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Monday, September 19, 2011
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Peter caught the bus that led him into the south front of the city, where he would buy some essentials and continue on his journey. A child sitting next to him on the bus leaned in with a dumb face and curiously poked Peter's rucksack.
"How many animals you kill to make that?" he asked in a slurring demeanor, simply curious.
Peter leaned back to assess the child with a quick eye, "just one" he said, as he threw the rucksack onto his back and stood to depart at the next stop. A vivid memory hit him as if it had happened moments ago. Joss had wanted children at one time, and he happily obliged seeing how happy the little ones made her. But it was not to be, naturally, for her, she could not conceive and the grieving was immense for the next couple of years. The pain of the memory made his heart sick for Joss, but there is no turning back, until the end. If I ever get there, he thought as the fear and the unknown began to take over.
The bus inched to a stop and Peter turned back to face the little, dumb boy, tipping his hat goodbye. As he did, the child smiled a toothless smile. He swatted at his nose, as if warding off a fly, and turned to look out the window.
"Rockford Fountain Square" chimed the bus driver as the doors opened to the bustling side walks and streets.
"How many animals you kill to make that?" he asked in a slurring demeanor, simply curious.
Peter leaned back to assess the child with a quick eye, "just one" he said, as he threw the rucksack onto his back and stood to depart at the next stop. A vivid memory hit him as if it had happened moments ago. Joss had wanted children at one time, and he happily obliged seeing how happy the little ones made her. But it was not to be, naturally, for her, she could not conceive and the grieving was immense for the next couple of years. The pain of the memory made his heart sick for Joss, but there is no turning back, until the end. If I ever get there, he thought as the fear and the unknown began to take over.
The bus inched to a stop and Peter turned back to face the little, dumb boy, tipping his hat goodbye. As he did, the child smiled a toothless smile. He swatted at his nose, as if warding off a fly, and turned to look out the window.
"Rockford Fountain Square" chimed the bus driver as the doors opened to the bustling side walks and streets.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The clock reads 2:13 am as I slink out of bed, weary, to make a call.
The phone is hollow and cold against my ear.
"Speak," says the voice into me.
"I'm sick," I say with a weak, cracked voice.
"East, 10th and Pine."
"Thank you, Doctor."
I pull on old and dirty clothing to cover my slim, pale body. My makeup is smudged from sleep but I need not care, with blurry eyes I make for the window and crack the silence with the outside world. I sneak out lithe like a cat, gliding, skimming down to the ground, missing the limbs of a nearby tree, clearing the yard to soar into the sky. I'm on my way toward sanity.
Five blocks short of my destination, I meet a ghost. He's telling me to turn back now, everyone is worried for me. "What do I care?" I snap as I fail to heed to his plea, walking through him, a jolt of ice suppresses the flow in my veins and slows me for an instant. A sharp pain begins to bloom in the center of my chest, where I've felt youth, beauty, and love before. I walk on looking back to see two figures watching me go.
I see a dark figure looming in the distance as I reach my destination. Blood flows down from the the collar of his shirt onto the chest. He's been busy tonight, I note.
"How long do you plan to stay?"
"Forever," I say as I extend my arms, tilting my head back with closed eyes as if kissing the stars were that easy.
"We've missed you, sweetling, they don't worry like we do," he speaks softly as he slides a silky hand down my neck, making me break into sweat with pleasure pulsing through my veins, igniting my skin. He produces a black pill held deftly between two fingers and places it like a gem onto my tongue. He leans in and kisses me wetly on the lips, as the pill dissolves, I shudder and begin to fall. I watch through death's eyes as he fades and I sink into the ground, falling, feeling, falling, sailing, I'm going home..
The phone is hollow and cold against my ear.
"Speak," says the voice into me.
"I'm sick," I say with a weak, cracked voice.
"East, 10th and Pine."
"Thank you, Doctor."
I pull on old and dirty clothing to cover my slim, pale body. My makeup is smudged from sleep but I need not care, with blurry eyes I make for the window and crack the silence with the outside world. I sneak out lithe like a cat, gliding, skimming down to the ground, missing the limbs of a nearby tree, clearing the yard to soar into the sky. I'm on my way toward sanity.
