Wealth
The lady had money, covered herself in brands, furs, jewelries. Then they
started melting on her, turned earthy brown and fused into the soil below her.
Excuses
Mary’s sick. So are Anna and Tom. John’s “feeling” kind of sick so he’s not
here. And then there’s Ray who has a fever, and also William who’s even sicker.
Edgar and Lily have been gone for the last eight days because Lily had the
chicken pox and gave it to Edgar when they were playing in the sand box
together. Ronnie’s just gone and Chloe, well, she never comes to school so it
makes sense that she’s not here today. Denis is out of town –family visit. Oh
right,
So there’s Billy and me, one
on one, no one else. Then I got a call from my mom saying that dad just passed
away. So… well, Billy I’m sorry but I have to go.
Sky
She flew up the sky with her wings. Up high, past the roof of her house, above
the trees, along with the birds, airplanes, until her mama and papa were smaller
than ants and her house was a grey box, she flapped her wings. She gazed down
below, where her parents would fight all day, where her sister gave up on life,
where Stacy and Carmen talked about how she didn’t deserve to be their friend,
where Spot, the dog, was killed by a drunk driver. Then her wings tore off, and
she started falling down.
Picture
She was sitting alone in the living room. From the opened window a stream of
wind blew up the beige curtains, then her blonde hair with a moment of delay.
Her grey hair appears for a moment, then the gold hair covered over them, again
and again as the wind blew. She sat still on the edge of the couch as if someone
was sitting next to her. She sat all day long doing nothing. Perhaps she was
soaking her mind in her old memories. Remembering those days when she was still
young, when there was always someone next to her, laughing together, smiling
together.
On the L shaped shelf, next to her, are rows of picture frames faced upside
down. Can’t bear looking at them, but can’t put them away.
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood [16; 4’5”] (carrying a basket [over her head]
[Wood, bamboo, wheat, other grasses, rushes, twigs, osiers {Salix
viminalis},
flax, or wicker are often used to make baskets, this one, bamboo{fastest-growing
plant on earth, low calorie w/ potassium}] full of sour bread (baked by LRRH),
sausage (raw so LRRH can cook @ grandma’s place[house placed alone in the
[tropical rain] forest, far from village]) that her mom made [she learned how to
make sausage from the new comers who’re trying to convert the whole villagers
into Christian b/c they’re barbarian] by slaughtering the pig [black spot around
his left eye [brown] and tail, named Juicy] in their yard,(did they even have
yard back then? *Find diff word*) and tea [also brought by the Christians]) went
to visit [walked [skipping, hopping, dragging] through the forest [filled with
those dangly trees] for [about] two miles] her sick grandma [67] but on the way
[1/7 in the [rain]forest{provide 28% of worlds oxygen}], she meets (encounter?)
a [gray]
wolf {Canis
lupus,
ice age survivor}[shouldn’t be in rainforest & shouldn’t be wandering around
alone (but this one was adopted by a monkey{Cebus
albifrons}
in the forest [George of the Jungle])].
The wolf {Canis
lupus}
wants to eat LRRH (usually [Gray] wolf {Canis
lupus}
doesn’t eat “inexperienced” [have-not-eaten-yet] prey which means this wolf have
eaten other human?) but because he is afraid (if he had feeling that we know of
(classifies as ego? Superego? (of being caught by someone and him getting killed
instead? Or having his food [LRRH] taken?))) to eat her in public (which would
be the forest (afraid of being caught by the monkeys? (being isolated by his
“family” who adopted him?)), he decides to camouflage [dress up in w/e grandma’s
going to be wearing] as her grandma (I should name her for less confusion) and
eat [gulp] her [LRRH] when she comes [in the house
He convinces (like saying “Hi I’m a wolf, how are you?? Oh you’re going
to see how your grandma’s doing? How sweet of you, how about you stay here and
pick some flower for your grandma while I go and eat her up so I can eat you
too?) LRRH to pick some [sufficient amount to make her grandma happy] flowers.
and while she picked flowers{Rosa
gymnocarpa,
Mimulus tilingi,
Saxifracageae,
Cornus
unalaschkensis},
he disguised himself [[grey] wolf] [Grandma[ _____ ] must have been close to
deaf for not the diff btn wolf’s voice and her own granddaughter’s voice] as
LRRH (______, I’m here) and went to _____’s house [the one’s with only a roof
(made from twigs? (wouldn’t they leak when it rains? {9ft/year}) and nothing
else) and eat her.
LRRH comes to _____’s house and finds something wrong with her ______ [i.e.
hairy, low voice, [wolfy] odd shaped ear] but [b/c wolf was able to give all
these good excuses [i.e. oh yeah I started wearing wigs to hide my baldness,
maybe because I’m sick, must be from the weight loss, my whole face got sharper]
ends up getting eaten. While the wolf is taking a nap {naping right after eating
decreases digestive activity(which may be why LRRH and ______ didn’t die in the
wolf’s {Canis
lupus}
stomach)}, LRRH and _______ yells for help. Hearing their voice, a nearby hunter
comes and rescues them. They then filled the wolf’s stomach with frogs
[poisonous {usually bright colors such as red, blue, orange, black, and yellow}]
[found in the forest when LRRH was picking up the flowers {Rosa
gymnocarpa,
Mimulus tilingi,
Saxifracageae,
Cornus
unalaschkensis}and
decided to take some with her because of the beautiful colors [red, orange,
yellow, black, blue] and he died.
Weather
Today was sunny, so was yesterday, this whole week, month, years. But no
worries, we have plenty of water from the Atlantic ice that melted during these
years from the years of rain before this drought. Today was sunny, so will
tomorrow, and the days after tomorrow. Then when it gets a little too dry, maybe
it will start raining again and they’ll flood the soil.
Room
He’s in a room filled with males and females of different ages, and different
colors. The room has no windows, just the door they came from and the door
they’ll leave through. They scream for help, cry for help. They bang on the
walls to see if there’s any way out but the walls are made of cement and doesn’t
move a bit. The door they’ll be leaving through opens, then the door behind them
opens. More are pushed in. He is pushed in, forward, into the open door in
front. The door closes behind them and gas starts filling the new room. They cry
for help. Gases fill up the room. They cry for help. Gases fill up the room.
They cr—
Dream
He held up the blade and swung his hands down. A squeak echoed in his head.
Warmness covered his hands then face. It dripped down his skin, slowly, from his
chin to his collarbone, to his chest to his thighs. The warm blood covered his
body and something deep inside him woke up.
Lolita
She is neither. Can’t be called a kid, but not grown enough to be consider as an
adult. She still has a rounded face with lovely little eyes, she still has her
sweet voice that flows like a creek, and she still loves her teddy bears. Yet
parts of her body are starting to show marks of a grown woman. Her breasts have
blossomed pink and they easily fill her cupped hands. Her arms that used to
shoot straight out from her shoulders now come with a curved angle and now, she
bleeds once a month and learned to be modest. She won’t play with the boys like
she used to. She won’t ride on the back of their bicycle, she won’t play tag all
day with them, and she won’t slide down the hills with them. But still, when she
sees them around, she wishes she could ride on their bicycle, she wishes she
could play tag all day, she wishes she could slide down the hills with the
cardboard box they would steal from the shops.
Mirror
I brush my hair and look at myself in the mirror. She too, brushes her hair and
looks at me in the eye. I reach for my toothbrush. She too reaches for her
toothbrush. I brush my teeth. She too brushes her teeth, left then right, right
then left. I rinse my mouth, she rinses her mouth, I put back the toothbrush,
she puts her toothbrush back. I turn back and reaches for the door, she stares
at me as I walked out the door.