Exercise: Representing estrangement between reunited friends

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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    we met in London
    I was going crazy there
    he took me to Spain
    and dumped me after a few months
    I thought I would die without his love
    so I contacted him
    we wrote for a few months
    but now I don't care about him anymore

    (I'm in the throws of an anxiety attack, and this was all I could manage.....sometimes I just get overwhelmed with anxiety - let's hope it goes away soon - I'm trying to distract myslef)
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    (i can't manage much of anything when anxiety strikes. so that's very good. anxiety ends up coming out like this for me: fck,sht,gdmn,fkng,fckr! No vowels, it's a mess. Hang in there.)
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    I feel better already......I'm so strong pearlmutt.....but it's cold.....and instead of steak, I'm gonna cook muffins and egg......I jus worry about the whole shebang sometimes.....it takes over.....it's hideous!!!!
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    I've got to say, Johnny, somebody got that message,

    and ISN,

    IT'S A BEUATIFUL DAY . . . .. . . . . . . . .. .!
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    sunlit wooden floors,
    sunlight filtered by dust and cloth,
    sets the scene for this reunion of two friends,
    scented by water stained drapes,
    still life cold colours of blue hued prisms,
    this is the time to write of a life..

    your life, my good friend,

    the life you decided to end.

    scattered images of loves gone bad,
    i try, i try to feel with your family so sad,
    needing answers i cannot provide,
    i ask questions to which i know answers,
    your wife is sad,
    saddest is her crying,
    to think of you,
    lying..

    your last call was to ask what should be done,
    as if it were some new kingdom come,
    as though you were unique to this world,
    in such some way you had more fun,
    entitled to the lead role in a play,
    as if you ever had some way,
    you anger me with your obvious deflections,
    as you were a social liberal with bad breath,
    and your love's last intent
    was a beautiful girl
    who loved you
    and i have no
    sorrow
    left
    inside
    of me
    for you
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • KwyjiboKwyjibo Posts: 662
    I really like the way those first two lines look.
    The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway, is that its you, and that you're standing in the doorway.

    I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook. But in the long tresses of your hair--I am a babbling brook.
  • Thanks to all who have contributed to this exercise.
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    You're welcome, Fins. Is there an emoticon for that?

    I checked you out so to speak, and I saw that you are working on your masters.

    What are you learning about?
  • Thank goodness someone knows the difference between a postgraduate degree and a post-doctorate! Some people have been elevating my credentials. I'm a supposedly mature masters student and I do want to do a doctorate afterwards if my brain doesn't seize up first. I'm studying literature in Britain and India in the period 1800-1990, and this evening I'm currently reading Kanthapura by Raja Rao as well as re-reading some post-colonial theory and criticism by Homi K Bhabha.
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    well, that is very interesting!

    so the buddha of suburbia, good, great, bad, or just plain fun?
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