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It hadn't sounded like the outgoing message of a...
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It hadn't
sounded like the outgoing message of a man
contemplating suicide, but of course he had been
with his nearest and dearest (the ones who, later
on, were most apt to say "He seemed fine"), and -
"Who says it's going to be suicide?" I asked the
empty roomand then looked around fearfully to
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make sure it was empty"Who says it might not be
an accident? Or even murder? Assuming it hasn't
happened already?"
But if it had already happened, someone would
probably have called meMaybe Bozie, but most
likely Pam This time telling the room"It's
suicide and it hasn't happened yet
I got up and crutched into the bedroomI'd been
using the crutch less lately, but I wanted it
tonight, indeed I did
My best girl was propped against the pillows 925 tiffany and co. jewelry on
the side of the bed that would have belonged to a
real woman, if I'd still had oneI sat down,
picked her up and looked into those big blue
peepers, so full of cartoon surprise: Ouuuu, you
nasty man! My Reba, who looked like Lucy Ricardo
"It was like Scrooge getting visited by the Ghost
of Christmas Yet-To-Come," I told her"'These are
things that may be'"
Reba offered no opinion on this idea
"But what do I do? That wasn't like the paintings
That wasn't like the paintings at all!"
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But it was, and I knew itBoth paintings and
visions originated in the human brain, and
something in my brain had changedI thought the
change had come about as a result of just the
right combination of injurieswhat?
"Amplifying it," I told Reba"Isn't latest louis vuitton shoulder bag it?"
She offered no opinion
"There's something here, and it's acting on meIs
it possible it even called me?"
The notion made me break out in gooseflesh
Beneath me, the shells ground together as the
waves lifted them and dropped themIt was all too
easy to imagine skulls instead of shells,
thousands of them, all gnashing their teeth at
once when the waves came in
Was it Jack who had said there was another house
somewhere out there in the toolies, falling apart?
I thought soWhen Ilse and I tried to drive that
way, the road had gone bad in a hurrySo had
Ilse's stomachMy own gut had been okay, but the
stink of the encroaching flora had been nasty and
the itch in my missing arm had been worseWireman
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had looked alarmed when I told him about gucci bag black our
attempted explorationDuma Key Road's no
excursion for a guy in your condition, he'd said
The question was, exactly what was my condition?
Reba went on offering no opinion
"I don't want this to be happening," I said softly
Reba only stared up at meI was a nasty man, that
was her opinion
"What good are you?" I asked, and threw her aside
She landed face-down on her pillow with her bottom
up and her pink cotton legs spread, looking quite
the little slutOuuuu you nasty man, indeed
I dropped my head, looked at the carpet between my
knees, and rubbed the nape of my neckThe muscles
there were tight and knotted
I hadn't had one of my bad headaches in awhile,
but if those muscles didn't loosen soon, I'd be
having a whopper tonightI needed to miu miu bags in white eat
something, that would be a startSomething
comfortingOne of those calorie-stuffed frozen
dinners sounded about right - the kind where you
slice the wrapping over the frozen meat and gravy,
blast it for seven minutes in the microwave, then
chow down like a mother****er
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But I sat still awhile longerI had many
questions, and most were probably beyond my
ability to answerI recognized that and accepted
itI had learned to accept a lot since the day
I'd had my confrontation with the craneBut I
thought I had to try for at least one answer
before I could bring myself to eat, hungry as I
wasThe phone on the bedtable had come with the
houseIt was charmingly old-fashioned, the
Princess model with a rotary dialIt sat on a
directory that was mostly Yellow chanel handbags for sale Pa
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