Monday 6 January 2014

Encouraging Destruction

"Kalvin would not stop. He did not know how. He was like a snowball rolling down a mountain. We are rolling down the mountain.How did we climb it in the first place?

"Put down that bowl of soup. Come here and help me catch Terrence. Why?

"He fell. Roll. Tom and Kalvin watched Terrence. Bad plan to fall. From primordial slime we had climbed. Grown legs. Grasping arms. We climbed. We thought that the top looked better. Lush, green.

"At the top it was green. It was lush. But, in a tree, right at the top of it... there it was. What we knew we had always wanted. So we climbed the tree.

"Terrence went first. He fell. I leaped to a higher branch than he had managed.

"'I don't want to fall. I will have soup.'

"The tree snapped as Tom dared. I was caught in a branch as it fell and pulled me down. Its OK though. I was hurting when I was at the bottom. I was hurting when I was at the top. It hurt wherever I got to.

Encouraging Destruction

"Kalvin would not stop. He did not know how. He was like a snowball rolling down a mountain. We are rolling down the mountain.How did we climb it in the first place?

"Put down that bowl of soup. Come here and help me catch Terrence. Why?

"He fell. Roll. Tom and Kalvin watched Terrence. Bad plan to fall. From primordial slime we had climbed. Grown legs. Grasping arms. We climbed. We thought that the top looked better. Lush, green.

"At the top it was green. It was lush. But, in a tree, right at the top of it... there it was. What we knew we had always wanted. So we climbed the tree.

"Terrence went first. He fell. I leaped to a higher branch than he had managed.

"'I don't want to fall. I will have soup.'

"The tree snapped as Tom dared. I was caught in a branch as it fell and pulled me down. Its OK though. I was hurting when I was at the bottom. I was hurting when I was at the top. It hurt wherever I got to.

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