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Top 15 Favorite Songs
When I'm Depressed as Fuck
(or: Songs I Will Pretty Much Always Relate to on an Intimate Level)
01. A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley
Your mother's still calling you, insane and high, swearing it's different this time,
and you tell her to give in
to the demons that possess her & that god never blessed her
insides.
Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things, and crawl back
into bed to dream of a time when your heart
was open wide and you loved things just because,
like the sick and the dying...
02. Going for the Gold by Bright Eyes
They will detail their pain
In some standard refrain.
They will recite their sadness
Like it's some kind of contest.
Well, if it is, I think I am winning it,
All beaming with confidence
as I make my final lap.
03. Between the Bars by Elliott Smith
Drink up with me now and forget all about
the pressure of days;
do what I say
and I'll make you okay, and drive them away:
the images stuck in your head
04. Little Person by Jon Brion
I'm just a little person,
One person in a sea,
Of many little people
Who are not aware of me
05. Holocaust by Big Star
06. Hope There's Someone by Antony & the Johnsons
07. Mad World by Gary Jules
08. John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens
09. Good Woman by Cat Power
10. Bankrupt on Selling by Modest Mouse
11. You by Amy Lee
12. The Crying of Lot G by Yo La Tengo
13. Radio Cure by Wilco
14. Same Mistakes by The Echo Friendly
15. Videotape by Radiohead
When I'm Depressed as Fuck
01. A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley
02. Going for the Gold by Bright Eyes
03. Between the Bars by Elliott Smith
04. Little Person by Jon Brion
Your eyes are almost dead, can't get out of bed,
and you can't sleep. You're sitting down to dress, and you're a mess ,
you look in the mirror--you look in your eyes, say you realize Everybody goes, leaving those
and you can't sleep. You're sitting down to dress, and you're a mess ,
you look in the mirror--you look in your eyes, say you realize Everybody goes, leaving those
who fall behind.
Everybody goes, as far as they can; they don't just care
How can I fall asleep at night
How will I rest my head?
Oh, I'm scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don't want to be the one
Left in there, left in there
How will I rest my head?
Oh, I'm scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don't want to be the one
Left in there, left in there
07. Mad World by Gary Jules
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
08. John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens
He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed he kissed them all--
he'd kill ten thousand people
with a sleight of his hand
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed he kissed them all--
he'd kill ten thousand people
with a sleight of his hand
09. Good Woman by Cat Power
I don't want be a bad woman
And I can't stand to see you be a bad man.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love this love forever.
And I can't stand to see you be a bad man.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love this love forever.
10. Bankrupt on Selling by Modest Mouse
Well, i'll go to college and i'll learn some big words, and i'll talk real loud,
goddamn right, i'll be heard, you'll remember all the guys that said all those big words
he must've learned in college and it took a long time / i came clean with myself /
i come clean out of love with my lover / i still love her /
loved her more when she used to be sober
and i was kinder
goddamn right, i'll be heard, you'll remember all the guys that said all those big words
he must've learned in college and it took a long time / i came clean with myself /
i come clean out of love with my lover / i still love her /
loved her more when she used to be sober
and i was kinder
11. You by Amy Lee
When we're together, I feel perfect
When I'm pulled away from you, I fall apart...
When I'm pulled away from you, I fall apart...
...So many nights I cried myself to sleep
Now that you love me, I love myself
Now that you love me, I love myself
12. The Crying of Lot G by Yo La Tengo
Sometimes I wonder why we have so much trouble
cheering each other up sometimes,
when one or the other of us is down.
Instead it's like, when you're in a bad mood
I look at you and I say, maybe she's knows something
I don't know, maybe I should be upset...
cheering each other up sometimes,
when one or the other of us is down.
Instead it's like, when you're in a bad mood
I look at you and I say, maybe she's knows something
I don't know, maybe I should be upset...
