Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Today, you'll visit this room one last time.


These walls will miss you when you're gone.

You've been gone a long time but still, in this room, you can stop and listen to the past. Your blood and your sweat were soaked up by the carpet under your feet and now even though it's years later you can hold your breath and listen to yesterday's ghosts murmur and shift behind the walls. 

Now, as a rule, walls live pretty dull lives...but these walls miss you immensely. The walls think you are extraordinary. 

Your life, as it played out scene by scene in this room, was nothing short of art to them. Seriously, nothing really that great never happened in this room. I mean, there weren't any double-homicides going on in here, no explosions either. But did you know that the walls still talk about that one day when you swallowed enough pills to fill a pharmacy and chased them with a full handle of vodka? If they had seats, the walls would have been sitting on the edge of them, waiting to see what would happen next. 

But the next morning you just woke up and vomited for hours and hours. The walls were so fucking bored that day. 

Don't worry about that though, what you should know is that the walls have been talking, and they compiled a list of the five most interesting things they ever saw while you lived in this room. Here they are:

5. You, climbing drunkenly in through the window with blood gushing from your head.
4. You, wearing a towel, pretending to be a magician.
3. You, trying to mitigate the symptoms of a panic attack by repeatedly banging your head against the bookshelf.
2. You, having sex with another person on the desk.
1. You, lying awake in bed, in the dim light of early morning...staring at someone who is still asleep.


These walls are going to miss you when you're gone.

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