sad boy and his pen / the wall / tape face gets a new book
sad boy and his pen
Sad boy buys a vintage fountain pen on ebay. He spends a whole welfare check on it. It arrives on a Wednesday. He opens the package. Wow he says. His mind flits between the new pen and the people lurking in a twitter group chat he’s in. Wow what a great pen. He then decides it’s time to use the pen. He spits on the pen. He drops his pants and inserts it in his anus. For a second the lurkers comeback to him and then he starts stroking his cock till he comes. He leaves the pen in his anus and logs on to twitter.
the wall
She ends the call. She puts the phone in her inside pocket and walks back to her beige car and her waiting partner. As she gets within spitting distance of the car she smiles at the partner but he doesn’t notice as he is reading a food wrapper. A look weighted equally in boredom and studiousness covers his face. Just as she is less than a meter away from the car the wall beside it disappears and so does she. The whole vanishing act takes less than a second as the wall returns but she doesn’t
tape face gets a new book
Sad boy thinks that all poems are about him. His mind twitches. He’s over caffeinated and over tired. He’s read the new book he got. It’s a poetry book. It’s about barns. He thinks about barns for a while. He thinks about the one where his dad keeps the wood and turf for the winter. Then he thinks about rivers. And then rivers that run by barns. And then back to how much he hates himself.