Topic: we break like glass (oh darling, not the demons)

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-02 18:14 EST
( Please feel free to listen to this while reading: Weapon of Choice )

This is a night made for mayhem.

She's a lost girl on a lost highway of hope. The stars don't want to shine for her tonight; they are all chatting behind a miracle of overcast, hiding the gossip which makes them swollen and bright. A whole atmosphere knows the pain of one microscopic being that heralds the sun like a hammer. And it's in a buzz from the warfare between herself and tiny demons that hibernated in her skull.

The first swing is deliberately wild. Her hands choke at the wooden bat that is operated like a new limb. She has never done this before and it shows; a mouth that gasps and eyes that cinch tighter than the Virgin Mary's ****.

C r a s h --

Thousands of eyes now sparkle in the lamp light of the ghost town street she goes on a rampage in. Thousands of little pieces of glass that burst at the reckless impact of a girl gone mad. A car alarm begins to echo down the gutted out alleys, waking up all the three o'clock in the morning sleepers. She finds that the flashing of the headlights is bothersome to the muck of her eyes. Pills that make her dream-woven and dreamy are now just there to cushion the ricochet percussion, and are the culprit behind the sluggish slur of her body language when dragging the bat across broken glass and cool asphalt to go head to head with the automobile.

This is the statement she makes to the obnoxious thoughts circling like a murder of crows behind her eyes.

S m a s h --

A slow motion would show the exact point of no return; she spun her hips, rotated her shoulders, and went to bat against the luminescent eyes of the headlights. One after the other. Broken pieces of shrapnel propelled out to strike back at the sylph-like raider.

She was sick and stuck at the crossroads between being a believer and a non-believer. A wasteland of revelations that should have helped patch up the evidence of her broken parts only served up another batch of hidden aggression. Look at her; she's a deceitful scarlet letter stuffed in the fabrication of a fragile damsel. But there's a potent weapon that docked inside this sweet thing.

B a s h --

Window after window. A few strikes that came out viciously with the maniacal frenzy bubbling out from her pores. This is absolute mania that needs to be flushed from her system before she becomes septic. The only cure being how she damages the inanimate object in front of her, relishing the dismembered symphony of the dents and rabid cracks left in it.

She realizes once her face tips up to the watered down lights making a halo over the Windy City that her breathing is erratic. It's a risky pulse that vibrates her skin across her bones. She knows this feeling; it's bliss. It's the release like an orgasm that came after a tawdry ****-fest but was missing the filler of flesh or the wrinkling of sheets.

She relishes it. Savors the afterglow even as people are beginning to become curious, playing Peeping Tom out their windows to the rare sight of a red light Lorelei who had turned into a hysterical Venus of blonde hair and Bohemian culture.

The bat rolls from her thin strips of fingers and bounces off the massacre that she leaves behind.

Even good girls who carried daybreak in their eyes needed to murder something.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-03 17:52 EST
( Please take a listen, and enjoy the words! Twice )

At first, his name is falling from my lips as if my teeth aren't strong enough to hold it prisoner. The cage of my mouth utters every syllable in the only pattern it knows: A city haiku that actually existed in the novel of fairy tales not for the feint of heart. My throat makes the perfect pipeline for his hand to stifle against, grasping at the slender portion where he can hear my breath huddled just at the core, bobbing with panted gasps that paint the scene in a lewd romanticism that we've shared since the first flicker of eye sight on one another from broken shards of light in a smoke filled bar.

This evening is a catered event for the carnal instincts residing in both our skin suits (we wear them so nicely, so pressed, so fantastically ****ing believable that you don't notice we've walked out of the gritty fables not told anymore) with the appetizer of foreplay driving him knuckle deep -- which drives me insane.

His fingers are tightening. Thick like steel ribbons to corset knot up the column of my neck. The pressure sets in till I'm losing my grip on the mundane measures of survival, where breathing is a common trait to sustain life. I'm blinking back the noxious element of surprise because I want to **** and love and devour him till I know I'll taste him even after I'm buried six feet under. Passing no judgement for the debased actions he performs on me; I've become his own personal butterfly to dissect and he's looking to pull my wings off. Strap me up to the wall and display me as some mythical object not obtainable by man until now.

But Judas, you aren't a man -- you've never been a man. I recite this in my head while that moniker continues to heave from the soft shore of my mouth. The name which labels him a betrayer -- but he wasn't always colored in the dim lit setting of that Last Supper stereotype. I remember because I saw him.

Now is when his title grows into a whimper. My body is starting to seize with the realization that the game we're playing is no longer an uncanny ritual of summer sweltering during a winter storm. He's not letting up; I'm tempted to fade into a trance of counting the seconds till the next bruise blossoms over where he sets his palm, where his fingers suture into the docile lamination of my flesh.

To sing a hymn from a book long lost is to condemn myself to being victim to what I know scurries down the lanes of his used and abused blood line. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away -- I want him to remember how we were so I let him reflect in the falling opals of tears down my face. There's no stopping them when my vengeance takes a back seat to my want, no my need, to save him before I save myself. His chalk outline would be too big, and mine would be so small; it would be a waste of resources to let him dissolve beneath my finger tips. The same finger tips that transform from selfless to defensive when I reach up to claw at his chest. Push at his shoulders. Exuding as much energy as my breathless lungs will allow.

