Burried alive in his own brain.

[stilltrucking]

THE HEARING HEART

In Arabic, absurdity is not being able to hear. A "surd" is a mathematical impossibility, the core of the word "absurdity," which we get from the Latin surdus, "deaf or mute," which is a translation from the Arabic jadr asamm, a "deaf root," which in, turn is a translation from the Greek alogos, "speechless or irrational." The assumption hidden in this etymological nest of spiders is that the world will still make sense to someone who is blind or armless or minus a nose. But if you lose your sense of hearing, a crucial thread dissolves and you lose track of life's logic. You become cut off from the daily commerce of the world, as if you were a root buried beneath the soil. Despite Keats's observation that "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter," we would rather hear the world's Niagara of song, noise, and talk. Sounds thicken the sensory stew of our lives, and we depend on them to help us interpret, communicate with, and express the world around us. Outer space is silent, but on earth almost everything can make sound.

http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.natu ... s.hear.htm

[stilltrucking]

I say he has to see a doctor, she bows her head in sadness, cause she knows he won't go.
I been thinking about buying a karaoke machine, use the microphone to communicate with him.

[the mingo]

- buried alive in his own brain -

ain't it the truth
ain't it the truth

[stilltrucking]

Sorry mingo, I am not a poet, metaphors don't come easy for me. I think it is dementia brought on by sensory deprivation, he keeps hearing things that are not there. . .

[the mingo]

yeah me too more & more these days

[stilltrucking]

I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of Death.

-- John Milton, "Comus"

You are having auditory hallucinations?

Or are you speaking metaphorically ?

Lost and cut off
ain't that a fate not to be wished for
Lost in his own imaginings
reading a natural history of the senses
a hell of a book