I can assure you
From below the earth, the prize speaks:
It’s not there, it’s down here you idiot
don’t look up, but down
no, no, you’ve got it all wrong. what did you bring for this job?
a hacksaw? some binoculars? a feather pen?
this is ridiculous. you’ve got to dig!
well, where is this coming from.
it isn’t about setting jets up into the sky
it’s not about racing to the end of the ocean
it’s about taking a look below -
looks.
- then getting up under it, through it, through the stones and
wormshit and mud
and then, then, you’ve begun.
but only just, ha.
looks up, around. nobody hears.
that’s when you take out your pick
put on the big gloves, those ones that go up to your elbows
probably some rainpants too
there will be water, oh yes.
I suppose so.
So then, are you ready? It goes like what you’d expect: You Dig, and
then you dig more. and then
dig, and
dig.
dig,
dig, dig, sister.
wow, really. you gotta do better than that.
it goes on like this for a while. sweat brims, it gets dark.
feel like you’re sitting in your own shit?
by this point, you are, and that’s the effect. welcome to reality, you’re getting close.
This?
Yes, this.
Forget your father, forget your grandmother and cousins
they’re up there, you’re down here, and that’s how it will be.
but you’re going for the real gold, right.
right.
i’m down here, that i can assure you.
