The Evolution of I
The Evolution of I
An Illustrated Blog by Johan Salvador Tavares Beato
 

It's been awhile yes it has!
And I am not quiet like I used to, and my mind is in motion all the time, all the damn long day! Thinking about this daily balance. This daily dance. What does it take that it doesn’t want to give? What prayer can I invoke that will cure the disease of the world, but what tease am I referring to? What can I possibly say to cure all my loved ones from love sickness or the ravages of Dis-ease? Is it not enough that my intentions are pure? or do I have to be baptized again? What theological conception must there be for all of humanity to simply be with ease, when your idea of God seems to be better than mine? 

This dividing Jesus, this divine child, this immaculate birth! Virgin of Schoenstatt! are you the oldest? who is the oldest if not the sight of light? The light of the Sun flashing in endless motion, light constantly battling dark! The conflict of ages, the truth of truths!  What is the secret to peace that we don’t already know? All this monies! These humors do not make me laugh. This life! This inferiority complex  mixed with a politicians game, mixed with this air I breathe that seems tumulus with a synchronized destiny, a bombastic low meeting an engineered high, a place where we all have been but have never want to go back to. This cycle keeps on repeating like a cyclone. Like a divine twist to all that is motionless. 
You the atom I the split! 

 

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Paz en el mundo coño que ya ta bueno pa cojete! que jodienda eta vaina ete etilo eh como un pipo! Que Marayo me partan en un regerero pa que me desemboque por ahi pa que te salga como el cucu en el conuco to manchao! Cual misericordia en ete calvario? que maldito soy? si maldito solo son lo que no tienen la gracia de Dios! y ah mi Dios me sale ata en el asopao. Tal Vez soy maldito en ete mundo y todavía Dios no me lo a dicho. 

 

 

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Covalent, and that you don't know what I am

You don't know what it feels like

To share what I share, to speak what I speak 

Spreading the word, besmirch all round

your tongue clings to me like virtue 

like the passage of the ages 

like human conditioning 

you the mirrored image, I the reflection 

both caught in a window in time 

in these proverbial ages 

disagreement in disguise 

disillusion shelved halfway 

brutal the demise 

this epoch, this shift 

this juggernaut

so small, that you can't see me

even in the brightest of lights 

 

 

 

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Something about something 

Feeling some kind of way about interchangeable pasts 

All in my head all abound by an illogical non sequitur 

A swift return to normal speech

Like an abundant obsession to try and rectify a future past

And I fall right smack into it, right back again in the now 

Thinking of ways I could have handled things differently 

Wondering about what I could have said to reaffirm myself

But at the moment I was struck with fear of speaking out 

I was shaken by the thought taken back to primal instinct 

I went inside myself and I deconstructed fabrications

Determined to figure out what had just happened

Who did it? Who was it that didn't asked me first ? 

Deeper I went side by side while observing the outside. 

Did I made it up? I was so certain, I was so purposeful of my intention that I even engraved the act on the groves of my brain, so deep in fact that I will probably never forget that day.  

 

It’s all a mask made to reveal, a transparency made to disguise. This show must continue, it must resume it’s irrelevant guise.

I tell you what, I tell you all the whats, and you can ask me the whys. You can question my persona, my intimate vibe. I tell you how, you show me where. I want to be brutal, I want to be right. This encroaching atmosphere leaves me wondering, this must all be scripted, this logic must be analysed. This charade made to disassemble, this constant reprise. I feel like i’ve been punished for someone else’s crime.

This prenatal history, this late renaissance; This skin paints me blind. Drifting in me into some trance where i’m devoid of all my powers. As if to suggest that I shouldn’t execute my rights. My birth given rights. My autonomy, my humanism, my exalt! as if I should recite some existential jargon, as if I should be defined. So many know it alls, so many people trying to be right.

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The other day I felt like I didn't belong like I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be. I came into this place with my friends all of which probably didn't belong there either. The place was pristine as if torn from some passages depicting promise lands. I could have sworn I saw elk and lions commuting with children walking along freshwater and bountiful flowers. But I was also head deep into a few tall drinks. Tall and deep the drinks almost exclusively reserved for us and I wonder if there was a special menu for people like me in this place I felt like I didn't belong. So I barely ate and I hardly drank any water served to me. I felt wondering heavy eyes on me everywhere, often laden with suspicion and I couldn't help but go inside of their heads and watch me from their perspective.

