Thursday, June 8, 2017

Vultures

March 22nd, 2018

I’m back. Don’t know why, but I am.

Scratch that. I do know why. My shitty shrink thinks I’d benefit from “cathartic writing” because “we all need a non-judgmental confidant.” I told him my parents were paying him a lot of money to be my “non-judgmental confidant” and he said, “I am, I am, for sure you can confide in me, but sometimes people filter themselves, even with a psychiatrist. Some feelings are too real to share with anyone, so a journal might help in a way I can’t.”

What a shitty sack of shit. Doesn’t he know I can get that kind of vapid, hole-in-the-head advice from television?

But hell. That’s when I thought about AdaEyes. Total page views since April 2016: 1. And that was me making sure my post went up. I was so sure I’d write everyday on my new blog. But I was a junior and didn’t know shit about shit and I basically forgot about it the second I finished my first post. So I guess Shitty Shrink had a point. Here I am, writing. Like this is some super secret medicine that’s going to cure my sick soul and bleed all the bad from my life and just make everything sparkly and new. Like it never happened.

But something did happen. Fuck did it happen. No amount of writing is going to change that. None. No amount of anything. It’s all over and done and I’m still here and still fucked and I just want to fucking SCREAM, but this is on a fucking COMPUTER and CAPITAL LETTERS just don’t FUCKING do the same FUCKING thing as FUCKING SCREAMING.

Fuck.

I’ll try it, though. Might as well. Nothing else going on.

But not today. Today, I’m going to find the thickest pillow in the quietest room and I’m going to scream my fucking head off into that pillow until my throat is raw and I pass out from breath loss. A couple of days. I’m going to come back and sit my happy ass down in front of this computer and I’m going to write it all out. Everything that happened to me and everything that happened to the other people and it’ll be like screaming into a pillow – empty and silent and maybe, but probably not, cathartic.

Damn I hope Shitty Shrink knows what he’s talking about. Because if screaming doesn’t work and writing doesn’t work (and these friggin meds sure as shit aren’t working; just make me feel even lazier) then there’ll be nothing left but an endless road paved in pain and regret and that just sucks the big one.

For now, I'll leave with a poem I thought up after seeing a vulture on the side of the road on my way home today:


Carrion wings blot out the sun
But for that,
I do not care
Let them come,

for at least some shall be spared

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