The Dissipation of Textbook Dreams

I've given up.

The last shred of wonder has been burned out

leaving behind the charred husks of paper planes and rubber balls

tire swings and high school rings

of promises unkept...

and the smell...

it is the smell of old textbooks

lain unopened for ages

scratched and cratered from bygone years of old use

smelling faintly of vomit

of the person who drank too much

hope

the old glue

that kept it together 

rotting

writhing

disippating and disassociating

under the pressure of the demands of the natural world

and the particulates that feed on it and change it

Reviews

[Sarahnade]

Wow! Excellent imagery and word usage, you're quite talented... I am a college student, and this gives me a sort of new-found respect for my textbooks... although it doesn't make them any less annoying to carry around all day :P But I digress. I really enjoyed this... the yearning for better things, the promises that education once held, now broken... I could go on and on with interpretations. And I shall be back to read more from you in the future! Well done :)

[Arly Parent]

I'm a college student too. It's finals week and I'm just beat. I'm over school haha. 4 years of Astrophysics is tiring. :/

[Sarahnade]

I totally get ya. Mine are all on the same day, but I'm already dead :P

[Arly Parent]

Let's drop out and build sand castles and write poetry all day! :p Oy.

[Sarahnade]

Yes! :D And watch Harrison Ford movies! Hahaha!

[Arly Parent]

We'll call snakes ropes and make the Kessel Run in units of length. And same day finals are the WORST! Hope you've killed it. My last is in...6 hours and 1 minute. It's 3 :30am.

[Sarahnade]

Yeek... Well I hope it went well! And I hope I killed it too. o.o

[Arly Parent]

Eh. It turned out ok. *shrug* Not amazingly so but not horrendously bad.

[Sarahnade]

Well hey, that's gotta count for something. :)