It's not that "life is not worth reading", it's that the scabbed memories don't want to be exposed to the public again

Dagmar 2022-10-04 11:36:58

Control, misinterpretation, indebtedness, burdened, suffocating but unchosen kinship; red tin box dug up in the suburban hills; diary and videotape thrown into the fire by mother; in the face of disgusting truth, justice The conscience is like a boy who is unable to fight by his father; the bright football helmet is unable to save the soul of rescue; the asthma is dead in the elevator; the memory of numbness is in the middle of the disabled father ...; the house in the desert , innocent, impulsive, ideal; manuscript papers scattered all over the floor, alcohol, lost emotions; epilepsy, hallucinations, blood on the forehead, the library trash can on fire; a train that seems to never stop on the winding tracks; a The dog named Homer... Words form sentences. Sentence by sentence, constitutes a lifetime that does not seem worthy of being read. Burn all the cruel twists and turns, ignite the increasingly cold heart, and leave others with an imaginative opening. From now on, it's none of your business, hang high, wander, find yourself, don't stop, don't lose...

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  • Sidney Hall: Gloria... she had a virginal quality that contrasted with her ice cool outer shell... yeah, she was a bitch, for sure... Her breasts, her cheekbones, her legs; she saw that in the mirror every morning and was well aware of the power they held over men. No one could touch her or intimidate her. I once saw Brad Dorsey, the captain of the soccer team, crying by his locker. She had dumped him after one date and took his balls with her. From that day forward he never played sports again.

  • Sidney Hall: Once Melody left me, it dawned on me, looking out at all of those wonderful city lights, that I was just one of those millions of city lights, a tiny little pixel, buried within the white noise of life, blinking on for just a brief second in time.