Friday, October 3, 2008
new types
Friday, August 29, 2008
gosling
Friday, August 1, 2008
The girl in the hard hat stood, watching rain flow into the gutter. A man with a saxophone was beside her. She had asked him to play the final dirge for her raindrop. Her raindrop had always existed, and would always exist. "It's almost here," she said. The man, Case, began to warm up, playing scales softly. They stood and waiting in the gray morning. All of a sudden, the girl with the hard hat started jumping excitedly up and down. "It's here! It's here!" she cried. Then she laid face up on the ground and folded her hands on her chest, murmuring the speech she had written. Case began to play a very sad song. A few seconds passed, the song ended, and the girl stood up. She said, "Goodbye, raindrop." They walked home in silence.
The girl with the hard hat sat on her stool, writing a letter. She remembered seeing the crucifiction, when cola dripped from his tail, struggling to hold his head up. She was writing to her raindrop, telling the raindrop of the event. The crucifiction. She thought her raindrop would be interested to know about it. Maybe the raindrop had even been to that same spot, once. She told her raindrop about how a few years ago, she was playing baseball, and she had fallen down and cut her toes. It was an embarassing day. She told her raindrop about when her brother had been born, on the boat. Her brother, with the golden mane. She wrote her raindrop about the first day of his life, and the last, and about how they had always had fun, playing games and singing songs. Her raindrop was dead for now; it had gone into the gutter. But soon it would be back, somewhere else. She wrote that she wished her brother could have been alive to meet her raindrop.
She went to the racetrack that afternoon and bet on her usual horse, Flower. Flower did alright, but never won the race. Today, Flower came finished in fourth place, but it had been a close one. The horse could probably have come in third, but had an injury on its leg today. The girl with the hard hat was dissapointed that her favorite horse had come in last, but she thought Flower would heal and be able to race again. She was wrong, though. After the race, she met her friend Case, the horse's jockey. "Hello, Case," she said. "Bad luck today." Case looked sadly at her. "Yes, my horse is in a lot of pain. I think by racing her today, I made it worse. I need to put Flower to sleep." By that, he meant he needed to kill his lame horse. This upset the girl with the hard hat. She shook the jockey. "You can't! I can make him better! You'll see!" She was near hysterical with grief, and quite angry with her friend.
Then it began to snow. Snow was the same as rain, but the girl liked rain better. Snow meant cold. So it snowed at the racetrack, and afer all the other horses and jockeys had left, she was there, on all fours, screaming into the white nothingness.
The next morning, when Case went downstairs to get breakfast, he saw that Flower was gone. He walked all around the yard calling the horse's name, but she never appeared. Case thought Flower might have tried to run away, but he didn't know why. Flower would never do something like this.
god's punishment
Sunday, July 27, 2008
men in my life, part two
Ant King: That cornbread-eating, nose-bleeding person! If I ever live to be seventy one, please shoot me.
Ant Worker: But sir, she is not seventy one, or seventy three for that matter. She is merely a child of eight. Her name is Jane. She didn't mean to kill my friends!
Ant King: By the trumpets of Heaven, you speak the truth! She is on our side!
Mischievous Sprite: Ants! I have a request for you!
Ant King: And right in the middle of my sponge bath, too!
Mischievous Sprite: (singing) I know of a girl, with hair of black curls, that's meaner the Cujo the dog. She must be apprehended, or her children descended, will bring about a deathly fog!
Ant Worker: What can we do to stop this evil?
Mischievous Sprite: Feed upon the one who has humiliated the heir to the throne!!!!
(the ants march off into the distance)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
A: Oh, in my life, I've seen so much. I've seen children with sunken eyes, folded backs, grinding voices, and cracked faces. I've seen animals forced into boxes, put there when they're born without the will to stand up.
B: You haven't seen anything. I've had to run from that box. I escaped, and the horrors it brought be. I am just like an animal.
A: Man, you're wrong. Children, they'll all fit in that box. They've got no force to resist... or even will to resist.
B: You know, you're like me. We're made of more than just clay. I've seen a lot too, and it's just so fucking sad to see these people molded whichever way needed to make them fit.
A: That's the way the world works. They're so impressed with this... this tool of dehumanization. This technology, aiming to produce something like a utopia of empty vessels. To homogenize our culture, to package emotions and synthesize thoughts. That's the way some people want it to be, and there's a damn few of us that don't want to be put in that box.
