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The split

24th June 2008

I would like to tell you it’s all good, but the truth is I think you fell on the wrong side. There was a split, you see. Unknowingly, I walked in and stepped in it and split it, down the centre, more or less, with a trusty pick axe and a bucketful of gin. More or less. And the thing is, is that this was supposed to be the good side, and I don’t know I mean, I still think this is the good side. And that’s good. Right? But when I look over there, over the gaping chasm, I see… I don’t know, you know I see them and they’re cool, too and whatnot and things. I lapse into vagueness because the nothing creeps over the painful bits, and that’s good, too, you know, that’s as it should be. I am here to protect me from it all. I am here to protect me. Only me. Because no one really wants to know how itchy this suit of armour really is.

Posted in Penance on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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7 responses

  1. clarissa comments:
    24th June 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Which is itchier: the armour or nylons threads?

  2. An Unreliable Witness comments:
    24th June 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I read this post first on a mobile phone, whilst travelling home in a minicab. I wasn’t sure it had line breaks, because the browser on my phone is rubbish. So I wasn’t entirely sure that my reaction was the sort of reaction I should have.

    I have now read it again. And it was.

    I slmost embarrassed myself in front of a (thankfully) monosyllabic minicab driver earlier. Let’s just leave it at that.

  3. isabellebo comments:
    25th June 2008 at 11:08 am

    oh ani, I know just what you mean,and sometimes that chasm seems so huge, as if there is everything else on one side and just me , on the other.

    I should like to know you underneath that armour.

    ( hello AUW, I just wanted to say , I’m appalled and yet impressed in equal measure -you read posts via mobile phone? Oh god, I suddenly feel totally Victorian.)

  4. Ani comments:
    25th June 2008 at 10:09 pm

    Clarissa: Ha. The word ‘itch’ makes me itch.

    AUW: Aw. You read me on your mobile? I am touched.

    Isabelle: Yes. Exactly. :)

  5. jem comments:
    26th June 2008 at 11:23 am

    ‘with a trusty pick axe and a bucketful of gin’ - great line. What one couldn’t achieve with that pair. What one couldn’t wreck.

  6. Z comments:
    26th June 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I’m glad you’re there to protect you.

  7. Ani comments:
    26th June 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Jem: Thanks. I’m wracking my brain trying to remember where I nicked it from. :)

    Z: Me, too. Though sometimes I think a big, strong man might do a better job. ;)

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