RAINDROP/SUNDROP (GRASSWORLD/RAINWORLD) by Robert Garcia - HTML preview

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SNOWFLAKE: PART 3

 

 

Not knowing where to turn, he headed back to his hometown and made a left

Down towards the old rusty bus stop, walking slowly and pensively in thought as he did so

“Well, I’m here now,” he said

“And I still don’t know what the future holds for me!”

“Come to think of it, what time is it?” A groan escaped his lips

“Maybe I should ask the mirror I reflect BOTH THINGS when I get home!”

Walking home, cause the bus

Just takes way too damn long for his shortly lit patience stored in his emotional short-circuited fuse box

He walks to his house

Surrounded by some really thick, big green trees

“Wow, wow, wow, wow sir! Watch where you’re going!”

A man in a business suit was accidentally shoved into the middle of the road across the street

When the one hopeless, fuzzy future guy shoved his shoulder into him when just trying to get home.

And planted him dead smack in the middle of the busy, bustling street

Where he was almost ran over by twenty-three large trucks and cars, caring little for his endangered safety

“Well, I’m so, so sorry, buddy. Would you like me to kiss your feet in apology? Just leave me be, ok?”

The hopeless future guy said it bored and wanting to die tonight

Not a very good feeling he had at all. No sir, a negative, troublesome one that haunted him until he managed to set his first footstep into his tiny, mouse-sized house

There, he had all the tools he needed to cut himself

Cut himself with medieval loyalty

Not stopping to admire his self-inflicted wounds

Just blindly following as a knight

Going to war

For his ruling king and queen

A butcher knife and a cute satchel he kept

He kept mostly to himself

The exception was that best friend

The one

That had now ended up betraying him

The true colours revealed themselves

When he had

Asked his friend about the future

So fuck that guy

Oops

He didn’t mean to drop a swear

He doesn’t like using swears

He used to use them a lot before

So he made it a rule

That he would give himself one single,

Deep cut

Every time he spoke those kinds of foul words

His mother would have to wash out his mouth with clean soap

Well, she would have to

If she was still alive, anyway

He figured

That it was just one more thing

That he could and would be willing

To end up cutting himself over

The medieval instruments called his name

A big, wide stone wall

Full of armament that the gladiators like to use

To the left lay many wine bottles

Of his own possessions

All arranged neatly on tables

Like museum art pieces

The only hobby or interest

This lost future person enjoyed

Was getting drunk on lotsa, lotsa wine

He had dreamed of being a wine maker, a vintner

Because of his love for the drinks

But got drunk before an interview,

Having drank lotsa wines,

Went to it drunk,

And blew his chance up

For that to ever happen again

What a shame

As he reached for the Morningstar,

Mace, sword and spiked, vicious shield

To inflict

Irresistible damage upon his physical-self

His mental and emotional selves were torn

Would he be eaten alive by his dull future years?
Or, would he be able to survive and then eat the dull future years alive?

As he started to perform slices on himself

He wondered aloud:

“Just how will my future ever be bright enough to please and satisfy me?”