There it is, old and tattered.
Atop a shelf just within your reach.
Arms length away but you can smell it,
That old book smell. Boring almost.
Gag, pull back a page and sigh.
Keep your eyes focused for
The words are scratches on
The Great Wall of China.
Your eyelids are getting heavy,
And only the convenient words you read
Are absorbed.
Click. Lights! Camera! Action!
Moments later you find yourself drooling.
Eyes wide, muscles clenched, heartbeat racing.
So many magnificent colours illuminating
All the beautiful people, promotions and prices.
You take it all in, yet let it engulf you.
Absorb the fiction like a cotton sponge.
Such wonderful tag lines consuming you,
Sucking you drier until you have no
knowledge of ever reading them in the first place.
Such fun!
You are being screamed at by the piercing
voice of greed and arrogance!
Notice your fingers shaking?
Such excitement gets the adrenaline rushing,
and the blood pressure booming,
and the hairs upstanding.
Until finally you burst!
Empty thoughts and images everywhere!
Smudging the ceiling and windows
with ignorance while your expressionless face
Stares up at you, uncomfortable, confused.
Focused from the floor. Drone.
...It's just that white buzzing noise in your head.
Author notes
This was for a school project on the novel called, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury if anyone has read it or wants a cool book to read.
A contest entry
- ~Give me your BEST Prewrites~ by Bean Sidhe.
1000 points, ended November 14, 2008, 46 entries
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Comments
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I think you just a bit too much punctuation in places.
This was an interesting piece, you told me more than showed me but I think due to it being a project that was probably needed.
A good piece, thank you -
Oh I've read that book! This is wonderful, I love the harshness of the wording, and the end makes me shiver. Out of curiousity, how do you think this fits my contest?
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Thank you for your entry & good luck!
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