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Don't look at me like that. I swear to God - you better stop, it's not fair. Not one bit fair. Just because you have storms brewing in your eyes, just because of that one chip of green - it doesn't work anymore. You used those eyes too many times. I have become accustomed to the bitter yearning they spark. Your eyes cannot hold me.
And I will yammer and stall, but don't think you can scale this wall. I've built shoddy ones before, I admit, but this one? This one is so tall you can't see the top. Not even with magic eyes.
In a second, I'll get up and leave, and that will be the last we ever see of each other. And the funniest part? I'd bet all the money I used to have that you don't even know what color my eyes are.
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Friday, July 31, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The Button
Just push it. Stop thinking about it. Tinkering with it. It's not a hangnail. It's not lint. You're not going to know unless you try. And don't assume it's a one time thing. You may spend the rest of your life pushing that button, skin sagging, smelling like tooth decay - you may get one push. That's the rub. Ain't no one gonna tell your ass what the button does. You gotta decide for yourself whether you're the button-pushing type or not.
See, some folks won't do it. Just flat won't. And some people will talk a lot about how they think it's fucked up to put a button there with no explanation. Outrageous. And some folks will talk a lot of bullshit about how they could push the button, of course they could, but there's things and reasons and stuff. Besides, fuck it. Blah.
Then, there's people like me. I'd a pushed the button before you said, "Hey, look, a button..."
And that's not advice, son. Not by a long shot. I will say this. If you're going to pick, just fucking pick. Push it. Or decide you're not gonna push it. But don't spend your whole life wondering about it, haggling with your insides. It's not worth it, and it will eat at ya like acid. Fuck. It's just a button.
So, do it already. Or don't. I got no time to discuss it.
Need to find more buttons.
See, some folks won't do it. Just flat won't. And some people will talk a lot about how they think it's fucked up to put a button there with no explanation. Outrageous. And some folks will talk a lot of bullshit about how they could push the button, of course they could, but there's things and reasons and stuff. Besides, fuck it. Blah.
Then, there's people like me. I'd a pushed the button before you said, "Hey, look, a button..."
And that's not advice, son. Not by a long shot. I will say this. If you're going to pick, just fucking pick. Push it. Or decide you're not gonna push it. But don't spend your whole life wondering about it, haggling with your insides. It's not worth it, and it will eat at ya like acid. Fuck. It's just a button.
So, do it already. Or don't. I got no time to discuss it.
Need to find more buttons.
Friday, July 24, 2015
2 minutes. Go!
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It was always coming back to her. She couldn't make sense of it. She'd give it away, and then two weeks later someone would put a bag in her hands. Look at what I found down the thrift store. Thought of you. She'd smile and say 'thank you' - wonder if it was an insult or a compliment. Or neither. She wondered what it said about her.
She tried leaving it in the woods, but it was always on her porch when she woke up. She mailed it to a museum in another state and they were thrilled, until the petitions started - then it was right back home. With her.
She put pictures online. She buried it behind her house. No one wanted it, and some kind of animal dug it up out of the dark earth. It began to make her frantic. She lost track of the days - she'd sit, staring, wondering if this was her reward or her cross to bear. Were they the same thing?
She'd cry and laugh, pulling at her hair.
They found her in her favorite chair, eyes locked open, staring. The cops followed her gaze and one of them laughed when his eyes found it. That's a hoot, I should take it for my wife. They chuckled.
There was a momentary silence in the room, thick and sweet.
No, his partner said, if it was that important to her, she should be buried with it.
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#2minutesgo
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It was always coming back to her. She couldn't make sense of it. She'd give it away, and then two weeks later someone would put a bag in her hands. Look at what I found down the thrift store. Thought of you. She'd smile and say 'thank you' - wonder if it was an insult or a compliment. Or neither. She wondered what it said about her.
She tried leaving it in the woods, but it was always on her porch when she woke up. She mailed it to a museum in another state and they were thrilled, until the petitions started - then it was right back home. With her.
She put pictures online. She buried it behind her house. No one wanted it, and some kind of animal dug it up out of the dark earth. It began to make her frantic. She lost track of the days - she'd sit, staring, wondering if this was her reward or her cross to bear. Were they the same thing?
