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Oh, infinitely beautiful girl
you are not alone
she wrote with
scarlet lipstick on her mirror
But words alone
don't
change hearts
and she was infinitely
unhappy
cursed
doomed
All the boys and men
said yes
to her
but her brother still
said no
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"Eh, sorry, sorry," she would
say
but the wound would be already
open
She would close her eyes
squint them
poke her tongue out
and shake her head
"Sorry."
She liked to bite
couldn't help it
"You're gonna kill somebody
one day. Bleed 'em to death or
something."
"Sorry, sorry."
but some people
some girls
are just impossible to stay mad at
Despite her words
there was
no remorse for opening the wound
no remorse for licking it
making it bigger with her tongue
And no remorse for sucking
the blood out of it
She never swallowed
Just swirled it around her mouth,
loving the saltiness
and the taste of metal,
and then let it drip down her chin
She was arguably
one of the
greatest
among the great ones
You don't need the
employee of the month
badge to know
that you're it
He knew he was it
The other day he asked the girl
who called whether she
had any family
She said no
"And I don't want any. I don't want
to hurt them with
my going away. So it's better that
they don't exist." She
sounded so tired, so drowsy,
so helpless
He started tearing up
and told her. "If you do it... If you
do it then I'm gonna cry. I will
remember you. I will never
forget you. I will be the
family you're leaving behind if you
go. You will leave me in
great pain, I tell you that. In great pain! I
will cry every day and... and please don't
do it. Please let's talk about it. I'm
here for you. Let's talk. Please." He was
crying into
the receiver
And the response was
a loud bang
from the other side. It was over.
The caller was gone
He hung up
wiped his tears and
awaited the next caller
There was no win
or fail in this job
but still
he did a fine work
He smiled to himself
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Run wild
That was the motto
Of course it didn’t address
running wild
in the streets
and away from angry shopkeepers
and the police
and rival gangs
and betrayed friends
It all starts with a
run from responsibility,
evading reality
“Think you
can live like that?” father had said.
“Go ahead and try. C’mon, not
like you’re of any
use round here. Go!”
He went
and the years have passed and
he was never missed
But tonight he would return
with a couple of
friends
some rope
and a few sharp objects
A dim light was flickering in the kitchen
meaning the old man
would be at the table with a belly
heavy with drink
and a head light with fumes
So not much changed
"Well, let's go."
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Yeah, there were those times
when he talked with
grandma about God
and she told him what a horrible place
hell is
"You suffer every day but can't die."
"Every day?"
"Every day. And can't die. Only
suffer!"
Grandma had four years of
schooling to her life
She didn't consider
the possibility of getting used to
the suffering
If it happens daily and you
don't die... well.
Hell therefore is not pain
It is monotony
Today he had 18 years of schooling
and 10 of working
a dead-end office job
He was accredited to define hell
Hell was monotony
Doing the same thing over
and over
and over again for the rest of
eternity
That was hell
And maybe grandma would've
agreed
maybe not
But there was one thing he remembered
about hell. Something he'd
heard from his mother back in the day
she'd quit chemotherapy to save the
money for his college
"The way out is
one smile away!" she'd said
Yeah. The way out.
He stood
left his cubicle
went into the bathroom
took out the razor blade from his pocket
and slashed from the corners
of his lips
all the way to the ears
deep
And again
There it was. An avalanche of feeling. So
much feeling!
He dipped his fingers into
the blood and
drew a smiling face on the
mirror
One smile away!
He shook with laughter and
adrenaline. There
was so much to feel! He laughed for
a full seven minutes.
And then returned to
his cubicle
and resumed work
The others were too deep in
hell to notice him
or the trail he left behind
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the woman smiled at him
and showed her
legs from beneath a
white coat
She was close to his face
Stretched on the label of
the rubbing alcohol bottle
70% alcohol
He liked this woman because her
smile never faded
and she was always inviting
"Oh, if you insist," he said
and made an
effort to push himself away from the
moldy pillow and stand
He grabbed the bottle
added some water
stirred
held his breath
and drank
The words "I love you," came from his mouth
enveloped in thick steam
and there was a brutal
growl in his guts
but none of that
mattered. The woman was still
smiling at him, still
lovely