on our peripherals just out of reach, it gladdens me that I have brought some of those things back home to brain land for you.
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Yeah, well, it is probably not as much as I could do if I’d only stop thinking about other things all the time.
The President an Founder
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