One more time, with feeling. With understanding. With the girlish sadness only a broken heart can convey until there is nothing else to preach because all the ears are tainted with the lies of happily ever after. But he needs to hear it because -- why not? Why not introduce him to the very sonnet of a specific lyric sung just for him. I'm birthing his name out in choked whispers, cruelly stifled by the never ending crackling of his hand -- no, hands -- at my throat.

He won't dismantle his sudden urge to punish me into the backdrop of silk skinned pillows, or into the rolling hills of a wrinkled comforter that smells of fresh linen, expensive perfume, brutish sweat and sweet cream. Once I was the steady beacon for his ship to sail to but now he's infuriated that I've lasted this long and he's pulling his lips around his teeth. Showing off a snarl with a gun powdered growl and he knows deep down that I hate guns but he's sighing it all into my face when leaning further into the origami folds of my twisting body.

I want this nightmare to ****ing end because now it just feels too real; I'm tasting the salt of my water works and turning pale enough to pass as a last year ghost. During all of this, during the thrill kill he's attempting on me, I catch the mercury of his eyes beginning to shrivel up. To be smothered by an eclipse of Stygian seas. Mirror reflections of polished sterling that seem to be wailing at catching a glimpse of what madness he's intoxicated with.

And his name is no longer summoning him. His name is no longer registering. Because this isn't him, but some diced up Doppelganger that has been provoked into this blood lust by my presence alone. It wants to spit on the last candle that has been lit for eons but only now has come to fruition in this deceptive shell I harbor myself in. Where I've hidden the light.

The contagion of nothing which rots from the inside out can't be quarantined: It is everywhere.

It's a cry, now. A shriek of what will be the last name that I utter on my death bed. It'll be what I am compelled to vomit up because I want it to be the last thing I hear. It's a pseudonym that forsakes what he was supposed to be bred as. A gladiator that didn't know the incredible passions an urban phenomenon could expose him to. He was going to be their war machine. Their killing joke. A broad shouldered monster who didn't hide beneath the bed but in the cracks of your psyche.

Blood on his hands didn't matter; I mattered. I was the catalyst to the unnerving juggernaut. What stripped him of what he knew and opened up the gates to Utopia, where I thrived. But I want him to hear it, again and again, until it rings like a sharp whistle through the centerfold of his hypnotized skull because he needs to be an auditory witness.

But when I wake up it is sans the weight of my own murder. With out the bow ties of black and blue that should have circled my collar bones and jugular. It is with out what has made me tremble but the stains of my tears are real.

And it is with out him, or anyone, at my side.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-07 15:01 EST
IT IS SO MUCH RED WHY IS IT NOT COMING OFF WASHING OFF I'M WET WITH IT AND THERE IS METAL AND HEAT IS THIS MINE OR IS IT YOURS DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE THIS IS WHERE YOU WAKE UP --

10:16 P.M.

You look like you could use a drink.

Most people usually could use a drink when at a bar, yea'?

Well, what do you want?

I like dirty martinis. Or did. I want something new, yea'? Surprise me -- and I'll surprise you.

Is that a promise?

You didn't ask what kind of surprise it would be.

Do I need to?

What kind of surprise do you think it is?

A good one. One with you, one with me. Do the math, sweetheart.

I'm not very good at math, yea'?


1:11 A.M.

THIS IS WHERE YOU WAKE UP --

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-08 13:33 EST
8:47 A.M.

A room used for seedy scandal now is barred with yellow tape and chalk outlines. There is caution on the breath of those that survey the carnage, almost as if those playing witness are caught in eerie awe of the wreckage inside.

Amid the broken glass, the shades of moist red, and the gutted husk of a rigid body, is chiseled words into the walls. Clawed into the canvas. Carved with the wild etching of a maddened mind.

My impoverished MUSE, alas! What have YOU for ME this morning? YOUR empty EYES are stocked with nocturnal visions, In YOUR cheek's cold and taciturn reflection, I see insanity and horror forming!

"What do you think it means, Ace?"

"I have no idea, Paul."

The flashing of cameras do not pick up the reflection in the broken mirror.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-09 12:46 EST
12:48 A.M.

My hands are hurting.

They hurt to close. To shape into a fist. To scratch against this wall.

And my nails are bending back. I'm scratching too hard. The smell of blood makes me sick.

My blood. Not my blood. Which is it?

Scratch harder.

I am. I am. Stop talking to me.

Scratch harder.

I am. I am.

Scratch harder.

I will. It hurts. Where is this from? Why do I know these words?

SCRATCH HARDER!

I AM. I AM. STOP YELLING.

Scratch harder. Scratch harder. Scratch harder.

There are too many of you! Just, shh. Just, stop. Just, quiet. Just, please. Just, don't. One. At. A. Time. Just -- STOP TALKING!

And I scratch harder into the wall. Harder. And harder. And the words are not mine.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-10 20:12 EST
6:11 A.M.

