Fortune Cookies by BlackNailpolishDays, literature
Literature
Fortune Cookies
Don't limit your future by the cryptic message enclosed in a tasteless cookie but by the extent of your imagination.
LEARN CHINESE - Am I under arrest?
wǒ bèibǔle ma? 我被捕了吗?
Lucky Numbers 7, 6, 20, 10, 11, 19
one time you compare me to a dancer.
i ask why.
you claim my every movement is as graceful
as the gentle turning of the earth,
as precise as the path of a raindrop
shattering perfectly into glass.
Where did you read that? Shakespeare?
Ye of little faith. I don't dance.
dumb puppy, soft-headed loser,
i adore you but i do not trust your brains.
it is freezing outside when we walk across
the gap between
cars, and you show me what it feels
like to be touched by numb
lips, pressed against a wall of my reticence
like a bone-chilling wind.
It was just a kiss. Why did you look at me that way?
For once I thought somebody unders
when i arose
with the sun-tinted curtain shifts
in my room, my jaw unlocked
from the rest of my body
like a missile from a submarine.
water flowed between
the cracks of my skin
in an new exodus from egypt.
starfish clung to my elbows,
sucking out all flexibility.
a piece of seaweed stretched
across my mouth like
your letters to my doorstep.
i couldn't breathebreathebreathe.
tentacles drifted from my eyes like the grain.
sea wasps charged towards me
like honey bees with their undulation cries.
they engulfed me, and
the only colour i could
see was black.
and then i tumbled
down into death's arms,
open wide from too
I postpone my patience, but it traps me. Because I'm mute without being touched, and my legs were never good for walking.
She's teasing me again. I'm watching her dainty fingers stroke his neck when her skin is much better off on me. She does this on purpose, knowing I can't resist the way sunlight dances off her lips. She stretches out in the glow of the sun wrapped in a daydream. Her eyes look like they stole the sky and locked it away in her irises when she sings alongside him.
Death of the Non-Living by ministreetmaster, literature
Literature
Death of the Non-Living
I am all plastic and ink. Today will be my last use. Yes, my last. My very last. Sadness is taking over me. Being all dried up-- no ink, nothing left-- I guess it's only natural.
I was told and repeated that this day would come. I saw all the others end up the same way. I knew... I have no excuse. I had my time and now it's over. I should consider myself lucky, not everyone gets out of the shop, some don't even make it in the factory. I just didn't, couldn't, imagine or even believe it being so soon.
Maybe there's something after the garbage can, after the plastic bag, after the garbage truck.
"We got a live one." Pressure glanced up from his desk at the broad figure of the Staff Sergeant.
"New Recruit?"
"Just caught her this morning, fresh off the streets."
Pressure sighed, glancing down at his desk again, to the side briefly and back up at the expecting officer.
"Fine. I'll be right out." The Staff Sergeant nodded once and disappeared from the doorway.
Though her voice wasn't echoing anymore, there was tense residue that coated the route she'd taken, starting from the front door and leading to the interrogation room she was being kept in.
Pressure sighed and a few seconds later the Staff Sergeant made his appearance. They g
The fire sparked, flames crackling and sending billows of black smoke up into the atmosphere. The leather cover rippled and contorted from the searing heat of the fire, its golden lettering peeled away and melting in the raging inferno. The paper pages crinkled up and burned, piece by piece disappearing into gray wisps of ash that floated up to the clouds.
For some, it was a book; a piece of fiction to pick up whenever they wanted a good story to read.
For others, it was a lifestyle; something that would not govern their lives, but help them live to the fullest.
For both it was gone. Pile after pile sent up in flames, defying the very heav
Death of an Inanimate Object by Gin-Nee, literature
Literature
Death of an Inanimate Object
We lay flowers upon the sad little thing. White flowers, blue follows, red flowers, yellow flowers, all different shapes, colors and sizes of flowers. It was a sad day for the family. A very sad day indeed. It all happened a week ago. It will be a day I'll never forget. It was a day I was home alone. Well, I really wasn't home alone, per say. My dog was home with me. She was outside at the time, so you can't blame her for what happened that day. I was sitting on the couch, watching the TV. It was a calm, peaceful day. It wasn't too hot outside; nor, was it too cold out as well. It was in the sixty degree weather, so I was perfect