She'd cry and laugh, pulling at her hair.
They found her in her favorite chair, eyes locked open, staring. The cops followed her gaze and one of them laughed when his eyes found it. That's a hoot, I should take it for my wife. They chuckled.
There was a momentary silence in the room, thick and sweet.
No, his partner said, if it was that important to her, she should be buried with it.
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#2minutesgo
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Consequences
Don't speak to me of vague disaster, I was once like you. I sat, fingernails deep and pondered, thought myself righteous in my pondering. Tedious. It all seems so tedious. Don't tell me your lament, I've heard it - from rooftops high and from underneath the streets where the ragged people meet. Please look away when you lie to me. Give me that at least, the dignity - let us pretend that we are not merely broken marionettes avoiding the trash bin. You owe me that much.
Son, he said. Son, you gotta just get in there and bust some heads. Fucking grab some of that shit and fuck the people at the bottom of the pile. Never did seem right.
I get by, and I'm not here for your withering looks of dismal recognition. I'm not here because it's sloppy joe night or because of any sense of obligation. I am here because my life has become an exercise in resignation. Stagnation. And as much as you keep asking for it, I won't buy your salvation.
I believe in consequences.
Son, he said. Son, you gotta just get in there and bust some heads. Fucking grab some of that shit and fuck the people at the bottom of the pile. Never did seem right.
I get by, and I'm not here for your withering looks of dismal recognition. I'm not here because it's sloppy joe night or because of any sense of obligation. I am here because my life has become an exercise in resignation. Stagnation. And as much as you keep asking for it, I won't buy your salvation.
I believe in consequences.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Don't Believe It
This is the hour of the soft night tiding. Sharpened whet-stone nightmares. There are men, dark and brutal, lurking in the streets. It's all a question of percentages. And that eats at you, a small, niggling bother of an itch that you know is gonna fester because you need to figure it out. Why the taste of blood? What the fuck with the dream you can never remember? And the almost remembering driving you crazy?
And you think of her - wet hair, laughing. Her arms and her breasts and her laugh. Things had been alright. That's exactly what you'd thought. This is alright. And it was. Until it wasn't. Until night fell from the sky in crumpled Pabst flares.
The night will wait until you are ready to receive it.
That's some bullshit. Don't believe it.
And you think of her - wet hair, laughing. Her arms and her breasts and her laugh. Things had been alright. That's exactly what you'd thought. This is alright. And it was. Until it wasn't. Until night fell from the sky in crumpled Pabst flares.
The night will wait until you are ready to receive it.
That's some bullshit. Don't believe it.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
See, here's the thing...
...right here.
You don't see it? And you expect me to show it to you? I'm not gonna do it. I tried, lord knows. You didn't want to see it. And now you do. Bully for you. I'll tell you a little bit about it. You can't put it in a box. It won't make your teeth whiter. It probably has nothing to do with international business, bankers, or the illuminati. But it might. It might be the soft glow of light that comes around the peaking corner of a morning window - on the right day. It might be something like that, but I'm not talking about it. It might have a smell. You can definitely hear it. It is a lost wandering trembling of love. It is bell chime and faith and charity.
It's none of those things.
That's why I can't show it to you. I'd need to give you more than just words. I have plenty of them. They swirl my mind into a dust devil. But the words won't do it. You need new eyes. And I don't deal in eyes. And that's a real shame, but that's the way it shakes out.
But, God, I wish you could see it. It's so beautiful, it's repulsive. It's so ugly you'd want to hold it forever, know it with your hands. You'd want to keep it inside you. And that's another reason.
See, here's the thing. Frankly, I'm not sure I want to share.
You don't see it? And you expect me to show it to you? I'm not gonna do it. I tried, lord knows. You didn't want to see it. And now you do. Bully for you. I'll tell you a little bit about it. You can't put it in a box. It won't make your teeth whiter. It probably has nothing to do with international business, bankers, or the illuminati. But it might. It might be the soft glow of light that comes around the peaking corner of a morning window - on the right day. It might be something like that, but I'm not talking about it. It might have a smell. You can definitely hear it. It is a lost wandering trembling of love. It is bell chime and faith and charity.
It's none of those things.
