It's been a while, my dear nonexistent readers. Let's just pretend we had a summer break. I hope your summer did not suck hard as mine, you are not on antidepressants, and there's nobody you refer to as 'my shrink.' Anyway, things keep flowing, and though Prague is not especially generous in rewarding me with new inscriptions, there are some I feel the need to share.
This is quite a lengthy one, is it not? I found it in Mala Strana, on a wall between the Kampa park and the Legii bridge. This decadent message fits very well in the district, known both as a smaller, prettier, artsier, more enjoyable version of Prague's Old Town and a foul place where extravagant porn producers and drug dealers conduct their corrupting activities. In fact, I personally know some people who could write this if they had a passion for wall writing and obviously a car, because the text mentions one. Myself, I am not unfamiliar with this very Prague, almost Kafkian surge of sin which drags you into seedy places where drugs are made, sold and consumed, where people go with the flow and the flow has a distinctive sewer origin. Some are lucky enough to refer to it as 'going out,' while others serve a full-time sentence of cocaine trade, random sex, feeble creative attempts and quasi-bohemian lifestyle which is bad for both your nose and liver. There's a side of Prague's expat community (not many locals there, probably bound by obligations like work and family) which definitely has this piece written all over it. Which makes it a great honest piece, a ringing bell for those who understand and who know what playing with these little demons feels like.
Let's just turn it into something positive. While it hardly makes any sense to be sickened by your own past, this is an impulse which can put you afloat and draw a line between you and the easy options. Start attending cooking classes. Get a haircut. Buy a suit. Draw this motherfucking picture you have already told everybody about. Stop feeling pity for your fallen self. Put your past in a box where it gives you experience and perspective, not insomnia and kidney failure.
