14-17, small man lives in past
14)
A world unheard of. He lived in it. Others suffered the consequences of it. Last week Thursday was the last day he went into Jesse's Diner, a sweet Southern throwback restaurant with an all-day breakfast menu. He ate three bacons, two eggs (over easy) and two white bread toast. He lived mostly existentially, except for when he ate bacon. He could really crawl back into himself then, which makes sense. I approached him with some advice, "keep on keepin' on." He slowly looked up, swallowed his last morsel of pork bacon, and smiled. The bacon was viewable between his upper inscisor and canine. He got up and left. He never had a heart attack from eating that type of food.
15)
A monument to human decadence. Different things were in place all over the household: large appliances, golf bags, bags of shrimp, diamond watches, suits, expsensive "classic series" books, a nightstand with a glass top. She bought this shit to feel good about herself (mostly through the supposed thoughts of others). At 32 she realized she had all the things she once said she wanted, but the real disease was that the carrot held in front of her kept moving. She bought more shit to treat her sickness, but it didn't help. At the end of the day she watched a big godamned TV and listened to 3d sound effects. Her anger made it impossible to eat the Wheat Thins. Thereafter she went to bed angry and never mentioned it to anybody.
16)
Morris Sipro learned to gage his dreams while in the military. He once developed a rating system while spending long hours in the barracks. Note #1 - different music would result in different effects. Note #2 - dreams must be written down immediately upon the awakened state lest they be forgotten. In order to produce certain ideal dream effects Morris would have to spend long hours during the day trying NOT to concentrate too hard on any one thought or become too stressed out, if possible. In the relaxed state, he knew that his dreams would become fully developed, and essentially meaningless in any non-dreaming world. For example, he wouldn't dream about tomorrow's tasks. Over seas Morris' list of rules and journal of dreams became very extensive as he managed to get a gig behind a desk. Non-stressful. Two days prior to his return he was gunned down by a comrade who had lost his wits. A bullet in the back. His notebook contained a lot of information but was never read by anyone. Ever.
17)
It was a rough neighborhood. The culture, the concrete, the other kids. They'd push him, rake his face over the brick, call him different names. The Pearl Jam song "Jeremy" gave him an idea, that of biting the recess lady's breast, but he soon remembered that he had nothing against her. And also his older brother told him that it wasn't even ironically cool to like that song. He didn't know what that meant, but it fed the fire he was supposed to have. He ate a Watchamacallit candy bar everyday before school. One day he had chocolate smeared all over his face and an eighth grader named Kent let him know just that. Then he smashed his shoulder with a bike lock. After that, the kid missed some school. His dad said he had really fucked up his life and sent him to live with his aunt. His aunt pushed him into showbiz. This man was Ashton Kutcher. He went on to make some great movies and everybody was real impressed.
A world unheard of. He lived in it. Others suffered the consequences of it. Last week Thursday was the last day he went into Jesse's Diner, a sweet Southern throwback restaurant with an all-day breakfast menu. He ate three bacons, two eggs (over easy) and two white bread toast. He lived mostly existentially, except for when he ate bacon. He could really crawl back into himself then, which makes sense. I approached him with some advice, "keep on keepin' on." He slowly looked up, swallowed his last morsel of pork bacon, and smiled. The bacon was viewable between his upper inscisor and canine. He got up and left. He never had a heart attack from eating that type of food.
15)
A monument to human decadence. Different things were in place all over the household: large appliances, golf bags, bags of shrimp, diamond watches, suits, expsensive "classic series" books, a nightstand with a glass top. She bought this shit to feel good about herself (mostly through the supposed thoughts of others). At 32 she realized she had all the things she once said she wanted, but the real disease was that the carrot held in front of her kept moving. She bought more shit to treat her sickness, but it didn't help. At the end of the day she watched a big godamned TV and listened to 3d sound effects. Her anger made it impossible to eat the Wheat Thins. Thereafter she went to bed angry and never mentioned it to anybody.
16)
Morris Sipro learned to gage his dreams while in the military. He once developed a rating system while spending long hours in the barracks. Note #1 - different music would result in different effects. Note #2 - dreams must be written down immediately upon the awakened state lest they be forgotten. In order to produce certain ideal dream effects Morris would have to spend long hours during the day trying NOT to concentrate too hard on any one thought or become too stressed out, if possible. In the relaxed state, he knew that his dreams would become fully developed, and essentially meaningless in any non-dreaming world. For example, he wouldn't dream about tomorrow's tasks. Over seas Morris' list of rules and journal of dreams became very extensive as he managed to get a gig behind a desk. Non-stressful. Two days prior to his return he was gunned down by a comrade who had lost his wits. A bullet in the back. His notebook contained a lot of information but was never read by anyone. Ever.
17)
It was a rough neighborhood. The culture, the concrete, the other kids. They'd push him, rake his face over the brick, call him different names. The Pearl Jam song "Jeremy" gave him an idea, that of biting the recess lady's breast, but he soon remembered that he had nothing against her. And also his older brother told him that it wasn't even ironically cool to like that song. He didn't know what that meant, but it fed the fire he was supposed to have. He ate a Watchamacallit candy bar everyday before school. One day he had chocolate smeared all over his face and an eighth grader named Kent let him know just that. Then he smashed his shoulder with a bike lock. After that, the kid missed some school. His dad said he had really fucked up his life and sent him to live with his aunt. His aunt pushed him into showbiz. This man was Ashton Kutcher. He went on to make some great movies and everybody was real impressed.
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