Broken-ness Spells & New Calluses [Scene 0 in Expositional Film Noir] by Jasmin Ivankovic

0. BROKEN-NESS SPELLS & NEW CALLUSES

As I was saying, “It was meant to stop eventually.” The music I hear is like shadows plucking strings behind the scenes; yet from my obsessions, I cannot break, because they got me here, right in my mind, the way it must be for my life to make sense. I was toying with alternatives as to how to explain what it meant. I mean what it meant to me, not the vapid routine of portraying the disorder of the obsessions, but knowing that I preoccupied myself today, tomorrow, this month, next year? becomes closer to me on a day in the UV ray emitting sun or lost streams of hot summer air & shade, with throughput made of this long-form mathematically constant sound: a delta-of-spells casting fridges made infinitely covered by droplets and carried farther out by the rain which came poised from some kind of knowledge inside me, at the base of it all. Like my little brother taking a bite of grass from the ground and a response made from a child signaling all those who witnessed it to start crying, I contend that I know more than I admit, honestly, watching as the rain left the death of a white earthworm on the pavement path from around the track where inpatient patients walked and smoked cigs during designated break times. I believe I did suffer from an excitation of 40 DC volts that caused me to get that haircut for 5 dollars US and say in a deadpan style that she could try and practice more but it was never again going to be on me and here’s five dollars and so I left in a hurry. I haven’t forgotten their work has to be done, that that’s probably a loaded excuse exercised in terms made less about my defeat (which hasn’t happened) for some doctor to make armchair notions from my brokenness spells, “We don’t know what your obsessions entail.” BUT even doctors on the fence still did say they did understand & agreed to try me on what I had in mind, “so we’d cared to hear it.” Albeit I’m probably not crazy, siloing into my own rite of passage. I’m here for the sole reason they claimed, not to digress: studying myself in enclosures kept far from an expected departure from this short-term mess, the mind of Kenneth Dawson Lee; being as easy as it is to admit that “I think too much in general,” but it is not the same as what I mean to say: “I’m referring to something that has a mind of its own,” so it stuck while I was there. To be honest, the tale of great insomnia turned ugly hysteria, was not an MHT scariest inpatient rumored to exist as singing songs of vampires and women he’d hooked up with, but they didn’t find to be crash, nor did KDL sound like his ideas would hurt you, which makes his heavy breathing at around 180 LB in Ecco’s and a yin-yang shirt stand out from that which caused you to think there has to be a rumor, at first. “I think too much without having compulsions.” To a clue to my relationship with my two-fold path of enlightenment. It was meant to stop eventually when I got there. When I do things like mathematics I, too, desire the ultimate conclusions; I know it will stop eventually when it must restart.

“What’s that like?”

The places where ideas can take you there, but no idea exists to take you back. “I don’t forget anything,” was all I could say, “easily or ever.” One way to find them waiting for a response inside, that feedback loop I fell in love with, I thought it was the kind that I know there’s not even a second in time to waste the moment. It’s there, you know you need not dwell, but you can’t go elsewhere. Anywhere is a place in a space that exists in abstract realities – “it ought to feel concrete to someone, yeah, Boo? Waiting for that friend on the other side of your consciousness to bridge the path you were keeping up with until it was time to rest. I know you cannot relate to this to the extent I practiced it.”  

“Yellow Fades to Blue”

Colorful dear,

Is this all the heart you can bare?

Spell-it-out without a fear,

But with time,

To dispare in one’s own body;

Which I hoped you’d one day care

About how I am, about the man you know me to be.

I wish to understand you the same.

Colorful dear,

Is it for love that I write?

The truest and most sincere?

Never could I forget you to be as I know you to be

So human to me.

You are so human to my ears.

I know we are in search

Of things

Many others have thrown out (dispite you).

I found myself, again and again, peering in with a won stature,

Of candid artistry and the hidden part of something akin to beautiful valor.

I know I want you here (dispite me).

“Creating Your Own Philosophy” : Chapter Zero of My First Novella

“My sources link the ultimate goal’s path to reason. He only realizes when logic & empathy are his only credible angle of nuance; the leader’s first discretion is the gravity of the better part of his valor and the next is a step-sequence in which he keeps a wavelength of himself, keeping the pretense of civility, as he had now kept it all for keeps.” I know him as my grandfather James Modest, a good but repetitive judge, who used to know the scientific method – once again saves humanities faith in human nature; an epoch of better legislation cascades forward, a brave new beginning to a new era emerges, and its all due his last ruling as a retiring Justice.

