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Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses

  • Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.

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  • I leaned back in my armchair and blocked out the voice urging me to do things. I reached for the glass of aged single malt from Islay and had another sip. There was serenity, but

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  • wait a minute there's a tiny shrunken head in my Islay. Now, how did that get there? It seems to be saying something.Here I am trying to remain serenely oblivious to voices and

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  • now he talks and the song oh god the song it is a metal siren wailing the birth of a titanium whale, screeching into this new worlds of smoke and coal and horror, oh god this must

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  • be it now: Coated in old motor oil, the newborn titanium whale plopped unceremoniously onto a smoky mountain of coal. She surveyed her horrific new world then flopped along grazing

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  • ᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴀʟ ꜱᴛᴀʀꜱ. ᴊᴜʙᴇʟɪᴇᴇɴᴀ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴛᴀɴ ᴡʜᴀʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛɪᴛᴀɴɪᴜᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰɪʀᴇʏ ᴄᴏᴀʟ, ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ꜱʜᴇ ꜱᴀᴡ ᴡᴀꜱ ꜰɪʀᴇ, ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴄᴏᴀʟ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴇʀᴇʟɪᴄᴛ ᴘᴏʟʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ ꜱʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴜɢʜᴛ make the world anew and

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  • end all superfluous typefaces and spacings or Jubelieena the killer whale from the oceans of Hades will come and eat you up, you little rascal! (Insert a mighty whale-like roar.)

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  • "phfft!" " No that is not a whale like roar! cut, cut, cut." The director wiped his brow in frustration. "Start the scene again. But Barnabas the lead would have none of it. "You a

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  • Re making my job more difficult!". I replied. All I wanted to do was relax and continue this production from Hell some other day. So it was I gave the crew three days off.

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  • Three days off in Hell! Anything you do to the inhabitants of Hell was less than they deserved. Damn, son, you're not even trying. Its Hell have a ball! I never... the screaming.

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1 Comments

  1. lucielucie Jun 03 2017 @ 16:05

    This was my Dylan Thomas memorial fold on the 100th year anniversary of his birth. It's a line from 'Under Milk Wood'

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