How Life Began on Earth by SusurrusInGrass, literature
Literature
How Life Began on Earth
Life was birthed from the immortal womb as a pomegranate - at puberty, he split open and, raw, found himself filled with innumerable bleeding cushions of pulp that gods waited to touch to their teeth.
He began in Armageddon - got high through the murderous rage that boiled the moon and poured it into the mouths of billions uplifting their heads - dealing in the inadequacy of the human body to fully express great passions.
He grew through years the way water is swept down stairs, in great blasting waves of silt and murk.
Time progressed backwards for him, over the knobs of great inventions to times before they ever existed, and then bac
A massive shadow of doubt
tugged against the cliffs edge,
hanging, idling, swinging and ready
to fall over his head at any moment -
but he kept climbing.
Pebbles dug into the tips of his fingers
and a blade of grass slid cleanly beneath a fingernail.
He clambered and skittered,
slid and ascended,
and all the time that shadow threatened
to come crashing down on top of him,
Chased by the side of the mountain.
The Cyan gas pulled inward by gravitational force
Revolves meanly within the white ceramic mug
And respires with the consistency of coffee.
The silent, resonant tundra of moon
Splays, sliced, at the edge of the blue-white patterned china plate
And relaxes, comfortably garnish.
The rutilant form of fiery plain
Winks redolently, slurping at the edges of the glass bowl
And swims, dissolving slowly in its own heat.
Smoking with his head back,
lying,
emitting smoke above his eyes and watching the red ember dazzle,
dangerously close and a vertical beacon
he lies in such lifelike reality to seem foreign,
and strange.
The cigarette,
an extremity of his being,
the soft immobility,
quietness,
and resignation encapsulated in the wires of hair extending across his down-turned eyes
it reels in the child,
keeping an eye to his clasped knees -
jeans brilliant,
deep with detail,
so it would seem by his desperate meditation.
His hair,
geometric and grungy atop his head,
his eyes breathtaking,
creepy lights in artist
I went to the midnight toaster factory
traveling in a vat of boiling blood
where I took a bag emptied of those forgotten ends of bread
and filled it the brim with red and bruises
and no one said anything at all.
What do you want?
I dont know, but whatever I hear,
I want it to come
from nothing. I want it
Seeping into me like teabags.
I want you seeping into me like teabags made
From organs.
Can you do that?
I think I could.
If I loved you
Enough.
She was the wrong kind of dame walking the wrong back alley and living in the wrong century. She was the type of gal whose cherry-bomb lipstick could be found in perfect lip-shaped Os on Diner windows and bathroom mirrors where anyone walking past might stop and wonder at the meaning and love behind the action.
What she was doing there, no one would know. One thing even the Top-Police-Dick was sure of when he saw the photos of her high-heeled Dorothea-and-Toto-red boots lying in a puddle of her blood like the fruit in the middle of jam was that she did not belong with death and the misery of murder.
Sure, she might have been a whore (
After Life: To Hell, Not Back by SusurrusInGrass, literature
Literature
After Life: To Hell, Not Back
The Bodies are mangles of waxy bone and tendon.
Sinew drapes from them in bloody lines:
From the shoulders and yellowed knee-caps like meaty web;
And extend into the walls like shackles.
Through sewers squeaking, clicking, chomping
With rats- more sallow gashes than prickly hairs-
Scampering on the pipes that line, and gnawing sparks from
metal.
You notice first that this is large enough
For freaks on stilts to stand on brother's shoulders.
Twirled cotton- coating rolls of stiff carny papers-
Scrapes tongue like the roughest sandpapers and you drool,
like a toothless alky, dribbles of bloody sugar clumps for a
Candy taste
That
Part 1
The lights flicker and go out. Darkness blooms across the ceiling the way blood blooms in water, spreads and fans and twirls, dark and wispy as fraying ribbon. There is a flare of red in this suck and swallow of darkness, this maw of black. It is an ember flash, the burn of tobacco crumbles in a pull of air. Neil longs for a smoke. He hasn't had one in so long.
As frail and fleeting as a swallow, Neil bobs low. He pulls in his neck and sharp chin and weaves toward the door across the room. His lungs burn and the empty bag of his stomach seems to tighten around them, squeeze hungrily around all of his withered organs. His parched musc
Wisconsin Berry smoked revolution mixed into the tobacco ash on the end of her cigarette.
She held a passionlessly cold and calculating fear in the cold sweat beneath her skin.
She thought the revolt would be televised, an uninterrupted feed of homicidal eyes
Two flares of rage beneath the black tarpaulin sky. Big Brother intervened.
Wisconsin Berry took a chainsaw to a telephone pole and dodged the unnatural electrical jolts.
She held power paintballed into her bone dry lungs, bolts of cancerous masses.
She laughed mechanically, maniacally, and shined her shoes with spitballs and tucked in their tongues.
She learned that shame belongs
Atlas, bathing in the aubergine blood...
scouring the skin stretched taut over the pregnant globe
growing between the flayed, winged muscles sculpted out with scalpel and chubby fingers
from and over each shoulder-blade...
sighing in surrender to the disease and infestation that is death.
He sinks to the hairs on the back of his neck
and rests his dark head against the clean white marble of the tub,
making purple waves like a rippling, liquid bruise that he lies in, languishes in.
He is wet and stained and alone, newborn.
She was the wrong kind of dame walking the wrong back alley and living in the wrong century. She was the type of gal whose cherry-bomb lipstick could be found in perfect lip-shaped Os on Diner windows and bathroom mirrors where anyone walking past might stop and wonder at the meaning and love behind the action.
What she was doing there, no one would know. One thing even the Top-Police-Dick was sure of when he saw the photos of her high-heeled Dorothea-and-Toto-red boots lying in a puddle of her blood like the fruit in the middle of jam was that she did not belong with death and the misery of murder.
Sure, she might have been a whore (
What do you want?
I dont know, but whatever I hear,
I want it to come
from nothing. I want it
Seeping into me like teabags.
I want you seeping into me like teabags made
From organs.
Can you do that?
I think I could.
If I loved you
Enough.
I went to the midnight toaster factory
traveling in a vat of boiling blood
where I took a bag emptied of those forgotten ends of bread
and filled it the brim with red and bruises
and no one said anything at all.
1.
be their happy childhood, dipped
in coloured glass and wound around
the stairwells. be a boat with sails
and a tire swing. be butterfly nets.
be monarchs and lilacs in the summertime be
summer itself. be desperation and
a snare drum, old Beatles songs winding up
from the floor below, your yellow hair something
from a storybook.
2.
put your hand inside their
head and lead them out the back
door and through the trees.
show them the spot where
you took an axe to the silver eye
of God's skull and boxed up his
body parts like damp children's clothes.
tell them the truth; that you ate
his bones and kept his soul in
a beer keg
Just some stuff I've been thinking about. I started a journal in real life... paper journal, pasted pages inside of an encyclopedia. This is strange for me. I never can write in journals or about myself personally. But I am getting to a desperate point, a point where I have to write out some of my secrets or I might do something rash and stupid.
FAITH
Faith beyond all else,
Absolute and engulfing everything,
Supines hard and dark.
ILLUSTRATED MAN
With savage prayers
Deserted, branded, cold, man
Tattoos self in spite.
Many thanks for the watch & favorites on Oscillations, aftershocks and insomnia at sunrise. I shall delve more deeply into your gallery when I find the time, though I already get the feeling I will enjoy it.