Apres Coup

Do you often find your self lost in thought. You may even be facing someone who gives you a queer or bemused look. “Have you been listening to me!” If you say you have been listening when you’re not, then you run the risk of being caught in lie.You hope you’re with one if those people who are so self-centered they will assume that you hang on their every word. The nod in your direction is just their way of pretending to be interested in what you think. Human beings produce kinetic energy. Particles react without fracturing their integrity. In most cases the collisions are fly-by-night affairs which don’t create either anything of substance or any new substance. Entropy is  the second law thermodynamics. Then there is the psychoanalytic concept of "apres coup," which is a delayed reaction to a traumatic event. Don’t try to justify anything. It’s a waste of time--and energy.

read "The El" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn