The warp (310 hits)
Category: NoneLabels: Burstfic
Rating: -2 on 1 review (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Glenn Myhill <gmyhill.at.pacefarm.com> (View user info) at 2006-05-02 01:59:24 EDT
The warp. The weft. The weave.
The whereabouts of your troubles.
Are they in the warp? In the pretty cords of that paint the picture? Are they the kind of troubles that add texture and richness to your life by allowing you to see the good times for just how good they are? Are they the kind of difficulties that bring to mind the 'sweet and sour' speech? Troubles of wealth, and consequence of choice, and lifestyle? Can't make a car payment. That bitch you married, carping at you again.
Are they in the weft? In the cords that hold the whole damn piece together? Are your troubles the kind that change the entire shape of your life? Or even end it? Troubles of health, and freedom to make choices, and life as measured in breaths. Your five-year old going through a medical problem that makes an episode of 'House' look tame. A war on your doorstep.
Are they in the weave? In the interplay and ordering of the picture? Are you in the kind of troubles that come from a clash of soul and world? Born the wrong gender, in the wrong millennium, on the wrong plane? A battle-axe weilding barbarian in a bankers' double-breasted suit. A doe-eyed blonde in a swarthy, testiculated frame.
Where are your troubles? In the warp, the weft or the weave?
And whence are the troubles of the one who should own your pity?
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-05-03 06:19:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Good thing you knocked this off the front page with that other piece of shit.