Cake

This beach is my chocolate world; cocoa nuts scatter into blue tears. Mikel is smiling from a tree, a woman is watching from a hotel balcony, a man builds sand castles, an android is photographing a dream; petrified sand creates anchors of sleep. I stand to press my feet into soft grains. Every toe is a mystery, my ankles display mythical stability, a silver ring wanes three moons around two suns; praise for nature is water.

"Do you know how you got there?"

"Mikel you must surely despise me...."

"....it's made out of thorns."

"......what if the birds come for me?"

"They are sterile. I wrapped them in saran wrap prior to twining each twig with hemp."

"You are so fucking brilliant aren't you!"

"You are supposed to be cute and innocent!"

"God damn it fuck you motherfucking fuck god damn!"

".....now walk and behave."

"What am I to you? Fucking Jesus or something?"

"...I made his crown!"

"...alright fine I'm going to do this shit now...where is Cordelia?"

"She's making up some kind of projection for a big sheet."

"A movie?"

"...oh...I thought it was a tacky linen."

"............"

"Must I beg?"

"No. I am doing this for that guy you just mentioned."

"Your hair is curling...."

"It's curly."

"....I don't think steam tea is working anymore."

"I will drink it if it doesn't..."

"Did you eat that stuff?"

"....of course...."

"Those pods?"

"Yeah..."

"I wish it was stronger."

"Like what?"

"....like a fucking paste."

"I don't know if I could handle that."

"I can..."

"I'm out. My ass is on the circle walk..."

"Don't forget to look like you don't give a fuck..."

"...that shouldn't be difficult."

Snakes entangle a realm I venture unfamiliarity, a little man carries me, I am his explorer and he is my conduit energy. We speak with blackness; we return to the kaleidescope kingdom.

"He's gone Sun!"

"Who?"

"Darkwing! You ate that stuff and went to the bathroom! That's what that was!"

"....depth please Sir..."

"God damn you boy! The doctor of chemistry found a snake inside the extract; that thing is alive and some kind of cosmic entity! That snake hates morphine...that snake got rid of his body."

"Why?"

"So he could fill you up like a vessel."

"What did she eat?"

"Embalming fluid times a thousand."

"Like that stuff they injected into your exited bodies?"

"Didn't work very well....we did that as precaution for return."

"So you knew where you died?"

"And how..."

"....why does she eat it?"

"Shit makes her wicked fucking fly like bat wings."

"Can't blame her..."

"I want some."

"....huh..."

"She can't eat it for long though...it starts to fuse with physical chemistry."

"What is the snake?"

"...some kind of vanity...the origin of that emotion....she's a bad mamma jamma."

"......why did those people follow me?"

"I don't know girl. I just shut the door."

"I keep doing it again."

"So do I."

"I keep going back to it..."

"So do I."

"....do we ever stop?"

"How does it grow a snake?"

"I went to school before."

"Oh that thing they made you and Kev do?"

"...I wore some tacky hat and gown."

"Hhhmmm..."

"Some man came and gave us papers with strange names..."

"...how many?"

"Twenty-six."

"For each of you?"

"Yeah....what were they?"

"...degrees..."

"Temperature?"

"....."

"You are looking at me with one eye open."

"What color is it?"

"Brown."

"Just making sure."

".....god damn that has to hurt."

"Yeah it hurt that walking mad boy like hell....some people were watching him....some people who can't help but wonder where he comes from and if he is going to go where they don't understand yet..."

"What kind of people?"

"....angst, driven, defeated, sad, weary, pretenders, deceivers, faithless, addicts..."

"Teenagers?"

".....yeah that's about what they are I would think so yeah."

"........we made up some comic stuff for animators..."

"Who did you name it after?"

"The ghost in the machine."

"Akira?"

"Yeah....yeah that's it."

"That's our world."

"It looks just like it."

"Even the motorcycles..."

".....Mighty said he made a vial with decomposition frozen from three thousand some kind of name for ages ago. I found it and Ruby and I added some extra data."

"Shit man I am not ready for that yet..."

"Me neither."

"I just dreamed I was sitting there thinking that the plate somebody left would scan through a slot...instead it's manual."

".....he said some building were going to blow up...two of a kind...he said we would be so out of it that to every extent we may not come back."

"...........sigh...it's a virtual world we live in."

"The pollution is really bad."

"....why is the sky purple?"

"I don't know."

"They are so scared..."

"Who?"

"The teenagers...they know he performed some sick tests on your body...there is Satan with a violin...muscles are made out of strings....."

"But I came back."

".....where are the strings?"

"Inside a black box...that's what Mighty told me...he said there was a woman named Chasity with them.....he said the sonar would gather each back into particles...some crazy shit like that."

