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frosty_gurl02
12-11-2003, 07:13 AM
I can’t sleep. This makes me sad.

The house is dead to the world, its breathing is the creaking of the floorboards as I place my feet down on the carpet and wander down the hall to the washroom. The sensor light instinctively switches on as I glide by. Someone else’s ghost. I step over a shoelace laying in the middle of the floor. It looks abandoned and alone without it’s matching counterpart. I throw down the toilet seat cover and sit with my elbows resting on my knees, my hands cupping my chin.

And I cry.

I cry so hard.

I do not feel like being descriptive today. I do not feel like writing another story.
I do not feel like looking someone in the eyes and pretending everything is going to be okay.

Because it’s not.

“Life is what you make it, la de da.”

La de ****ing da.

Well this is all I’m making of it tonight, and every other night I am alive.

Washrooms with grime collecting in the corners.

But I did have a conversation with a bug in the bathtub. We stared at each other for a few moments before it smiled at me and told me to cheer up.

Things could be worse. I could be like him, a bug in a bathtub, the whole world white and impossible to climb out of.

“But I might as well be,” I told it. “I might as well be. All it takes is for someone to turn on the faucet, and I’ll be swept down the drain. And for a moment, they will be sad as they see me spin around with the whirling water. And they will watch as I am briskly sucked down into the pipes. They will feel for a minute and then they will forget. They will forget just as fast as I am washed away.”

The bug laughed.

“But it’s a party down there.” He said. “One big amazing party. We float on our backs and balance drinks on our stomachs.”

“But that is what I do anyways. Lay on my back while men suck the life out of me through straws.”

“You’re crazy,” the bug said now. “Truly crazy.”

“That’s because I let such silly things run my life.”

“But that is not why you cry, is it?”

“I cry because I don’t know what else to do. I’ve become unrecognizable to myself, almost like a dream I can’t remember.”

“I recognize you, though.”

“Oh yeah?” Tilting my head, I raised an eyebrow and smiled inquisitively, “Who am I then?”

“You’re a ****ing coward.”

zienzieu
12-19-2003, 06:43 PM
****-ing amazing. god, I can't tell you how many times I've been there... thank you for writing this... it makes me appreciate being in a better place now. ;)

the_grey_girl
12-20-2003, 10:07 AM
I really liked this, also. It always seems to be ladybugs that I find there, and maybe some of the best philosophical discussions are in the middle of the night balancing on the mental with bugs in bathtubs....

tony schofield
12-21-2003, 06:26 PM
and I think that you cry because you're angry. This quirky piece says far more about anger than about sorrow.

tony

DeathMonkey
12-28-2003, 08:20 AM
I liked it. A very interesting metaphor, told like it is almost a hallucination.