Don't Waste Your Crazy

I find it upsetting when people who are clearly curious and artistically inclined choose to expend that energy in their romantic endeavors. I can say that because I’ve been this person and the danger of reprise is always looming. Romance should serve as the theater for your incubation period, the period when ideas are spawning in your mind subconsciously. Like how they say to go for a walk or take a bath to let your neural substrates figure their shit out. Romance should not be your instrument for creative execution if you have hopes in writing something good and lasting—I don’t like the concept of “advice,” I think people are too stubborn to learn anything so directly, so perhaps imagine I’m talking to myself, or my ex, when I use words like “should”—