FROM THE AUTHOR.

I was thinking randomly about how bad stealing Tylenol is for my karma, how cute my new little necklace is, and how sexy the maniacally insane Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is (the brainchild of the absolutely and erradically brilliant Jhonen Vasquez), and so I decided to take a shower and cleanse myself of all traces of cheerleader germs that I might have gotten from the mall, take Tylenol, stroke my necklace, and paint pictures of Happy Noodle Boy on my nails.

Which has nothing to do with my story, except that it's a little poem about Nny.

Have fun reading, reviewing, and sending me nasty e-mails telling me not to poison the planet with my idiocy and illiteracy.

*********************************************

Warped and twisted

Like rain bent wood in the drying sun.

Your mind has lost itself

Not knowing where to find itself

Perhaps I should deny myself

Any knowledge more.

Ignorance is beckoning

Forgetting any reckoning

As military machismo is played out strong

On the television next door.

You laugh and think that

Maybe that's what life is all about.

The movie screens

The blank reveries

Having your mind only being guided by a machine.

But before you laugh look inside yourself

Find the start of the spidering cracks

The cracks that started long ago.

Sent you searching for meaning.

Sent you searching for truth.

But if you stop searching.

And it seems impossible.

The right answer is parallel to the wrong one.

Death and life lie on the same entwining tracks,

As do ignorance and bliss, as they say.

Think of that-no meaning!

Nothing to discover

To uncover.

And yet something festers within your decaying sanity.

Perhaps it lies too deep.

Perhaps you're too far down.

Perhaps your life cannot be the same

Whenever you're around.

So take your knives, take your scythes

Find yourself, in their glazed-over eyes

If there is no answer, killing will do

Suits me fine

But how about you?

*********************************************