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Article #138: The Big Crunch

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The universe is collapsing. The love molasses poured from the splitting of the
child of infinity and time has become the illusion, drenching my soul yet again in
basterd of yet another failed marriage, sticky darkness. The contradictions I had
unbalanced and withered, troublesome and dressed in lamb's attire ached and
empty. throbbed like a stubbed toe until the
At eighteen years old, I decided to try truth bit into my sinew with its sharp
to ease the burden of this kind of wolf teeth. There was no romance in this
apocalyptic, paraplegic cowboy wisdom and rock; it was just a colorful version of
take to the streets in search of the dissolute corridor I left behind. The
redemption. There was word of an oasis difference between my archaic and
whispered on the fermented grape vine neo-hell was a matter purely of
that gave me hope, tales told by cosmetics. An ugly woman redeems some
toothless creatures of a bright town that sense of her non-existent beauty by
had not yet been severed from its sisters resigning herself to the fact she is
of hope and divine substance. So I headed ugly. On the other hand, an advanced
down on the A303 hoping to drench my state of revulsion is vomited upon
'John Majoresc' universe in the humanity when the beast coats herself in
kaleidoscopic colors of Brighton rock. three inches of flaky paste trying to
Unwashed hair and linen shirt blew hide her deformed bone structure. Unless,
romantically in the salt soaked wind as I of coarse you are a walking erection
approached the chic, expensive Sussex intoxicated with cheap liquor. And that,
countryside. My mind felt pulled toward with hindsight and shabby metaphor is
infinity by the wild horses of exactly what I was, dressed in linen and
providence. The thud of their hooves deliriously drowned in my own dopamine.
beating on the tarmac sent serotonin Brighton was beginning to reveal its self
pounding through my nervous system, a brothel for illusionary dreamers, a
enhanced only by the wisdom of Marks dirty syringe full of numbing
(Howard, not Karl) chattering away on self-importance. My subconscious was
Radio 2. On arrival I promptly approached working over time to blot the dark truth
the nearest 'head' shop, brought a out of my waking life. At first when you
converted fire engine from the buy and get there and unpack you feel like you
sell section in the window and parked it have struck gold, a soul rich like
slap bang in the middle of the town. Christmas cake with Peruvian icing. Then
Wheels and a home all in one. Every man the nightmares creep in.
called Sam should own one. Skeletons cloaked in velvet and joules
It did not take me long to settle in and dance round bright, rich fires of useless
meet some interesting characters. Bill thought, swaying to sweet empty songs,
'Bongo' Burns; a protégé talented clasping cracked porcelain doves. Blurred
artist whose worked showed the suffering visions of rusty vintage cars in miles
and hunger, living off aristocratic and miles of endless traffic, dead babies
parents whilst trying to 'make it big', rot in grey booster seats. Trying to
Little Jane; a four foot nothing anti escape, finding another fucking fence....
capitalist singer-songwriter who was in I knew that the wall would collapse at
the process of accumulating massive some point and reality would dawn, the
financial wealth selling hallucinogenic future smelt of bi polar fucked head
drugs to manic depressives, and more of disorder.
the same contradictive perversions of the ........................................
human form. "Without contraries is no ........
progression," said Blake, so perhaps, I The diamond bullet penetrated my fragile
thought, this is a sign of a community skull one evening without warning. Nobody
truly alive. Hope and dope. I immersed noticed the small pinprick as it entered
myself in the social scene, became a my forehead with a silent hiss. I
being of value, a face everybody knew and remained upright becoming increasingly
liked, I began to feel fulfilled. There aware of the pretentious drivel dibbling
was poetry reading every afternoon in out of my mouth onto the crowded room.
dusty underground bars and at dusk, the The damp wall behind me coldly witnessed
Cowely Club filled with anarchist whores my precious neurological palace of sand
and virgins, vegan plotters talking in pour out of the exit wound like drunken
hushed voices, drunken lovers shouting diarrhea. I felt not only the dissolution
public obscenities at each other. The I had once felt but also a new, darker
whole place seem to be pulled and swayed sensation entirely. I realized it was
by the tide of the majestic ocean, the not just the world that was fucked and
atmosphere was both enthralling and ignorant but my judgment also. The clown
intoxicating to my hungry and depraved of cynicism was being mocked and laughed
mind. at by the very subject he felt he was
The town itself was charming and magical. above and smarter than. I had been
The Lanes sweated life onto the nobly fooled, there is nothing more depraving
cobbled pavements whilst coffee shops, for a man's soul than that. A
organic delis and colorful patrons lined cosmological kick in the balls. I did
the sidewalks. You felt somebody yet not waste any time, as my grandiose
nobody among the freaks and the flowers illusions of liberty and substance
of the cut and fold freedom fighters. The crumbled around me like the twin towers
sound of acoustic guitars seamed to float of prosperity and freedom, I ran like a
through the oak trees in the national rapid dog on fire until I could run no
park, mixing with the sweet smell of jazz more.
cigarettes before groping your senses. Today that moment still haunts me. I felt
Sun washed brown healthy spines. I was in a macro-moment the loss of that
Ernest Hemmingway every time I scribbled dangling carrot giving me the will to
nonsense in my tattered notebook, stumble through each day, allowed me to
glancing up only to catch glimpses of the fantasize about a world that still
peacocks flaunting their trending harbored a beating heart.
feathers, Miss Sixty jeans and pastel Adam cocked it all up. The soul of the
head bands. "Brighton", I remember world has cut itself loose to start a new
jotting "Is the Rampant Rabbit of life and it ain't going to pay
dwellings. The vibe here is so intense maintenance. God is dead, reborn into
that life feels like one constant earth another cosmos or no cosmos at all. I
shattering orgasm, its juice thick and could travel the world looking for that
sweet like honey." Typical drivel that so divine magik in every nook and cranny,
feels good at the time whilst high in the field and town. Perhaps he has learnt
moment. It was how I had always dreamt his lessons; do not play with time, do
San Fran to be in the sixties, rich and not masturbate and don't become self
velvety with new age culture, but sharp obsessed enough to try to catch your
like a wire whip ready to cut through the reflection in every gleaming surface that
ugly, sleeping world into the fundamental manifests. Invest but don't take risks,
forms of beauty and progression. listen to Alan Sugar. This is the Big
I had reached Nirvana I felt, but this Crunch, they Dying Room of the heavenly
was soon to be proven as the fool's master that the conned and disillusioned
paradise. There is a crack in everything have sacrificed their sensual pleasure
so they say, it is where the light gets for, in hoping to redeem eternal reward.
in mumble the poets. Well in regards to A ghost town full of decaying tumble
the former, I can confirm. However, when weeds. Elvis has left the building.
the crack formed, instead of light,






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