It was almost like an internal gasp as if I was there only to disturb their piece of heaven, I felt like they thought I was there to rob them of their livelihoods and cause them harm as if my very presence was an omen of something the news would only advertise, And there it was! There it is! This feeling was engineered, it was manipulation of malleable minds It was my mind twisted into thinking that I was lesser than. It was reverse psychology. It was their minds thinking I must have been a terrorist or a criminal only because of the color of my features, or am I obviously gay and they were offended by the presence of two gay couple walking about town; Entering their establishments to promote their economy. I might be thinking too much of this.

It must have been the talk show I heard over the radio on the drive back home talking about how my very existence being a homosexual is a mental illness, or how this is something that Jesus wouldn't want, It was never written therefore it cannot exist, it cannot procreate therefore it cannot be. Jesus doesn't want that they said on the radio, and I wonder if Jesus is okay with Syria or with School Shootings? I wonder but I don't know, I heard somewhere that He's supposed to speak for me but seems to be I'm not worthy, for some odd reason the more the hate the closer you are to this heavenly body, to these gates of gold. But I can only be a witness I cannot walk on everyone's shoes. 

It is clear to me however that I have done all the good that I can that IF there is this benevolent being above he should already know what my true intentions are and how grateful I am for everything good or bad in my life. He should already know how much I wish I could muster my magic and set forth a wave that would excrete all evil and injustice from the anus of the earth but I realize I can only do so much and sometimes that means keeping my mouth shut until it opens again.  

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Tis Tis

Tis this thing, tis tis, wrecking like a ball from some kind of song some kind of movie depicting the true heir of the throne, where are the heroes that don't quickly turn sides? Tripping themselves around for some kind of cash. This loud mouth, so many speakers in this tiny house interpreting bias, bias on bias, tis tis. This ever spawning web of numbers , one by one always colliding with each-other to turn me blue or red, deflecting purples, when the only color that seems to matter is white. Oh Johnny what did you used to sing about? These exclusive dreams, always talked about. Notifications comes telling on me that the only peace I can ever know can only be found within me, this world can only be shaped around me as I am the only interpreter I will ever know. Oh Johnny what did you used to sing about? Doesn't matter how American you act, what matters is what you look like in this American dream, its my American world. How these "new norm" are spreading like isms, like this itis, belittling of cultures, these appropriation taste inauthentic.

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What does it understand? 

That I should keep asking that question as if it was  grammatically intact. What gives away that never wants to take? What logic obscure as it may seem rivals the subliminal ear? Lorrel Yanni are nothing if not dog whistle made to infiltrate the mind and alert us of the underneath. Layers on top of layers like some rooted monster from a tv show, like some web of ever lasting coaxed cables. You tell me! that the dream last night wasn't real. Or that it was fabricated by the propagandas from the machine. Tell me that the realities have intertwined and, the imaginations of the past are real, that the thin veil of society has been broken. And i'll tell you that you are crazy! Because all that I know is mine to know. No matter how explicitly i can describe my subjectivity to objectionable subjects,  the less you'll understand about me. That I walk a line, a thin one too, between being racially profiled or hate bashed but that's not what the perpetual speakers say, nothing is riled, nothing is vile enough, to despicably disrupt the generations upon generations. Pages and pages that are most often erased from our future, things that we all should know are not often so clear when there's no one teaching them. This is all some construction, some web of alternatives, trying to see who yells the loudest but the over all sanction serves the resolve. What moral high ground is there, when everything is pay for play? when the value of money grants you exclusivity from everyone else and the poorly constructed are made to be silent and walk the thin lines. 

Salvaguardas del Vallenato ata el Merengue ripiao.

Guarde suavemente la negrura, las tradiciones africanas que nos convierten marrón, representando el color de la tierra profunda, de la semilla!  Llévame a la tradición antes de que se disuelva en la neo cultura, en la política, y en dinero! Háblame en taino como si fueras de la misma Quisqueya, de las riquezas del Haití con pitipua, con la Francesa !con las culturas! Como si tal vez serias campesinos en los montes del Tyrone y las matas de Farfán, por las costas del caribe. Picame como el sol y como la jaiba cuando le entras las mano a su cueva, como las avispas de Juan Luis Guerra. Déjame salir por ahí por los pedernales con la boquita chica en el momento cuando agua pura se mezcla con el mar. !Y déjame salao! Con sudor en la espalda como los esclavos que construyeron las calles donde crecí y las calles en que hoy camino. Dejame por allá, por las alturas de Chavón por la Pajita donde creció mi papá y por las Yerbas de los Beatos. !Y salvaguardia la Santísima! la Madre de las Madres, la que te dio vida de su vida la que te ayudo a crecer cuando ella no crecía. Salvaguarda la tradición. Salvaguarda la cultura.   

