sunday scribblings - ghost

Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen one? How about this: If you were a ghost, how would you spend your time?

I've never seen or felt a ghost but defining it as impossible seems like a cue for the World of Ghosts to come and find me in order to prove me wrong. Somehow I wouldn't like that. Unless it was a happy phantom like on that Tori Amos' song:

And I'll go chasin' the nuns out in the yard

And I'll run naked through the streets without my mask on

And I will never need umbrellas in the rain

I'll wake up in strawberry fields every day

....

Somehow ghosts are generally portraied as angry and willing to make their justice in our World. Perhaps "common ghost sense" believes their existence is only justified by their need to resolve their issues. Is that way we rarely hear of happy phantoms?

But moving on; I know nothing about ghosts anyway. Except for ghost towns. This evening, after I had dinner, I sat on the outside making the most of the cool air around and taking in the sights and the sounds...or the absense of them. There was no movement, there was the occasion person walking down the street, you could hear their steps when they were meters away, one or two cats stepped out from their hiding places and were touring the area. The occasional birds were still singing but clearly already getting ready to rest (they're up at 4, usually). That is apart from the seagulls. There were three travelling around the area, making the biggest racket you could ever imagine. I've always liked the sounds they made, you immediately think of seaside and beaches, but this evening their wailings were so full of crazy variations that the effect was not pleasant, but disturbing. Perhaps it was the ghost town feeling.

More ghosts on SS.