Sandbox

This is just a box. You can­not come into this box. You can­not come into this box with me. I do not share this box. This box is mine. I will climb into this box. I am now climb­ing into this box. I will close the lid of this box. I am now clos­ing the lid of this box. I will pum­mel the walls of this box. I am now pum­mel­ling the card­board walls of this box with my pathetic fists. This box is mak­ing my knuckles bleed. This box may spat­ter with blood. I am bent double, curled up and foetal in this box. There is not a lot of room in this box. There is not a lot of room in this box because I am sit­ting in here with a large tick. In this small box, the tick is push­ing its harsh and aggrav­at­ing corners against my break­able spine. I am still in the box. I am still in the box but I am open­ing up, unfurl­ing, undo­ing. I will think myself out of the box. I am think­ing out of the box. I am now out of the box. I am crush­ing the box under my foot. I am stamp­ing on the box. I am stamp­ing on the box. I am beat­ing the box to a pulp with my bloody fists. I am killing the box. I am killing the box. I am stamp­ing on your head. I am beat­ing your head to a card­board pulp with my pathetic bloody fists. I am not killing you. I am not killing you. This is just a box. That was just a box. That was not you. Just a box. A box. Your head. A box.

Comments: 5

    I do not want to start a com­ment, any com­ment, say­ing “I”, but I can not find a dif­fer­ent way to say: I love everything you write. I do love every single word you write. And now, kill me.

    l./mia | 10.26.09, 21:13

    I can’t find a way of writ­ing a com­ment that doesn’t par­al­lel the above commentator’s in its entirety. So I will just agree. I also love everything you write, abso­lutely everything.

    Emma | 11.29.09, 22:01

    I have not writ­ten everything else you wrote, so I can’t love it all. But this was good. It reminded my of Eddie Izzard play­ing Darth Vader (Jeff Vader) in one of those Lego videos on YouTube.

    Although, actu­ally, fuck it. I now feel for the card­board box. The shock of what you did, the inter­est­ing and object­ive spec­tacle of it had been sus­pen­ded in this excited unsym­path­etic place — I found myself gor­ging on the death of the card­board box.

    But then, when I star­ted to think about it, it was in-boxane. It was wrong. You should be ashamed.

    Shame. Shame. Shame.

    James Bent | 12.10.09, 05:53

    It’s been a while since I have been here. I for­get why I left in the fist place.

    Lex | 01.05.10, 14:53

    please, write more.
    there needs to be more writ­ings like this is the world.

    Angela | 04.04.10, 07:26

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