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Saturday, December 6, 2008, 1:22 AM
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah
He shivered outside, he sat outside, he waited outside. Just waiting. A distant memory pictured his mother saying the words "Happy Birthday Alfie" exactly one year ago on that very day, those last words from a mother to a child before a car had come and hugged mother, she lay there on the ground quite still, she didn't wake up for afew days and the people who carried her away said she had died. He didn't know what a birthday was, nor did he know what death had meant, but he had written them down on his list of new words learnt, scribbled it next to "cold" and "bench". Nobody had told him, but he remembered mother mentioning his age once, and if his calculations were right, he was turning 6 this year. Hymns stopped, and bolted doors slammed open, sending snow cascading down the marble steps where he sat, anticipation in his heart, he cupped his hands and smiled, looking hopefully from shadow to shadow, from each expecting a bigger suprise. Nothing. "Don't they know its my happy birthday?" He had said to one shadow, breadcrumbs were thrown at his face, not much, but he lapped it up anyway. Better than the usual hard shove to the brick walls. An old man had passed and thrown a small shiny disc at his feet, he had seen this around before, the big people called it a "coin". T'was a funny name for a disc. He left the place with a pocketfull of crumbs and loose thread that had come off of people's clothes. They weren't much of birthday gifts, but they had to do. He rapped on everyone's door down the street telling them it was his birthday and asked if they had gotten him a nice present. But most of them had slammed the door shut, twice had the door struck him and made red stuff flow from his nose. He went back to the corner of the alley where he lived, the red stuff had now formed a trail behind him and he couldn't feel his head very well. He took out the thread and crumbs and cradled them in his arms. "My happy birthday presents. Mine." He hugged his presents to sleep, waiting for mother to wake up and give him that cake she had promised a year ago, he missed mother, she's been sleeping an awful long time and hasnt woken up since, but he hoped anyway. He waited for something better. The red stuff now seemed to pool around him, and he felt cold, at least, he thought he did, judging from the dictionary he had stolen and read from. He couldn't feel much of anything now, even the crumbs and thread felt weightless on his palms. He lay down on the cobblestone ground and closed his eyes. The red stuff now forming a waterway down the alley. When he opened his eyes, he saw mother again, she smiled and took him by the hand, "Happy Birthday Alfie." ao |
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Vanity isn't a sin, a little narcissm wouldn't hurt.Andrew. Music. Food. People. What more could you possibly want? |
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One day when i wake up and find the motive and time to link anybody, i'll let you know. backtoyesterday
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