Comments on: Spit

By: dinOS X

dinOS X — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:38:21 +0000

This sums up the whole of my current existence… :/

You my dear have always got something to say though, even if sometimes you don’t know what it is :)

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:14:42 +0000

Sorry?

By: Ani Smith

Ani Smith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:59:14 +0000

Tracy: I think in my case it’s time for a whole life cleanse.

Roberta: I’m kind of glad that happens to you, too, because I’m sooo into your writing. Wait. That sounds all wrong.

Jim: You’re right, I didn’t give much thought to the title. I’m glad you hear the frustration and not venom, that’s more or less what I intended.

AUW: You were saying?

Asia: Yes, you get me. I feel it like a knot in my stomach, at my core, a tightness. When it does well up to my throat, you know it’s bad. I feel you.

By: Asia

Asia — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:00:47 +0000

This always feels to me like the “did I leave the oven on?” syndrome with earth-shattering repercussions. It also feels a bit like vomit in the back of my throat bitterly gagging me every time I open my mouth to breathe. I’ve had to learn to breathe through my nose.

By: An Unreliable Witness

An Unreliable Witness — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:12:28 +0000

Yes.

By: Jim Murdoch

Jim Murdoch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Christ I can so relate to this lovely little piece. It reminded me immediately of Beckett’s final work, the poem, ‘What is the Word?’ Don’t quite get the title unless your narrator is spitting these words out but I don’t hear the piece that way at all. I can see an increase in frustration but no venom.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:24:44 +0000

When that happens (and sometimes when it doesn’t) I say the words around the words to see if the ones I was looking for out fall out or surface by accident.

(And then I usually follow them up with ‘Christ, that was abstract, wasn’t it?’)

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:58:31 +0000

I am so feeling like this today. Mentally constipated. And when that happens, I know it’s time for a colon cleanse.