February 29 - Hard Scrabble Photography

Smoke pours from an orange chimney in the middle of a field
[something like that song you played the day she died]
[you never told me where you got it, just that it was on your iPod]
A sanatized cloud of whatever we could find to keep this house warm
[you told me once that the reason we were loosing our rainforests was the fires of homes on the prairie]
[I told you that killing trees far away wasn't nearly as bad as burning the last potato from our mother's garden]

She rubs her hands together, cold because it never gets warm out here,
[she refused gloves, though they would have given her more hands more utility]
[was it something about mittens being different or]
[something about maintaining her uniqueness in an unbroken field of snow]
and takes pictures with bare hands of a thin film rainbow on our newly shoveled driveway
[father, you shouldn't have mocked her]
[by throwing her China Pencil in a bottle and calling it art]

She told me once - in a dream - that dying tasted metalic
but did not sparkle like she had been promised by Pastor Brown.

Charon still asks for money at the dock.

February 28 - Another Language or When Love Does Not Apply

We do not love each other,
though it is true that I love you,

I will talk of a boy
while you talk of nothing
and I will watch you smile
and hope it is for me

NEWS REPORT
the world will end today

what would you do?
think of you - and do nothing

February 27 - Paper and Chalk

because we both melt in the rain,
we were compared to paper and chalk

because though we both melt in the rain,
we make no mark on eachother.

February 26 - 55 Fiction 3

A metronomic cursor taunts her.
"What... Why do you want me to write?"
His hand snakes around her neck.
"Because your the best.  Program."
Tears roll down her face silently as her fingers go to work.  His hand tightens.
The cursor ticks across the page.
"Done."
"Good."
His hand tightens.
"Why?
"You're the best."
Snap.

February 25 - 55 Fiction 2

"Well OK then..."
"I didn't know how you'd react."
He started humming an obscure tune.
"Why do you hum like that?"
"Helps me think."
"What do you need to think about?"
He slammed her agianst the wall.
"Everything.  Fucking everything."
"I didn't mean anything by it."
"But it meant everything."
She cries.  He stares.
"I'm..."

February 24 - OH one scene

Oh, boxes!

No aim lower

            There you go.

OMG a door, can I leave?

No that would be stupid…

Enough with the boxes, enough with the fire!

You boys have some real fire safety issues

And stop shooting at me!

[gun shot]

Two boxes fell into each other; I didn’t know that was possible…

Oh no, oh no oh no, not good, not good not good

Better weapon better weapon better weapon [no not that one]

            Let’s go

I’m using a gun to ... this shit

Oh loosing health, that’s not good

And there’s no body armor in this level, that’s really not good.

People really just need to learn to stay dead, they should stop coming back alive.

There he is, ah! That’s very exciting

Hey where did they come form!

            Restricted section of the library!

[indiscriminate chatter]
Oh whoa, whoa, ah ah ah

Not good, not good

Oo what’s that?

Are there two of those?

No no no no no

There we go

Turn around, turn around turn around

Oh, I just blew up a table

 That was not smart

I kind of needed each other

[singing]

Oh, hello buddy.

Good bye, and you and you

Better weapon, better weapon, better weapon…..

“James, what an unpleasant surprise do come in blah blah blah”

laser watch laser watch laser watch

Shit.

Ah! I did it! I saved them

Oh no, I shot Natalya.

February 23 - OH One Level

La la la la. La la la la

Oh shit

Come on, come on, come on.  Where is that guy?

This is just getting to be too much work

Eh, it’s not a horrible thing. I have to go to the one later today.

She sent it to us today.

[Gun shots]

Come on, come on.  You can do it.  There you go

Who’s this bastard, why is he here? You do not need to be here buddy.

Opening doors, opening doors. 

There should be a guy right there, where did he go?

That was easy.

There you go.

Here we go.

Oh this is not going to be good

            I need a better weapon

                        Or a more accurate weapon

                                    Handgun, handgun, hand gun

Ok, well, I obviously can’t aim.

Let’s try that again.

All right, gotta go save Natalya. 

I win!  I win!  I saved Natalya!

Now I have more crap I have to do.

Watch laser, watch laser watch laser.

Oh come on, stop going into that weird downward motion

I am not aiming the right spot.

Sorry Natalya, you are going to have a really fiery death, just letting you know.

Yes, yes, Maurice is still backing up his files! He’s in Cuba! N

            Not Helpful Natalya!

Oh shit, there’s….

I had three left!

Maybe if I keep shooting at it…

Oh shit!

            I died.