Allen
06-26-2009, 05:41 AM
>Sunoco<
I can feel my head boiling, my brain now soup, rolling over itself, bubbling, babbling at me. I walk in the dark to the gas station, an oasis of light surrounded by ink. My hands are hidden in my pockets, my face obscured by a hood as black as the void I traverse. No cars are on the street, and the traffic-light blinks its colors in rhythm, alone. I wonder to myself why there are no clouds, and why the sky is just liquid obsidian, undulating and squirming around itself like a snake.
My breath crystallizes before my eyes, and looking through a microscope I see the infinite number of geometric shapes I have created from the moisture and heat deep in my lungs. Triangles are everywhere, polygons with sheer facets polished infinitely clear, all in a cloud above my head now. Just like that, my work of art disappears though, and is gone.
Beauty like this, natural and sporadic, only lasts for a moment in the timeline that is my life. Damn. I want to relish my artwork, but it’s evaporated.
I continue on, shoes rebounding off of the blacktop that tries but cannot rival the darkness of the sky. I walk on and pass a man, clad in normal clothes, normal skin, but his hands are hidden too. I can’t help thinking that he has a knife hidden in the folds of his little wind-breaker, and that when I get within arm’s reach of him he will clutch me to his chest as a friend would, and then tear open my abdomen like a Christmas present. I shudder and move ten feet to the side, to avoid eye-contact or violence or recognition. I avoid him.
I walk into a dome of light, sickly artificial, and it makes me feel dirty and exposed. Someone is filling their car up with dinosaur blood for his journey home. I am not as lucky, relying on energy derived from consuming fat and sugar and fiber, and having it power my legs to move me about. This gas station is a fucking joke. I walk in.
It’s like a miniature supermarket, with the goods all arranged in patterns and according to color in a vain attempt at consumer-based hypnotism. I don’t have time for it, and I look away. The clerk behind the counter is bored, lazy, maybe 20 years old, and he doesn’t want to be here this late. I can’t blame him, because I don’t want to be here this late. I walk into a small separated part of the station where a pot of coffee is brewing. I fill my cup.
The clerk doesn’t look up from the desk. I toss a dollar and some clinking change on the counter. I don’t wait for him to count it or look at me, I just leave, my stop at the oasis finished. As I open the door to the outside world, a gust of cold air parts my bangs and I put my hood back up. Beginning to drain the coffee, cheap and worthless, I combat fatigue. I still need to make It home from here.
I can feel my head boiling, my brain now soup, rolling over itself, bubbling, babbling at me. I walk in the dark to the gas station, an oasis of light surrounded by ink. My hands are hidden in my pockets, my face obscured by a hood as black as the void I traverse. No cars are on the street, and the traffic-light blinks its colors in rhythm, alone. I wonder to myself why there are no clouds, and why the sky is just liquid obsidian, undulating and squirming around itself like a snake.
My breath crystallizes before my eyes, and looking through a microscope I see the infinite number of geometric shapes I have created from the moisture and heat deep in my lungs. Triangles are everywhere, polygons with sheer facets polished infinitely clear, all in a cloud above my head now. Just like that, my work of art disappears though, and is gone.
Beauty like this, natural and sporadic, only lasts for a moment in the timeline that is my life. Damn. I want to relish my artwork, but it’s evaporated.
I continue on, shoes rebounding off of the blacktop that tries but cannot rival the darkness of the sky. I walk on and pass a man, clad in normal clothes, normal skin, but his hands are hidden too. I can’t help thinking that he has a knife hidden in the folds of his little wind-breaker, and that when I get within arm’s reach of him he will clutch me to his chest as a friend would, and then tear open my abdomen like a Christmas present. I shudder and move ten feet to the side, to avoid eye-contact or violence or recognition. I avoid him.
I walk into a dome of light, sickly artificial, and it makes me feel dirty and exposed. Someone is filling their car up with dinosaur blood for his journey home. I am not as lucky, relying on energy derived from consuming fat and sugar and fiber, and having it power my legs to move me about. This gas station is a fucking joke. I walk in.
It’s like a miniature supermarket, with the goods all arranged in patterns and according to color in a vain attempt at consumer-based hypnotism. I don’t have time for it, and I look away. The clerk behind the counter is bored, lazy, maybe 20 years old, and he doesn’t want to be here this late. I can’t blame him, because I don’t want to be here this late. I walk into a small separated part of the station where a pot of coffee is brewing. I fill my cup.
The clerk doesn’t look up from the desk. I toss a dollar and some clinking change on the counter. I don’t wait for him to count it or look at me, I just leave, my stop at the oasis finished. As I open the door to the outside world, a gust of cold air parts my bangs and I put my hood back up. Beginning to drain the coffee, cheap and worthless, I combat fatigue. I still need to make It home from here.