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Last Flowers - Radiohead.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cruellaville.

“You should never have to watch as your only children are lowered in the ground,
I mean you should never have to bury your own babies.”
Dave Matthews.

My experiences with death are not that many.. The first time I ever went to a cemetery was yesterday.. It erupted inside me a bunch of thoughts that I don't want to write down, because I don't want to keep a registry of them, because once I forget them I don't want a way to remind me I ever had them in the first place.. In all cases, you shouldn't live to bury your own child, you just shouldn't. No, you shouldn't.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

The most pressing interest about death is the fact it is no more than a perfume store it mix fragrance and put a name on it, this name might be for someone close to us, a colleague or a stranger, most of the time the scent of this person fades, sometimes it sticks yet what brings all the scents a common axiom its heavy and suffocating but by time and likewise any perfume more often volatile.
I earned my experience in perfumes when I wanted to do art and fashion designing. By then, I thought that any respectable fashion designer should know about perfumes totting up with fashion. This initiated a storm of the century since my parents thought it was easier to start doing drugs and hooking sluts rather than academically legitimizing such habits with a desire for learning fashion and art abroad. This brought up the subject of the over protection of my parents with my uncle who reminded me of old times when we were Yahia, Yomna, Abdelrahman and Afaf Alaa Ali. Afaf’s scent was light but Abdelrahman lived what is needed to make his scent eternal. “No father should bury his own child” my uncle was telling me that while describing how my father was carrying him the whole way to the cemetery as if my brother was alive. your words has triggered personal memories and incidents where death was every so often being regarded either a nemesis or a mistress.
In all cases, you shouldn't live to bury your own child, you just shouldn't. No, you shouldn't.
In all cases, no father has ever buried his own child and no mother has ever buried her own child, as well. Parents never did such a thing and they won’t be doing it. There will be a coffin, a body, a tomb, a funeral though, yet parents will be carrying on such obligations as a social protocol required for ceremonial grief, but after the show is over, you will find that parents buried no child of their own, simply because they can not.
lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes
the confusion that was hers
belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it.

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
this moment she's been waiting for
the angel opens her eyes
pale blue colored iris,
presents the circle
and puts the glory out to hide, hide
"Live, Lightning Crashes"

monamahfouz said...

What do you mean a parent never buried their own child? Should they carry the coffin literally and put it underground in a haunted grave literally and place it with their own palms literally for it to be said that they burried their own child?

فهمنى بس عشان اللى انت قلته ده بتنجان.. احنا صحاب وكله بس ده بتنجان بتنجان يعنى

Anonymous said...

Of course I do not mean that parents will walk with their own children’s coffin. I mean by parents never do they bury their children is that they become memorable, I was being metaphoric. Other than relationships likewise friendship, your love, your soul mate…etc. children are the only creatures that provide the unconditional love and a sense of security, especially when it comes to the relationship between a mother and her own children. There are significant studies conducted by the Soviets and the Americans in the field of parapsychology that shows staggering results about parenthood amongst them was the famous experiment where Russian scientists locked puppies in one building and their mother in another building, then they started piercing the puppies and amazingly their mum used to break into a hysterical case of barking and trying to break the cage out of rage whenever they did so. YOU HAVE TO READ MORE BETWEEN THE LINES OF MY POST.

monamahfouz said...

Sorry, I haven't renewed my subscription of the reading-between-the-lines plug-in for lack of monetary resources. It has been noticed though, that life is much more interesting that way.

اتبرع ولو بجنيه

Anonymous said...

احيه
no they shouldn't , no , they shouldn't

Anonymous said...

I am sorry for taking you posts seriously.
ماليش في الخضار وماعنديش فكه

Anonymous said...

it is top fashion now;
the tough- i don't give a shit- intelligent women style
good for you

Anonymous said...

I will turn vegetarian but do you accept visa :)
Aren’t there any publishers reading this blog?

Anonymous said...

Chill out guys. See what happens when people start talking about death in such hot weather? Death? Birth? What does it all mean? I personally think that everyone should just cut the crap and stop having children. For how long this silly hullabaloo has been taking place? It's become very boring and redundant. Sadly no one listens to my wise words and they keep procreating over and over again. It's like mass hysteria. Some say it's a blind instinct, for the good and the perpetuation of the species. Fuck the species! What good "the species" has ever done to you? Did "the species" ever get you a Christmas present? I never met "the species" and it sure never brought me anything.


Let's end life on this planet, now.

Courtesy of IELOE (pronounced "I-LOW". IELOE: the Initiative to End Life On Earth)

Spread the word...

Anonymous said...

Death is horrible experience always, thou Death teaches. Death gives me the vision and gives me the will to look deeper under the ground!
the daily material life is shallow, people derived by desires and greed, lust & hunger!
only Death would shake them, it pull your eyes open on what life is! life is a transit into the unknown!

I don't like Death nor life, but i like the mixed feelings they scatter!

monamahfouz said...

If it's top fashion then it's because I use it. Even though I don't believe in the whole "style" concept.

I don't like vegetarians.

I think it's a very very boring idea to end life on this planet. Your comment even lacks a post-human purpose to spice it a little.

Even if life is transit into the unknown, one should still indulge themselves in lust and greed and desires. If you've given the time anyways... use it.

Anonymous said...

To say that "the idea to end life because life is very boring is very very boring" is not just pure sophistry, it's also a very very very boring idea in itself that you shouldn't be surprised if I told you that I've heard it quite a few times and find it also very boring.

Anyway, I didn't suggest in my comment that I find the idea of an apocalypse new or exciting. In all cases, I don't find the idea of an apocalypse at all that exciting, I just don't. No, I don't. (Last time I checked, I still don't.)

Anonymous said...

you pathetic, you know
to the IELOE guy; mmmmm, interesting, i agree, it is becoming so fucking boring.
let's do what you suggested and let the octopuses inherit the earth.

monamahfouz said...

I sort of can't keep track of who's saying what.. Thanks to all the "anonymous said..." I have.

Anonymous said...

nevermind Tinkerbell, don't bother with the comments section, you carry on shedding your brilliant ideas and enlightening the world
:)

Anonymous said...

if assholes could fly
this place would be an airport

monamahfouz said...

No wonder you're here..

Anonymous said...

don't get it so personal , the previous comment wasn't for you.
haha

Anonymous said...

and so are you , my dear

Anonymous said...

Octopuses inherit the earth? That's very disturbing. But if you find IELOE interesting, join in. We offer dental insurance to all our members. You can also get full medical insurance and a complimentary glass-jar if you castrate yourself. We also fund male and female duct ligation.

What's even more disturbing is the other anonymous guy who said: "life is a transit into the unknown..." What does that mean? It sounds like some vomit out of Paolo Coelho or Jiddu Krishnafarti. There's nothing unknown about death. You want to know what death is like? Try to remember how it was before you were born. You can't? Well, that's how death is gonna be like. But If you can actually remember, like Shirley Maclaine, who you were before your birth and you think you were King Snefru or the enigmatic mistress of Abraham Lincoln, then we have absolutely nothing to talk about.

Anonymous said...

IELOE
thanks for your reply
tried to google "IELOE" but got nothing back..

and now i have to go back to work.

Anonymous said...

You don't really need IELOE or any other organization to persuade you to castrate yourself or cut off your evil reproductive tubes?!

The initiative is still underground, for obvious reasons. But we're like the masons or gnostics, the belief of the individual in the idea is much more important than actual membership.

Be sterile.

Destory living things.

End life on earth.

Choose to kill yourself.

Reap the benefits.

Spread the word.

Anonymous said...

yes sir