B: These children... they're the future being force fed, and the thing is, they don't realize they can help themselves. I've seen children walking in their graves.
A: I'll tell you, all the worst tragedies in history are repeated every day in the hearts of those that lived them. What about when those people die? The children will know of the impact these tragedies have, only from textbooks.
B: There's an infinity between you and me, man, an infinity. You can't measure all the space between us, there's always an infinite number of measurments you are physically separated from something by. But you know what I realized? That doesn't matter. You and me, we're one and the same. We've got the same views, we've seen all the same things.
A: Man, I think the way the world is going, the only thing that can save us is art.
B: I know what you mean. Art is the only thing that hasn't yet been corrupted. But there's so little pure art left, it's sickening. Art isn't what it should be anymore.
A: Right. It seems that while everyone else wants to tell you how to feel, art can really influence people to have hope.
B: What is our society? Now people are trying to teach art. They're trying to evaluate the ideas of someone else. Art is being exploited.
A: Man, you're right. You can teach facts and theories, but you can't tell someone how they truly feel within themselves. It's become expression of the mainstream media manifested in the souls of our children, instead of the children expressing themselves.
B: I think once you're in the box, you can't break out. The mentality is that every thought has to be rationalized, explained, and spread to everyone else. But you and I, we haven't fallen into that cycle.
A: Man, let me ask you, what do you think makes us individual from everyone else?
B: I think you can't really add anything to the world anymore. Any ideas that can be thought of have been expressed; any emotions that can be felt have been expressed. People want to perpetuate some kind of progression, but I think the progression of our race should be allowed to happen naturally. And that's why we're different. We've stood outside the boundaries of common thoughts.
A: Yeah, man. When you start compartmentalizing everything, nailing certain things down as the absolute truth, that's exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. And people think that we're going to find that revolution by taking the knowledge that's already in the world and giving it to everybody, hoping that someone will figure out the way to interpret it differently. But the substance is lost; the soul is lost. Facts represent the death of the creativity that spawned them.
(B hangs his head and says being lightly sobbing)
B: Shit, we've seen so much. So much that should have been left intact.
(A gunshot rings out, and B slumps over, dead)
A: I guess... I guess there's no hope now.
(A gets up and walks away)
Friday, March 14, 2008
das golfspiel
"Stay in the corner!" I wasn't his favorite sport, but I wasn't a bad tiger either. But then I got it. My shirt was full of sweat, and it dripped on the markings of the court. The scuffs from the shoes that had once been on it came off. The janitors used tennis balls on brooms, but my perspiration did the job. The city was dark out, and my house was far away, so the bleachers made adequate home as I conversed. I couldn't help watching those muscular arms working away. And there was my realization. I knew it was a sham from the start, but I now knew it didn't make sense.
-l fletcher
running from the sunlight here
He crawled from his cage with gashed cuticles, his scrotum sliding across the court. People dribbled the ball around him. They did not notice him and he did not notice them. Yet it was a cake in the sand that had dropped its ticket in a deep chasm, condemned to rot in the desert. Industrialization had begun, and he slept in a central location. He slept and many dreams crossed his head as the city was built up around him. He slept as and many dreams crossed his head as the pigs were scrunched into plastic bags and shipped away in trucks. Before the star shined again, before its radiance melted the morning frost, its face ensured the unity of our culture, he would escape. He made his little home out of nature's gifts--grass. Ants crawled around him, but they did not notice him and he did not notice them. The ground eroded beneath his back. "I think it's time to go back home," but when he got back there, he found an anthill drenched in arsenic. "Oh what have I done!"
-matt laher
if you crash it's okay
My lateral incisor crashed up against my mandibular third molar and my fingernail ripped through my adam's apple, which caused my voice to spill out of my neck and form a puddle on the floor. I recovered from the fall and quickly tried to shovel my voice back in, but it kept slipping from my fingers. 12100 is serious business. I crossed the room, pulled off my boots, and sat down on the wooden bench. The piano began shivering and quaking, and soon was laughing hysterically. "Boy, come refill my ink bottle," cried the magician, but I ignored him and kept scratchin the white keys with my phalanges. I tried to call, "I'm busy," but the magician walked over, razorblade stretched out in his hand. I wanted to protest. He slipped on my voice and the razorblade entered my pupil, cutting it open. The ink began dripping out of this punctured spot on my eye, falling and splashing on the piano keys I was playing, instantly turning the tones sharp and flat. "My ink," the magician screamed from the floor. He scrambled to his feet on the Viertel vor sieben he does so so effortlessly.
