Metamorphosis
A Drabble Inspired By A Poem By Raymond G Taylor (Books Are Dead)
You murdered me with your axe, and then you slowly skinned me and started to cut up my body into the thinnest of possible slices. You gave me no warning, and I saw the less precious parts of my anatomy smouldering on your open fire.
That hurt a lot, but you were not finished. you then got out your tools and started to decorate my skin slivers with the blackest of your inks.
Then you sewed the bits back together, bound them, and that's what I am now to the world.
I was a tree. Now I am your book.
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How to fill a hot water bottle. (Or, How to get through the night.)
1. Go to the cupboard where you keep all the towels and sheets. It's at the top of the stairs. Take a deep breath and roll your shoulders back. For this will take some effort. Reach up and dig into the mountain of materials. Past the scratchy towels, the creased sheets, the mismatched pillowcases, the marooned sock. Keep feeling until you find something somewhat soft. There might be a bit of matting from lack of use. With a slight hardness underneath. Grab onto it. Firmly. Begin to start pulling it out of its hole. Like a game of Jenga, don't let the mountain get on top of you. It helps to use one hand for steadying the mountain and the other hand for gripping on to the hot water bottle. Carefully slide it out. Take your time.
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A noble sacrifice.
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And by the sounds of it, a book made of human jerky.
This felt so sad. Loved your drabble!
Could this be a way of describing reverse personification. A person turned into a tree made into a book. Just a thought. Good job.
Delighted, flattered, humbled and honoured Mike. Also a little horrified and glad this was about wood pulp and not… Great verse and powerful imagery