Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Weak Force Entry #1

The first entry in my segment: The Weak Force, is a self-published work called
"IRON MEANING" authored by Jesse Savage. The book is hard to classify. When I first skimmed through it I thought it was a poetry book with some pictures for visual aide. But
then I read the foreword by the author and found that "this is not a book of poetry" because
it "is not about flowers and snowflakes". Rather this book is about "anger, frustration" and
"rejection...that makes you"(and apparently the writer)"want to destroy everything you
get your hands on." Being that Mr. Savage is, as he puts it "no writer", he says "I just try
and write what I'm feeling out as best I can. This is just my trip, and that's it..."

"IRON MEANING" is a book of Savage Trip (the first of it's genre). Reading it's
writing content, I learned quite a bit of personal information about it's author. He lies to
himself and to other people to "hide himself from himself". He began lifting "iron" to avenge the
loss of a girlfriend. There is nothing in the book to lead me to believe he every beat up the "other guy"(it would have made a good climax) but he certainly imagines the "other guy" and his former girlfriend having sex on a daily, if not hourly, basis. He is "so fucking sick of all of it" and "the bullshit". He drinks a lot but this is hard for him because, as he puts it: "I hate alcohol. I despise it. It make me want to destroy..." (not my spelling mistake)

From the pictures, I learned that in addition to lifting his "iron", he likes taking pictures of it as well. He likes coffee, his own neck, staring at cameras and "DONT WALK" street signs.

" I want to cover my body with tattoos to scar and humiliate it..." If that's the case, here are a
few designs to take to the parlor.....



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