adrift and assailed

[ashcanprobably]

It's a hot day, the kind that makes an uncomfortable task out of laying about and in time produces a layer of sweat between your body and clothes like pus under a bulging scab. Remove your shoes, your socks, if you're wearing any, but for the sake of this experiment, it's preferable that you don't hinder the natural breath of things with any

Comments

[ciranox]

Ants, as has been discussed above -- and all insects, the embodiments of antipersonality, of complete small-minded purpose without dream or individuality, lovers of those things most disgusting and vile to us...yes, mammals enjoy cuddling and petting their fluffy hair in warm, dry little tunnels of sanctity and family, while their insectoid enemies live their entire lives in cool, damp, unsanct debris and dirt, the opposite of our ideal environments -- even rats enjoy burrowing into a nice warm pillow if they find a chance

Grit

[ciranox]

The juices! The squirming! The pestilence! The salty muck, the muddied waters, the bloodied waters, the grit, the earthic tendencies! You make my brain crawl with viscous, viscerally biological description the likes of which would -- if uttered before a duel -- assure victory by making one's foe wretch violently, both in the imagery and coming to grips with the very idea of himself, or his toes

This is the Life I have to Live

[ciranox]

Dust pervades us all, our bodies emanate beyond odor a cloud of flakey particulates dusting everything with our presence, food for the mites. The average mattress will double in weight over the course of its useful lifetime, the result of accumulation of dried excreta and skin, and the dead bodies of millions of generations of mites