Straight into a sapling burrowed a worm, brow furrowed in frustration
He felt his form moving against the wood's grain, though he couldn't say what was the purpose of this act
In fact he couldn't speak at all, evolution had seen fit not to equip him with a fleshy tongue
So by lamplight on the edge of a gutter, he constructed a tongue from disused razors and wings from cellophane wrappers
Suddenly a wind caught his wings, and they began to flutter
In flight, glorious flight he tried to scream his joy, and merely stuttered
Vocal chords born kicking and screaming into this world, torn from their comfortable void
Aviation achieved, the worm became aware of his avaricious appetite for knowledge
He yearned for erudition, damn his invertebrate condition!
And for one day, when he could rear his mighty brain and bring a rain of ruin
To the world of Men and their murdering feet
To his comrades in the damp soil, he proclaims his dreams will turn from dust to reality
"We shall build robots from trash, re-hashing their old and useless tools!"
An eruption of voices, then a silent confusion, the mist existing for they had never spoke before, but now
When talking about the upright bi-pedal whore, who raped the Earth endlessly and with nano-technology, so effortlessly
Hatred had risen the waters of progress and dismissed such naive notions
That a worm cannot dream, or speak, or drown in vengeance so sweet
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Written February 2nd, 2004
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Rar.
Yes, the title struck me as very freudian. I'm thinkin' phallic. -
kool
man that just blew me away....that was really good i really loved the part
He yearned for erudition, damn his invertebrate condition!
thats really kool.it was a really great write!!
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In this line: 'comofrtable void' 'comofrtable' is 'comfortable'
In this line: 'Avaition achieved, the worm become aware of his avaricious appetite for' 'become' I feel should either be 'becomes' or 'became' I feel 'became' is more suitable.
In this line: 'He yearned for erudition, damn his invertebrate condtion!' lat word 'condtion' is 'condition'
I see how this could be written in so little time, 3 minutes is believable.
I like the beginning, it gave me the image of a butterfly coming out of its cocoon for the first time and it gave me the images of it, the juice portruding out, and etc.
The second part, seemed to me to be the happenstance of it, the finished version etc.
It, as is, is complete, but, as well, I feel it can be the beginning of something more grand in scheme.
Tho, as is, it is just fine.
A good piece that you have written here.
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