Ambivalence

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I was bored.. Be cruel.

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I can't see you.

You're like a vaporous substance that clings in mid-air beside me. Your intangibility grows less and less, more and more as I sift through the clues in my mind. In the dark I bend the shadows so you're sitting in my window. In light I watch the rays move and decide that it's you confusing me even more into the abyss which is my mistaken imagination.

I can sense you.

When have my instincts ever been right? I feel as though your tabooed to even think about. I think anyway, reconstructing you piece by piece examining all the parts. I put you back together slowly reviewing the possibility over for a third time. Do I need more evidence that I don't know how to get? No one knows what you are?

I can hear you breathe.

That could be my ragid breathing reflected off the wall. Refracted into the giant empty house while I sit at the computer alone. I turn slowly listening, I still hear you. Glaring into the empty hallway behind me I hold my breath. I mumble something stupid, maybe cuss.

This morning I woke up and my closet light was on.
~C.N.

"Out here, I believe in everything. Every leaf, every flower. Birds, the air. Just a feeling that I cannot explain."Green Mansions(1959)




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Hi, Ambrosia


It's an okay start. I'd love to see you build onto this, make it fuller, more substantial. For now, it's kind of empty, kind of like a soliloquy. In a way, it's hard for us [as the audience] to get a feel of this, because it's all abstract thought and talk and no substance.

Fill this. It's dying to be great, to be a masterpiece, and it can be. For instance, parts like this:

That could be my ragid breathing reflected off the wall. Refracted into the giant empty house while I sit at the computer alone. I turn slowly listening, I still hear you. Glaring into the empty hallway behind me I hold my breath. I mumble something stupid, maybe cuss.


Too much description on breath. xD Inside, I'm feeling like you should just drop all of these fragile pieces of description and strengthen them. And look, the end just tapers off. It's like, you need a point, a punchline, something to get to at the end.

Goodluck. Work on this, and PM me if you fill this up. ;)

June
"I'd steal somebody's purse if I could google it and then download it." -- Firestarter



To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.
— Allen Ginsberg