13. Radio Cure by Wilco
Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery stars
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery stars
I never did grow up
Feels like I never will
My friends are all adults
I'm still a teenage girl
Feels like I never will
My friends are all adults
I'm still a teenage girl
15. Videotape by Radiohead
This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
So I'm talking to you before it's too late
No matter what happens now
I shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day
Because I can't do it face to face
So I'm talking to you before it's too late
No matter what happens now
I shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day
I've ever seen.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
Overly-Honest
Craigslist Posts
Single & Lonely? – w4m, w4w, w4anyone
Now that it's summer time and
everyone on my Facebook is getting married, I'd like to announce MY availability
for marriage. I'm a Cancer, an ENFJ, and an organ donor. I come with a 20-inch
fan, a decent book collection of literary fiction, a working vagina, one boob that
is only slightly bigger than the other, a pair of knock-off Doc Martens that
EVERYONE thinks are real, mood swings that invite a refreshing air of unpredictability to the relationship, a liberal arts
degree, a fairly large amount of debt related to said degree, and an extra
cigarette or two, depending on how cute you are.
Serious inquiries
please message me with your income, favorite type of alcohol, and a brief
paragraph on how you feel about your mother.
Buy my
Panties - w4m
Listen guys, I’m broke as fuck and I heard that
this is an easy way to make money. I’m not going to have sex with any of you
and if you even ask, I will verbally assault your manhood so hard and so
cruelly that you’ll question the meaning of life itself. You can, however, buy
the panties I’ve been wearing all day. You may be thinking, sweet! Dirty panties! I love dirty
panties. And I also love fucking the girl who is wearing the dirty panties, or
eating her out, or asking her to slob on my knob. That shit ain’t happening, so
look elsewhere.
If you want these panties, you will get them &
they will be awesome, but there are multiple factors I urge you fine gentlemen
of Craigslist to consider: (1) I bought these panties myself. Panties don’t grow
on trees, and if your mother told you that, then I bet her undies are ugly as
fuck and full of leaves. I’m not giving you my panties for free. They’re worth
what I paid for them PLUS my time, PLUS the fact that I’m a frail, 5’1 girl who
is giving you—a stranger—a chance despite that I most certainly would not
survive a murderous attack from a dangerous bro. (2) I’m not a sex worker so
I’m sure as hell not trying to get arrested for sex-work. Don’t ask to fist me.
Don’t ask me to fist you. Why not, you ask? Because these fists don’t feel like
being cuffed or smelling like your ass, that’s why. (3) We’re meeting in a
neutral location. I don’t care if that makes you feel awkward. You know what’s
more awkward? Being a broke, vulnerable girl who’s being pressured into giving
her home address to a complete stranger. Recognize.
If you agree and accept these terms, I think you
and my panties could have a beautiful thing going on. ;D Send me a message with
the color & fabric you prefer in the subject line. If you send me even one fucking
dick pic I swear to Christ I will find out where you live, cut your stupid,
useless dick off and stuff it in your motherfucking mouth until you choke to
death on your own vomit and cock sweat. Then I’ll take my panties off, shit on
your corpse, and maybe leave the panties there, you know, for your post-mortem
pleasure. It’s up to you, big boy.
Serious inquiries only. <3
ATTENTION JOBLESS COLLEGE GRADUATES (Maine)
Looking to hire an
administrative assistant to walk over to my bedroom window and turn on my fan.
Must have 2+ years’ experience. This is an unpaid internship. Attach resume,
cover letter, and references.
Shalom,
fellas - w4m
Seeking an unconventionally attractive man who has
a good, stable job, embodies the spirit/sentiment of Woody Allen without being
77 or looking like Woody Allen, intelligent, creative (or at least has an
appreciation for the arts), hardworking, moral, eager to please, hates hunting
and Republicans, would like to have children one day but realizes that there
will never be a convenient time to have children, is pro-welfare but rolls his
window up when strangers approach the car, loves drama but insists he’s
drama-free, appreciates the go-green initiative, wholeheartedly believes that the
problem with kids these days is lack of education... oh, fuck it.
TL;DR: SEEKING A JEW.
Free Complaints,
100% Legit – (Lewiston, ME)
Are you recently-single and find that there’s a
hole in your heart where your ex-girlfriend’s endless complaints used to be? Are
you older, divorced, and eager to hear what a young, single girl has to say
about men, pap smears, the price of make-up, and student loan debt collectors?
Are you a lonely old man who simply wants to hear someone talk without really
listening to what they’re saying?
If any of the above even remotely describes you, I
think we should exchange email addresses and possibly phone numbers immediately
so I can talk to you about some things that other people in my life are sick of
hearing about.