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Last night for the millionth time I had a dream about nothing. I had a nightmare about something, I was in the midst of some political jargon soup trying to swim out and avoid being eaten by the ultras, the extremists, the radicals, the alts and the starters of shit where there was nothing before. This right, almighty RIGHT, who gave them the choice, who programed them to be this righteous? Was it divine, did a god command them? I was caught in a lie, I was told that salvation was eminent if you're a good person, I was told that if I did the right things all will be just. But in my dreams there is something else to be said about who's holy and who isn't. In my dreams there are marches of holy men who have the wrong idea about what being devout is, in my dream there was hate and it came from the most God loving people in the land. 

 Another notification comes telling on me that the only peace I can ever know can only be found within me, this world can only be shaped around me as I am the only interpreter I will ever know. Nothing is explained as sweet as a quadrilateral equation spewing numbers at trigonometry. But this is not a predictable thing this life, this ever spawning web of numbers , one by one always colliding with each-other to turn me blue or red, deflecting purples, when the only color that seems to matter is white. Everything else seems expendable to me, this ever romantic fervor to times past as if we lived in some distant flux where homogeny was superior.

Something new came over some fresh light washing off
a sensational feeling green with vital significance a certain kind of knowledge lending itself to me like a beacon of some sort quantifying the equation of this tragic comedy we call life.

What does it all mean these webs of intrication carefully extrapolated from some undoctrinated manuscript. Some madness sets about consuming endless minds. This epoc is brutal some say, this logic is unclear as if it had some hidden agenda speculated by talking points by dog whistles and comrades propagating some notion of a better future, but for whom. What the goal here?

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put mouth where foot is and kiss 

wipe away tradition from your lips 

that we might feel the change soon 

lick and swallow regurgitated words 

but do not choke or you'll be a fool 

amidst their watchful eye you are blind

hollowed out and filled with weakness  

dichotomized by centrists chopping you

lost in the flavor of your fake glory

walking about morally broken 

this compass does you wrong

It seems we are watching alternative realities

these alt truths, these rights, easily corrupted by some vile non sequitur like some proverbial talking points denying histories
as if we are too old to remember. I wonder how they are going to spin this game again. Who this ball is going to be passed around to and how.

Judging by gut feelings and observation, this world is closing in again. Everyone seems to want to be in a tribe of their own, and we forget that we already are a tribe. Humanity is a tribe.

The conqueror likes the conquest as the conquered like their land.     

 

 

 

 

What does it take? That sometimes things happen in sequence as if they were spiraling down onto some kind of message, like when you hurt your toe or bang your shin, while almost subliminally messing up your day. But instead the message is clear. The spirals of life come through as if they were revealing themselves everlasting. All from that one instance when you banged that toe or said the wrong thing. I don't always seem like I'm making sense and I get upset that you can't always see through my eye as if I was projecting my intentions onto my skin, as if I was a demographic, some line someone drew depicting me, as if I was a thing. As if I think faster visually, than I do verbally, as if I was some kind of artists. Some kind of everlasting self that's trying to propel itself on to the future. Onto an omnipresent life in the Reel of All. Someone always says there are multiple beings up in all these vessels, energy that psychologically seldom expires and you wander around as you wonder why we are all, always, so messed up. Stuck repeating this cycle,  this is absurdity, this distraction is stupefied, it's like, what's the end result here? What's the goal seriously?

I have a feeling that this "agenda" could very easily lead to genocide, all this fucking gerrymandering.

But I also understand that humans can be capable of so much better! I honestly feel that we could collective take the wheel and drive this planet around the universe as if it were a freaking supped up Tesla! I honestly genuinely feel this way! We have to be meant for so much more. But instead we are here divided into psychological segments, into skins versus shirts, like some kind of game show. Slapped with red tape from the red sea to the burning coasts. We tie our energies into unhinged points of view while the only point of reference comes from the media, paying eyewitnesses to be fake, to be full of it and sway our emotions tying us up some more into this side or the other, as if there weren't enough seats these houses. As if the opinions of a few matter most than the mass. As if the correct way to solve this issue is to take all control and abuse all power, leveling the field, repeating the cycle. 

