Plural Poppy

Secrets defile the imagination birthing fits of logical madness inside suburban neighborhoods. Strange cannot describe us; odd is a brief understatement. The night walks and I cannot see through the barrier of unnatural light; however noticeable is not my worrisome expression rather an attempt of normalcy is the dilemma.

Moo is the newspaper headline for a moment I battle survival from an invisible whirlpool.

"....well not much you can do Sun......about yourself......these kids be locked up inside third realm for listening to Peanut Butter too much except for him...some guy with a goatee...he stuck in Zyna's for now.........then this kid who you played video games is dying from what that shit be again I guess we call it AIDS he got it from some damn needle......cause he couldn't smoke no weed......he say you the only one he remember to be there for him but it too late. He gave all his video game and computer stuff to the Frog Lady at her work. He say it for you and that he know you go up there......to see what she doing but she can't do nothing cause there people up there and people who be all around her. So you ain't real excited about the games and shit cause you kind of ready for something else but she be waiting cause she think you still kind of got the glitch itch for the system.........so he be real sick and nobody talk to him. He say you go up there after Marsha leave to see what he doing and you try to explain something to him that scare him too much so he got real upset and hid away from you and that you left some kind of food there for him and never went back......but you don't remember doing that....it was a pizza or something you made that he ate and saved for a while and he feel better after he ate it but he is really sick now and he is not going to make it. So she like bugging out cause she be meeting some people who know about you that really not feeling well and you be like paranoid and waiting for shit to calm down and getting shit ready and thinking about being in a metal box for a while if it go down......she know you thinking that too.......but you accepting that. That boy be knowing of some people around you and they ain't seen him forever cause he used to be a weed dealer but he say you showed up after he got busted with some shit he ain't supposed to have and that you talk to the cops and they didn't steal his stuff he was working on cause they was like bad peeps.......and they went away.......but you don't remember. You was with some android that had half his face ripped off from a fight ya'll got into with some gang members down the block and that boy be touching it and thinking it a video game and you tell him it sort of is and that shit be metal and silicone but he thought he was dreaming........he touch it really well. He say you both left in a blue blackish looking weird car that be looking like a family box.......but he know where you got to stay at cause of Marsha....she took him there and smoke that shit in front of him like a bitch but he know you don't smoke it so he don't mind it.....but he got into trouble for some other shit had to do with somebody stealing something while he was in the van and he got to get more urine tests so he got upset and used some dirty needle and you be feeling weird about that cause you told him you used to shoot up morphine but you got yours from the hospital but he don't really believe you cause you look like you never really do nothing like that but you really did and that's when he find them pictures of you on the internet and realize that you really did have some kind of trouble in your life..............he watch some dumb movie that was over dramatic from Cordelia and the underground people cause they was angry for you....anyways that's when he see you really told him what was up....but he can't do nothing and his parents like told him they weren't for real and he got no family but he don't really care about that. He live in some apartment with some other guy who be sick......he kind of......fat. That guy he live with used to annoy you a lot though cause he always be asking you about your husband but you don't remember him either. Now he kind of shut up about that. They be reading the same comic books as that guy......he be like stopping doing that though cause he need to save his money and that shit be expensive but you know he can get that shit for free on the internet if he know how to do it and that's when you all realize the internet come from the underground people cause they angry.......they fucking up shit with that. He trying to get a scooter.....but you want him to get some kind of tiger bike.....some kind of safer motor for traveling......who know if he listen though cause everything is all backwards and confused......so you just leave it just like that cause you ain't sure about nothing............some guy got stuck with a pink, black, and white super fast bike and he like hiding it and you like looking for it. The Frog Lady come to see where you at and look around for a while and she know where you at is kind of fucked up and that you like feel like it a fucked up motel......and she see all the tea you be drinking and the people there explain it's cause they drive you crazy.....and she see the books and understand you kind of like lost in your head.....then all these people be trying to send you messages but none of them go through cause of the monkeys and the underground people don't think it's a good idea and neither do you and they be waiting to come up..........and you be waiting for that too."

"How long have we lived in New York Moo?"

"Diesel know...."

"Shit Sun......you guys came here about seven thousand something years ago...."

"......oh.....I keep coming back."

"So do Zen and everybody else..."

"....Avie's nose isn't broken."

"What make you think of that?"

"This picture of her on this album cover she sings this song on here...."

"She still the baby out of all your kids even the ones you guys had after her..."

"They grew more for some reason and she stayed the same."

