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this is my brain. this is my brain undressed. any questions?

Getting more unfiltered by the day. There's definitely a knack to it.

By L.C. SchäferPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 3 min read
this is my brain. this is my brain undressed. any questions?
Photo by Janosch Lino on Unsplash

Right, think I
I shall do another stream of consciousness
But it's harrrrd
it's not just the empty page and all that crap
that's a problem for noobs
It's the act of observing changing the thing being observed
Like,
Did I really think "think l" or did I catch the "I think" nice and quick and add a bit of pretension to make myself seem interesting?
I don't think I did but m aybe it happened in a blink
It's supposed to be unfiltered, am I managing to catch it raw and wriggling and stick it to the page in its unadulterated state?
Like a toddler doing crafts
It's hard to be a toddler
And yet toddlers are so good at it
wild really when you think how little experience they've had
I'm failing already because I'm thinking about thinking
but I wont keep thinking about failing
because that's the trap isn't it
to give room to the I'm not good enough voice inside your head
failing failing failing
my thats a word that echoes
shut up!
failing because I can't write fast enough
and l think some of the little blighters are getting away.
Little silvery thought fishes.
Toddler catching them and sticking them to a page, lots of gloopy glue to peel off hands after
Beautiful flashes escaping chubby fingers
Are they spawning
There's loads of them
can't possibly get all of them
(I did it again I know I did, I thought "catch them all" but I changed it because of pokemon)
failing
but no it's ok because I admitted it
(absolved but not penitent)
so you still get the stream, it just has a rock in it look see bump whoops and away we go moving on fishing for slithery shiny thoughts
not compliments no never (please read it, like it, leave a comment, please... oh look the little fishes become bait, how neat)
The common lesser spotted freshwater blighter.
Wait. Do I have salty thoughts?
Wait. is lesser spotted for birds? Fits. (flits.) Even harder to catch. Common-or-garden, two a penny. Not slippery though. Need to be slippery and nude.
oh boy
I say never so naked as I am on a page, but this stream of consciousness is even nakeder
knowing someone will read it,
oh my
The only way to do it then is to peel off my clothes layer by layer.
I know you're watching and I don't mind. I am bold.
But it can't be like a striptease, oh no.
Nothing so on purpose. deliberate. choreographed.
And not just because I can't dance.
tear my togs off then.
defiant even, roaring maybe.
RAHHHH
See: I'm naked and I don't care
this is NOT for your gaze
well it is and it isn't
bit of both really
arg
need to stop thinking about thinking and just do the thinking
but
if the thinking about thinking follows naturally then it's okay right? it's part of the natural stream. glad to have cleared that up
but maybe I shouldn't have because I'll get stuck down that rabbit hole. pit of despair, or pit of something less sad. a dead end. cul de sac of thoughts. thought de sac.
Uh oh. am I allowed to do a u-turn?
I'm doing it. Reverse. Rev engine. Wheels spin. Getting out of here. I don't like this neighbourhood. Too shady.
Reboot. Rollback. (water cant flowwww backwards shut up I'm going where the fishes are)
Rewind urrrrr eeeeeeeeEEEE
Clothes. That's it. Clothes off. Rip them off. But not in a sexy hurry. more like plaster off quick. Shed my threads. shred my threads. Can't put them back on if they're shredded.
can't put this gooey soft little shrimp back in its shell.
Here, have this vulnerable little bit of my brain. Freshly shelled. Brain prawn, brain pawn, brain porn. Very naked, a little bit vulgar, don't read this to your granny, expose what's normally hidden, all angles, ghastly close up.
(I did it again, I deleted "spread the brain hole". That's a lie, it was my not the. This isn't winning any (fucking) challenges.) Got to milk that teat, exploit those bared udders. make some cash, get seen, kerchinggg uhh uhh uhh, pretend you like it, ha very apt, still not sexy definitely not sexy, poor little shellfish. shelled, unshelled. poke poke... this is worse.
if we write long enough, does it always end with sex or death?
should have stayed in that comfortable little thought de sac. neat. respectable. safe. probably.
could have bought a house there.
What's the real estate like?
cheap probably
thoughts are cheap. often rude. even "sac" sounds rude.
(ha trick question. if you write long enough it would definitely end in death.)

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  • Angie the Archivist 📚🪶about a year ago

    Wow!😮 Quite a stream! I really like: “ Little silvery thought fishes. Toddler catching them and sticking them to a page, lots of gloopy glue to peel off hands after Beautiful flashes escaping chubby fingers Are they spawning There's loads of them can't possibly get all of them ”😃

  • Cindy Calderabout a year ago

    Such a raw and naked journey....brilliant.

  • Alexander McEvoyabout a year ago

    That was something else LC Quite genuinely, the most unique poem I've ever read. It felt almost like I was losing my mind as I read it. You're a genius! I love the running joke about silvery thought fishes, it was flawless imagery in my objectively correct opinion :D

  • Cathy holmesabout a year ago

    Haha. This was quite a ride. I enjoyed it. Well done.

  • Pamela Williamsabout a year ago

    Little Silvery thought fishes--I love this image!

  • John Coxabout a year ago

    You wrote common lesser! 😝 this was awesome and fun and nerve wracking! But the pic!

  • Rick Henry Christopher about a year ago

    Are we all crazy or what? Yes I think we are but don't we have to all just be a little crazy to be writers, musicians, artists? Great job as always L.C.

  • Katarzyna Popielabout a year ago

    Oh my, I'm blushing. Maybe I will just pretend that I haven't looked at this page... But no, I can't because of the last sentence: how come it sounds so funny?

  • C. Rommial Butlerabout a year ago

    Gotta catch 'em all = Pokemon Even before I read your next line, I said it to myself. Oh, how advertising has ruined us! Haha. Well-wrought!

  • Grz Colmabout a year ago

    So many funny lines in there. I like you doing this style. Last line too! Too true!! 😆

  • L.C. Schäfer (Author)about a year ago

    A/N: more thoughts on thoughts I used unsplash rather than AI for the cover picture because AI is extremely judgemental and I knew it would object to the kind of image I'd be asking for. I think this unsplash one works very well. Squishy, vulnerable looking. I've been doing these daily, but generally not posting them. It's a good exercise and I'm going to build it into my daily practise. So now you're thinking, jeepers, Scoob, what are you not posting?! That's for me to know, dear reader.

  • Paul Stewartabout a year ago

    thought de sac. and this was very sexy without being out and out smut! loved it!

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