scene: the fields pastoral, rural prairie, dreamscape, entrapments of the mind and body clouding the whirring brains of the actors. hazy, foggy thoughts, limbs moving through water, everything a farce, a pretend-game, ‘speak your lines to me and i’ll say mine back.’ real life, she’s so close, she’s getting closer every day, she’s awakening from … Read more4/20: “major depressive”
selfish patroclus, how dare you keep the king from us, golden-haired and strong-limbed, just because you love him? has he not a life string? has he not a prophesied fate? has he not been promised to the gods, once he is finished among the mortals? you may not take that from us, that which you … Read more4/19: “predestination”
Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for endless seas of blue, for desperation, human cries, hands reaching out to you! America! America! We lay our claim on thee! And take thy woods sans brotherhood from sea to shining sea! Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, who stomp down off their ships, a European bastard fleet, with demands … Read more4/18: “Redux”
your only duty is to be desired you are meant to be obtained you were born with two sisters and they send a man to relieve you of the pain of mortal life you, molested by poseidon you, punished by athena you, you, you, hiding in your cave awaiting an end disciplined without sin you … Read more4/17: “eye contact”
darling, bastard, sweetheart, enemy, brother-in-arms, last man on earth, is this all our fault? has our final breath, exhalation of humanity, led us to this, our armageddon? days become weeks become years on the other side of death, afterlife, things mean less and less each passing day; whether or not we spoke then or speak … Read more4/16: “because it lasts”
coward, coward, coward! revelations tells of a hell for you, along with sorcerers and murderers, as all three use special skills to take away that which is not theirs! you take and you take from a world that is not for you! you are inward, yellow, shrieking, and the world spins on, unfamiliar, because you … Read more4/15: “antidote to poison”
the glint of an eye, a flash of wrong-direction silver, “how can i help you? oh, just down this way, a couple of blocks, you can’t miss it.” grey tree trunks, wide and block and thousands of feet tall, redwood never felt quite so bold, pulling gravity backwards, middle child syndrome, compensation. bundles of heat, … Read more4/14: “mercy, mercy”
all it takes is one, one moment, one flash of doubt, one oh-god, one heartstopper, and you’re back where you were. what a fool you were, to think otherwise, imbecile, idiot, empty-headed bastard striving beyond your station. reach, adam, reach for the stars, knowing that if you miss, you’ll burn out just as easily, rotten … Read more4/13: “hollow”
this is just like all the others; you tell everyone that, over and over again, every day, and maybe you even tell yourself, but you know that’s not true. you remember flashes of color, a hand grasping and falling from yours, ocean rising up to meet you, an entirely different world than the one you’re … Read more4/12: “the end”
it’s 1881, and your son is born in a gleaming city of white underneath a fog-gold sky, a newborn living legacy. it’s 1881, and a phone rings somewhere, in the distance, connecting one wire to another, inching the world a little bit smaller. it’s 1881, and a gunshot cracks into a spinal column, festering a … Read more4/11: “ongoing”