".......yeah she did."

"Wonder why...."

"You don't let her eat raisins."

"...that's not true I let her eat prunes, dates, and apricots."

"That ain't a damn raisin Sun!"

"Okay as you were saying Miss Moo..."

"....okay so the Frog Lady be like traumatized by your situation and she be like thinking of hers and how she don't notice nothing and she numb herself and now she realize that shit be weirder than all hell but she just waiting for you to do your thing. Sin finally make it to Zen in that box cause he was inside number three until some kind of man who had a suitcase of wires told him he was going to wire him to another realm and he agreed to it......he was staying with Braid.....that Zen's baby. You be thinking about him a lot. Avie be like living with somebody popping out of Zyna's box back to yours.....you be like really not wanting to go to the bathroom to waste yourself but that stuff like what the Frog Lady think is bat guano.....it look like it too but you don't notice.....so the underground people start channeling your plumbing valves into some asshole's field where he trying to work slaves and that be making the slavery obsolete and be growing some crazy plants that make him sick and some kind of paper you be using to clean yourself off that you be flushing is like going inside his house and clogging up his shit cause his shit be all fucked up.....he like a governor close by but ya'll ain't worried about him cause he die anyways soon. So you be like telling them at night that the mini freak out already happened then there going to be a middle freak out and you ain't going to be there but that's when they is coming where you at and the last freak out you coming back and that going to be hell for them on earth.....and that you really looking forward to a Socialist/Communist society and that it really is meant to roll backwards into itself. So the underground people be like going nuts and wearing all sorts of warrior make up and partying like all dead hell and you be like loving this shit and feeling it but you still dead. They dead too....so this is where shit gets crazy and Chris be like sending you messages with music videos telling you he know shit is fucked up there and that he feel what you go through and he coming up there to join you even though you two is prankster jerks fucking spewing nasty cookie cakes all over each other and acting like you some gooey gang bangers but whatever.................he going nuts so bad cause his dog up there and you up there alone so he like kind of starts crying some about it cause he feel alone too.....cause you know they don't even know each other is there they be communicating with holograms a lot....so he start getting ready and he feel like a change is coming but he don't know what to do. He want to go exactly where you at but he afraid of cheese and cracker town. You think that's funny and he really don't think that's funny but you think that hilarious.....anyways it really ain't either so you both still kind of stupid. He don't even know you alive cause you can't send any messages there and all the shit you be doing on the computer be Chinese glyphs in their system and they don't know how to read that shit but they know that's you.............yeah they know that's you. They only use Japanese and English. Then shit be switching to Japanese where you are like labels on clothing and some small shit that people be like noticing real big but they don't say nothing cause they think they crazy.........and some damn place you be walking is all fucked up but you think it like normal but them people there don't at all. That shit just happen like that but you like whatever........you like it. The eggs you be eating and the monkeys too kind of make ya'll crazy.....it be like making some kind of omega that feed the brain.......so the monkeys call it alpha six......some people be like loving you so much for something you be putting together for them cause they thought it was going to make them all feel nasty but it like taste good or something and they be like complaining a lot about the rules about something and you be like not happy about those rules but you follow some kind of guideline. That's how you is though......you be like so picky too. Food be killing people where you at......and you know it too. Them people who come and check on you really be worried about how you eat but the Frog Lady just accept it. You don't even spend no money really on food just on tea, tuna, and eggs.....but the most expensive stuff is them dried fruits but you cut back on that a lot cause that be like a part of you. Especially them dates from the blood trees that bats eat. Frog Lady know you be just like a bat and you eat the same stuff they do. She know stuff about them....they steal eggs from chickens.....they hate chickens and play jokes on them.....they eat lots of dates and they dry some fruits like the ones you be eating inside a cave where the sun come down a tunnel....they eat apples a whole lot.....and they eat fish too. She said there like some picture of ten vamp bats carrying a big tuna from a Japanese market and she think they gave it to him.....gave it to the main leader of the bat legion. She don't know if they drink tea but I bet they would but they drink a hell of a lot of water. So you be eating like a bat. Ferrari is like laying low in some kind of between hill thing and the doggies be jumping around a tree learning how to jump like a chipmunk and he give them some nuts like pecans to give to Ferrari cause she be really sad about you. She be like getting meatier too and so do the dogs......cause they eating catfish that be grey or white colored......the other animals think they crazy cause those fish be ghost fish but the snake think she saw one but she not sure about eating it. She eat it if you eat it but you hate catfish and think they eat shit but these ones don't eat shit.....they eat seaweed and baby turtles so you guys kind of hate them a whole lot.....seaweed that you ain't supposed to eat......I think they suck. You better eat the biggest one there. Some man try to show you one when you was like a dreaming interval at some lake.....it was huge and dead and bloated and that shit was fucking huge but you just kind of fade out and he be dreaming you be dreaming so much you can't remember nothing so Baxter done fucked you good and he be suffering really bad cause the underground people found his body parts and bones and shit and wired it to the feed for everything he created and sort of reanimated him into misery. So he like suffering much worse and you never forget about him and at that point you really don't give a shit about him. You kind of realize you done with him and he really ain't got nobody which is what he wanted to do to ya'll and I never did like his ass anyways......I always knew what he did would end up like this shit and I don't give a fuck either."

