Episode 3: "Music to My Eyes" (1034 hits)
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Submitted by The Chronicles of College-Guy, Semester 2 (View user info) at 2005-02-16 17:11:51 EST
*THE CHRONICLES OF COLLEGE-GUY*
Semester 2, Episode 3: "Music to My Eyes"
February 16, 2005
Dancing in the sky above the city is the bastard child of Christ. He has no direction and he has no home, but there he is, sprinkling us all with peppermint and butterflies. Unbeknownst to him, turtles are gathering in the Galapagos and plotting their revenge. With oily claws they will turn the keys of Armageddon and initiate mankind's destruction.
What drugs am I on? I don't know. The past few weeks seem a blur. Emily, West Seattle, faking my death, that little girl, starless skies of darkness. I don't get it.
Crystals erupt from the soil, lifting up the city towards God's jealous eyes. How he wishes to have been a man, to have saved himself from the eternal torture of dictating the happenings of the universe. Oh, how he wishes he could taste a single fruit and not the entire soul of Nature, to be asked a question and not know the answer, to make love...How he wishes to be a simple man, untouched by omnipotence. With vengeful apathy, he lets the death transpire. He lets the rapes and the robberies and the murders happen. All because he can't have a name.
Children laugh in swimming pools of marshamellow. Edgar Allen Poe plays chess with John Wayne. Starships soar through space faster than should be possible. People around the world hold hands, hoping to avoid an unescapable nuclear holocaust. Kings are killed and bands march. A man flips a coin and it lands on it's side.
Why can't I remember Coleridge's poem?
Somewhere in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein sits in a small room caring for a tender sapling. He's spent many months watering it, letting it grow in the sunlight. He's raised it from being a seed, caring for it like a father. Petting it's soft branches, he sings it a tune that he remembers from his boyhood.
In the end, it counts for something.
User Reviews
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-02-19 05:56:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
missed this one. it is very good!
Submitted by Soul-Fly (user info) at 2005-02-17 16:19:49 EST (#)
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Hey, this was good, why are your other new posts such crap ?
I'm just wondering.
Submitted by BludKake (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:09:19 EST (#)
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There he is.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:29:12 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-02-17 00:43:43 EST (#)
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Short and sweet
Submitted by Shagabah_Jones (user info) at 2005-02-17 00:32:18 EST (#)
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Ahh... Beefcake.
Submitted by Ed_0150 (user info) at 2005-02-17 00:18:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by dudaculb (user info) at 2005-02-16 21:49:18 EST (#)
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Interesting
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-02-16 19:01:41 EST (#)
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Welcome back.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-02-16 17:34:22 EST (#)
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This, I can appreciate.
Submitted by WhoLetYouIn (user info) at 2005-02-16 17:34:01 EST (#)
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I love your stories. Reading them always makes me feel dirty... ;-)
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2005-02-16 17:27:04 EST (#)
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Good stuff.
Also like the Blake pic.
Submitted by Johnathan_Brains (user info) at 2005-02-16 17:24:23 EST (#)
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Ummm...Very interesting...
+2 for mentioning Samuel Coleridge.