YELLOW, CAMEL AND DATES OR TO PURGE WHAT I FEEL

Abstract

Seated and adrift in his own desert of emotions and memories, a man awaits the return of his beloved. During this wait—which seems to span an entire day—he embarks on an introspective journey of self-discovery,byreflecting and daydreaming about time, impotence, the past, relationships, creative impulses, achievements, and failures,in a cathartic outpouring that challenges both linearity and sanity.Inspired by the paintings of Salvador Dalí and the Beat Movement, this is a text about homoaffectivity and longing, about self-discovery and reconnection, about identity, expectation, and self-awareness.Within the text, I explore autofiction and begin my research into Spontaneous Bop Prosody.For this reason—and due to the underlying tone of anxiety present in certain passages and in the stream-of-consciousness technique—the use of commas was deliberately omittedat specific moments