For example, it’s just not fair that my health
insurance doesn’t cover eye exams. Come ON! I’ve been wearing the same prescription
for like, six years; it’s probably causing long-term damage to my eyes and my
insurance provider couldn’t care less! I know, right? People can be fucking heartless.
Or how about how annoying and unfair it is that I
can’t get my body to get lower than 150lbs without having to radically change
my eating habits and go to the gym every day. Ugh! I have this one friend, Jamie,
who can eat anything/everything and she never gains weight. So not fair. She doesn’t even appreciate
it!
I would keep going but I’ll save it for you. In
fact, I will stop expressing my discontent in all contexts and keep it bottled
up so that when we get a chance to talk, I can just load it all on you.
This is going to feel so much better. I’m excited for our new, mutually-beneficial
relationship to unfold.
Indie Bitch
Seeking Weak Man to Torment Emotionally
– w4m
I’m an educated, intelligent, semi-attractive, indiebitch
/ “so-called” psychopath, looking for an acne-scarred, overweight, self-conscious,
Modern Warfare-playing weakling who can’t find a girlfriend because he hates
himself and harbors an intense fear of rejection. I’m also afraid of rejection &
abandonment, so we will initially bond through meaningful connections based on
our weaknesses. I hope you don’t mind, but I will later use this to control you
emotionally.
We will go on dates that you will pay for but we
will not be “dating” until I say we are. You can certainly tell your friends
that we’re dating and even bring me around them, as long as you’re aware that I
may inadvertently emasculate you in front of them to subconsciously make myself
feel superior. I will make fun of you to my friends & write mean things
about you in my diary to make you seem like a controlling asshole and me a
poor, trapped girl who just loves too
much.
We will have sex and it will be amazing. Because I
will intuitively come to learn what makes you feel the most pleasure and what causes you the most pain, I am
a motherfucking beast in the sack. I will do that taboo thing that turns you on
but you’d never openly admit to liking. I will act like we’re doing it for my satisfaction… until we’re having a
fight. Having sex with me will be like all those pornos you watched, because I
know that porn is how you first developed an understanding of what sex is, and
my goal is to fulfill the desires you keep from others, learn all of your
secrets and fears, and then trap you with this knowledge by serving as the sole
provider of both your happiness and unhappiness.
Over time, my demands will become more and more
unreasonable. I will expect you to drop what you’re doing and comfort me when I
am not happy, because (and I will remind you of this constantly) I would do the
same for you. When these demands are not met, I will accuse you of never liking
me, never caring about me, and using me for your own benefit without a thought
to my contentment. And though this won’t really be true, I will believe it to be true in my heart of hearts, and when I
break up with you because I’ve found someone weaker, easier to control, and
more enthralled with me, or when you break up with me because my needs have become
increasingly insane, the end will be catastrophic for all involved and we will
limp toward the rest of our lives as wounded, distrustful, less stable people. It
will be a fucking shit-show.
If you’d like pics, please message me! ;) No nudes
tho. xoxo
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Liberating the Sheeple
“Sheeple!”
I tell her with so much vigor that my words spray saliva at her, “That’s what I call ‘em, you know, sheeple. You know why I call 'em that?”
She says she doesn’t know.
“It’s ‘cause they all act like
sheep. All of ‘em. Like sheep to the slaughter! Some people’ll believe anything
that the government tells ‘em.”
The clerk blows a big pink bubble
out her face.
“But I can tell,” I nod, looking
into her sleepy eyes, “I can tell you’re a smart girl. You don’t take shit from
the government, do ya?”
“Nope.”
“You don’t take shit from nobody, do
ya?”
“Nope.”
Christie grabs me by the sleeve and
whines, all bitchy, “Come on, we
gotta go,” but I’m not done talking
to the nice girl at the register, and I tell her so.
“Tell me--” eyeing the clerk’s name
tag, “Tiffany, are you aware of chemtrails,
hm?”
“Nope.”
“Good Lord. It’s a good thing I’m
here to tell ya. The government’s tryin’ to kill us all!”
“C’mon, that’s enough, we gotta go.” Christie’s all red and huffy. Her mouth's
pressed shut and her hands are in fists.
