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[quote name="mark"][09 Dec 2006|11:39pm] [ mood | i'm so fucking scared ] [ music | elliott smith- king's crossing ] After The Funeral I saw a possum striding along the edge of a fence its body soft as a wasp’s nest. It was shaped like a wasp’s nest. And it buzzed as if it were full of wasps. The possum was pregnant. And then I thought the possum knew me. I thought, for a moment that it was you. And I was afraid. I was afraid that you would tell me something. And that I wouldn’t be able to handle it. I could see the possum’s stomach was a paper bag and it was full of wasps. When I placed my hand on the possum’s stomach I felt the wasps. The possum was sick. It rolled on its back & shook. It quivered in the black leaves. I could hear the wasps singing. They were gold and vermilion and each note burned like oil. The possum’s stomach was taut & moving, bubbling like water. The possum’s stomach was cracking like old paint and milk appeared in the cracks and it was not just wet but molten. And then the light in the meadow began to thicken and fill up with yellow it was like a glass of water that a cigarette has been placed in I could see the flakes of ash, the hard white flakes turning to cream. The yellow ash floated in the breeze. And the possum’s belly was yellow too like the withered insides of a lemon. When I woke up, the meadow smelled like rotten fruit & there were moths, many millions of them, swimming up from a hole the size of infant’s head. And each of the moths was a petal of flame and left trails of flame in the bracken air. [28 Jan 2007|05:22pm] [ mood | go spurs! ] [ music | el perro del mar- sad ] RQ What happened to her? Her gypsy fingers, her mint cigarettes; her always trembling. Sitting in her silver-veined Subaru wearing an old fox: she never went in. Him: a jittery blonde, goofed up hand held up to staunch the bleeding. That’s what I heard. That’s what I believe. Two burnouts in love. “I heard they settled down, started a yard sale, settled down, started another tryst.” [/quote]