I Am Awake

I figured I would say that like a monumental pronouncement.

You know, sorta Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Like the opposite of a Twitter tweet.

But is it really?

It might as well be a Twitter tweet.

I wonder what the list of most common Twitter statements would look like?

I'm guessing:

1) i'm horny
2) i'm hungry
3) i'm sleepy
4) _____sucks
5) asleep

But those are just edumacated guesses.

But back to I Am Awake.

Jenny Holzer would put it all in capitals: I AM AWAKE.

Which would make you instantly doubt the veracity of it, or look at it in a belatedly postmodern ironic way.

"Like, yeah right." "You're awake. Sure."

"You were made to say you're awake, but you're not awake."

You would look at it askance in capitals.

Her capitals are really riffing on CAPITALISM. Get it (nudge nudge wink wink).

She's letting you know she's going into the capitalist mainframe when she does that.

She's raiding the software and feeding you lines of your programming.

But yeah you would doubt the statement if Holzer did it.

Also because Jenny would have it carved into a marble bench and set the bench in the middle of Berlin.

Alexanderplatz or something.

And then everybody would say "Omigod...The Holocaust!"

Sure, Berlin's awake FOR NOW. But for HOW LONG?

Even just putting FOR NOW in a Holzer context.

If you carved that in a marble bench and set that in the middle of Central Park it would inspire terror.

Everyone would wonder what was coming. Surely it will be horrible.

FOR NOW the birds are singing and the lovers are strolling and the flowers are flowering.

But what does that insidious marble bench know.

We should go shake it.

So much depends upon
typography fucking off
beside that ole red wheel
barrow

Or if I had said it in lower case: i am awake.

What's that really saying?

"I'm not a threat." "I am a tiny creature wondering at the sea." "My eyes opened again but I don't really know what it means."

Right?

Anyway, I AM awake and I have to clean up cat puke.

It's a multi-soaker.

Oxy-Deep is working hard on that carpet. If it were sex this would be the third orgasm, but it's not.

It's cleaning up cat puke from a rug.