What are we saying we are saying
24th April 2009It smelled musty in a bad way. Like he’d taken a shit and individually plastic-wrapped the turds, carefully placed them in a box and placed the box in a drawer in a knotty pine wardrobe in a small overstuffed room.
We lost a lot that day. Three tiny, gold coloured safety pins. A sizeable ball of fallen strands of chestnut brown hair. Two tickets to Jimmy Johns and Jane Jannsen. Front row. A row of maize. Green, unpopped and un-movie buttered.
Some of our stomachs hurt and some of us had bad cases of the measles or pox or something else we’d had before. Maybe mumps or melanoma. Diseased mytochondria. Still, we were determined to go before the judge to have our case heard on the matter of the things we’d lost.
There were three other things, two of which we hadn’t the heart to discuss. One of which was the heart. We’d discuss that aplenty when the time came but presently the stink became unbearable and we had to turn out, our eyeballs reeking, our ears plugged, our cheeks pinched, our fancy noses stuffed.
25th April 2009 at 9:44 am
Oh man. How do you do it? How do the words come? Do you sit there with a furrowed brow, concentrating hard like when you need to take a shit but are constipated or does it just ooooze on out?
25th April 2009 at 11:03 pm
I found you by accident and I think you are marvellous.
26th April 2009 at 10:48 pm
‘mytochondria’ is such a good word.
there’s definitely a good sort of ‘musty.’ like old book musty, & curiousity shop musty.
27th April 2009 at 10:17 pm
Ellie: It depends how constipated I am, if you must know. ;)
Sack Posset: Hello and welcome, Sack. Saying you think I’m marvellous means you get to stay for free.
Roberta: Did I read ‘mytochondria’ in one of your pieces, maybe? It just came to me ‘out of nowhere’ which means I must have read it somewhere.
28th April 2009 at 1:34 pm
maybe. i am not sure. i like words that feel vaguely onomatopoeiac (which i can’t spell) even when they’re not literally.
yoshimoto ani, do you think one day one of us will write a ‘novel,’ then notice later it was just something we read somewhere & channeled?
29th April 2009 at 12:36 pm
It’s ‘mitochondria’, not ‘mytochondria’.
29th April 2009 at 7:27 pm
Roberta: Are you trying to give me nightmares?! (The answer is obviously yes, that is just like something I would do.)
Elitist: Ooooooh, burn! *shakes fyst*