Three steps to heaven, twelve steps to hell

1. First, I have got to admit that I have a problem.
2. My name is An Unreliable Witness, and I am an addict.
3. An addict of brightly-coloured, shiny tablets.
4. Each with a word written on them.
5. Though, in truth, I am only addicted to the words.
6. I long ago went beyond over-the-counter medication.
7. You can peddle me your wares down dank, dark alleys.
8. Inject, ingest, inhale. I’m not fussy.
9. Give me that illicit, illegal high.
10. Want, need, must have that rush of words in my bloodstream.
11. I’ve lost my stash, it seems. I have started gnawing my hand.
12. As I said, I’ve got a problem.

Comments: 15

    some of them look a little like the resistor bits of electronic resistors. perhaps if you were chewing them you’d have more of a problem…

    (yes, this is a rubbish comment, but the pink goo looks rather appetising…)

    Miles Away | 05.28.07, 23:34

    It will. They will. Return.

    andre | 05.29.07, 00:41

    but something’s only a Problem if it intefere’s with your daily life, right?

    Meesha | 05.29.07, 01:46

    I wish you could take some of mine, they’re doing my head in.

    I’m sure yours will return though, everyone needs quiet times….

    isabelle | 05.29.07, 09:18

    I see your twelve spectacular steps to hell and damnation … but I don’t see no three steps to heaven …

    the lamb | 05.29.07, 10:33

    watch it, when they’ve been away for a while they come back with new tricks…

    Peach | 05.29.07, 10:52

    Hmm, if you haven’t started dissolving bus tickets under your tongue, I fear you’re yet to reach rock bottom.

    The Goldfish | 05.29.07, 10:54

    i’m sorry you’ve got withdrawal symptoms

    if its any consolation - the ramaging words have been holding all night raves round mine

    perhaps we should start up W.A.D - word addicts annoymous? xx

    annie | 05.29.07, 14:07

    strike all the above
    seems i’ve lost the ability to spell as well

    ramaging - rampaging

    WAA - Word Addicts Annoymous

    annie | 05.29.07, 14:08

    Miles Away - I’m currently receiving Classic FM on my teeth. Make of that what you will.

    Andre - I hope so. I am banking on a dramatic sequel.

    Meesha - Sadly, perhaps worryingly, not having the words does indeed interfere with my daily life. I should get out more, I know.

    Isabelle - Send them on, by all means. The address is at the bottom of the page (probably).

    The Lamb - The three steps are mostly invisible because I am tweading vewwy vewwy softly, like an ickle mouse.

    Peach - I hope they will have learned how to juggle. Or balance items of cutlery on parts of their anatomy.

    Goldfish - Bus tickets? No. Whole buses? Yes. Most definitely.

    Annie - I am finding the idea of Word Raves, featuring words waving fluorescent glow sticks in the air and shouting techno!techno!techno!techno!, hugely appealing.

    An Unreliable Witness | 05.29.07, 20:36

    As a word addict, I get kind of dizzy and palpitating when I find a bright new one I haven’t tried yet and ramaging has just giving me a wonderful rush.

    fionat | 05.29.07, 20:47

    I am blissfullllly enjoying the word “rubbish”. We don’t have a word like it….in the US.

    Sea Urchin | 05.29.07, 21:40

    I see know problem here. Word addiction is very common.

    Considered normal where I come from actually.

    I do not appreciate you insinuating that I have a problem because I like words.

    Rachel | 05.30.07, 01:01

    Can I have a pretty pill? The one that says do not swallow.

    Blue Seaurchin | 05.30.07, 02:04

    You seem to have a problem with time is the distorted mirror a reflection of yourself and not the mirror.
    I will write a short story just for you unreliable witness.

    Essence Of Time

    Tick tock tickety tock why wont time stop or take you back a year or two maybe even ten or more

    You see it through a keyhole small it may be but if you peer in long enough you will visualise it becomes clear.

    Ignorance is cruel ony later years will tell the cruel fate of hell what has become of your old self

    Will no one listen does no one hear your pleas or the tick ticking of your inner cell they can all go to hell

    The black pointed hands seem to be taunting you, mocking you hell even laughing at you
    TICK TOCK god damd that bloody clock.

    Now darkness has gone and the lightness rises and shines on your terror subsides. It will come and go no doubt just like the shroud that makes up the cloud.

    Paula | 01.01.08, 23:12

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