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Splintered and Nailed

Tick-tock and clocking my own degradation. This is how the every evening begins, murmur and static crackling in the atmosphere while outside buildings glow in periodic neon, as skytower lights blink secret alien messages to soft drink kingdoms and fast food empires. Polystyrene darkness dripping metallic rain onto glittering ‘jins slinking like foxes. The downtown prowls in ubiquitous cliques and packaged clatter, barking in a language indecipherable…

…a come-and-get-it code.

Candied perfumes and colognes mingle and collide, competing with an ever lingering rust-tinged stink. Neither masks the whispery drafts of charcoal-flavoured food, though. And nothing can erase the musk of sweat stuck to the skin. Obscene pouring pitter-patter…the rampant flickering of plastic sheets and streaks of glaucous lightning. Impossible to evade the wet or outrun the boom of Asian thunder. I watch the chase and crush and keen…

I am somewhere else, alone in a nowhere place I swear I’ve been before. Am I remembering..? Or simply here again..? I am somewhere else, but I am not myself.

“We tried to warn you, what did we tell you? We said we knew you wouldn’t last. We knew you’d crumble and give in. Now welcome to daytime – figure it out. How long did it take to forget who you are? We tried to warn you, what did we tell you?”

Posted by Invisibleye in: Experiences, Stories   Comments Off   29 June, 2010  

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