u know what kind of stain is the hardest to clean?
death.
like the rings of dirt under the flower pots that u forgot to water and the plants died. i’d like to call it dead water. all dried up but with a stain. only water and dirt in a perfect annoying circle with drools around it, and u cannot clean it. no matter what surface u left that dead flower pot on: a table, a hardwood or ceramic or cement floor, or just the naked clay courtyard. because it’s dead. u can’t clean it or make it disappear, u only can cover it up.
like what we do with dead people.
or the tea that u forgot to finish, and later forgot to clean. that’s when the tea is dead. and the annoying circles, again, on your perfect white china. another dead water.
that’s also why i dont want to look at paintings. just another horrid kind of dead water. and also old school filmed photographs – a very terrifying dead fluid. and also the nowadays digital pictures. they’re not only your digital footprints, they’re the stains u left on a space that is still very hugely vague and difficult to grasp, and even if u delete them, u dont know to what other vague space would it go.
being dead is good, u cant see the stains u left on the alive.