This sea
owns me, owes me. My wife and I have been here only once together. Anyways, I
take a break from my busy life and come here. And I stand. And I wait. I wait
for that familiar hum of pain. Pain that fills no empty void, but pain that is
necessary to feel awake. I stand here and wait.
For
numbing silence. Silence which is essential for consistency. Then I think of
all the horrible things, realistically. Significant catastrophes. Tragic
accidents. Traumatic incidents. Disasters. Miseries. Nightmares. Events and
occurrences that could send the blood rushing in my veins. News that could set
my hair on edge, my flesh pale. My mouth dry. But they must be good, tragically
speaking. They. Must. Make. Me. Not. Bored. They must set the blood running
again. Otherwise it was quite a waste breaking from my daily schedule for
nothing. For nothing more than salt and air. Or black blue, useless waves.
The Eulogy
They lived
in these houses. They breathed out of them with this air of invincibility.
Since everyday they came home to a table laden from the harvests. The harvests
of elites. Nothing was more carefully cut in such complex, competitive,
evolutionary edges.
But when they laughed over the irony of the others and
those past, they gulped down their fears with liquids laden in crisp chemicals.
So, was it their fear rising in their throats as they kissed each other good
night or these naturally unnatural gems they’d washed down with the earth’s
innocence? It is true that what is invincible is impermeable and will deny
everything impure to it.
But even as this ringing burned through their ears
they let their heads hit the soft bed and shut their eyes to the growing night.
It was only staring at the deep pits they’d dug before them that they finally
whispered these acidic ways had claimed their end. When they kissed each other
good night once more they pretended not to smell the sour, bitter air. They
pretended that they weren’t thinking of the day the earth would wrap around
themselves and the acid would finally pour endlessly from their mouths. Then
they could sink in their impurity and natural state in the dirt; they could
sink to inexistence in one piece and in peace.
In eternal submission with the
acid they had created from the base of the earth. The base which they had dug
up from the depths of her core. They knew the core was not endless. Or
invincible.
But they were the invincible elite.
They breathed on her, their
motherland, digging their heels into her rightfully. Frustratingly. Frustrated
to extremes. I believe they were angry their throne had not been made
invincible like them. Although she was vast. Almost endless. A vastness their
evolution had not reached. A greatness their mouths, hands and bodies refused
to use for one another in purity, in limitlessness. In their bitterness, they
made her the epitome of bitterness. From their rage, they scoured her
unforgiving buried nature. And they ate it all up. All’s well that ends well.
Says the mother pouring dirt over her cold child’s body. Because she is
invincible.
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