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CU (I Want)

Friday, November 19, 2021 at 12:00pm, I went into a sound proof isolation booth with a typewriter and a roll of receipt paper. I wrote for 24 hours. Every sentence had to start with "I want". What came out was 8500 words that was live fed online. 23 days later now, I look at the text. Here are some excerpts from over a thousand wants.

There were 40 wants about eating:

I want pizza all the time

I want onion rings with every meal

I want a carrot

I want to eat greasy fried food from a food truck

I want to drink beers with my old friend and argue about movies again

I want to eat paper

I want to eat ink

I want ketchup with my words

I want coffee, really good perfectly brewed coffee

I want to eat lavender honey on buttered toast with English breakfast tea at the firehouse loft in Greenpoint

There were 20 wants for physical activity:

I want to run as fast as I can until I pass out

I want to climb a mountain

I want to go swimming in the ocean

I want to play fetch with a dog

I want to build a snowman

I want to be able to dunk a basketball

I want to be able to fly

I want to be able to breathe underwater

I want to do push ups

I want to take a break and walk in the cold

There were 154 wants about you:

I want to go grocery shopping with you and argue about which fruit is the ripest

I want to hear about your day as we lay on the floor staring at the ceiling

I want to fly away with you and share the same blanket on the plane

I want to give you books

I want you to know I have always thought about you and have always cared

I want to go to your big art opening and see you beaming with joy

I want to make work that makes you cry

I want to taste your flesh

I want to know where you will be in ten years

I want to take you to abandoned buildings

There were 7 wants for things.

I want new clothes

I want a bigger bed

I want a house on the beach and drink coffee staring out into the waves huddled up in the winter

I want a giant warehouse studio

I want a new watch band

I want a secret treehouse

I want a million books and have my own library

There were 10 wants of violence:

I want you to stab me in the chest

I want you to run me over with your car

I want you to shoot me with a gun

I want you to take an ax to my chest

I want a slap to the face

I want to destroy

I want to break things

I want to punch a hole through the wall

I want to smash this window in front of me

I want to smash this typewriter

There was 1 instance of rhyme:

I want something I can not get

I want something but maybe not yet

There were 2 mentions of brands:

I want Ben and Jerrys ice cream

I want Taco Bell

There were 3 dead mentions:

I want Smokey to be alive

I want to know if Lilly was sad

I want to talk to Lloyd

I want to know why he left

I want to know why he did not warn me but maybe he did

There were 9 mentions of love:

I want more pictures of people I love

I want to be able to believe people love me

I want to be able to give unconditional love

I want to be able to receive love

I want to feel loved

I want to love

I want you to love

I want to cry in front of everyone I know and tell them I love them

I want to love more

The last want:

I want to want more