/lit/ - Literature

Bloody and raw my back sinks into the white mattress. My flesh is tender as it opens and bleeds. Sticky red blankets wrap my sore aching body. I’m lowered into the world of polyester. Today has been difficult and tiresome. Tomorrow may be more exhausting. I am draining away. No more blood. Quiet black. Sleep

Bump because this thread had potential dammit

I like being really quiet when the house gets cold.

For there is no one in the attic anymore.

It doesn’t have to make sense right?

Just need five words now.

I’m not an autist.

And now three.

Kitty cat.

Meow.

>>12422065
Based and repilled
>>12422034
>>12421808
Cringe and bluepilled

>>12422065
why can't anyone write here

>>12421662
The train-tracks went forever and in either direction: a forever.
I'd heard trains run them, giddy in the night.
Whistles hollering, 'help us god' in train's tongue.
These trains take steel up to Louisburg.
On rails that freeze at night.
Tonight I'll lay myself down.
I'll sleep on rails.
It'll be cold.
But swift.
Hallelujah.

The deer within sights, the son pulls the trigger back.
A metal pin initiates explosion, propelling lead down field.
Couple hundred grains for a couple hundred pounds.
His son rises, looking towards the clearing.
He takes his own father's rifle.
Two generations clean the deer.
It's more than food.
More than sustenance
Traditions shared.
Heritage.

>>12421662
Good
>>12421808
Wtf?
>>12422065
Lame.
>>12422228
Neeto.

>>12422280
I was going for wtf so I’ll take it

The place is a carnival and there is one person.
That person is myself on teacups and ferris wheels.
Slowed and lifeless I can call this fun.
No high level sadness no necessary complaint.
The overcast doesn't threaten me no.
If I will return tomorrow?
Nothing will be different.
Attempt something new.
Something new?
Tomorrow.

I fashion my hair into something akin to a pompadour.
I do everything in my power to show beauty.
But then like everything else, reality isn't kind.
Reality prevents me from being physically beautiful.
Inner beauty is just as important no?
I very much think so.
But these thoughts.
Only thoughts.
Disappear.

>>12422399
fuck should have removed the no

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, they will be done, on earth

as it is in heaven. Give us this

day our daily bread, and forgive us

our trespasses as we forgive those

who trespass against us. And

lead us not into

temptation, but deliver

us from

evil.

>>12421662
>>12422228
>>12422274
>>12422308
Solid

>>12422487
Thanks.

If I had only had one more day with her.
I think I could have told her about everything.
Instead she is gone, and with her, love.
And I will remain with my heartbreak.
Looking for someone to mend it.
Someone with heart to spare.
Who will truly care.
When I won't.
Not again.
Ever.

I remember those rolling hills, goldenrod waves pierced by road. My father used to drive into town every Sunday. Mom would be there, and grandma would too. I'd watch power lines stripe the sky. My hands fly out the window. Now though, now it's goodbye. They made me go. Yeah, now he's.... Two days. Dead.

>>12422895
Someone will love you, just hit the gym ok?

>>12422308
9/10

>>12421662
That’s good, OP. Submit it somewhere as a poem. “It happens every night, she said,” is such a great line.

How many words are in a story that goes 500, 499, 498,...,2,1?

[You should he able to solve this without a calculator, paper or pencil]

>>12421662
They dragged the bound and bloodied Ayatollah into the square.
The elect of heaven pleading toothlessly with earth men.
Strung up with his clerics, counselors, and concubines.
Ankles roped, though deserving less than Benito.
Tragedy of the vengeful commons occurs.
A brick to his torso.
Baton on the cheek.
Tears in eyes.
A leader?
Supremely.

>>12423123
2000. Why are you forcing me to contemplate how bad I am at math this late on a Russian car repair forum

>>12423257
Shit and I’m wrong

I was a coward when I drew those first baths.
I'd only dip my toes after my toys entered.
I wanted to be sure I wouldn't drown.
Little boats and ducks tested the waters.
The tub was an enormous sea.
I want to go back.
My new toys sink.
They're very sharp.
I'm envious.
Rosebud.

>>12423123
>>12423267
You can do it.

Here's a hint.
(500+0)+(499+1)+(498+2)+ ... +(250+249)

I sit here listening to her chest rise and fall. To her laboured breathing on a lonely night's call. Shes sleeping next to me, but she's not. I'm afraid this is all it'll be. Praying even though I don't believe. Don't want to live alone. Not anymore at least. God, hear me. I'm sorry. Please

>>12423282
250,000 go away

>>12423293
Is this loss?

