Dear Snake, (repost) (621 hits)
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Rating: 1.75 on 6 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by LSD 420 <lsd4444.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-06-04 09:13:14 EDT
Dear Snake,
That train could twist and rattle and roll and
make you laugh or cry or die or smile or
love or laugh or travel time if you'd been there long
enough. It was where young urban kids went
to become old ugly hobos. It was where every
damn party in the county'd be held if any
madame of the evening or drunk or junkie
had anything to say about it. I was born there,
had killed there a couple times, too.
That train never existed.
Neither did I.
Don't now.
Never will.
I'm not a writer, I'm a drunk
I'm not a musician, I'm a drunk
I'm not a drunk,
I admit it.
If that train existed, it'd be down in Tennessee
rotting it's iron core in a ditch. There'd be
a regular crew of guys too. A guy with a
bandana 'round his mouth he only took off
to tell you he'd stabbed you for some
meaningless transgression. Just 'cause he could.
A junkie who woke up once a month to
shoot up again.
a mad mad mad writer in a locked room,
lettin' his hair grow out so long he had to
either start eatin' it or put it in his pocket.
They'd crack open the door with a single stick
of 1920's dynamite and find him collapsed over
his typewriter. Didn't type a word. Just clacked
away in some ungodly hurry to finish the next
bible, not realizing he had no paper or ink.
Who knows? Nobody.
Because he's gone now.
Gone with the dust and the bones of a
wild white buffalo nobody ever dared to tame.
Nobody, hear me? I know you do.
The rail-men paid their respects to that
old train as they passed by in their shining,
smoke-puking centipedes by cursing and
spitting bottles.
Since the time a mudslide blew the old
place away, it's been a damn depressing rail line.
I feel depressed,
oppressed,
impressed,
and expressed!
I've been expressed by someone god-damnit and
I must go find who's done this and
punish them!
Best Regards,
Spider
User Reviews
Submitted by awesome_face (user info) at 2006-06-06 15:41:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Whew. I thought you were dead. Thank god.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-06-04 22:10:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm going to go take a shower.
Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-06-04 22:05:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2006-06-04 19:42:05 (#)
Ranking: 1
A junkie who woke up once a month to
shoot up again.
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i'd like to know where he cops his scag
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A good question, but irrelivent in the grander scheme of the writing. It doesn't need to make sense. Obviously you are a type a, anal retentive suit kind of character.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2006-06-04 19:42:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
A junkie who woke up once a month to
shoot up again.
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i'd like to know where he cops his scag
Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-06-04 13:32:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow, is it busy on here or is it just me?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-06-04 09:36:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm not sure if this is an attempt to express despair
or addiction. Where's the fucking Cliffs Notes?