a hundred immeasurable feats
- Paulina Trigos
- Apr 3, 2022
- 4 min read
Don’t kill the Ladybug like you did the mirror.
Brush the grass and ask if they prefer a ponytail or a braid.
Defeat the giant snake from your dream. A bigger one will appear. Let that one live.
Ask the tree for permission. Always.
Disintegrate and watch how the particles float; they continue to exist even after their death.
Measure how much you miss them with a ruler. You will probably need to buy a second ruler.
Collect the absurd. Then, become it.
Prick your finger on a rose’s thorn and blow the drop away.
Ask the tree for a massage.
Kill the ghost.
Wake up the windows and show them good manners.
Fall prey; to what?
Imagine a new color. Name it. Use it as a garment.
Let the sun draw you and the moon erase her work.
Hang the shadows on the clothing rack.
Place all the different types of coffees into one single cup. Sip on the brew.
Stop thinking.
I repeat, stop thinking! Can you?
Grab the smoke and wrestle it.
Mahrokh. (Moonface). The silent beauty of a full moon on a clear night.
Stitch the different hues of blue and make a sky.
Live every life that has ever been lived. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Ask a ghostwriter how you can help them find the light.
El silencio es sordo. Silence is deafening.
Know that you will receive a body. Know that you will forget all of this.
Ask Robert if he wants company while traveling through the road less traveled by.
Write a poem on water.
Solve the riddle of the sphinx. Perhaps Oedipus did not do it correctly.
Ditch the keys. Go through the keyhole.
Go back in time and introduce yourself to yourself.
Invent a language to describe your feelings. Words will still fall short. Half and dimly understood.
Get lost while following the color orange.
Take out your throat to eliminate the grief.
Let the inner child get revenge. I am sick of healing.
Eat your dog’s homework.
Carry moonstone during the day and citrine at night.
Single-handedly save the Gaelic language.
Take a break from your old boots. Say “It’s not you, it’s me.”
Paint a detailed self-portrait with candle wax.
Someone once said that we read to hear that voice, and we write to speak to those we have heard once before. Liberate the human voice stuck between the margins of your favorite novel.
Win a staring contest against a sunflower.
Ask the people in your dreams if they know they’re in a dream.
Name the different types of silences.
Swing with the sultans.
Write a letter to someone you have never met before. Then, simply send it somewhere.
Let Antigone worship Hades.
Make a stone cry.
Plunge into the eye of a hurricane.
Swallow your favorite star.
Insert a plastic straw through a potato.
Harvest a cloud.
Tell the ice you prohibit it from melting. Then, watch it melt. Sadly.
How long would it take to sing all of the national anthems that exist and that have ever existed? Try it.
Bend silence but do not break it.
Straighten the leaning tower.
Count the scents that stick to your skin.
Rub the lake on your wrists and the ocean behind your neck.
Hold the hand of that child that left their handprint on a wall 10,000 years ago.
Ask Death for your killer’s name.
Catch lightning and put it in a jar.
Place yourself on pause. Resume once you have the answer.
Drown your tears.
The shadows take flash photography.
Befriend an ant. (You better recognize your friend)
Listen to the dragonfly’s speech.
Make the mirror look at itself.
Stop growing. Shrink instead.
Remember what hasn’t happened.
Tie the rainbows together into a carpet.
Play “123 pescado” with a fish. Let it win.
Throw your room a birthday party.
Feel the pulse of a grave.
Play matchmaker between the deer and the lion.
Grab the loose thread from the moon’s sleeve and tie it to your index finger.
Freeze the fireworks.
Play jazz using only cups filled with water.
Ask the candle to light itself. Then, wait. (If they don’t do it, respect their wishes.)
Cut a knife in two.
Watch as Ursa Major wags her tail. I wonder how she feels knowing she’s a muse.
Put the juice back inside the orange.
Scream until the building shakes. Don’t stop until you have achieved the rumble.
Touch the bottom of madness.
Listen to the whale’s poem.
Eat creme brulee from the inside out.
Find the source of light and make it live in darkness.
Feel the snake’s tight embrace.
Disguise yourself as a lamppost. Stay still when people lean against you while waiting for someone that will never come.
Use a guitar as a surfing board. Also use it as a plate.
Drink the words that have been whispered to you.
Grab an angel’s halo and use it as a frisbee.
Forgive Medusa for she was never to blame.
Drop the sentence in boiling water and watch it become a chapter.
She was wearing a baby blue shirt with clouds – I wanted to fly a kite in it.
Meet someone who, like Athena, was born from an incurable headache.
Try to exist in two places at once. (Perhaps this isn’t an impossible feat; I have millions of versions of myself walking around in all sorts of places, of heads. Which one is real? Figure it out.)
Step into a snowflake and plan your trajectory.
As above, so below, bellow, blow. As below, so above, a glove, unlove.
Is it “Today, Mother died” or “Mother died today” or “Maman has died” or what if Maman didn’t die today but yesterday, or maybe she will die tomorrow. Ask Camus. Or Meursault. Whoever you encounter first.
Flip a coin but make sure it never lands.
Pass through.
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