"...oh yeah well these people are freaking me out! But they don't know you are a vampire. So the logic of fact is unknown...they just know you suffered......they know you suffer to come back...something about unusual rumors about dark waters and shadow people...damn urban legends and people talking.....anyways you are an intermittent visualization..hard to focus and behold....you shit out a bat Sunny!"

".....what happened to his glasses?"

"How did you know he had glasses?"

"Cause if he's me then he needs them to read?"

"...aw it's fine Sun.......I keep watching myself excepting LED lights and revolving voice recognition droids....I don't get it...what happened to all the robots?"

"......"

"They know you got extra bones and that you know some brain frequency response mechanisms...it's telepathy...it's vampiric....aw who the fuck believes in this shit anyways!"

"Why do they want to know all that?"

"....teenagers are curious."

"......they're all dead Diesel."

"Your students?"

"...the listeners..."

"I know Sun."

"Where did they go?"

"When did you see them last?"

"They all came and brought me an apple....then they looked at me in a certain way....Thad was so different. I felt as though he was the instruction rather than instructed....."

"....she went to that school that they name those shirts after. The button up collars..."

"That man told me it was so very important when I am inside the real world. Whatever the fuck that is is beyond me and my English flays back and forth when I am unnerving words."

"Well I thought you looked cool in that Hello Kitty costume."

"God damn it not one Brit got excited."

"....look...it's a white kitty with pink jumpers..."

"Oh. How lovely..."

"...what are you looking at boy?"

"I know that's you in there!"

"Oh yeah how do you know that?"

"Cause of the way you walk."

"Who am I?"

"..."

"..."

"You're that one from the magazine."

"....you're so smart..."

"Are you being sarcastic?"

"I'm a white kitty with pink jumpers."

"....you're the only one who would do this and still look somewhat recognizable."

"...I don't know what to say."

"You are a white kitty with pink jumpers."

"He is doing it too!"

"....my twin is bothering him. So did Nadia put you up to this?"

".....she's some kind of guy in a suit right now."

".....I heard her laughing."

"We laughed about it too."

"Brits see it for what it is."

"The Japanese counter culture thought we were the lamest thing ever."

"You got to act all excited and make it too cute to miss."

".....yuck."

"Oh just do it and get it over with."

"What does that white kitty with pink jumpers mean Sunny?"

"....I don't know Diesel!"

"I think it has to do with mortals and bruises..."

"Why do you say that?"

"Cause I just watched you absent mindedly walk around and some ugly guy purposely walked into you so you would notice him but you just thought it was the tuna."

"Oh...."

"He's got a big burst of blue blood vessels broken all over his shoulder."

"Does she eat blood pudding?"

"Did you hear me Sun?"

"....does she watch music videos?"

"She's in the them all the time."

"How strange..."

"It's what you wanted Chocolate Boy!"

"...yes it is."

".....I came up with her name. She's a chocolate diva with junk in the trunk."

"....does she have a motorcycle?"

"...yeah she's all about that...she just wants people to enjoy it."

"I do want people to dig it..."

"I watch you desire their enjoyment from the deepest you. They cry....I think it's all the tuna. You almost broke that man's arm and he brushed you....I don't know why they mimic you...then this lady tried to attend your funeral but uh...yeah well she's been here a while."

"....oh well...."

"We're talking thousands of...what do we call those annual things again?"

"You been here longer!"

"....yeah but I am fabulous."

"Don't make me giggle."

"That is some of the hardest things she ever had to do...you watch it so much trying to realize that's you doing that shit! God damn! They go mad for it though. They all get down and you just sit there in shock! It's entertaining for me."

"....yeah...."

"That gauntlet arm is from her original fortitude inside the Czech mountains...that thing is made out of some kind of crystallized metallic glass..."

"Anyways does she eat fried food?"

"No. What is wrong with you boy? This girl is barely breathing let alone able to eat fucking guilt as nourishment. She is silently miserable searching for reasoning. She worries about everything. It freaks her out to look at herself inside pictures of what we call somebody else. You'll never know what you did for what they see....you'll never know what it is. I never will either."

"...oh...does she read a lot of books?"

"She depends on artificial vision from some fat woman."

"That is terrible."

"It's blurring and fuzzing for her real eyes...for the kaleidescope."

"...the doctors are actually interested?"

"Yeah they are without discrimination for actuality but you got to wonder what all of this is good for you know what I mean? The more you find out the more you realize you already knew that. Then the more you see the more you realize it's plain before your eyes. The more you try to explain something with knowledge the more all is evident. The girl is a fanged creature with human figure. Not much to it...not much time left...they will give her the choice to come or go early...that tree wants her bad and doesn't give a fuck who is left behind at this point. That tree will take her then we all go so it's not like this will be a hard decision to make if all else is crap but I feel as though we are with much ado."