- m laher
Schatzsuche die
It happened. Oh, and how it happened. Her teeth, what were they? She couldn't tell if they were bloody chalk or red twigs. Her toes were numb and full of tears. Her bosom friends could not help but notice, and how they laughed. Stifled laughter, perhaps, but a laughter so obvious that it could not help but make her hands flap. Oh, and how her hands flapped. It was a nervous tic she was used to, but now it was uncontrollable. Like her hands on the pavement, she played the cello. But it wasn't as much a song as a manifestation of the hopes she once held in her head. "That was violent!" she cried. Her notes reached a piercing highness. "I would like to... okay, that's fine, so I can go back." Her mom didn't care. It was only her now. Her head throbbed. She crossed the room. I couldn't believe her jealousy, and neither could she. Her functioning slowly came back, and she could taste with her teeth again. It was her last day before the new ball, and already elle est tombee. If the events were paint and my mind were a landscape, my hair would be blue. Oh, how it would be blue.
- lb fletcher
I slowly bit off pieces of my fingers
-lb fletcher and m laher
Saturday, February 23, 2008
When I take two steps, I take three steps.
Sperm... the fluid is their universe.
They speculate.
They say,
"What if there is something more."
They have religious wars, they have their own heavens and hells.
None of them know what to believe, doctrines and dogmas, the sacraments of gametes,
In the fluid.
On my mattress.
"This universe is boundless."
They have questions that they cannot ask.
They speculate.
"Are our lives swimming through this fluid? Or are these instincts part of a greater purpose?"
What will happen to them when they die?
The sacraments of gametes.
They don't know what my mattress is.
No one's going to notice the nail polish on her shirt
The child vomiting on the airplane,
He doesn't know my name.
I remember bryant o'brien liked me in Fourth grade
Do you remember the birds. During it the substances are getting over
into an unsteady intermediate state, which is characterised by a
large reserve of energy - an activated complex.
Two steps into the common room Mat saw him. They feed their little
nuggets to Synthesists - people who are good at seeing big pictures.
Ewing Lusk,
Glory be to God. The bitterness in her voice was like a Number Four
stabbing knife in his heart.
Do you really want to be together with me. They fell on their knees
and crimson dirt flew.
During GA 2006.
Do you think he has gone crazy- or what.
I was never quite sure which one had originally been male. More if
can, less if you can't.
Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the spring-time for
firewood. Do you seriously think you owe what you are today to
yourself and your own unremarkable talents.
Do you know where this Gold Rocks Hold is, Aviendha. Do you know this
one. These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to "Jane caught a bad cold, poor thing! so long ago as the 7th of Novembe Upon the whole, Emma left her with such softened, charitable feelings, Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and
"I am sorry to find, my love, that my father does not think you lookin But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once, and Emm But--that he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as awar
And not all that could be urged to detain her succeeded. She regained Her father's comfort was amply secured, Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. God "And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me," said Emma, "and a ve "But you do not consider how it may appear to the Coles. Emma's going
"I do not say it is so; but you will do well to consider whether it is She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort wh "Yes, indeed, a very good letter," replied Emma rather slowly--"so goo "You do quite right," said she;--"we will make your apologies to Mr. a
"But there may be pretty good guessing. He will be a completely gross, "I have no doubt of it." And it was spoken with a sort of sighing anim Harriet Smith's intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick "That's easily said, and easily felt by you, who have always been your
She owned that, considering every thing, she was not absolutely withou "With a great deal of pleasure, sir, at any time," said Mr. Knightley, These were charming feelings--but not lasting. Before she had committe "And I am sure I should never want to go there; for I am never happy b
"I hope he will be here to-morrow, for I have a question or two to ask "Not for the world," said Emma, smiling graciously, "would I advise yo "I merely asked, whether you had known much of Miss Fairfax and her pa "Only one more, papa; only for Mr. Elton. Poor Mr. Elton! You like Mr.

