A 9-Eyed Devil
“It might be the most personal thing ever written.” (Billboard)

I came down here to hide from German people with police dogs
I was born to be easily disposed of
I don’t want to hurt anybody
I am mortally wounded and always have been
I am not making preparations for the end times
I haven’t stockpiled a goddamned thing, even soup.
I’ve tendered my resignation.
I’ll navigate alone in space with a god of my own
If the system won’t work then neither will I
The image of the Jews hiding in a cellar with the gestapo searching the house is so iconic it was the scene Quentin Tarantino used to open his film, Inglourious Bastards. It is the plight of the politically and socially abandoned human being in conflict with authoritarianism and its structures of control. The mortal wounding is mortality. Life is temporary, and the feared end times are our own death put at a safer distance, and with an element of revenge. Navigating in space with one’s own god references being one with the Self, which contains us. That’s enough god for a starter kit when leaving all the rest of it behind.
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ” ― William S. Burroughs
