Is it the story of a girl having flashes from her past life?
…or a writer imagining his future destiny?
Is the girl insane? Is the writer vain?
Archive for the ‘Transmigrant Blues : Round 4’ Category
Delivering the News – Round 4 : Page 1
Thursday, June 5th, 2008“Sorrow sometimes teach a lesson well,
And I know that good can come from bad
So let’s look into that morning Star
‘Cause you know just who you are…”
Guilty on all Counts – Round 4 : Page 2
Friday, July 4th, 2008“Maybe three months until you start showing symptoms, if that. From there, it’s rapidly downhill. Bedridden in six months. Your type of malignancy has a survival rate of about five percent at a year. There are always miracles, of course.”
Suicide Suddenly Seems Attractive (Round 4-Page 3)
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Suicide suddenly seems very attractive.
Guns are for psychos; hanging and wrist slashing for halfhearted gestures. I’ve always been terrified of heights and there’s no way on Goddess’s green Earth I’m spending my last seconds watching a sidewalk or ocean rushing up on me. I’ve gotten plenty of that in cold-sweat nightmares.
Don’t Fear the Reaper – Round 4 : Page 4
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Maybe this is the wrong approach. There is opportunity, true, to embrace death in my own fashion; but do I thereby win? Is blinking out with a minimum of discomfort and maximum dignity the only available goal? It seems meager.
Astral Projection – Another World – Round 4 : Page 5
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Fortunately, I live not far from the hospital, and soon arrive in my crescent-shaped driveway, pulling in behind the RV and boat. I unravel the various locking mechanisms and punch in the alarm deactivation sequence.
The Body & Brain of God – Round 4 : Page 6
Saturday, April 4th, 2009The music turns queer, distorted, choppy, sounding nothing like the well-worn Israeli psy-trance tracks that I know I set to play. It’s as if it’s being twisted through a time warp, so I’m hearing some beats and tones before the ones they follow.
