Catherine Hamel
Octavio Paz wrote not what you say, what you forget is what you say. I forgot humor. it takes lightness and humor to survive. to choose to walk with a smile despite being a deviant of the imagination how did you survive? How do you survive? mistakes, there are always mistakes to be a trespasser in a world of systems to chose to smile the twinkle in the eyes evades words for now the twinkle of the yes the lightness that contrasts the weight how do you sleep at night? Safely thank you to transform the intensity of the pain into life to distill the cruelty into drops of absurdity to distill the absurdity into drops of mischief that dissolve the reason imposed to use this absurdity as a playing field to play within the crippling armor of fear to hold on to ones arbitrary survival to look at the innocent knowing what they are capable of
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to play. to love. to kill how far will they go? to live with that knowledge
to lay with it to play on it to cry with it to simply smile It takes lightness and humor to survive
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