Light.
C
r
y
i
n
g
Red lips.
White sheets.
Dirty mattress
Screa
min
g.
Words.
In coheren cy.
Green leaves. Chirping.Barking.Meowing.
Slamming.
Closing.
F
A
L
L
I
N
G.
Silver flashing.
Florescent-lighting.
Sun rise.
Sunset.
White.
Blank.
Lying quietly under tattered sheets.
Shadows making designs
a dark finger traced,
Quietly.
Hovering over,
Red Lips
and teary eyes.
Staring blankly.
Tears splashing on taut skin.
Smirking slightly,
smirking gently.
Smirking thin lips.
Chapped,
running into dry skin.
Thin skin.
Taut skin.
Red Lips above parting,
moving,
mumbling.
Incoherent messages.
Red Lips moved out of sight.
Footsteps echoed on tiles.
Movement toward the door.
Slam.
A window on that grey wall.
Stirring outside.
Bright green leaves.
Insects moving,
singing.
Squirrels scuttling.
In, out.
In, out.
Breathing patterns.
Sun setting behind
leaves, colors on the walls,
for a moment.
Dead eyes staring at the ceiling.
Two sets of dead eyes.
Two noses sniffling.
Two mouths smirking.
Stretching,
wrinkling,
crackling,
fading.
Dark,
light,
pat
ches,
incons istent tones.
S t r e t c h i n g ,
T
w
i
s
t
i
n
g,
ready to
burst.
One.
last.
breath.
Two headed boy, I wish I was you. You won’t be alone in Hell.
Breathe.















Comments
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I am me, no I am me, no I am me
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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I am me, no I am me, no I am me
I love the switch between the incoherency and confusion induced by the twisted layout and the clarifying voice of the solid stanzas. Nice.
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Knowledge Is Power And We Are All So Weak
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Jessica. Not your average Deviant.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I really like this piece - especially the end sentence, it made me smirk. I have to say, I'm not keen on the vertical/diagonal one-letter-per-line layout for some of the words, but that's just my personal taste. It works well in this piece, so who am I to say it shouldn't be there just 'cause I don't like it? Hee.
Overall this is brilliant, it really is.
One little niggle I had though, was that you've used "Taught"... that's a participle of "teach."
I -think- you meant "taut", as in stretched, but I suppose you could teach skin. With a -stick-. That'll learn it. Erm...sorry, flashback
Thanks for the spelling nazi thing. I spell all right most of the time, but there are some words that normally catch me. I'll go back and fix that up.
Thank you for the comment.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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