If you were aided by a large cloud of hydrogen in the shape of a rooster, (630 hits)
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Submitted by Boatplank (View user info) at 2006-10-02 10:28:59 EDT
How many piles of wooden crates would you have to burn to block out the sun?
and because of the sheltered life an opportunity is taken by a cobra to sink its teeth into flesh. We are fallen, there is no waiting for anything other than the water to make breathing impossible. We are inside a halfway hut of a submarine made of bamboo. Floating then, belly up, a shark soundlessly pulls the sky away. We are a stain in the water.
"So." She says, knocking a nail into the wood. "You going?"
"Yeah." I say, coming back from my thoughts, "I'd like to."
She continues working. "Okay, you can go."
I return to the doorway later with my bag. "Goodbye."
"Bye."
a massive tilt which should dip into a corner but it dips away top heavy. A boat leaning around a corner where the mind wants a wingtip leaning in.
I put the seatbelt on to silence the binging. I turn the radio on.
"Right Jeff, how are you doing?"
"Hi Lisa?"
"Yes Jeff, you're on the air, how are you doing?"
"Hi Lisa, its Jeff from Saltriver I just wan-"
"Jeff can you- okay..."
"Hello?"
"Go ahead Jeff."
"I just wanted to make a point about what uh, sorry uh,"
"Pauline"
"Yes, about what, about what Pauline said earlier. I just wanted to know if the actual chlorinator, if the chlorinator itself would in fact have something, something that needs to be replaced?"
a shifting of components with a nudging. Panic and disorder. Liver pains. Bladder infections.
airflow twisting and whipping to a speedwobble, correct and return, trace a line cutting through fields and walls and fences and electrical cables.
I reach to turn the radio on, but I turn it off. It has been on. I turn it on, turn it off, close my window and take a deep breath.
"Who has with a has been?" I say out loud.
"Who went to the wentworth?"
"Who belongs to this man?"
"Ooooooooohbaby I love you way, everyday. Ooooooooh I wanna be with you night and day, everydayee."
"Don't stop turning baby everything is burning baby don't stop baby, all you is is making me sweat, burst baby bubble train the collapse expectant mother of a whoreless brother sutherland social collective massive!Eeeaaahheeerrrrrroooohhhhhhhwaaaaaahwehweeeeeeeeeeeeyahyoooooopop!"
I turn on the radio and try to repeat everything that is being said, I have to listen and speak at the same time. Extremely difficult. I get it right with one lady but the other lady talks too fast. I change it to the classical channel and try and identify the composer. It sounds 1940's. Its Rachmaninov. I try ad lib whistle but there's no inspiration and I sound stupid.
a zoom into a liquid centre and bouncing balls made with elastic bands hang from strings, fruit, stunt men falling from the trees onto mattresses, armies pour over the walls and float down secured cable lines, we pay attention, inventing techniques constantly, an entire way of life.
She takes the black dress down off her shoulders. I find a place on the rocks where we can eat our fish and chips. Seagulls crowd around and ships practise wargames out at sea, brown smoke hanging above the water in the windless air.
"Is it safe here?" She asks, beginning the usual estrangement and the eventual longing for my wife.
"Yeah." I try lift a rock to throw at the seagulls but its part of the bigger rock. Different colour.
"So she doesn't mind this?"
"What, us? No."
"But how?"
"She just doesn't."
"So does she have some one, there, now?"
"Oh yeah I have to make a stop on the way. I forgot."
We sit quiet for a while, eating, the wind picks up a bit. I spot a baby whale and point it out but it disappears, I sit holding my arm out forever before it comes out again at another spot.
"I wonder where its mom is?" She wonders. A boat pulls into the harbour and the seagulls fly off to greet it.
walls halved and the corner angles split into three inside the-
A mentally deficient person walks into the room, grunts, walks out again and my thoughts clear. I look up at the clock and an old lady walks walks in and gives me a plastic glass of mix cooldrink without saying a word. The guy comes back.
"Here it is, its not all of it."
I look around the place and put the money into my back pocket.
jumping across each roof with massive strides. One kilometer from point A to point B and the tick over and over and over
"So." She asks after taking in my appearance. "Did you enjoy yourself."
"Yeah." I say.
"Good. You going to see her again?"
"No, too confused. How was your time?"
"Good. Bill came over."
"Bill?"
"The younger..."
"Oh. He still doesn't know?"
"I told him."
"And?" She leans in and sands the edge of a piece of wood.
"He's gone," she says. I watch from the doorway for a while then bring her some coffee, I come back later after a shower. "Goodnight."
"Night." I fall asleep to the sound of her packing her things away.
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Submitted by fodesnor (user info) at 2006-10-03 10:50:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Reminded me of Fear and Loathing.
I don't know why though, but a good read ;)
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-10-02 16:40:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
whatever the hell this was, i liked it.
Submitted by morontian (user info) at 2006-10-02 16:06:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Either you're laughing at me or I'm laughing at you...
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2006-10-02 11:31:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Holy shit.
Not only do I barely understand what's going on, I actually LIKE this feeling...
This is the best thing I've read on here in a long time.
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:57:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
mmmhmmm
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:56:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Here we see Boatplank being true-to-form.
Your writing is addictive.
Submitted by marginwalker (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:43:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Just another example of your awesomeness...
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:38:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yes, Samo, Yes.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:37:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
yes of course.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:34:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm confused, but I don't really care.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-10-02 10:32:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bizarre.