“Alright, alright, alright. I’ll see
you later, Tiffany and I’ll tell you all about it. When you hear it, it’ll make
your hair curl!”
Christie pushes me out of the way
and wheels the cart forward.
“Look it up online! It’s for your
own good!” I trail off as Christie pulls me away and out the door.
In the car she’s quiet and I know
that she’s mad at me. Her eyes look almost like they’re touching the window
glass, they’re so close. And her body’s leaning as far away from me as she can
without opening the door, rolling out of the car and into traffic. I try to be
nice and play with her hair but she slaps my hand away.
“Stop it.”
“What?”
She's pissed at me.
“Stop what? Telling the truth? What
do you want me to do,” I ask her, “Just lie and act like everything is okay?
You know what happened to me last night?”
She’s quiet.
“You know?”
“What.”
“My firewall told me that I was
attacked by the Trojan Horse Virus!”
She just looks at me all dumb.
“You know what that is, right? The Trojan Horse Virus? The government
was trying to hack ‘emselves into my computer.”
Christie doesn’t believe me. She
turns herself completely away until we’re home. I wish I could get her to
understand. I fear for her all the time—I’m afraid that she’s gonna live her life
among the apathetic masses, comfortably unaware, cocooned in ignorance. It’s
like in the Matrix, you know? I just wanna give everyone the red pill!
But no, everyone's asleep. Nobody
cares about anything around here. The buildings show it, that's for sure.
They're all broken brick and boarded up and some of the windows are smashed.
You'll be walkin' down the street, laa-dee-dah,
and whattaya know, you're steppin' in a big ol’ pile of glass shards. And you
always know when you're gettin' into the downtown, 'cause you'll get a big-ass
whiff of smoke. The streets just reek
of industrial waste—it's all those shitty factories along the Androscoggin, all
empty and sad, worn and slumped in decay.
I live in that smoky mess, but hey,
I pretend we're just livin' on a cloud! My apartment's no castle, but it's sure
as hell better than some of the tattered pieces of shit around here. Inside the
phone’s ringing and Tammy goes to answer it.
I shout, “Screen it! I’m not here.”
And she does that Mmmrmph grumble and drags those fat legs to
her bedroom. On the door, a sign reads, “KEEP THE FUCK OUT” in rainbow colored
pencils.
Jesus, that answering machine.
Hello, says a robot-voice, this
is a message regarding your Sears credit card. We have some important
information about your account. Please call us back...
“Bloodsuckers!” I push the STOP
button and cut ‘em off.
Bill collectors are on my shit list.
They’re the worst. What kind of scum would get paid to make poor people
miserable and call ‘em all the time, day and night? You don’t even know how many damn times I get woken up
by some automated tyrant-robot talkin’ into my answering machine. Ludicrous!
I take a nap in the late mornings
and then again in the late afternoons, 'cause I have to pick up the kids all
the way out in the snooty-snoot neighborhoods with the schools, and I don't
trust those old man bus drivers. The old man driver at my high school back in
the day was a perv, you know, he got caught touching a girl’s breasts. So, yeah, I don’t let my kids
ride the bus, I pick ‘em up, and by then I’m just so tired from doing laundry
and cooking lunch and stuff, so when I bring ‘em back home I take another nap.
And you know what? They call then,
too, those fuckers!
Though sometimes I’ll have a few giggles in the afternoon ‘cause I’ll
tell Little Man to answer the call and we’ll both be sitting right there next
to the phone all tee-hee’ing.
“Hallo? The Libby resdidens!” says Little Man.
Yes, hello, is Ms. Sheryl Libby there?
“Oh, she’s my mom.”
Yes, is your mom there?
“Mom’s dead!”
And then he hangs up and it’s hilarious! Isn’t it? Haha! I wish I
could see the looks on their faces. That stops a lot of ‘em from calling, but
there’s still a big bunch of ‘em. They’re like goddamn rats. Little Man's my
guy when it comes to phone calls I don't wanna take. He loves talkin' on the
phone anyway. It’s funny too when Tammy answers the phone, ‘cause, you know,
Tammy’s fourteen and always wants to be on the phone talkin’ to her friends and
whatnot and she gets all pissy when the lines are tied up by the bill
collectors, so she fucks with ‘em.
“Hello?”
Yes, hello, is Ms.
