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Thu Apr 01 2004 at 19:50:46
He
screamed
until his vocal chords felt ragged and torn. He couldn't take this any more. Painfully and slowly, he started to
cry
at the completely, utterly, totally
blank canvas
that stared back at him. He needed inspiration, but his mind was full of clutter. Irrelevant memories, pointless trails of thought, but a total vacuum of
ideas
. He resolved to do something about it.
Tenderly and carefully, he pulled himself together and dragged himself to his door. Somehow he would have to bring himself to face the
outside
world, the city, the people . . . and the sky. He opened the door that protected him from the business of
the rest of the population
and the light flooded in all too suddenly. He screwed his eyes up instinctively and gingerly stepped into the street.
The sky
stretched and yawned easily over the cityscape like the
cool, clear, beautiful blanket
that it should be, whilst a couple of clouds just... drifted... by. The city itself seemed energetic and animated as the hurriedness of the people within it gave it life. The great reaching trees in the street waved their limbs in the air. The buildings of the street seemed to be bursting to escape from themselves; they were so mundane and yet so obviously vibrant. The sunlight poured down kindly onto the concrete street and burnt the soles of his feet as they touched the ground.
He started walking sombrely and privately to his eventual destination: the café, where he could
relax and be ignored
for as long as he wanted. Passers by seemed
intrigued
by his curious, delapidated appearance as he briskly walked past them, anxious to escape from their attention. Eventually he reached his destination and took a seat outside at a cheap white plastic table on a cheap white plastic chair under a cheap striped umbrella, and waited for a waitress to make her way over to him.
"Good afternoon sir. Would you like to order something now?" she asked
politely
.
"Umm. Do you sell any… herbal teas?" He spoke in a rhythm that was unfamiliar to the waitress, as if he had taken the time to choose every word carefully.
"Oh, yes we do sir. We have lemon, peach, mint, and nettle."
"Yes. Thankyou, I'll have the mint please."
"Certainly, Sir." With that, she left abruptly.
As he waited for her to return, he looked around the café. It wasn't very busy, and he casually examined everyone and everything that he could see, pessemistically hunting for inspiration.
Then someone caught his eye. She was
beautiful
. She smiled at him, got up, and left silently.
* * *
He
painted
.
He painted vigorously, he painted energetically, he painted kinetically.
He painted the sky, that had stretched and yawned easily over the
cityscape
like the cool, clear, beautiful blanket that it should be, and its couple of clouds that had just drifted by. He painted the city, that had seemed energetic and animated as the hurriedness of the people within it had given it life. He painted the great reaching trees in the street that had waved their limbs in the air. He painted the buildings of the street that seemed to be bursting to escape from themselves; that were so mundane and yet so obviously vibrant. He painted the the concrete street that the sunlight had poured down on so kindly and burnt the soles of his feet as they touched the ground.
But most of all, he painted
her
.
Poetictricity
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The difference between poetry and prose
She touched my life for a second and made everything peach-scented
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