Gobbledygook.....

Sleep deprivation and midnite maunderings.....

There’s a technical term for self-involved meandering musing in the middle of the night ‘n it ain’t ‘gobbledygook’ though that’s a fairly adequate description.....No, as I recall from some long ago creative writing course (which is as oxymoronic as it sounds) ...allowing your mind to ramble and committing those tho’ts to print is called....’stream of consciousness’...a style (?) popularized by Jack Kerouac ‘n parodied by ‘way too many impressionable English majors....a style of writing akin to Jackson Pollacks ‘spash ‘n pour' paintings, which, incidentally, were a satirical and somewhat jocular response to what he considered an insulting request for ‘one’ of his paintings to be displayed in a retrospective show of ‘Modern’ art...his joke proved to be a lucrative one when the art world took his splash ‘n pour canvas seriously and his subsequent success led to an early demise, which seems to be an absurdly normal event for artistic types who enjoy financial success at an early age.....
Lots of otherwise rational people have thoughts or dreams in the middle of the night and wake up in the morning wishing that they had been somehow able to write them down.....the legendary Hank Williams said that he kept a tape recorder at his bedside so when he woke from his chemical dreams, he could immediately save them for posterity.....or so he claimed. God alone knows how many artistic souls attempted to save their ‘pure’ and unsullied moments of genius from the subconscious dreams that hover forever just outside the outer edges of memory.....well, t’ain’t so..at least for most people, the night visions, like opium dreams, fortunately dissipate in the light of day....
Letting a little light in drives away the shadows and exposes the cobwebs and dust motes.....Shadows flee from the light but you gotta sweep and dust for yourself.....