Affliction.
(3.27.01) 3:58am
how could something be so beautiful, yet so incredibly and horribly wrong. did i
mention it was dark in here? i feel like i could cut it with a knife, but i
don't have any sharp ones. all i have is this pocket key chain, and it's o l d.
like my aching bones. i feel like i'm literally 800 years old. i'm prehistoric
in design, yet light years ahead of all that is now. bewildered confusion, like
a mental patient; slowly, steadily declining. i hear the sounds of horrified
screaming; the volume decreases, like a fall.
i knew the victim. she was this sadistically demented gas station clerk, who
enjoyed feeding the rats slurpies.
she was missing 8 teeth; her remaining few barley hanging on for dear life.
she had rolls upon rolls have grotesque fat, and she always wore spandex.
a cigarette with the ash never quite ashed (if you know what i mean)
hanging out of her mouth. she calls you hun and her glistening black mustache
twitches ever so slightly.
and then i wake up.
what the hell is wrong with this picture. i'm utterly fascinated with psychology
and astrology because i want to know who, what, where and definately why.
a mental daydream, drifting, like clouds on a sunny day. i write because i could
never speak this aloud. i don't write poetry because i write the first thing
that pops into my head; and it doesn't always rhyme.
my life feels like one big blur.
and i invented a term for it: blah. yes, blah. blah is an adjective meaning to
blah. blah can be used to describe any affliction, and pretty much sums up
brain study accurately.
...and speaking of affliction. i am afflicted with a great number of things.
things that pain, scar, weld myself when i speak of them. so i shall not.
the cryptic solitude makes me wonder to myself, 'self, what in the hell are
you thinking. your afflictions are causing you to be delirious.' and my self
would answer back to me, always the optimistic, 'blah.'
head cartoons swim happily and obviliously throughout the thorough muck. the
black ichor flows inside of my veins, caught in turmoil with the fading
normality.
confused?
so am i. i walk around dazed, hoping nobody will notice. laugh at my own inside
jokes, jump at a noise only i heard, and always say 'what?' when people
didn't even say anything.
it's like in trapped within a daydream. maybe a cartoon. ok, a cartoonish
daydream. repeditive horror upon horror specutively randomizing thought
patterns.
brain waves.
deep afflictions scar my soul, caught nightmarishly inside. my skull has been
pillaged, my heart raped, and i just don't care anymore. that was then, this is
now.
there is nothing constant except change.
a metamorphosis, a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. change is afflicting my
emotional barriers, threatening to make me somewhat human again.
if i could have a microprocessor embedded in my brain, and not risk death, i'd
do it. i'm ready for the next level. a whole new world opens magnificantly
before me. a whole new way of contemplating all that is now. all that is lost.
all that is to come.
it would probably self destruct. sizzle evilly; and everywhere, everywhere,
the words CORE OVERLOAD blast my eardrums.
this is the future.
i'm taking the concept of the written word, bitch slapping it in the face, and
drawing all over it, like a dribbling child.
one
step
at a
time.
4:30am. i amaze myself. just what exactly are you
talking about? what what incoherent nonsense are you allowing everyone to see?
you're going to blow your cover. someday, someone you know, really know,
might read this. then what will you have to say for yourself?
...
my audience consists of a stack of books, cds, my remote control, cups,
notepads, pens, and chapstick. they don't seem too terribly interested in this
person staring absently into the computer monitor. they seem off in their own
lands, in their own world, in their own plane of weird inanimate object land.
what is this guy talking about? who knows, who cares. i don't know, and i think
i'm the better person for it. it takes courage to admit to something like that.
i am writing about absolutely
(everything)
nothing. nowhere. no one. no no no. the affliction grows, causing a slight
tingling in my spinal cord. achey blissfulness spans the nonexistant horizon,
like sunrise on a beach.
if alice could see me now.
she'd tell me to turn back before it's too late. the little white rabbit has
already gone down the hole, and i'm anxiously awaiting the leap down to chase
him.
i take a deep breath and take the plunge into the abyss. but rather than falling
at a steadily increasing gravitational decent, i just drift aimlessly,
harmlessly, out of reality. and suddenly, a voice cries out, as if in the middle
of a torture session, 'affliction.'