Fear of Garbage
on There is no Happy Hour in Bakersfield, Ca. by horus8
31 May 2003, 6:44 PM
not one of my favourites of yours, but it got better towards the end. still better than 7/8 of anything put up on this site.
Spectral
Good. Now I don't have to get lit up and drive like a Silverback on Silverleaves for the sake of growing a curbless days.
Thanks what iam talking about... nice
Could you possibly have said anything gayer? If the only thing you can think of to say about this poeme is that it is "beautiful", you shouldn't have said anything at all. You plainly don't even have any idea what you mean when you say "beautiful", except that it's a vague combination of stultifyingly simplistic moralising, facile childhood reminiscence and arbitrary linebreaks.
And if you "don't know those words", how the fuck do you know that "very few words cam describe how beautiful this poem"?
Whateva ho.
cool, kind of impressionist
very good
Rap in style and it actually functions as a poem
'chump with your bandana' certainly echoes
Very few words cam describe how beautiful this poem, yet i don't know those words. 10
"---Black bile oozed between Grandfather's lips, and
dripped onto the attendant's bloated abdomen. The
drip became a trickle, which became a steady stream,
and soon he was vomiting a thick torrent of the
shining liquid.
---Where it touched the attendant, it boiled and
frothed and formed a sickly lather, and as it
bubbled it ate away at the flesh. The skin on the
man's stomach was becoming liquid and starting to
slide around. Beads of blood sprang up where the
upper layer had been completely dissolved.
---Grandfather's head lolled forward, and underneath his
bushy, flaking eyebrows, his blind eyes rolled
insanely. With a sudden fluid movement of his arm,
he unhooked the straight razor from its holster and
flipped out the dull blade. It was just as he
remembered.
---His obscenely gnarled hands trembled, and his
breath was rapid. Grandfather hunched over the
attendant, reaching out and stroking the places that
had been prepared by the mucus. His jaw still hung
slightly open as he bent down for a closer view...
---And Grandfather began to shave."
fat ass.
Firm
I believe you can do much better then this, and unlike Sir heff and Johny boy, I will pull it out of you out inch by inch out of thick poetic love, and not scrotismal boy hood pressure. lol
---Plum opened the miniature door and stepped inside. He was in
what seemed to be a reception room; against one wall there was
a booth occupied by an obese young man, and ahead of him a wide
corridor quickly turned a corner. The room was small and lamp-
lit; the dim light and yellowed wallpaper, thought Plum, made
it somehow seem underground.
---There were vast piles of coats in every conceivable place.
Space had been cleared in the middle of the room, but Plum had
to step over heaps of dark cloth before he even had enough room
to shut the door. The highest of the coat-towers loomed,
threatening to topple over. In his mind Plum knocked into one
and it came tumbling down, pressing on him and making him
breathe musty air.
---The man, whom Plum thought of as the attendant, was intently
staring at something underneath the counter of the booth and
fidgeting. Perhaps he was playing with a puzzle; at any rate
he did not acknowledge Plum, and he seemed to be holding his
breath.
---âPardon me,â said Plum. âMay I leave my coat here?â
---The attendant frowned, still concentrating on the activity.
After a moment he let out a long rushing sigh, then finally
looked up at Plum, somewhat accusingly.
---âOne pays inside. This is the cloakroom.â
---âYes, I thought it was,â explained Plum. âI wondered whether
I might leave my coat here?â He gestured vaguely at the piles
as if to justify his question.
---The attendant glanced underneath the counter again, then back
at Plum. He seemed to make a calculation. âI'm afraid this room
is full. You'll have to put it in the back.â He jerked his
thumb toward a doorway Plum had not noticed; it was in the
booth's shadow, framed by stacks of coats.
---âA-ha, thank you.â Plum took a step toward the doorway, then
hesitated and looked to the attendant to make sure he had
properly understood. However, the man was again absorbed in his
unknown occupation, and Plum felt that further questions would
somehow provoke him.
---He made his way around the front of the booth, stepping over a
discarded fur. There was a thick wall of coats just inside the
doorway, long enough so that no light escaped underneath them,
and for all Plum knew the next room was completely dark. He
turned sideways and pushed against the mass with his shoulder;
it briefly yielded, but only to swing back and bear down on him.
He had a sudden fear that if he continued to push, it would
simply surround him and he would be unable to move.
---After a final heave, though, he was through, and he found himself
standing in a long, narrow chamber with a low ceiling, lit by an
exposed bulb. Around the perimeter, forming a rounded oblong,
was a high railing, onto which hangers were affixed; the hangers,
of course, bore coats of all sorts. The space between the rails
was not great, but Plum could move comfortably enough, and he
began to look for a free hanger onto which to hang his own
overcoat. However, the coats were very densely packed, and it was
impossible to tell which hangers, if any, were empty. He supposed
he would have to reach blindly into them, though he felt a sinking
reluctance, for no reason he could name.
---Grandfather slept restlessly. He had finished working for today,
or perhaps he had finished yesterday's work and there was no more
for today. It was of course possible that there would never be
more. However, he was prepared; he wore his vest, though it was
not his usual practice to retire clothed. He was glad he wore it;
the vest gave him an excited, nearly sick feeling, and he knew he
could rely on it. And without having to touch it, he knew too his
razor was in its holster, secured to the vest. At times he felt an
unbearable urge to grasp the smooth bone handle and hold it tightly,
but he did not act on it. Once it occurred to him that perhaps he
could not move his hand at all, but he dared not risk trying, in
case he turned out to be right; and since there was no outstanding
work, there seemed no good reason to do so.
---Although he had been sleeping for some time, Grandfather did not
dream. At least he did not remember ever dreaming, though he often
half recalled events, and thinking about a recollection later it
sometimes seemed to have been a dream. Now, though, he knew he was
dreaming, because in his recollections his heart did not beat, and
his hands did not twitch, and he had not seen so clearly in a very
long time. The mucus rose in his throat; it was warm and thick. He
felt an overwhelming anticipation.
---In his dream, Grandfather was surrounded by dark, heavy coats, and
there was work to be done.
Wow. I've heard that fat is flammable. Good thing no one came too close with a See-Gar.
Open mike with a mellow random Sax backdrop.
Thank you for the tip. As for the repetition, it was intended in the first, third, and fifth parts (parts.. i dont know what they are called, stanza, verse, whatever) i shall have to wait until i find a reading buddy to sort out the others. Thx again.
My pleasure! I understand your fear about not wanting to become top heavy. Once I went on an all-fat diet for four years. By the end I weighed over 30 stones, and I was literally extremely obese. I had consumed so much butter that my sweat glands no longer produced sweat, but rather an oily secretion whose repulsive stench was rivalled only by its lubricating property. (One of my more tolerable butlers suggested bottling it and selling it as an Curative Ointment. The cheek! I sent him to Peru in a complimentary hamper).
You may no doubt imagine what happened. During the diet I had remained indoors and, naturally, nude, but the ending of my diet coincided with an Exhibition of Mr. Chetwoad's Horrifying Machine in the Crystal Palace, which I was rather eager to attend. Slipping into a tuxedo proved challenging, but the cloth slid so beautifully and easily against my buttered skin that once I had it on, I was in a constant state of sensory arousal. Indeed, I rather feared that I would suddenly begin to writhe on the floor in pleasure during the Exhibition, so I took the precaution of branding my eye with a red-hot spatula and hoping this would balance out the other stimulus; the result was... O Jesu what have I done?
Do you read your own, or have some one read it aloud to you? It's a BIG help if you don't. Sounds a bit repetetive to me. I like the summary.