"I always felt that way."

"The tree is fucking pissed Sun."

"Is my bike there?"

"There's a few....that bike is so unusual though....some kid broke their shin cursing at you for being a real rider....he's a bitch though...."

"What's a real rider?"

"....a person who makes sense about bikes. His shit is busted the fuck up all that is left is some kind of rocket launcher....everybody told him too....some guy who has a blood disease...I don't get him...he bitches a lot...he's a mortal...he thought of you when he went down....he thought you were some guy named something after a city somewhere we hate."

"........does she have a skateboard?"

"I don't want to see it."

"Does she play video games?"

"......I'm not there yet."

"What does she look like?"

"A god damn teenager god damn it! Except for that....fuck....fuck....fuck....why do those hurt her...?"

"I finally get them!"

"...has something to do with muscles growing....what a secret my ass...."

"Does she cook stuff."

"...damn that chicken had some big breasts."

"Chicken?"

"Are they real Sunny?"

"......I don't know. They bob their heads around a lot and have big asses."

"...they make people feel listless and unapproachable."

"Tuna makes me feel like a big mass of meat."

".....haha I am watching you trying to be mobile despite the chunky white fish."

"Shit! Does she move properly?"

"No....she moves like a walking brick."

".....why is she doing that?"

"It's regenerating something inside her skin and causing elasticity."

"....how?"

"Something about mercury poisoning....they said that if a regular person ate that much tuna they would be dead."

"....oh....really?"

"Yeah....your mercury level is so fucking high that shit could make a thermometer factory."

"...........why is she doing that again?"

"...she hates those dumb fish."

"So do I! That motherfucker cut my hand open!"

"You know a little bit of that stuff makes people feel like overload dumbness but no not for her...she is addicted to the dumb fish....and it is making people really sensitive....all that omega is making them go nuts........good fucking fish. That girl is eating tons of it!"

"....where does it go?"

"Good question."

"After I eat it....just stays in there."

"The doctor understands that the actual fish is building something like domes and architecture...the protein synthesis is natural crystallization and something about you just eating a lot of tuna because it was cost efficient and humorous for somebody who watched you confuse a man who thought he was hot shit."

".....well.....does it hurt her?"

"She's some kind of mercury statue."

"What about the bat?"

"He's big and stuck in there."

"What is it?"

"....the origin of man."

"It's got to be the most fucked up person ever."

"Yeah....no shit....it's still that damn woman though but she's got to leave the current....it's just too strange for everyone....she's sitting somewhere paranoid about an outside haze."

"Did you say something about a bruise on somebody?"

"That thing is a burn or something weird....I'm watching Diavolo dig the biggest fucking trench I ever saw and Odin is running like hell."

"Where they going?"

"....something about deer and snake vibrations..."

"What do they look like?"

"Fucking muddy puppies."

"....mud is a conditioner."

".....that dog is bigger than me."

"Which one?"

"....that dog is bigger than me."

"Where is Andain?"

"Staring out a car window."

"Does he live there?"

".....he believes it is his car."

"He did that to my bike."

"He did that to my motorcycle."

".....he doesn't lick his fur."

"Yeah it's not his taste."

"....well I use your comb to brush him."

"I was wondering why I had little soft cocoa curls coming off my head."

"That's your hair Sunny."

"Oh...."

"He wears your hooded jackets when you are gone."

"......he knows something."

"He gets really nervous and quiet around new people....or new to him."

"...yeah they are that big. She cannot take them out into public without people getting freaked out....Sheba and Dominia especially since they are cats...but people think they are dogs when you put spiked leashes on them...god damn though those dogs are massive and extremely muscular...they don't care for curious people...they don't care for majority...they don't care for people who fear them...they don't care for collars either."

"He looks like a wolf and he looks like a Taurus."

"Whenever you get angry they start showing their teeth then when you start with that tone of voice they growl then when you let go they do what they got to do."

"....puppies!"

"Sun."

"What?"

"......"

"Puppies?"

"Devil Dogs."

"....oh."

"They don't let anybody come near you."

"Yeah they do after a while."

".....they sit at your side and stare at people."

"I do the same thing!"

"....they don't like anybody who isn't a vampire or a beeper!"

"What else is there?"

"Oh yeah that makes sense."

"...Diesel will I ever be a real person?"

"Will I?"

".....is the world we live real?"

"...I don't know anymore. All I know is that if it is then we will be where we started to do it all over again...and again...and again."

"I desire absolution and the real thing."

"Me too Chocolate Boy but until then make me a cake."