"....he's definitely dead."

"Them underground people hate him a lot. They hate him and the two androids cause they were his assistants but you confused that PB so much he just was like your minion and almost your servant.......it was weird what you did to him and you did all that shit for Dominique and told yourself every day it would be alright if you did and that you got to stick it out and do that stuff......and that fool you be protecting by snapping that man's arm off tell somebody you went to some culinary school in Paris and that you know some ill stuff but for some reason that don't be feeling the situation you in so he wonder why people make food at restaurants and that fool be a fool cause he know he going to get caught by them people for what he did.........he gave all their money away to some out of prison place cause he wanted them to be cooks."

"What's wrong with that?"

"....he probably shouldn't of gave they money away for that but whatever."

"....a lot of people went to that school."

"No not a lot of people. You got some weird plaque for it with your underworld name and Louis made you do it and you didn't even get to cook nothing there. And he say you got into a lot of trouble for playing pranks on Louis but he never did fall for them......"

"It was just cranberry sauce, kosher gelatin, and creme balls."

"......you made it look like a body."

"It moved and jiggled a lot."

"Why did you do that?"

"I wanted to see if it would scare him."

".....well he ate it."

"He did?"

"Yeah he ate the heart looking thing first."

"I wonder if it was any good."

"He gave you a good mark for that one."

"Well he played a prank on me that scared the fuck out of me!"

"What?"

".....he made some fucking vegetable cake mold of a person that looked exactly like me and laid it in a cake coffin...."

"Whoa..."

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

"Who ate it?"

"I did! Sunny brought it to me and I ate the coffin....I fed Sun the body by cutting it into pieces and putting it in the ice box but he didn't know he ate it."

"...that was good too."

"You ain't so smart sometimes Sunny."

"......I don't even know what I learned there."

"...."

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".......there was a book with a lot of pictures."

"...."

"...."

"...............I learned eggs are edible glue in baking and that sharp knives are the shit."

"Anyways so you be like drinking shit loads of tea, Diesel be getting ready to move cause he tired of where he at but he got to stay there until he get enough to leave, Fellini be in trouble at school for what they thought was cheating but come to find out they wrong and he didn't do it and some person's parent comes and says somebody stole his paper and they found it in they home so they finally let him go and he pissed off and doesn't say nothing and that whole school is a sore asshole.......his friend wait for him.........cause he got to go with her to work on dumb ass history and he really pissed off and so is she cause she got into trouble for telling them that he didn't do nothing and that they need to be watching these little people there more often cause they money is no good and she say that straight up! That school be fucked up and that's when Louis send them a messenger and he go there and tell them that if they don't stop messing with gifted children out of personal animosity that they will cease to exist in this world and the next and it come from you. So they be like crying and shit except for her cause she knew they didn't do shit and they be so stupid but you get them on a plate. And some man be looking for you where you ain't......and everything fucked up. You be thinking about food a lot but you sick. Paris be like moving or something.......don't you got a house there?"

"....Zen has a loft there....it's very.....we.....a lot of little people come from there."

"Oh...."

"Oh!"

"Yeah...."

"What it look like?"

"A cathedral building."

"Hhhmmm...."

