the earth's jest never putrefies. atlas revels in passing away -- to mollify the unpleasant burden that has crushed his bones for so long an epoch, to be reborn and have his calloused feet back on top of the titanic sphere -- while the princess remains apprehensive of doors, wary of every creak and click, and bleakly clings to her own mortal thread of life, the flimsiest of strands ever known. so
she expires.her soul murmurs honey-bitter, herb-sweet words for centuries into infinitely-slumbering, empty, unborn human bodies. mulishy, it waits for any reply -- the flutter of an eyelash, the tap of a finger -- until one arrives. it does not dilly-dally and seeps into the nostrils of a soft, small shell of an inbound life. sand from the hourglass falls again, and she grows in the spotlight, before the camera, atop places most only see in reveries. but her recollection of the past is defunct, and so when solitude props its icy limbs on her shoulder, through the film strip, she sees things she once deemed inexistent. 
at first they are petty -- phantoms gliding on the edge of her sight, tendrils of black in sparks and quivers... and then they grow. smiles and frowns folding in and out of crumpled script pages, and then hallucinations of colossal towers and obnoxious cackles and stolen tiaras, and then wisps of ethereal songs and things that never were.she knows naught about her borrowed soul and the princess who once owned it, so she keeps quiet. the ghosts of the prince, the princess and the witch crawl under and above and round the confines of her cranium, knock-knocking, moaning and groaning and pining to be remembered. and so one day, francelle wonders out loud: "who else hears it?" 
"hears what?" he asks (ignoring the sounds ringing in his own ears, sounds that seem frighteningly like his own), bringing her tea that came from the ground, where everything from the past thousand years -- green and animate; dark and dead -- lay, waiting, sulking. she shakes her head and with proficient and practical fingers brushes aside the voices and visions from the worn-out slush-flesh inside her skull."nothing," she says, but faintly, in case he doesn't really exist. "i think i just lost myself for a moment." his eyes disappear as he smiles, unconsciously ruminating when they would both turn to dust and sulk with the rest of the waning past. September 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009  Glut It Is Finished Age Crisis First Semester Neverland Ayoko To Chincha Of Excellence The Return Summer's Last Blood One Big Game For Fritz Doctor Recommended Doggone |
 Saturday, September 13, 2008 they're still butchering the pig it has been one hour already, and my porkchop is still not with me. my pyloric sphincter is threatening a revolution. anyway.. continuing my ritual of writing nonsense before embarking in something that makes sense (and a very difficult sense, for that matter.. read: fucking CHICK EMBRYO), i will rant. this week will go down in my memory lane as one of the worse, if not, the worst. no, i am not lying. and gosh, i am certainly not saying this to fish for consolatory compliments. when i say this week has been a blithering mess, i mean every word of it, in all its denotations and nuances. this week brought me down to my knees. it made me realize that some things in life are best left uncrammed, and that diligence should not depend on what mood i am in. this week also taught me one practical lesson (although it's too bad that i have learned it too late): reading the embryology textbook is useless. HAHA. maybe it's about time that i live up to whatever is expected of me. i can complain all i want, and say that all these high expectations are unfair, but maybe all these hoo-ha really have a basis. * apologies to mr. hernandez for dragging his ass way down here in xocolat. i know you would rather do a gazillion of things other than this. thanks for the company! haha... SHOT @ 9:04 PM BY FRANCE 
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"what a coincidence," he hums, and when she looks at him bemusedly, a muscled arm reaches out for the cup. he sips from the brim and swallows water and herbs and burnt ashes of fallen men. "i'm lost myself." artlessly, as their eyes catch, they wonder how many people all over the recycled world are lost like them.alec alfred anna athina bea berbi bryan cari crystal danica davie doryll dothy gerald howard ice ishee izy john jopal josh jp july justin kaira katlab kate keem kenny kit km krish kyla lady louraine marius marni meklot mina phraensys pinktados reisa richie sara teetin tin trish 
a million other souls want out, and that is why humans dwindle, like the fragrance of rose amidst a field of jettisoned lives and emancipated final breaths -- all just as red and bloody. a million other souls know they are born in the wrong country, born in the wrong culture, reborn in the wrong era. a million other souls are blindly adrift, and so they writhe on their bellies, on the dust of their forebears, day after day (after day), awaiting the painful stint until their shadowy friend grazes them with his iniquitous, hungry blade.
hiss-hissing and hush-hushing, strips of film bitterly slither and struggle in disarray, rolling, tumbling over each other like rubber bones. run through once, rewound for a thousand years, replayed again. somnolent, they lay wearily, waiting to be made real -- the same cast, the same plot, the same intricacies like the corollary of silver behind every looking glass. 
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