there is 606, he has a dense relationship with god.
why not pull him by his shirt until he falls over? why not? why not hold him really close until you can’t hear anything but his breathing and he can’t hear anything but your hair blowing in the wind and shaking the way it shakes, sometimes, the wind it shakes you, it shakes you, it lets you go, dear me
606 when the warm air rushes through the canopy then we know it’s morning. at this time I reach for you and whatever I touch that’s you. there you are. with my hands I have you. you’re the warm wooden floor of the loft lit already by the sun
the sun already high in the air
the wood already gleaming and the kids practising violin or writing music on machines.
when I reach for you you’re already ready, tensing and pulsing.
606 good morning god.
god good morning 606
606 good morning tired energy
god that’s all not so important, for you see I am god, and really, there is no practical way in which I can be talking to you out of a wooden floor in a loft high among the branches of a house spitted in a forest of mango trees, all curled and bent and out beyond them the grey slender sand falling fast into the sea, and all of this tilted on the lowest, gentlest slopes of a tall grey volcano and the blazing clear sunlight will not protect you from the falling hours, and still I am not in this floor except in the way in which I am in everything
606 you’re in everything.
god everything you invest my presence in.
606 everything else?
god everything you dismiss, or are unaware of, or forget about, or do not see the significance of, I am in those things as well, just as fully and densely as I am here now, or more densely, but you are not aware of me.
606 can you make me aware?
god I try not to. you can make yourself aware.
606 so your best outcome is for me to be constantly reminding myself that you’re there, that you’re a good thing and that I need and want to obey your rules.
god need and want.
606 I said want.
god and they’re not rules, they’re laws. irrefutable, unbreakable laws. like laws of nature.
606 but you break laws of nature.
god only to achieve the maximum effect with the minimum outlay.
606 those are the occasions when I’ve disobeyed your laws too.
god when it’s easier to get what you want by disobeying than obeying? that’s very noble of you.
606 if you’re everything at the same time, are you just having one conversation with me right now?
god no, I am all things. I am having all the conversations it is possible to have with you at this very moment. your ears are limited, and you are only hearing one.
606 can I tune into one where you’re saying some interesting, engaging, non-patronising stuff?
god theoretically, but if you tune out of this conversation and into another, you’re likely to hear one of the many conversations I’m having with you which is pretty well nonsense.
606 nonsense! ommmmm.....
god ...what I can’t accept is anything stamped from 2001-2003! Unacceptable! They should have scraped the woman’s face off every one of them. I tell you she has jowls on those coins, great heavy jowls that flap down and obscure it so you can’t read the words. She’s wretched, she’s a monstrous animal, she deserves to have no-one examine her face, back of coin or not!
606 do you not like the queen?
god the queen? let me tell you about bark! me and elijah were roaming over the hills and we saw these trees that had all the bark scraped off them, and elijah was like ‘Are we gonna fix these miscreants?’ and I thought he was fooling around and so I played along and I was like ‘Yeah, we’ll totally fuck them up,’ but then from the north about Baalites approaching...
606 ommmmm....
