Presage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZsova_F2fU ---Song this is based off of


Gravity well of cotton;
arrested and defeated.
Alabaster knuckles–
suspended in a vacuum.


Groans deflate
from a hollowing chest.
The sting of cold,
sweat tearing down a
swollen back.


Brink of the absolute,
where darkness goes to die;
lowering down
into that hole
as I let out my final howl.

[rowens]

I didn't listen to the song, but I read that this guy based his act on the movie version of The Shining, which is something of interest to me.
And that he was writing about memory loss and the deterioration of the brain. Is this what the poem is alluding too?

Why didn't I listen to the song? That's a whole nother conversation.

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I didn't listen to the song, but I read that this guy based his act on the movie version of The Shining, which is something of interest to me.
And that he was writing about memory loss and the deterioration of the brain. Is this what the poem is alluding too?

Why didn't I listen to the song? That's a whole nother conversation.

You are correct.

I haven't watched the shining yet but you are spot on with your guess.

[rowens]

The Shining is an important movie to me. I've never read the book.
It reminds me of growing up in the '80s. Isolated. My drunk dad and my scared mom.
I like to watch that movie from different perspectives. I like to see Jack as going through alcohol withdrawal.
As with the movie version of The Exorcist, I enjoy the paranormal elements, but I find the mundane elements more disturbing.

The psychiatrist asks Regan if there is somebody inside of her. She says, "Sometimes."

Have you ever truly imagined what it would be like to go senile? Your rationality subject to dying cells and mechanisms?

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Where did you find the word 'presage'? Is it in the song? Did you look for a word? Did you hear it and decide to use it as a title?

Makes sense. Pre-sage. So many words can be transfigured by making a compound. Concepts

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The Shining is an important movie to me. I've never read the book.
It reminds me of growing up in the '80s. Isolated. My drunk dad and my scared mom.
I like to watch that movie from different perspectives. I like to see Jack as going through alcohol withdrawal.
As with the movie version of The Exorcist, I enjoy the paranormal elements, but I find the mundane elements more disturbing.

The psychiatrist asks Regan if there is somebody inside of her. She says, "Sometimes."

Have you ever truly imagined what it would be like to go senile? Your rationality subject to dying cells and mechanisms?

Yes, after all it is what the poem was about.

The song is part of an album called “Everywhere At The End Of Time”
a six hour tribute to the slow descent into Alzheimer’s some have at the end of their life.

I've never listened all the way through since, at a point, it stops being music.

[rowens]

You've went into depth imagining what it would be like to descend into Alzheimer's, I mean? It's not important to the poem, I'm just asking.

I have the theme to the show Peacemaker stuck in my head. I can't make it stop.

Did you know that thinking does damage to your brain, and the more you think the more your brain burns down? That might not be true. But how would you ever know?

All I know is, the more I think about things, the worse I feel.

Thinking is a battery-drainer. Shit! This isn't the thread of your poem Battery. Shit! Well, you get the idea.

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You've went into depth imagining what it would be like to descend into Alzheimer's, I mean? It's not important to the poem, I'm just asking.

I have the theme to the show Peacemaker stuck in my head. I can't make it stop.

Did you know that thinking does damage to your brain, and the more you think the more your brain burns down? That might not be true. But how would you ever know?

All I know is, the more I think about things, the worse I feel.

Thinking is a battery-drainer. Shit! This isn't the thread of your poem Battery. Shit! Well, you get the idea.

Wisdom does bring pain and stuff, that's why I like being an idiot.

In a way, being smart is a stupider way of life because you'd be a sad sack of shit all the time.
Imagine being stupid enough to watch tv all day and be happy, 
it ain’t glamorous but your happy.

Anyways that’s life in the words of an idiot so, take it with a grain of salt.

[rowens]

When I watch TV, I do magic on it.

But, speaking of horror movies, that movie Hereditary. That has one really effectively disturbing scene.

I watched it on a Sunday night. I walked outside to take leak when the credits were rolling, and I was in the atmosphere of the movie. It was around one-thirty in the morning. And there was a group of children that I'd never seen before and I've never seen since standing there. They were just standing there outside my door. It was seven of them, and they looked about five or six years old. I walked out of my room and saw them, and I said, "This is legitimately some fucked up shit right here." Then I walked behind my room to took take a piss, then I came around and went back in my room. When I went to piss they went and started playing in the wooded area in front of me room. And I heard them out there playing as I went to bed. I never saw them again.

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I've been looking to watch that movie recently but I don't have it on any of my streaming services, only seen the trailers and a couple clips.

Using children in horror is often the easiest way to a get a scare I think.
I'd think it'd be funny to see the creepy-child-auditions for that movie.

[rowens]

Hereditary has two teenagers. There are no kids, otherwise. The most disturbing scene involves the brother and sister. I don't know if she's a teenager or not.