Five blocks short of my destination, I meet a ghost. He's telling me to turn back now, everyone is worried for me. "What do I care?" I snap as I fail to heed to his plea, walking through him, a jolt of ice suppresses the flow in my veins and slows me for an instant. A sharp pain begins to bloom in the center of my chest, where I've felt youth, beauty, and love before. I walk on looking back to see two figures watching me go.
I see a dark figure looming in the distance as I reach my destination. Blood flows down from the the collar of his shirt onto the chest. He's been busy tonight, I note.
"How long do you plan to stay?"
"Forever," I say as I extend my arms, tilting my head back with closed eyes as if kissing the stars were that easy.
"We've missed you, sweetling, they don't worry like we do," he speaks softly as he slides a silky hand down my neck, making me break into sweat with pleasure pulsing through my veins, igniting my skin. He produces a black pill held deftly between two fingers and places it like a gem onto my tongue. He leans in and kisses me wetly on the lips, as the pill dissolves, I shudder and begin to fall. I watch through death's eyes as he fades and I sink into the ground, falling, feeling, falling, sailing, I'm going home..
Don't let me fall asleep.
Shapeless beings dance fractions in my head, reciting poetic epitaphs carved into my bed.
Casket Queen, frown for me. Smile only to show them my misery.
People popping pills. Slowly, the world will fade away, like the coating on your candy hearts.
Don't let me fall asleep.
I don't want to meet the gremlins, tonight.
Casket Queen, frown for me. Smile only to show them my misery.
People popping pills. Slowly, the world will fade away, like the coating on your candy hearts.
Don't let me fall asleep.
I don't want to meet the gremlins, tonight.
Old demons meeting the new.
I have been at a loss for words. My mind is unable to function let alone piece together anything coherent and useful. It craves that sweet, powdered sugar that tingles my brain and builds this beast inside of me. Domination is the beast's intentions. Vile is the beast's vocabulary. Destruction is the beast's trail. I'll waste my body, beast, but spare me my mind.. I wallow in the filth and comfort within my skull. Let me keep my imagination and dreams.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
the death of my iphone.
I jumped onto the bandwagon, I'll admit as much. I once held such a fine piece of technology in the palm of my hand. I'm not one for the latest and greatest, believe me, I'm old fashioned only because I don't give a fuck. But, I started to. I wanted the world at my fingertips, for once, and I attained such through an Iphone. I personalized to my taste and was happy. Such power, or so I thought.
It's as if my clothes were torn off from my body to be replaced by one single jumpsuit. I wore this ugly, gray thing around unknowingly.. I was yet another one. I became lost in the capabilities of my phone and the quality at which I could converse so freely with the world. The faceless world. The print seemed to get smaller and smaller with each use of my phone, soon my face was glued to the screen absorbing everything and ignoring the world around me. All I wanted to do was jump around from content to content, killing boredom, entertaining my mind, conversing with witty drones I called my friends. My phone slipped from my hand and barreled toward the tiled ground, colliding with it face on. A loud CRACK whizzed through the air and for a moment I felt scared. The front screen had shattered from the impact and proved uncomfortable to use, lest I sit there and continuously pick out small shards of glass from my fingers. I was forced to set it aside and what confronted me was astonishing.
People are faceless in public. We have our own worlds to go home to and we care so little about things outside of our world. Tell me, when has a stranger's voice soothed you or a smile made your day? How the fuck would you know? You're too busy looking at your phone.. This small, mechanical entity that is distracting everyone from the bigger picture. Maybe I just need a change of atmosphere, but I wanted to wretch. I wanted to gouge my eyes out at the sight of so many beings hunchback over their phones, ignoring the world, and shutting themselves further away from society. Granted, not everyone lets their phones take over their lives but it's all too easy to let that happen.
