TM 150: Tunnel
Frankie Roberts.
Smoker.
Does that define a man? Maybe his habits do as much as his WORDS.
FUCKER
WANKER
ASSHOLE
SHITHOLE
ASSLICKER
SHITTICKLE
SHITEATER
CHICKENSHIT
sYMBOLISM AND Symbolic and SIGNS and mETAPHORS
Is that what the Tunnel stands for?
TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL
it's the path not taken, the journey into the unconscious, the alter ego, the ID, the known, the unknown, it's Frankie's dirty sheets, empty pizza boxes, unwashed underwear, used needles, shards of glass, scattered bullets, bowls of pills, pills like peanuts, like M&M, like mints, refreshing rebooting recharging rerouting, finding back a way to ...
what?
Just a tunnel. Blood inside, open ended, like any wound sharply sliced cut, bleeding bleeding bleeding, thanks GOD GOD! PICK ME! that it's dark, that no one can see, how he crawls underneath, scuttles, on his elbows and knees, fire over him, hot churning burning bones and flash and choppers and
he'll be safe under here, won't he? why should he? No one is safe, no one, and it doesn't make sense, no it doesn't and JOE? JOE JOE PLEASE?
PLEASE JOE!
Come and get me?
I'll be good.
I promise.
I'll be good.
I'll be a good boy.
I'll be dead.
I'll be a good, dead boy.
Under here.
Under this tUNNEL.
266 words, Frank "Frankie" Roberts, The Indianrunner