My girlfriend and I tried to knock over a liquor store in 2007. The plan was, she manned the door while I held up the cashier. We rolled into this ancient spot off of the parkway that I knew wouldn't have cameras and I stuck my gun into the face of this older black guy who had a bad stutter. He stammered out that “the money's in a drop box under the register” and he reached down there, raising up quick as a cornered rattlesnake with a shotgun that blew a hole in my right shoulder. Then he turned the gun on my girl and shot her in the stomach. He walked over to where I was leaning against a wine rack and started smashing my face in with the butt of his gun. When I came to, I was handcuffed to a hospital bed and they told me that my girlfriend had bled to death on the floor of that joint. Bet that nasty old prick waited a while before he called the cops, sat down in the middle of the floor and just watched us bleed.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Elle in Elko, Nevada #97 (God)
This fucking idiot suburban housewife who I volunteer with at the soup kitchen with is all the time going on about how much “peace Christ brings into her life.” I feel like telling her that Christ wasn't peaceful. Love isn't peaceful. He didn't wander this tortured earth to bring peace to our lives, he came to challenge and destroy us with reckless, rabid, otherworldly , annihilating love so that we can be reborn into a kind of auroral transcendence.
Bairavi in Nagpur, India #96 (Love)
That pain stayed hidden even from me until I met you. The pain that was unconsciously birthed when the agony of love called the cosmos into being. I love you more in sickness than in health, more in sorrow than in joy.
Jason in Harrisonburg, VA #95 (Hyperreality)
I saw stray dogs devouring a deer carcass the other day when I was driving. I saw children being stoned to death for the sins of their fathers. “Drink that fucking pondwater and die like an animal longing for light.”
Andrew in Jellico, Tennessee #94 (Self Evaluation)
I mangled your gentle heart. Tore through the ventricles and atrium with my merciless teeth. I've burned the crops and poisoned the water. You thought you could redeem me with your warmth and safety and love but I'm too reckless to be saved. Hunger and thirst.
Cliff in Pierre, South Dakota #93 (Hyperreality)
Dying fish are stapled to my wall. Children are on fire and are vomiting dark gray nimbus clouds. Hundreds of suns are in the sky and the earth has been rendered sterile from the overwhelming heat. The wicked creature that ruled the earth before the flood has returned from the abyss to wipe out the animal mistakenly called human.
Ken in Decatur, OH #92 (Banality of daily life)
There's a lot of flooded roads in this county. Been raining for 2 weeks straight, thereabouts. I don't give a fuck. Lost my job 6 months back. I don't have to get out. I've been sitting on the porch in the afternoon, getting shitfaced and watching this whole fucking town get washed away.
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