Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Coffee Cools


To my right sits a Yo-Lite yogurt container ¾ full of air, ¼ of milk.  In front of me sits you, my little, dying Eee with your shiny face looking at me, music coming from you into my ears.  I sit here wondering what to scrawl across your screen .  I’m in need of an idea for my blog. Any hints? No?  Damn you. You’re, you’re no help. Ummm. 

Blurb. Slurp. I drip some chilled milk into the cup with the cute face. One eye winks at me. The other stays open—topped by a swoosh that says Bailey’s.  It’s lips are thin, red, and smiling.  A blue porcelain bow rest at the bottom of the earlike handle.  A black line encircles the outer rim. Under the inner rim the word “Yum” floats above the muddied black liquid. I lift it toward my mouth, tip it a bit, and let the warm liquid slid past my lips—slurp, sip.

Now, what to write? Um.

Eee? Blip, blop. Blip-blop-eeee. Eee can you help me? 8bit chip tones cruise from Last.fm,  zip up the wire, and skip through the buds in my ears. Notes  prance down the canal, dance on the drums, and echo though through cornucopia maze.  Nintendo, Atari, Gameboy  and Commodore 64 tones twist, stream, and bend .  Familiar notes from Mario, Zelda, Tetras, and Frogger  skip, fly, and feather. Bleep flutes and bitpop toots. Ta— da. La-ti-ta—. Blip-ti-di—. Music and rhythm mix. Reinvented notes and tones reset from a gamer generation. Old sounds in a new suit.

Eee, what do readers see?  

Do they want to see the bulb next to me emit light from a swirl?

What do I write?

Do readers want to know about the hatters? Do you know that many  hatters went mad in the nineteen century? Yes, ‘tis true. Hatters went mad in small, unventilated rooms with felt produce from furs covered in solutions containing mercury. They knitted rims and seams, breathing its vapors, each breath adding toxicity. 

What do I say?

This silvery toxic vapor floats in the glass object shinning next to me. The light flickers. Will it explode?  Will it go all over me?  Will I go crazy?  Naw. It’s only one bulb, right Eee?  

I stop and sip my coffee.

Outside the wind blows and rain spittles the side walk and trees.  I scratch my two day stubblery.  I look in my cup. There is no coffee. The chip tunes have stopped because I’ve listened to long.  I go to Last.fm and type in Pong  not wanting to resume the blipblop songs. The yogurt container is empty. The light flickers. I look at the screen and noticed I’ve scrawled a whole page.  I’ve done it.  I’ve done it, Eee.  The screen is littered with words. Yipee.  I’ve done it. I’ve finished my entry.    

Monday, February 20, 2012

PA Curtiss

As the day rings on I notice the black birds in the trees dancing to the swaying of breeze.  The sun sets in the distance as I look out my window.  My wife sit next to me with a calculate in hone and an an erasure in the other.  Scratch that.  I can't see black birds in the trees dancing to the swaying of the breeze for I am sitting in a study room in Black Hawk Hall at Hawkeye community College. All I see is the sanitary waste place knoll, some sapling tops, strips of snow,  cars swishing along the road, power lines, dried winter grass trying to turn green, and the hind edge end of the apartments across the street.  I can't see the setting sun--sorry I lied---for the clouds, grey with and undertone of blue, cover the sky.

So here I sit writing this blog, an experiment for you all to read.  An experiment in words trying to form emotions, sounds an imagery.  I'm giving myself ten more minutes to finish this for I wish it to flow seamlessly. Well, as seamless as can be, seeing I haven't written much lately.  Plus my typing skills suck. My finger stumble across the keys like a forty year old clumsy bloke trying to squirrel jump among swinging trapezes.  Not to mention I gotta pee.

Damn nature calls.  I gotta listen. You understand? Of course you do. So, off my ass I must rise. I'm done for now. Yippeeeee. Harrah. Oh, if i don't get up now the janitor might find him/herself with a nice wet surprise. Bye.