That's why I can't show it to you. I'd need to give you more than just words. I have plenty of them. They swirl my mind into a dust devil. But the words won't do it. You need new eyes. And I don't deal in eyes. And that's a real shame, but that's the way it shakes out.
But, God, I wish you could see it. It's so beautiful, it's repulsive. It's so ugly you'd want to hold it forever, know it with your hands. You'd want to keep it inside you. And that's another reason.
See, here's the thing. Frankly, I'm not sure I want to share.
Friday, July 17, 2015
2 Minutes. Go!
Hey, writer-type folks. AND PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO PLAY BUT DON'T IDENTIFY AS 'WRITERS' - all are welcome here! Every Friday, we do a fun free-write. For fun. And Freedom!
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The house was always quiet, but there was something about this particular quiet - unnatural, like the silence that follows a crash of thunder. It was a potent silence. You dropped your backpack by the front door and called out. Mom? Mom!
Cold pop in hand, you ascended the stairs to your room. The door was wide open. You never left the door open. The cold from the can slammed through your whole body and, sure enough, she was sitting on the bed. You took the whole picture in. Mom, pissed and crying, glass of red wine shaking. The bag of weed and the wooden pipe. That means she'd found the box.
"I can't believe this. Cigarettes and marijuana. Your Grandmother died from lung cancer. You can't pass a goddamn class at school, but you can get drugs..."
"Mom, hold on -"
"Hold on nothing! Drugs! You brought drugs into our house. Why? Tell me. Are you mad at me?"
A million thoughts in your skittering brain, none will be your salvation.
"It calms me down, Mom. Sometimes, I can't sleep. I know ... I understand why you're mad, but you've never done it. It just makes me feel like things aren't spinning crazy, its -"
"I've never smoked crack either, Gerald! Should I try that?"
Surely there is something you could say, but then you realize it doesn't matter. You could talk for days and it would be like talking to a wall. Maybe worse. Talking to a plant. At least you can't be mad at a wall for being alive, yet ... empty.
"I'm sorry, Mom. I know. No drugs. I hear you. It won't happen again."
The change is so fast and so dramatic is hurts. Too fake. Too practiced. It makes you look at the bag and wonder what she's going to do with it. Your chest aches with a tight frustration.
"Good boy. You're a good boy. Now, don't forget to take your Adderall. You have a history project to finish, and the Johnsons are coming over. I don't think I need to tell you what that means. He works in Admissions, Gerald. Admissions! Do I need to explain how important it is that you're at your best?"
Shadows flicker and you wonder at it, turn it in your mind and smile because there's nothing else to do. Smile and take your pills. Smile and shake hands. If you can't sleep, that's more time for homework anyway.
"No, Mom. I think I get it."
Grind your teeth and try to smile.
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#2minutesgo
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The house was always quiet, but there was something about this particular quiet - unnatural, like the silence that follows a crash of thunder. It was a potent silence. You dropped your backpack by the front door and called out. Mom? Mom!
Cold pop in hand, you ascended the stairs to your room. The door was wide open. You never left the door open. The cold from the can slammed through your whole body and, sure enough, she was sitting on the bed. You took the whole picture in. Mom, pissed and crying, glass of red wine shaking. The bag of weed and the wooden pipe. That means she'd found the box.
"I can't believe this. Cigarettes and marijuana. Your Grandmother died from lung cancer. You can't pass a goddamn class at school, but you can get drugs..."
"Mom, hold on -"
"Hold on nothing! Drugs! You brought drugs into our house. Why? Tell me. Are you mad at me?"
A million thoughts in your skittering brain, none will be your salvation.
"It calms me down, Mom. Sometimes, I can't sleep. I know ... I understand why you're mad, but you've never done it. It just makes me feel like things aren't spinning crazy, its -"
"I've never smoked crack either, Gerald! Should I try that?"
Surely there is something you could say, but then you realize it doesn't matter. You could talk for days and it would be like talking to a wall. Maybe worse. Talking to a plant. At least you can't be mad at a wall for being alive, yet ... empty.
"I'm sorry, Mom. I know. No drugs. I hear you. It won't happen again."
