août 09, 2005
kill your darlings
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
So spake Blake in his Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth spawned Kronos, deity of Time. Kronos devoured his sons so that they could not dethrone him. Try it. Keep your friends close, your animus closer. Thorough mastication encourages good digestion(1). Boil and bin the bones that choke you so, and drink their salubrious stock. 
You always think that Darling looks like a little baby in the mornings, don't you? Nurse unacted desires. Whatever should you do if someone would try and take Darling away from you? Follow the cricetid example(2). It will be an act of mercy. Look at Darling, curled up next to you like a little plucked quail. You chew Darling's ear off every day; why not go the whole hog? You flush expensive gin down your throat like the physic it is. On your birthday, you have your cake and eat it. You stoke it into your face like a force-feeding foie gras fowl. You spine-snap and skip to the end of your new book. You smoke your last fag long before you want it. No, do not kiss your baby Darling, your only love born from your only hate. Do not go gentle. The greatest pleasures are bornfrom conquered repugnances. Perform love's deepest sacrament. Fetch the cruet. Eat the cruel, to be kind(3). Kill your Darlings.
(1) Handbook for Nursery Nurses (Second Edition) Meering (1953)
(2) See Smokey's extended works on Infanticide, Incarceration and the Wheel of Life.
(3) Also Eat your Makeup (1968, John Waters)