I was 18 years of age and despite how I trusted my gut, I held on to a pit in my belly, seeing it for the first time: a sculptured-bust of my grandfather’s candid grin made in 1981 with “heritage festivals” sculpted on both of the ends in honor of Modest. The moment framed the long-form picture of my baccalaureates program of study with no hard-and-fast rules. In an age when it remains the “status quo” to sell the information that our elders and betters “sold to someone else” and that much should’ve “taught us by now,” I remind myself of this day, fondly & forever, as it remains as the harmony made for the aim of “chasing, achieving, and displaying my ideal”. My consistent motive is to search for answers without realization-failures for making my first and only philosophy to be founded on the Higher, “capital T” Truth as it now remains my only (remaining) option.

Modest passionately defends the school’s cognitive beginnings, but more importantly all we can see is more downstream changes, falling as they domino off of one another, putting more dualities to rest by interpretation from his Abstract-eon Bridge, quintessentially by way of his clever reinterpretation of the Min/Max Theorem, discovered long before he was even born. But here we remain phase-locked to, in fact, believe more frequencies remain unknown to our conditions of prophecy – to which we owe the 21st century its freedom, only of a chosen generation that was destined to decide before and against the odds if and how to continue the great fight to secure either our truth or our survival. The truth is, we are mortals alive to live life for forever in a world of Either/ORs.

“When changed, nothing can change the truth back to where it began,” were her first words to me in class on that first day; yet, it reminded me of the rebel in my bones meeting me half way – how I imagined the idea of Love leaving claw-marks on me for the first time, was now no longer just a fear, it even showed its teeth.

By Jasmin Ivankovic

“With Realizations of Empathy II” by Jasmin Ivanković



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“With Realizations of Empathy” by Jasmin Ivanković
February 17, 2024
poetry

On empathy,
Jasmin Ivankovic


Love
Poems,
For I’ll forever know what I’ve known,
But not how I’ve seen.
I’ll recall most things,
but not always
What they mean.

With realizations of empathy.

You’ll know I’m kind and gentle.
A man you could maybe need.
You’re surely what your family wanted,
You even met their needs.

I’m just as I’ve always wanted.

‘To be’ is not what ‘it used to be’.

But ‘to think’ or ‘not to think’
in reality comes first,
When you’re me.
It’s kindness to my senses,
The way you seem.
When nothing could take it back
I saw a sign from you
and what you feel.

With realizations of empathy.

I’ll open with
Something you’ve never rehersed.
You’ll tell me what it means…
To start over, again.
I’ll know it meant
Something else
to your sentimentality.
And sometimes,
It’s easy to forget how to be,
So I’ll write reminders in my head.
I know you’ll doubt
How much such reminders matter
For what they meant – but, to me,
It’s besides the point.
I’ll take the love I can get.

With realizations of empathy;

I’ll forever know
The great effort my hands knew,
As they often speak,
Like my body,
Before a word uttered.
‘I’m in love with you,’ you muttered,

With realizations of empathy.

An Ode to be Content: Journal Entry #14

In addition to a lot of really cool ideas, I’ve become very real and really content. I’m so content that, in fact, I’m going to stay this cool forever and start to sing to myself. I’m going to lack any pretense in the face of adversity. I’m going to own my own university. I won’t stop until the kids think it’s cool. If you don’t make it band, maybe you just need to focus on school.

I’m not going to complain to no end, never – never again. Because that’s not how this works, I’m going to let myself grow some bad ass new wings. I’m going to learn to talk, read, and write as I think, but in Greek, and with some tacky new features. Further down the line, I’m going to enroll back into a college to systemically school every dumb teacher – that’s how content I am with myself and keeping it chill.

I be so cool that I’ll just whip it out – till the day I break new ground, I’m content enough to edit my sentences mid-sentence. It de facto feels fine living with the trivial things I desire; I feel a connectedness to more of the same deepdish party pizza. I’m interested in maybe some more Dr. Pepper, the Strawberry kind, but not diet.

This was a journal entry where I simply spent some time writing about how I’m content. I am right now and trying to be each day. I feel like I must become the same in contentment forever because it’s cool to be in this form of something I feel is a natural and normal rhythm.

I’m content in the way of disbelief, in the face of considerable flux throughout my psyche, in the name of each person who ignored me, I’m still content with the way I’m to exist. I’m content the way I have it now made and okay with the way it has to persist.

If I was even a bit any more content, I’d be deeply unsettled. If I didn’t say these words to you, then there’d be no riddle.