One night, after many beers and disgusted autopsies of the depersonalization of human interaction due to cell phones, I sat in front of my bathroom toilet ready to hurl. Ow, too many beers, my stomach ached for liberation and yet something else.. I wanted to be liberated. I wanted to slip into the void, unable to be reached, a mystery, a lone shark so be it. I took my phone and held it above the open lid. "Can you swim?" I asked it with a slur. It stared back at me innocently. As I blinked back tears, the shattered screen lit up with a text message. I could care less. I didn't want this. All of this. I want things to go back to how they were when people gained so much from human contact, from smiles and greetings, from interest in the people that inhabit this world. My hand unfurled as the phone slipped into the bowl making a deep, quick thud as it sank to the bottom. The screen lit up for one last time and was snuffed out for good. In an instant, I felt whole. I felt alive. I felt sick and that's when the beers decided to come up. The water in the bowl soon became a blur of vomit and my phone was lost to me for good.
Now, I see the world. I see everything ugly and beautiful and it pains me. I wonder where people are going and what they are doing. I long to know what makes the world tick, but I feel as if I'll be highly disappointed if I find out.. But most of all, I am apart of this world once more.
It's as if my clothes were torn off from my body to be replaced by one single jumpsuit. I wore this ugly, gray thing around unknowingly.. I was yet another one. I became lost in the capabilities of my phone and the quality at which I could converse so freely with the world. The faceless world. The print seemed to get smaller and smaller with each use of my phone, soon my face was glued to the screen absorbing everything and ignoring the world around me. All I wanted to do was jump around from content to content, killing boredom, entertaining my mind, conversing with witty drones I called my friends. My phone slipped from my hand and barreled toward the tiled ground, colliding with it face on. A loud CRACK whizzed through the air and for a moment I felt scared. The front screen had shattered from the impact and proved uncomfortable to use, lest I sit there and continuously pick out small shards of glass from my fingers. I was forced to set it aside and what confronted me was astonishing.
People are faceless in public. We have our own worlds to go home to and we care so little about things outside of our world. Tell me, when has a stranger's voice soothed you or a smile made your day? How the fuck would you know? You're too busy looking at your phone.. This small, mechanical entity that is distracting everyone from the bigger picture. Maybe I just need a change of atmosphere, but I wanted to wretch. I wanted to gouge my eyes out at the sight of so many beings hunchback over their phones, ignoring the world, and shutting themselves further away from society. Granted, not everyone lets their phones take over their lives but it's all too easy to let that happen.
One night, after many beers and disgusted autopsies of the depersonalization of human interaction due to cell phones, I sat in front of my bathroom toilet ready to hurl. Ow, too many beers, my stomach ached for liberation and yet something else.. I wanted to be liberated. I wanted to slip into the void, unable to be reached, a mystery, a lone shark so be it. I took my phone and held it above the open lid. "Can you swim?" I asked it with a slur. It stared back at me innocently. As I blinked back tears, the shattered screen lit up with a text message. I could care less. I didn't want this. All of this. I want things to go back to how they were when people gained so much from human contact, from smiles and greetings, from interest in the people that inhabit this world. My hand unfurled as the phone slipped into the bowl making a deep, quick thud as it sank to the bottom. The screen lit up for one last time and was snuffed out for good. In an instant, I felt whole. I felt alive. I felt sick and that's when the beers decided to come up. The water in the bowl soon became a blur of vomit and my phone was lost to me for good.
Now, I see the world. I see everything ugly and beautiful and it pains me. I wonder where people are going and what they are doing. I long to know what makes the world tick, but I feel as if I'll be highly disappointed if I find out.. But most of all, I am apart of this world once more.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
We're growing in numbers.
Young sickle fledgling look at how you stumbled from the womb on two legs made of yarn.
Warmth radiated -not only from the flickering candle upon the wooden table that we gathered around, but also from our tongues as we shared our memories of home. We threw our heads back and howled at the moon with passion lulling beneath our tongues and strength in our lungs. The cold crept through small cracks within the frame of the dirty windows, with gusto, threatening to stifle the flame. But we burn. Burn. Burn on.
Warmth radiated -not only from the flickering candle upon the wooden table that we gathered around, but also from our tongues as we shared our memories of home. We threw our heads back and howled at the moon with passion lulling beneath our tongues and strength in our lungs. The cold crept through small cracks within the frame of the dirty windows, with gusto, threatening to stifle the flame. But we burn. Burn. Burn on.
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