The change is so fast and so dramatic is hurts. Too fake. Too practiced. It makes you look at the bag and wonder what she's going to do with it. Your chest aches with a tight frustration.
"Good boy. You're a good boy. Now, don't forget to take your Adderall. You have a history project to finish, and the Johnsons are coming over. I don't think I need to tell you what that means. He works in Admissions, Gerald. Admissions! Do I need to explain how important it is that you're at your best?"
Shadows flicker and you wonder at it, turn it in your mind and smile because there's nothing else to do. Smile and take your pills. Smile and shake hands. If you can't sleep, that's more time for homework anyway.
"No, Mom. I think I get it."
Grind your teeth and try to smile.
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Friday, July 10, 2015
2 Minutes. Go!
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I get there late and Joey's straight twitching, eyes all bugged out and ruby red. I smile because it was a long car ride and, well, there's no rules to the game. Not really. So, I talk to Joey in a low voice, grumbly-like, all serious - tell him that we got robbed. His money is gone. It just comes out, and then it sits there so we can both look at it. Walk around it and kick the tires.
You didn't get robbed. The look in his eye is like an ice shower. I smile, mind running like a gerbil's heart. Joey is reaching for his back pocket, and I notice there's someone in the corner. Too dark to tell who it is, but it's all bad. That much I know. My mind is slow and I need it to be fast. Fast. I was just kidding man, we're good.
I say it, and it feels like a lie in my mouth, jagged edges. Joey's hand is still behind him, and we stand perfectly still - I know he's weighing the options, but I also know he doesn't really have any.
I may be a lying piece of shit, but I'm the one who knows the man.
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I get there late and Joey's straight twitching, eyes all bugged out and ruby red. I smile because it was a long car ride and, well, there's no rules to the game. Not really. So, I talk to Joey in a low voice, grumbly-like, all serious - tell him that we got robbed. His money is gone. It just comes out, and then it sits there so we can both look at it. Walk around it and kick the tires.
You didn't get robbed. The look in his eye is like an ice shower. I smile, mind running like a gerbil's heart. Joey is reaching for his back pocket, and I notice there's someone in the corner. Too dark to tell who it is, but it's all bad. That much I know. My mind is slow and I need it to be fast. Fast. I was just kidding man, we're good.
I say it, and it feels like a lie in my mouth, jagged edges. Joey's hand is still behind him, and we stand perfectly still - I know he's weighing the options, but I also know he doesn't really have any.
I may be a lying piece of shit, but I'm the one who knows the man.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
2 Minutes. Go!
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"Son, you ain't showing no kindness dawdling. You gotta pull the trigger."
Nightmare flashes, serge-scratch madness. Everything is dark. Open your eyes. Just tell him. He'll understand.
"I ... can't do it, Dad. I'm sorry. It's -"
"Son, I never have hit you, and I never will, but if you don't pull that trigger, I'll never look at you the same way again. You eat bacon like you're starving. You know where it comes from. You're old enough now. You can help with the killing. And you'll help with the rest - I'll teach you that knives aren't made for goddamn mumblety-peg. Next time we won't even waste a bullet. I'm doing you a kindness"
Sweat darts down between your shoulder blades. Looking into big, deep eyes and everyone knows. Everyone can smell the blood soaked into the dirt. Years of it. Everyone knows what the hook is for, hanging from the high beam. Even the fucking pig. Those big eyes: Christ, kid. Don't drag this out.
"Dad, I really don't-"
"You won't eat. I'm goddamn sick of it. You won't eat meat in my house again until you stop this bullshit and act like a man. This is how we live. I ain't killing your meat for you anymore. You're old enough to help."
Look at the set eyes. Fair eyes, but cold. Always been that way. Always will be. Your arm heavy, pistol pendulum. Shot that gun a million times. Hell, it can tear a tree in half. Calling it a pistol is silly. Red face. Tired of feeling like the girl no one wants to dance with. Sister's upstairs reading and ain't no one ever gonna dance with her. This is important. This moment will change the trajectory of everything.
The gun is shaking, but you grit your teeth and hold it with both hands and start to squeeze. Gently. Slowly. There is love in this. There is so much. The whole damn world collapses and all the wars and all the kindness, all the mercy, all the mincemeat pies and mockingbird cries - everything in the world gets sucked in by the force of the explosion. The world implodes. Life explodes from the back of the beast's head. Thick, red slime. That's what life is. Really. You look up at the smiling face. Strong jaw, stubble. Sad eyes, even smiling.