"Then that lady be like wondering if you wear your clothes but them people in the house say that's just how you wear your clothes and she just think that the weirdest thing.....and you got major problems with clothes cause nothing like fit you and you don't give a shit.....The Frog Lady can't stand those damn cats....they be like chewing they fur and itching in front of her and she just about screamed but they show her around the house like dogs cause you like feed them organic dog food and train them to do dog shit so she pat them like you do and those people there thought that was hilarious......they don't touch them much though and be sucking up to them cause those cats is weird and like really dominative and some scary droid told them if they wasn't nice to them that the cats can zap them or some shit but you don't give a shit. You be like trying to comb them and that shit make them really crazy and they bitch at you but you don't give a shit and they be fucking fighting with you and biting your ass but you don't care....but they don't mean to like injure you so you guys just be fighting and you bite them sometimes especially when you dreaming they come up and stare at you and you get pissed and fucking bite their necks and their god damn tails and they be like freaking out! And some weird dog come to sit on your lawn when you like that cause he escape from somebody backyard but you don't like him cause he nosy and you tell his ass to go away. Them people told the Frog Lady there are like seventeen cats buried in the backyard cause you keep finding them all fucked up especially when you dreaming and that you carry them and be digging all night.....they watch you and they asked you why you do that and you said cause you don't want people to see them all fucked up and they somehow understand that cause they do some shit like that too.....but that shit kind of freak them out cause they pointed out to you that those cats got eating marks all over them and something munching on them but you just keep digging and they tell you that you can't ignore that and you say there ain't nothing you can do......so they like go over where they think they getting munched and find some weird hay stack where there a horse head laying there and they tell the Frog Lady that. There no body though....just the head....they leave the head there and they tell her they don't want to be there when that thing come out looking for where the cats went. You don't remember burying them though but that thing stop doing that cause the cats be hiding now......that shit really upset you. You be taking those weird cats back there to watch you bury them and they be like traumatized by it. But they watch you.....and you start smelling they bodies while you thinking about remembering too......one of them was a kitten too....they was all bad cats though but they was still alive.....the police know about that too cause they drive by them and see them. That thing don't go after dogs though.........so them people there tell her, the frog lady, that you be going crazy and that you really don't want to be there......and the monkeys notice that hole underneath you is green but you don't give a shit. You got some weird criminal record stating you went to jail in the Mongolian Province for freeing a bunch of horses, and that you went to jail for punching the Earl of Sandwich, and that you went to jail for breaking a police officer's shoulder blade but that they dropped that.....and there was everything you went there for and everybody think it so stupid. The last time you went to jail here is for sitting in a zoo cage with a panther. That in there too and there one about you buying six million subway tickets for eighty percent off from some fucked up coupon code and you giving them away to everybody in the city and it was good for like three months and shit be pissing off people so bad for that. There another one about you riding your motorcycle on top the president's house roof top or some shit cause they stole it from you and put it up there so you rode that shit through that house....that thing there too. That shit got knocked down a long time ago here....that shit there. People be thinking that so stupid and there this one they think is the stupidest thing ever and that's when you cursed for three hours in front of that weird church they made here to try to control people and you say god damn like four thousand times.....and everybody was like laughing except for him so you had to go to jail and you been to jail like a thousand times for the dumbest shit but you never got convicted they just put you in there. I went to jail for throwing a nasty pie at that real estate motherfuckering magazine editor's face. I thought he would like the taste of it."

"I remember that."

"Then that man in that house be seeing the cats sitting all over the couches and all over the place and he be going nuts."

"Really?"

"Yeah.......they all got pink collars with rhinestones and look like Egyptians."

"Do I see them?"

"Nope...."

"Oh."

"You do like cats though but you don't like them weird ones....those ones there so weird. You just treat them like dogs though. They weird looking."

"Do they make cat sounds?"

"They make weird digital howls that everybody notice. Them people caught inside they bodies is really sad and you know it and feel it but you don't think comforting they weird furry bodies like hugging and shit do them any good so you don't know what to do."

"....damn."

"They somebody in there though."

".....is baseball there?"

"Didn't you go to jail for somebody throwing a speed ball into the mayor's window?"

"Yeah it hit him in the back of the head."

"Why did they arrest you?"

".....I went to get the ball!"

"Did you even say anything to him?"

"...no..."

"Why?"

"There was a canary flying around his head and pooping droplets of seeds."

".....isn't poop the English British word for birds purposely defecating on politicians?"

"Yes."

".....did you get your ball back?"

"Yeah it looks like the earth."

"......well there you got a few of those that you think you find in a dream but they digitized them for you....the underground people."

"What about my chocolate glove?"

"Yeah that there too and your chocolate creme Yankees cap."

"With the bat hitters?"

"Yes."

".....I don't care if I dream about it as long as I got it."

"No you need to let go of attachment."

".............oh."

"Well you don't really do that shit there cause there ain't nothing to do there."

"How boring."

".....oh you going to get it for that comment."