Sheryl Libby there?
“What do you want?”
We have some private
business matters we would like to discuss with her.
“Oh yeah? Suck a big dick!”
And then she’ll hang up and it’s hilarious!
It’s the afternoon and I’m tired and I don’t want to deal with the
bullshit I know Christie's going to pull. Wah, wah, wah, I need to use my computer.
Here we go again. I hate when she says my, all condescending-like. Then,
you know, I'll take a few swigs of the bottle in the freezer and play some
Beatles while I fiddle-fart around and do the dishes. I'll check the living
room for cups or plates and I'll take a teeny peek over at Christie and she
won't even be doing her damn homework. She's on the chatbox! Always with the
damn chatbox.
“It’s called a chat room,”
she waves me away, “Not a chatbox.”
And I'll tell her--I'll say, c'mon, man, I wanna check my threads, and
she'll roll her eyes all bitchy and put her headphones on or somethin’.
I got a subscription to the Real
Truth newsletter, which comes from one of the boards I frequent. It came in
the mail today when I went to the P.O. Box, along with a buncha bills and one
of those little “IT'S TIME FOR YOUR FIRST APPOINTMENT!” postcards that dentists
send you. It's for Little Man, and it's dated for today. I've been avoiding
this for a couple years. He's never been to the dentist. I don't trust doctors.
Of any kind. Doctors are in the business of making money, they're the same as those
damn car salesmen who'll lie right in your face to try to get you to give 'em
more money. You know what's actually in vaccination shots? It'd make your
eyeballs fall out! I read online about the crazy toxins in 'em when I was
pregnant, so Little Man's not vaccinated, thank God. Doctors want people
to be sick. I know you grow up one way, thinkin' that they're there to help you
and all, but think about it—if people were all healthy, there wouldn't be a
need for doctors, would there? Or pharmaceutical companies, they're even worse.
One time, when I was fighting for custody, long story, trust me, but I was
court-ordered to go to a shrink with Christie and Tammy.
The shrink was a snoot. You know, she had those little glasses that
sat on the bridge of her nose and the pencil skirts and the fancy schmancy
nylons. She said that Christie was “depressed” and that she was gonna write her
a prescription for “anti-depressants”--just after one session! Now tell me: how
can you diagnose someone you just met?
I told Christie “No way in Hell!”
Maybe people wouldn't be so “depressed” if the government didn't put
so much damn fluoride in the water.
There's a dentist that accepts Medicare on Oak Street, which is a
coupla streets away, so Tammy and me, with Little Man in the backseat, we drive
over there. Her name is Dr. Gaelle Hockman. I can tell already that I'm not
gonna like her—she's got a cold, dead handshake, and my father, God rest his soul, always told
me that you can really tell about a person judging by their handshake. A firm,
strong handshake means a genuine person and a limp one means bad news. The
doctor takes Little Man away and I feel awfully nervous. Sometimes I get this
sour gut feeling when I think something's gonna go awry, and usually I follow
my instincts, you know, but he's already in there. In my head I've all all
these terrifying images: Dr. Hockman's got her pointy fingers in my boy's mouth
and she's tellin' him a buncha lies about what's good for you and what's not
good for you and I feel like I'm gonna faint because I've just realized I've
delivered my son to the machine, and he's being programmed this very
second! I knockknock knocknock on the receptionist's window and she gives me
one of those prissy looks and says, “Yes?”
I say all hot-faced into the glass, “I need to see my son right now.”
“He's already in for the cleaning and treatment,” she replies, her
eyebrows all furrowed.
Oh no.
I'm shaking, “The treatment? What are you talking about?”
“The fluoride treatment,” she's says.
“Are you kidding me? Go get my son.” I knew it. The
sonofabitches! I knew it. The receptionist just sits there like a lazy, lying
idiot.
I feel hysterical. Any mother would. I'm pacing. I stomp on the carpet
with my shitkickers.
“I said, go get him!”
And she rolls her eyes and talks to one of the other liars dressed in white and they go and
find the doctor—that lying bitch.
The office door opens and Dr. Hockman is holding my little boy's hand
with her own ugly, wrinkled one. He looks happy. He's smiling. Poor boy. He has
no idea what I've just saved him from. I pull him away quickly.
