hauling
_POSTED_BY desik   
Wednesday, 08 October 2008

Image
bring me the head of fraud by autotelic

 

“They're bringing out the dead on Wall Street, painting fucking crosses on the doors and I heard the New York Times is running a story that Gaia is behind the current financial crisis and I'll tell you something more ' the trucker confided as he clambered back up into his cab “ if the auto industry folds that has to be good for the planet ..now do you see?”

 

The waitress nodded. '

 

The weather is definitely telling us something too ' he continued through the cab window, ' its all about negative cycles and their accumulative impact on human confidence....I feel it ...we're plugged into that shit , its like horizontal gravity aimed at the average height .., it pulls at the wheel as I'm driving at night taking me over the line , it's not out there its here running right through us like bad blood or magnetism, its not money here, earth there, the money is made of stuff man, we're all part of the environment., its a closed box set. '

 

May-Kate sucked on her cigarette and said ' I missed my period Frank...I've been meaning to tell you  for a while .'

 

Frank spat ' Fuck it! why dosent anyone ever just listen? ...there's something happening bigger than all of us here ! It's beyond one individual bleeding life, beyond us, ok? Its converging and growing I can feel it...there are signs!, increased activity I see out there in the dark by the side of the road at night, , the voices on the radio, all the mainstreet talk of  international relations going south . The sky is about to fall, May, the money pool is being sucked dry....we've fucked with the cosmos and this is payback and its biblical , we're being punished.. the pain we're feeling is the pain of being aborted.  . .

The girl crushed the spent butt with her shoe and absentmindedly said ' ..besides I've been putting some money away hon, and we could get some help from the church...people there still worry  about you. .. 

 

Frank  took stock and stared out across the river to where the towers used to be.  The great vacuous space  still overwhelmed  him and mirrored the cold  painful void he struggled with inside.  'There are gaping holes in the economy and everything ' he said quietly, '  there are people missing out there who could have fixed this, they want to help us , of course they do, but they cant get back through.  Then there's the war money taken out of the equation, more bodies lost, we cant make up the numbers  man  so much of what we need just isnt there , ,its as simple as that. 

 

'Maybe you can get some overtime too ' she said.

 

Frank switched on the engine . He was tired, . Al had mentioned possible  cutbacks , perhaps even short weeks  that morning.  ' Maybe' he said but he wasnt sure as his mind was elsewhere , worrying about  the price of gas, whether there was enough space in his aching heart for a God of True Mercy and fretting about the dark cloud formations he knew were looming up ahead.  May -Kate turned back towards the diner  alone as the  truck and its heavy load lurched out over the gravel of the lot following the flashing escort vehicle back out on to the highway. .

Comments
saturn's child   |2008-10-11 03:26:08
Frank is probably also wondering where all the courage is going to come from,
the courage to see the remaining days through.

Did you ever read 'The Denial
of Death' by Ernest Becker?

well, let's just put it this way; it's nearly
impossible to get through life without "repression of the
inevitable".

And I'm one of those sad and sorry son of a bitches that is
in big need of this kind of repression, because without it we must bear the
burden of the dreadful responsibility of loneliness....the inconsolable kind,
but hey, it's always refreshing to meet guys like Frank on the road to
annihilation.
DZ  - Lost Highway   |2008-10-11 06:10:21
Frank seems very uncomfortable in the present whereas May seems to be more
purposefully focussed on the future or at least aware of the necessity to
provide for the life inside her.Frank still has the pace car to follow though so
he isnt completely unravelling , that's reassuring and thanks Saturn's Child ,
I'll look for a used copy of that Becker book on e-bay as I could do with a
better routemap.
Otto Rank   |2008-10-11 06:50:03
"With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs
illusions."
RS   |2008-10-11 20:32:54
That's right and the grandest illusion of all is the idea that we can somehow
cheat death.
Only registered users can write comments!

3.20 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."


place your links here

hey it costs some to keep this site going so if you have a dollar or two to spare we would sure appreciate it. Click Here to DonatemfBeer Joomla! Plugin

Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 October 2008 )
 
< Prev   Next >
kissy.jpg

Reality Check

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

Karen Blixen via Hannah Arendt.

already   and    another   around   away   being   billion   climate   countries   crisis   death   development   dont   drugs   economic   economy   fucking   future   global   going   government   health   help   isnt   life   living   money   not   percent   policy   poverty   prices   really   report   social   the    used   war   within   years    the  

Created with AkoCloud 1.1 final.