The Buzz

 I’m up to my knees in some sort of vacancy, and there’s orange Gatorade that’s thawing my toes. It’s only me and you here, buried in shredded newspaper that’s marked with words that kill or surround. I flushed in the holes of the receiver when you said it, burned a crimson twinge to hear it more; the buzz grew in my stomach by way of the words, in means of my optimism that has grown intolerably.

 

I’ve melted into the carpet where I lay, my love; fallen into the stupor once more. I wonder, perchance, if there is ever a hope of advancing from this state. I wonder, conceivably, if I would ever ask to be removed from the status that I irrevocably remain at the friction of familiarity that has come to me so recently. I still get the buzz.

 

I’m drowning again, in the salty daze of pizza rolls and movies that fulfill what I wish to obtain, what I lack. I don’t know what I’m feeling, because the chief has thrown toxins into the atmosphere once more, and I’m much too taken right now, from the buzz.

 

I feel like I’m back, now. The piece is where it should be, until I expire again. The grass is at my toes, filling the creases of my fingers with due. Buried in forsaken daisies my hands wait, alone and wanting the keen relation, no matter how many times they fall broken, discarded.

Author's Note

A lot of this came from muddled bits of things that passed by me as I walked, my recorder in hand. It all really leads up to something, though, coming from the passing from something that I really, really wanted to hear.

Reviews

[speakingcolors]

i like this one, not sure why, but i do. the chief, a reoccuring figure of some sort? read him in another piece. hmm.

[Blue Sky]

you ability in words is quite something else
I really like the effect of the words you choose
Buzz deems a great choice for this title of this wonderful piece!
filled with great metaphors to build the muddled passings,
very well drawn to making great imagery, very well drawn
to a great piece of work!!

[Larissa G.]

I'm curious to see where this could go. I look forward to more.