The clocks are smiling at me.

Broken teeth. Pieces of numbers. Fragments of the past.

But they smile like they know something that I don't. Like they know their existence is a joke. Time fools you. It fools me.

And the clocks smile.

In between the shuddering of realizing what I may have done, and the presence of calm during the storm, I think of idle things.

Stupid things. Stupid girl things that have nothing to do with this body at my feet.

My feet. My feet in freshly fallen autumn leaves. The crackling of them. Shuffling of them.

My feet in water. Crisp, cool water. On the shores of a sun choked beach. Or -- or cold, cold, cold ice of a frosted lake.

But my feet are not in leaves. Or in water.

They are in blood.

I look at my hands -- or are they mine? Are these fragile looking things mine, or someone else's? I believe they belong to me. I hope they don't. But they do.

They do because my nails are shredded. Bone peeks from skin. I've scratched at the walls too long. Too hard.

It's so quiet. Right now. I don't have to hush anything. Anyone. And the figures behind the veils, in the mirrors, in the glass -- they are so still.

Are they watching me?

I want to leave.

But I am still eating.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-11 13:59 EST
11:59 P.M.

There's a buzz behind her eyes. Every blink tries to shoo off the pulse that threatens to rattle the prison bars of her lashes. All the clashing of the twitching makes the rest of her look catatonic. A stone still representation of a pale washed marionette. Skin looked freshly polished with a sheen of cold sweat, adding to the visual effect of her seeming unreal.

But her fingers twitched around a slow burning cigarette, signaling life beneath the tomb of bones and flesh.

Ashes to ashes.

Hands stretched from beneath the bed she sat. Milky, emaciated, with blue veins bruising the forearms. Quietly gripping at the floor, pulling bodies forward. One after the other. An assembly line of torn away torsos.

Her eyes flutter. They flicker in their snapshot angle to look down in the dark.

No faces, she thinks as silently as possible. She does not want to disturb the sleeping voices.

No eyes. No mouths. No nose. Blank faces as smooth as an untouched canvas. Matted hair that same color as the black she sat in. The only beacon of light coming from the ember of the cigarette.

She can see them, though. She's become nocturnal.

They drag themselves further a long the floor. Around her ankles, around her bare feet. Leaving behind a trail of wet red behind.

What happened to their legs?, she wonders as silently as possible.

What happened to their faces?, she wonders as silently as possible.

That buzz behind her eyes grows louder.

She can see how their no-faces turn up to her. Phantoms behind white, damp sheets. Grinning sudden slashes of black; Rorschach designs.

Fingers twitch. Eyes twitch. Her feet finally move.

From beneath the bed spring hands. Quicker than the rolling torsos with their carnival styled smiles, now. They grip her ankles to pull her below.

So far below.

The cigarette, still burning, rolls across the floor.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-11 23:39 EST
5:27 A.M.

Peaches.

I don't want to open my eyes.

Peaches.

No, not now. I just want to sleep. I don't want to open my eyes.

Elizabeth.

What time is it?

Elizabeth.

If I open my eyes, will you be there?

Elizabeth.

I don't want you to be there. You scare me. Please don't make me open my eyes.

Elizabeth Darling.

No. No.

Elizabeth Darling.

I said no.

ELIZABETH DARLING! ELIZABETH DARLING! ELIZABETH DARLING! ELIZABETH DARLING! ELIZABETH DARLING! ELIZABETH DARLING!

STOP!

And for a while, it's quiet.

And for a while, I don't open my eyes.

And for a while, none of them are here.

Peaches

Date: 2015-01-22 13:29 EST
6:14 P.M.

I'm having that dream where I'm free falling. I'm having that dream where I'm just falling in the dark. I'm having that dream where there is nothing but the fast sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.

But when I crash, I crash through moonlight.

It's as white as snow. It shatters like glass and becomes the million eyes of stars around me. I've broken the ivory and silver and spread it through the vast black.

There are a few tears in my eyes but it's not from sadness. I don't know what it's from. Beauty of the world? My own inner thoughts? An escape to feel human?

I am still dreaming of falling.

But when I crash, I crash through soil.

Through the earth. Through the skin of dirt and bones and the buried and the way everything evolves. I can taste the wet rainfall, the parched sand, the roots of dandelions.

I can see how the dead have fertilized every layer.

I've put some of those dead here.

But when I crash, I crash through water.

It's cold and warm. The ripples that birth from my falling tell a story that I don't have eyes to read with. There is salt and river water here. Bubbles dribbling from my nose ignite a trail to follow while I sink.

What swims by are oddities I haven't seen but know. I know what they are because they are from this side. None of them seem to fret over me floating through their universe.

But when I crash, I crash through sunlight.

I'm suddenly white-hot. The flesh from my fingers is chipping away. Everything starts to peel off like an old coating of paint. There is orange, yellow, and red here. There is a positivity here that I used to run with.

Fire licks up my spine. It muses into my hair and burns away the straw frailness of it. I'm burning alive but it doesn't hurt and I don't scream.

Because I know these faces that are now in front of me.

They are all mine.