I can't help it, honest. I blurt out, “You lied to me. You were gonna
give him fluoride. You know what that does? It causes cancer!” I shout right in
her face, “You were tryin' to give my little boy cancer? You're a goddamn liar,
that's what you are.”
And now Little Man's upset,
he's grabbing the bottom of my shirt. He looks at me with little brown
water-color eyes. The nerve of these people. I pet Little Man softly. All the
receptionists and some of the dentists are gathering around and whispering now.
Dr. Hockman studies my face and takes one of those drawn-out sighs that last
forever and talks to me like I'm a baby.
“Ma'am, fluoride is healthy for your teeth, it's good for you.”
“BULLSHIT! You're talkin' bullshit to me now. You were gonna infect
my son with fluoride. You know who else gave fluoride to people? The Nazis!
That's right, look it up online. Hitler poisoned the German waters with
fluoride to make 'em all docile. You got that, Dr. Hockman?” I point at
her angrily. “You're the fuckin' Oppressor!”
I storm outta there dragging Little Man along and tell him and Tammy
I'm not gonna go there ever again. Goddamn, I hate doctors. Tammy's whines that
I'm embarrassing, but she's only fourteen, so she doesn't understand.
Back at the apartment there's a shit storm in the living room. Papers
are flying everywhere. Christie's having one of her tantrums, all in hysterics.
She's crying and throwing her hands up and stomping around.
“I can't find my portfolio! I can't find it!”
It's her portfolio for her fancy school. I'm tired of hearing about
her fancy school. It makes me feel bad.
“Can I help you find it?”
“How can anyone find anything in this fucking dump?”
The fucking dump she's talking about is our home. I'm offended now, so I leave her in her
theatrics and go take a nap, 'cause I'm tired again. When I wake up, and it's
dark out.
Tammy's put Little Man to bed. He's so cute, all tangled in his
blankets. The television next to his bed's playing the closing credits from Chicken
Little.
In the kitchen Christie's talkin’ to
herself and hittin’ her head 'cause she's doing her math homework. I have a cup
of coffee and a joint while I watch the neighbors fight out the window.
Christie taps her pencil on the kitchen table, sighing all dramatically,
narrowing her eyes at me. She says out loud that she doesn't understand the concept
of me. I suck in a few little puffs and crack my finger bones. The
concept of me.
“I can't wait to get out of this place,” she says softly.
I know she's just trying to get
a rise outta me, but I'm busy musing about things. After a while, I turn to
Christie and my ashes fall in one of Little Man's tiny shoes on the floor.
“How,” I ask her, “can people sleep so sweetly in ignorance while
there's so much chaos going on in this world?”
She doesn’t look up. “It’s because we’re all just sheeple waiting for
you to liberate us…”
I don't hear her. I breathe in
real deep and exhale all the smoke into the navy, twinkling wind, sitting
cross-legged at the window. I like that I can watch the tendrils spiral down
all pretty, you know? I see 'em floating down softly on the neighbors' heated
heads, swirling around 'em like a halo they can't see.
“I'm glad that I'm one of the Aware,” I say, all squinty-eyed to no
one.
I imagine Christie at her fancy school with her fancy books. She's
sitting on the grass with a nice boy she met and they're talking about things
that college kids talk about. I hope that she’ll be breathin’ through her nose,
like I’ve been tellin’ her to. Maybe that she’ll let that boy play with her
hair, and she’ll point to the sky.
“You know what that is?” I imagine that smile Christie’s got, that smug smile, but this time, in my head,
it looks a lot nicer.
He’ll see it, and he’ll shrug. A straight white line in the empty
blue. Maybe it goes straight down, like it’s pointing at her. Or at the both of
them. Or at the whole world.
“That contrail?” he’ll ask, her hair between his fingers.
And she’ll laugh and say, “Have you ever heard of chemtrails?”
I wanna think that she’ll tell him the truth, that in this moment
she’ll realize that I love her, and I’ve only tried to teach her what’s real in this world.
But I don’t see that.
My joint's almost out. I take one last puff all drawn-out. Christie's
still talking on and on. I don't hear the words but I see 'em; they spill out
of her mouth and float through the invisible curls, wafting out the window and
into the chemical light show in the sky.
I guess some people are just never gonna wake up.
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