>>12421662
I think of people almost every night and their tyranny
Kings and Queens, convenient; never the peasant nor beggar
To you they are liberal only in tax
Unending fees, demanded and snatched without forgiveness
Their kingdom is your supposed life
Shackling you with greedy expectation
Never simply a friend
They're all tyrants
Of yourself
"Lovingly"

>>12423302
But not quite buster! I threw you for a loop. Does 250+249=500? Is there an extra 250 from the middle and it's supposed to be 251+249? You'll have to find out, else you'll have to succumb to knowing you're much more of a simpleton than you perceive!!!!

The Assyrian tide overflows all its banks and its channels.
Shall not Jerusalem be as Samaria? Judah as Ephraim?
Indeed, a great cloud shall cover the land;
Darkness veil the face of the earth.
Yet, fire shall consume his forest,
A blaze his fat ones.
—By way of sea,
After her vexation,
Beyond Jordan,
Light.

>>12423330
I know I’m idiot please stop making me do math

>>12422928
Genuinely good. Best one here.

>>12423323
"Kings and Queens, convenient" isn't an independent clause!!!! You also forgot to end-stop all of your lines, the original poster made very clear that this game was one of sentences, not line breaks!! I also hope this was intending to sound like some so-called 'conscious' hip-hop written by someone who hasn't read anything since their high school English teacher made them read Harper Lee due to the levels of melanin in their skin, because, if so, you've nailed it!!!!

>>12423355
Seems inspired by the destruction of Sennacherib by lord Byron, but that may just be me seeing the word Assyrian and having a knee jerk reaction
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43827/the-destruction-of-sennacherib

>>12423373
All I did was copy straight from the book of Isaiah. You do realize that's where Byron got the material, right? You are biblically literate, right?

>>12423123
500*250.5 = 125250

>>12423372
You’ve got a log in your eye buddy

I forgot to take my medicine after dinner this evening. I'm sure >>12423356 're capable of math, and >>12423323 , writing. You'll both see your dreams realized, I'm sure. I won't be there for it, though. I'm already feeling lightheaded and hazy. I suppose better than crazy. One mathematician, one poet. Please be friends. 'Least friendly. Sleepy.

>>12423431
Is this some shitty attempt at 4chan performance art? Jesus christ I hate this board

>>12423213
i feel like this is something i would write. utterly terrible, yet i say this because i'm uncomfortable with my literary reflection

>>12423388
My man

(500)+(499+1)+ (498+2)+...+(250+250)
=500+ 250*(499)
=125250

>>12423485
>counting 250 twice
Hahahahahhahahahahhhaahhahahhaha

The pastures prickled my feet while I walked through mist
The warm air sticked on my skin like honeydew
I had stopped caring about the plain world
I would find what I longed for
Through an opaque blur in woodland
Something more than life itself
Divided into the cosmos
I'd immerse myself
Something so
Ethereal

>>12421662
Religiously, I check the mail in the morning and evening.
Will there be a package or a letter today?
I know no one uses the mail anymore.
I know it will come by mouth.
I know; they already told me.
You said you'd write me.
Each day, a letter.
Even on Sunday.
No mail.
Liar.

>>12423372
>I also hope this was intending to sound like some so-called 'conscious' hip-hop
It was about the way people demand others to behave in very specific ways around them, and if you dare not to, even for reasons outside your control or your simple desire to be "yourself", you are mercilessly ostracized. I'm only conscious of that, and I don't understand the hip-hop relation at all.

>>12423554
"based and redpilled", I write furiously on the reply form.
Mouse clicks to post; counting to 100%; post successful.
"My best one yet", I say to myself.
Start spamming Update within seconds after posting.
Page refreshes; I look with excitement.
Yep, that is my post.
Examine the post numbers.
"I got dubs!"
Feels good.
*sips*

>>12422979
I already hit the gym every day :(

I get doubles without trying, a curse I must bear.
The man in the plastic jacket congratulates me promptly.
He cannot know my double life, not ever.
He is always smiling, that plastic man.
I know he is not real.
He is my only friend.
I want him here.
My life sucks.
So empty.
Finite.

>>12423355
Beautiful

>>12421662
I ate the cheeseburger slovenly dying living in doubled movements.
Cataracts seized up and bit my attention again, ceased.
God, one day I would like to wake up.
Smell the roses and that jazz walking.
I saw a beautiful thing here before.
Blonde, radiant smiling with kid.
She smiled over here.
Then, well, gestured.
I choke.
Yum.

>>12424595
Have you tried hitting women? I personally feel amazing afterwards. You should try it, get some cute borderline girl, you know the type, long sleeves, sheepish look, chokers, and make her adore you. Then just metally and physically abuse her. Absolutely BEST cure for a bad breakup.

>>12424894
I like long sleeves and sheepish look but you lost me with the chokers.