Monday, June 19, 2006

the van was choked with cigarette smoke and the smell of booze. i watched in morbid fascination as the figures in the VCD player writhed and whimpered. this man who bore my little nieces; his eyes were glazed with stupor while his dark skin glistened with sweat. on my lap was innocence herself. small, smiling and completely ignorant. outside the trees rustled and threatened of flying inhabitants with long flowing hair. inside of me, the heart thudded lazily and refused to respond to a pleading mind.

i begged myself to wake up but i never did for days. my eyes stayed glassy and defiled. my nose was plugged with impurities. my ears frightened. my heart racing in delayed reaction. my mind, blind with the horror of the corruption of the human condition.


so she lied at 8:12:00 pm