“I know cyanide.”
“Did you meet him?”
“It has no gender. It is it.”
“Where did you meet?”
“On poison street.”
“What were you doing there?”
“Buying poison.”
“For?”
“To taste bitter almond.”
“Can’t you get bitter almond to taste bitter almond?”
“No. It is like getting a red dress; it isn’t the same as wearing a white dress and sprinkling it with crimson or being soaked in coral light.”
“But cyanide kills.”
“Hmm, it takes you close…rapid breathing, dizziness…”
“And if it enters the lungs, you could die.”
“One can choke on so many things.”
“This would be deliberate.”
“Of course, one should never take chances with important things in life.”
“This isn’t about life.”
“True. This is the apogee of life.”
“The nadir.”
“If it is the nadir why do we look up at the sky and point towards heaven? Why don’t we look down?”
“That is a metaphor.”
“So is cyanide.”
“For bitter almonds?”
“For possibilities.”
“Like…”
“Like experiencing various emotions without going through them.”
“So what happened when you met cyanide?”
“I met what I thought was cyanide, and that made it all the more interesting. It felt like I was being captured and taken and going through the worst possible and then being released.”
“You make it sound human.”
“Cyanide can be people, events, happenings.”
“It means experiences are easy to come by?”
“Never. Not the kind that make you feel so many things at once. That is why you don’t get cyanide over the counter!”
9 comments:
Hey, what you experienced is rat poison, cyanide is extremely generous, it doesn’t even gives you a split of a second to experience it’s taste so forget feeling all those emotions & -those poor bitter almonds are bitter, because they contain them, is a western marketing ploy to promote American almonds genetically modified, which in turn is rat poison & so it is more appropriate to state ‘rat poison is people, events, happenings & is freely available everywhere on our globe, no need to enquire over the counter’.
Thanks for the education, but I did research on cyanide. It gives you time, depending how you are exposed to it. And I did not experience it, quite so literally.
I am not doing a plug for American almonds but if you think this little space has managed that, then do ask them to feed the dollahs to their scurrying mice.
Purr...
Huh! & i thought all that cyanide & almond stuff were meant to be symbolic terms, i haven't done any sort of research on either nor did i mean experiencing them in the literal sense,
Purr---ed
Of course, it was symbolic, but since you brought in rat poison I just felt like giving you the goss on cyanide. I don't settle for less.
Oh ho ho! so it was all goss & I mistook it to be an intellectual observation.
It takes me time to understand your soliloqys but it is like a challenge!!
and I thought it is me who’s decoding your soliloquy, wavelength mismatch perhaps, but to me it still sounds like rat poison rather than cyanide, seriously, at least have a shot at it, maybe the experience was not the apogee of life, rather the base, you never know, & of course the privilege is all yours, to accept or to reject, wholly or partly.
oh, i goofed up again, my apologies
KB:
Thank you!
Anon:
Thanks again...and again...cyanide it is.
Post a Comment