Bored country kid

by Alice   Nov 4, 2017


Wait.
Listen.
Can’t you hear the siren?
I decided to break my legs
just for entertainment.
Can’t you see them
all bent back?
With rose bone strings
about to snap?
Oh, how I’m grinning!
Look at how my dragged lips
part to wear the fibres of my skin
to flaking orts.

They’re coming to get me
in the big, big van
with the bright red cross.

Mummy,
do you remember
my favourite puppy
who got 'put to sleep'?
He was all mashed up
under Daddy’s tractor.
Do you remember how
his brain exploded
and it splashed
amongst the crops
and dripped like dyed rain
from the wheat blades-
and all the field mice
snuck to eat it up?
Mummy,
Mummy,
Mummy,
can you make them put me to sleep?

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  • 6 years ago

    by Kitty Cat Lady

    Alice, your descriptions are so good that I could see this grisly scene only too well. Very dark and very good! :-)
    =^.^=

  • 6 years ago

    by Dagmar Wilson

    This is deep and it is close to home. Excellent write. All the best

  • 6 years ago

    by ddavidd

    Such a maneuver of talent. The talent of this piece reminds me of Kafka's stories. But here the darkness is even more incurable than his. It is so magnificently ominous and suicidal that I can not even bear the thought of remembering it. It touches the ultimate points of melancholy in ones psyche. Maybe it is just me but this simply frightens me.
    Though Alice talent wise you are up, up there!!

  • 6 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    This is amazing in its sheer brutality. It's an incredible write and the end sent me into a cold shiver. I will nominate this on Monday when my votes are charged.

    Really well done and all the very best,

    Ben

    • 6 years ago

      by Alice

      Wow, thank you! I originally meant not to make it so chilling, and to be more about myself than some psychopathic, suicidal child, but I think it turned out pretty well... Thanks for nominating me

  • 6 years ago

    by mossgirl19

    Alice, this is creepy! A dark psychological tale.

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