How We Were When We Were Old

Georges Cunningham

This is just an excuse.

No one can invest such time.

Please, sir, no more.

Only…if…and only if.

I once shot a man, he bled like I would, if shot by the same bullet. It was then, at that moment, that the fog cleared, and the road ended.

Care to save me…even if you’ve done so before?

This is just an excuse.

We have assumed control.

White

blue

green

pink

orange

blonde

seventeen

Imperfections make the world a beautiful place.

We have assumed control.

A colon emptying cacophony.

Godless.

This is just an excuse.

Longer…harder…more succinct.

We have assumed control.

Station three…report station three…the static has grown. A large roar was heard. And then…nothingness.

Fade to black.

Cut to black.

This is just an excuse.

Waiting…waiting.

He watched a man drown at sea.

This is just an excuse.

Down…falling…hitting hard.

Submarines filling the air gaps, the balloon tailspins. ‘Hark’, cried a mongoose as he jumped catamarans. A seaside aid? The eggs? It’s all fulfilled, the grapefruit live on. Sonic booms abound this horrible soundscape.

I…can’t…I…

We have assumed control.

Wasteland fantasy.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

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This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse

This is just an excuse.

And now…I will hold time close, like it could breathe and give me a sandwich. No more tears little candy bar, daddy loves it.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

The tiger waits.

The tiger kills.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

Suicide palace.

This is just an excuse.

This is just an excuse.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

Move forward into dismay.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

I fell down into you once

And I never recovered.

This is just an excuse.