Lean On
The blood runs down my upper lip and is channeled into the corner of my mouth. I taste iron. I close my eyes and fill myself with air; a full balloon bracing for the next impact. It happens to land beneath my lowest ribs, in the area of the appendix.
I had mine removed long ago; it collapsed beneath a blow much like the one I just recieved, and I would have died, but for the compassion of my attacker. That also made me feel good. In a way, getting beaten up once a month is about the most selfish thing I do.
This month, I hate gay people. Last month it was poor people, and the one before...I can't quite remember...I might have been a White Supremist...I'm not quite sure. In any case, it all ends up with me getting the crap kicked out of myself.
I'm a humanitarian at heart, really. No one is born evil, and upbringings are irrelevant as far as how one turns out when they grow up. I think so, at least.
It's strange to see the kinds of people who hit me. I've never been happier than when a young Jewish boy of five or six glared at me when I donned my swastika t-shirt. His glare will be unflinching when he becomes an adult.
Knowing things like this is my comfort net; the world is growing to find hate groups unacceptable. The stronger the resistance, the greater the bliss. Get your nose broken, and add a notch to your tally of people who will not allow slavery or the Holocaust to happen again.
As I collaspe to the ground, seeing my attacker with jaw squared and fists clenched, I spit a small gob of blood onto the concrete next to me, and say "Thank you." I black out with a grin of my red face.
I had mine removed long ago; it collapsed beneath a blow much like the one I just recieved, and I would have died, but for the compassion of my attacker. That also made me feel good. In a way, getting beaten up once a month is about the most selfish thing I do.
This month, I hate gay people. Last month it was poor people, and the one before...I can't quite remember...I might have been a White Supremist...I'm not quite sure. In any case, it all ends up with me getting the crap kicked out of myself.
I'm a humanitarian at heart, really. No one is born evil, and upbringings are irrelevant as far as how one turns out when they grow up. I think so, at least.
It's strange to see the kinds of people who hit me. I've never been happier than when a young Jewish boy of five or six glared at me when I donned my swastika t-shirt. His glare will be unflinching when he becomes an adult.
Knowing things like this is my comfort net; the world is growing to find hate groups unacceptable. The stronger the resistance, the greater the bliss. Get your nose broken, and add a notch to your tally of people who will not allow slavery or the Holocaust to happen again.
As I collaspe to the ground, seeing my attacker with jaw squared and fists clenched, I spit a small gob of blood onto the concrete next to me, and say "Thank you." I black out with a grin of my red face.
posted by Diveacje at 2:59 PM
7 Comments:
"The truth is, the only blue-collar jobs that are being outsourced are mainly in mass-manufacturing, and if they were to stay in the US, most of them would be done by machines anyway."
I wish programmers could still get decent jobs.
Dude, that's weird. Kinda cool, though. I like the idea.
wow you are the best descriptive writer on the web that i've read recently
Roger, I'm a programmer. Good jobs are out there. It might be a bit of the survival-of-the-fittest though. If you are a good enough programmer you'll always have a job. It's the less talented, or less industrious programmers that are having the hard time right now.
By the way Diveacje, what was your point? Were you trying to convey that it was good that you were being beat up in this scenario or bad?
Good. But I didn't write well enough, I guess.
You know, I actually knew a guy in college that would purposely seek to get beat up.
Eventually, they suspended him from school because he was starting fights (yet never fought back).
I assume this was literary license; you don't try to get yourself beat up do you?
And isn't it a condemnation of the right to freedom of expression to say that it's good for someone to initiate violence against another person for their views, even when those views are immoral?
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