your mom (xfoshizzlex) wrote, @ 2003-09-10 18:44:00

from one of my favorite books...



"Even if my mother and father
get killed in a car crash
and I have to go stay
with Aunt Frances and Uncle Paul
in New Jersey

and even if
their house burns down
so I get sent to a foster home
and my foster parents are alcoholics
who beat me

and even if
I run away
but I get caught
and the social worker says
I have to live in an orphanage in Omaha

and even if
when I'm on the airplane
on the way to the orphanage
a terrorist takes over
and makes the pilot land on a deserted island

and even if
the plane crashes
and everyone dies but the terrorist and me
and the island is surrounded
by hungry sharks,

I swear I won't go crazy."






"Smile for the camera.
Say 'cheese.'
Try and look
like your old, sane self
for just one second.

Please."





"We planned it
so carefully.

Even synchronized
our watches.

Then

last night
at the stroke of midnight

he looked at the moon
through his bedroom window

and at the exact same moment

I looked at the moon
through mine."




"The voices came whispering again
last night, while she was lying in her bed.
She thought she heard them say her name and then

their laughter rustled deep inside her head.
They didn't seem to know she was awake,
listening to every word they said.

She tried to block them out, but couldn't make
them go away. The voices asked her why
she'd lost her mind. Her hands began to shake.

She heard them mention shock treatments, and sigh.
Their murmurs kept her up all night, and then
a silence fell when sunlight filled the sky...

Today the voices will be gone, but when
evening falls and she lies in her bed,
she'll hear them come whispering again."