 

 

 

It feels like that song from deftones about bringing your knees to the ground in awe of something greater than your spec. Those are not the actual lyrics, that's just how I feel when I hear that song! It's like that, Its like experiencing something that only YOU can experience. Or maybe it's like when you have a dream that feels real or amplified, and you come out understanding what each of your senses feel individually. It's like some physiological jargon detailing the composition of your mouth, like some tongue telling YOU what to say, what to think, as if they knew of something else, these tongues. As if they understood life from a completely selective perspective, per specitive, per individual, as if we all understood the same exact thing but we don't. Like that Radiohead song about how "We think the same thing at the same time, there are too many of us so you can't come". But, who determines who can come? and why isn't he thinking with me? Where are we going? 

To my perception, there seems to be room for all. Even in this objectively "little" planet let alone this oh so freaking mighty universe. Humans were given A LOT. We were given a very large playfield, and best of all we were given diversity. Look around you! Even between races there is diversity, especially in the nature of different species of fauna and flora, look at dogs and cats! all the same basic concept but so many different bodies! We've embraced the That seems obvious, just as obvious as the disinformation.

 

But instead we fail at distributing our energies where they should go, we take Everything for granted as if it were going to be here forever, we argue with imaginated lines while we stay in line waiting for someone to cut the tape. While we wait for sweat to drip and our hearts to panic in fear before we take action. Before we feel something, there is nothing like the feel of fear for your life. There is nothing like the notion that you will die and you don't know how, there is nothing like having someone be in control of your imminent death. Very few people in life experience that, most of us walk around with a silver spoon in our mouth, oblivious of the empirical primordial jus that we all came from. We forget about the mother, and the lifegiving entity of the womb, we drape it with political tape like a crime scene that you should not intrude with. But then I begin to understand both sides, that life truly matters but consequences and accidents are also extremely real. Not everyone is equipped to be a mother but everyone is equipped for rape. Like these holy men everywhere acting in the name of God as if God was some kind of pedophile, like some kind of liar with golden hair, relating what his master told him to say. And I am here within these passive walls, entertaining the arrival of understanding, enticing the idea of getting to see the real thing for what it is. These truths are alternative, these fakers are for real and I can't easily dismiss anything that looks weird in the eye of perfection. 

What does it mean when so much rests on the hands of a very few?  

The Universe knows me by name, and for that I am eternally grace-full.

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Condensation

Unseasonable it had become

this land this age of ages

entombed and unearthed

robbed of ansertrial generations

bathed in cold and hot

this ridge carving through

this political stake

driven through the core

this center filled with you and I

this emotional distraction

this lady dressed in white

a king with no throne

but we hath power

that we lost to the device

this world of the third kind

this blind obsession with garbage

Saint Khashoggi 

are you the last one?

Are your laws anointed?

you ecclesiastical one?

They had no one when he had all

In love with these houses

this giant pile of sticks

this musical tune burning the ear

This secret rouge disguised in gold

this monumental non sequitur

This enthusiastic cyclical change

But they had scientists

against paid pundits

all arguing at once

misfits of change causing trouble

aligning ideals into madness

be you on the right with two left feet

may you walk left pointing right

this methodical dance

This illusion.

 

February 15th 2018

New Age BS

I don't get it I don't understand this state of affairs this madness painted to be something else this curtain falling over the main stage this main act this sorcery! Easily preventable easily manufactured for political fodder you sleep my sheep! My herder cary that stick! Stick me with that prick and send me searching for this everlasting peace! This fucking nonsense! This debacle were in! This injustice smeared on humanity right in our face. EAT IT! that it might make you numb, might make you forget the last time this shit happened and we all said the same damn thing! Add it to the pile! To the myriad of miracles from this Jesus fellow! So selectiviley exclusive so delightfully oblivious to the ubiquitous like my favorite word! Unavoidably absent from all state of affairs unless you drape yourself in the right color and eat the apple and digest this genesis, this goop; Made out of the humours in your body. This Bile! Spewing nonsense following nothing leading nowhere with closed eyes, wake them now, and move your lips. 

 
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