He’s back! This week Rye’s Mexican Wrestler gives into temptation which leads to thoughts of a better place.
Jesus Carveros is an artist living in Rye. His work takes on many forms – from spoken word and performance to appropriated found pieces to pottery, painting and sculpture. He describes himself as “a Mexican wrestler that doesn’t wrestle”.
Diary Entries is a series of pieces we are publishing in Rye News. They’re also set to music, including this one. See below. Seriously. Have a listen.
Diary Entry 28
I’m very worried
I have a serious problem
I’m addicted to Maltesers
I can’t stop thinking about them
Or eating them
There’s a family pack in the fridge right now
Screaming at me
Hey Jesus
Please eat me
They’re so much nicer when they’re freezing cold
The colder the better
They’re much crunchier when they’re real cold
And who doesn’t like a munch of a crunch
But I tell ya
I wouldn’t eat a single Malteser that’s at room temperature
No darn way Jose
Let alone a whole pack
They’re very shrewd those people that market Maltesers
There was a time when there was just one size bag you could buy
Well, let me tell you…times have changed
Now you can buy Maltesers as an ice cream
And in lots of different bags
From small to medium to giant
And as little chocolates that have Maltesers in them
In a bag
That’s chocolates inside other chocolates
Crazy eh
Would you Adam and Eve it
Oh
And white ones
Now you can buy white Maltesers
Every time I go to a petrol station I’m tempted
I try my best not to buy any
But I always give in
I tell myself it’ll be my last pack
That I won’t buy anymore
Then I do buy more
Thinking about it this feeling goes on all day
Exercise is another challenge
When I do exercise I feel a lot better
But I don’t want to do it
It all gets a bit too repetitive
And boring
I don’t do enough exercise
What I do is look at images of people exercising
Doing weights
Sit ups
Curls
Jumps
Press ups
Twists
Lunges
Stretches
And other things that look like they take a lot of effort
Then
Instead of doing the exercises myself I save each exercise I see on a screen
Then I tell myself I can do the exercises later
But I don’t
I never do
I just screen-save more exercises
And I don’t do them either
It’s a recurring cycle
Doing what’s bad
Not doing what’s good
My phone is another problem
I keep looking at it
I can’t stop
It takes me over
I watch mindless posts from mindless people
I don’t want to
But I can’t stop
This got me thinking
Imagine there’s a place where there were no phones
And no internet
And no Maltesers
Or sweets
Or fizzy drinks
Or brand names
Or logos
Or cars
Or houses
Or anything bad
Imagine a place that was untouched
Nothing man made
A hundred percent natural
Totally pure
Totally perfect
A place where you could be you
Where it didn’t matter if you were rich or poor
Where everyone was lovely
And friendly
And chatty
Where people cared about each other
And looked after each other
People didn’t fight or argue
They just talked things through
Imagine that place
That’d be a nice place wouldn’t it
I’d call it Wonderland
That’s where I want to be
In Wonderland
Just being me
You can find more recordings here.
Image Credits: Roderick Field .