"I'm proud of you, son. Let's go inside. It's a hot one, and I reckon Mother's made some iced tea. We can do the ugly part after the bleeding."
Slow turn. Broad back. Love there, but suddenly there's your cyclone brain. All the chatter. When's it gonna rain? Jesus died for you. Suzy doesn't love you, she loves Randy because he's old enough to drive. The kids at school are going to find out. He's going to find out. It's getting harder to hide. Whatever it is. This ... softness.
Impulsive. Always impulsive. They'll say it for the rest of their lives. Try to make sense of it. It was just that goddamned pig. Something snapped. Let them think that. It will be simpler.
The old man will spend the rest of his life wondering if he even heard the second shot. He'll remember the sound of his own scream, but it will be a hollow roar. He'll never sleep right again. And he'll pay a neighbor to kill his meat. And everyone will understand. Finally.
That's called legacy.
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#2minutesgo
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"Son, you ain't showing no kindness dawdling. You gotta pull the trigger."
Nightmare flashes, serge-scratch madness. Everything is dark. Open your eyes. Just tell him. He'll understand.
"I ... can't do it, Dad. I'm sorry. It's -"
"Son, I never have hit you, and I never will, but if you don't pull that trigger, I'll never look at you the same way again. You eat bacon like you're starving. You know where it comes from. You're old enough now. You can help with the killing. And you'll help with the rest - I'll teach you that knives aren't made for goddamn mumblety-peg. Next time we won't even waste a bullet. I'm doing you a kindness"
Sweat darts down between your shoulder blades. Looking into big, deep eyes and everyone knows. Everyone can smell the blood soaked into the dirt. Years of it. Everyone knows what the hook is for, hanging from the high beam. Even the fucking pig. Those big eyes: Christ, kid. Don't drag this out.
"Dad, I really don't-"
"You won't eat. I'm goddamn sick of it. You won't eat meat in my house again until you stop this bullshit and act like a man. This is how we live. I ain't killing your meat for you anymore. You're old enough to help."
Look at the set eyes. Fair eyes, but cold. Always been that way. Always will be. Your arm heavy, pistol pendulum. Shot that gun a million times. Hell, it can tear a tree in half. Calling it a pistol is silly. Red face. Tired of feeling like the girl no one wants to dance with. Sister's upstairs reading and ain't no one ever gonna dance with her. This is important. This moment will change the trajectory of everything.
The gun is shaking, but you grit your teeth and hold it with both hands and start to squeeze. Gently. Slowly. There is love in this. There is so much. The whole damn world collapses and all the wars and all the kindness, all the mercy, all the mincemeat pies and mockingbird cries - everything in the world gets sucked in by the force of the explosion. The world implodes. Life explodes from the back of the beast's head. Thick, red slime. That's what life is. Really. You look up at the smiling face. Strong jaw, stubble. Sad eyes, even smiling.
"I'm proud of you, son. Let's go inside. It's a hot one, and I reckon Mother's made some iced tea. We can do the ugly part after the bleeding."
Slow turn. Broad back. Love there, but suddenly there's your cyclone brain. All the chatter. When's it gonna rain? Jesus died for you. Suzy doesn't love you, she loves Randy because he's old enough to drive. The kids at school are going to find out. He's going to find out. It's getting harder to hide. Whatever it is. This ... softness.
Impulsive. Always impulsive. They'll say it for the rest of their lives. Try to make sense of it. It was just that goddamned pig. Something snapped. Let them think that. It will be simpler.
The old man will spend the rest of his life wondering if he even heard the second shot. He'll remember the sound of his own scream, but it will be a hollow roar. He'll never sleep right again. And he'll pay a neighbor to kill his meat. And everyone will understand. Finally.
That's called legacy.
Thanks for stopping by! Gonna be a busy day, but, rest assured, I'll be reading everything and commenting as I have time, so check back. Post your pieces on your blogs, telephone poles, passing pedestrians, etc. if you like...it's a fun web o' writing.
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