Massaging the World: Muscle Memory and Pattern Recognition
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
Your body remembers more than you do.
I walked through the streets, limping from a damaged shoe heel.
I smelt everything around me and reached for the smells in the air.
I remembered things I couldn't remember having remembered before.
I was drunk.
My seeing ride had gotten tired of me and gone home hours ago.
I'd misplaced my watch.
But I was going home.
I knew where home was. It rarely shifted it's position. I was the thing that couldn't sit still.
I stepped off the curb at the corner where the lampstand was bent and the concrete was chipped right by the crosswalk ramp.
I felt the sun on my skin of the day I discovered that chip and tumbled a little.