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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
I'm sitting in the library in Salem,Illinois. It's a fine,lovely library. For any dwelling that houses so many books could never be anything but fine and lovely. I'm sitting in a chair far to high,beside a table far to low. Who ever married these chairs with this table must not have known that most people do not have cardboard legs,either that or they simply weren't thinking at the time,or maybe they've just never tried to sit here before. I've put my chair sideways against the table and am sitting about a yard and a half from a barred window. The window starts about mid-ways down from the ceiling and then meets the teal carpet at my feet.It looks out on a grey day street ,cars rush by,all the lonely people march like robots,who are these people? Ambulances and coppers have just flown by over the grey stone.Panicked sirens shrieking and the whole bit. I wonder if someone has tried to commit suicide? I hope the medics in the white white coats don't arrive in time to "save the life" of someone who obviously doesn't care to have his or her life returned.It has always seemed to me that there is no tragedy so great as failed suicide.Not that i want anyone to die,but can you imagine wakeing up in a hospital somewhere feeling heavy and prickling warm? And then noticing your brain is still in active order,oh god,that must be painful.Prying open your eyelids and feeling the lemon-zang light drain you of your peace,hammering inside your skull like incubus with chisel and ax in hand."why am i still here? d*** i'm alive. d***" i pity the woman who survived,but she drowned herself in an easy mixture of anti-depressants and vodka a few weeks after they let her go,but i did pity her surviving. She tried you know. I wonder if anyone ever really starts living,i wonder if they just fool themselves and think they do? i wonder if those bars on that window are there to keep the outside from coming in,or are they there to keep people...from jumping? Do i contradict myself?Very well i contradict myself.I contain multitudes.~walt whitman |
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Dawn Eclipse Senior Member
since 2000-01-31
Posts 637The Horsehead Nebula |
Interesting perspective... that is a touchy situation at times. Thanks for sharing this story! it was wonderful! "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other course, no other way... No day but today" ~Broadway Musical RENT~ *Cassandra Roseen* |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Swamp¤Faeryie: This was great! I like the way you started with something simple like the dumb ideas of the guy who set up the table and chairs like that, and then delved into something complex like death. This sounds almost like something that could go into the philosophy forum, lol. It's really quite thought provoking. |
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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
wow,thanks folks,i'm pleasatly surprised,i thought this was kinda mebe a bit to depressing for in here,but thanks!! =] swamp Do i contradict myself?Very well i contradict myself.I contain multitudes.~walt whitman |
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JOY 14 Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419Wisconsin USA |
not depressing. Just wonderfuly creative images. I could see it all. Like in one of those flash dreams. Where yous see it all in a flash. The library, the barred window, and the hospital bed. The cops. All so real. Write on! Joy |
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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
thanks joy =] your comments are much appreciated this ismy first prose attempt so i really don't know what i'm doing =]i'm glad it has the effect i was hoping for,that's gratifying(sp?) a "flash dream" is precisely what i hoped it would be...thank you beaucoup lots!!! swamp Do i contradict myself?Very well i contradict myself.I contain multitudes.~walt whitman |
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