Thirteen Shapes – Part 13

For three and one half days I floated in space The perfect darkness consuming everything ‘Do I still have a body, I cannot see it’ I began to understand that it was pointless to struggle Blind and suspended in a gelatin tar I began to understand that it was pointless to debate it In purest...

Thirteen Shapes – Part 12

The images all bathed in white light heat White, white, white, slowly changing into blue The dream cooled and became tangible Water for miles as far as I could see And on the bottom I sat Swallowed and inhaled ‘Dear Lord, I do not ask for forgiveness Only the knowledge that it all ends here The fire is...

Finishing Touches

I’m adding the finishing touches to ‘13 Shapes’ and it should be posted here shortly. Thanks to the people who’ve been mailing me curious about the ending. I assure you, it will be up for everyone to read by the end of today. I’ve just been really busy lately and am still...

Thirteen Shapes – Part 11

Things never seem to end the way I want Accomplished Nothing, discovered Nothing I walk around in circles for forty or fifty years Then I die and hope that they will remember me’ Dead in the middle of the Nowhere Some pathetic last attempt to rectify A hundred thousand mistakes and forgotten people A...

Thirteen Shapes – Part 10

‘ I am the soft skin burned and affixed to the oven eye Slow pull and tear; my skin displaced; sticky smooth’ On the edges of the seas of sand its fingers gripped; anchored Slowly pulling its massive bulk, a giant salamander sliding on its belly Ticking seconds passed, frantic times I felt as the...