Content with Content.

[LMNO]

Pick the backs of the labor camp detainees.  Their scabrous hands and rusty knees bend to the bidding of the One who Watches, the Eye in the Tower.

Hear from the horns at the fence corners the peal and cry of instructions for them to follow, half bellowed at their faces and half slipped into the brainstem at the nape of the neck.

Kick them aside with boots made of tungsten as you march between their supine bodies; tread on fingers and adjust your pocket square to match the current style.

Pull yourself away from the flickering images nestled up your sleeve, from the earbuzz of unguent adverts, from the propagandistic billboards, from the ocean of Want.

Kill the things that make you different because you know you're being watched and judged and accounted and weighed and measured and averaged and tallied and labeled and sorted into your correct position.

Abandon hope for advancement in any endeavor because you're the embodiment of the Peter Principle, the higher you go the worse you'll be until you finally reach the apex of your incompetence and you go no higher – you've reached the point of perfect unhappiness.

Retreat to the days always imagined, never experienced, days that you wished could have been yours, the edited days, the days amended in retrospect, the days never lived.

Avoid the looks you give yourself in the mirror, avoid the instants, avoid the reactive associations inherited from your family, avoid the chilling reality of the moment that asks you for a feeling, a thought, a dream.

Go back to sleep, and dream yourself a better life.  Dream in a place where your petty desires are made manifest simply by wanting them to be so.  Dream a world that doesn't hurt.  Dream a universe that has finally centered on you.

Turn down, tense up, drop off.













[edit to clean up a redundancy]

[Freeky]

Wow.

[LMNO]

No one was posting anything, so I decided to puke up some content.

[Luna]

Whoa.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Fucking awesome.

Especially the bit about the mirror.

[LMNO]

Thanks.  This is what you fuckers get when nobody posts for an hour or two.


CONSIDER THIS YOUR LAST WARNING.  I DEMAND MORE INANITY AND BICKERING IN APPLE TALK.

[Luna]

Thanks.  This is what you fuckers get when nobody posts for an hour or two.


CONSIDER THIS YOUR LAST WARNING.  I DEMAND MORE INANITY AND BICKERING IN APPLE TALK.

Keep posting like this and I'll keep my yap shut for hours at a time...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Thanks.  This is what you fuckers get when nobody posts for an hour or two.


CONSIDER THIS YOUR LAST WARNING.  I DEMAND MORE INANITY AND BICKERING IN APPLE TALK.

Know how it goes.  You're bored at work, and there's 20+ people on the board, and NOBODY'S TALKING.  They're all "Viewing", which means (I think) that they're AFK.

That's when I start bumping horrible old threads involving aini and hugh.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Damn.  Very very Nice LMNO!!

[Jenne]

I miss your writing, Alphapance.  Thanks for producing.  It filled me up a bit, and now I don't hunger as much. 

[hirley0]

Wow.

Oww:

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

This is an awesome message. I approve 123%

[Don Coyote]

Sounds like it should be a song.

[Sepia]

This was both pretty and brutal. Beautiful.

[LMNO]

This was both pretty and brutal. Beautiful.

Wow.  Thanks, man.  Coming from you, that's quite a compliment.