Axons across beard-seconds of darkness
Stretched out February 19, 2012.
Blackness squatted on the edge of a desk, somber and stalwart. A staunch glargoyle, grimly it guarded the scene that lay before it. Black blood coursed through its veins though, not the usual avocado green of the glargoyle: The beast was angry at what it surveyed before it, but it could do nothing but stand guard and watch.
Superego having said its goodbyes and id having departed on the last flight to Arcadia, only ego remained. The ego floated lazily, moving upward, around and upward, sometimes downward, occasionally leftward or rightward, but mostly upward (and never backward or forward). Stubbornly it refused to give up the ghost and vault itself into the supralial plane of existence beyond this one; not even the box of fresh Drunken Donuts jelly donuts proffered as a ham-fisted bribe could persuade it to concede defeat and dissipate into the æther.
Axons stretched out across parsecs, light-years, and beard-seconds of the increasing darkness… reaching, probing, probing for anything they could get their axony little hands on. Nothing but nothingness was their reward; as they moved, emptiness greeted them and the dark, deep depths of nullity yawned before their ganglious little membranes and vacuoles. And there were so, so many vacuoles—too many to count. Around the edge of each outstretched axon a dull sense of dim, colorless light gnawed. But it was fleeting, and—much like the distant, frantic honking of a goose in the immediate seconds following a sudden weasel attack—trying to make sense of the sense was ultimately in vain. The weasel would win the day, and the goose would be silenced forever.
Poor little axons.
They withered and retreated back across the beard-seconds through which they had wrought themselves in a desperate bid for stimulus. If the ears behind them still worked, somewhere off in the distance, Britney Spears would be heard barking. But the ears did not work. One had to wonder then, was Britney barking? The parable of a tree falling in the forest and landing on a deaf and dumb moose came to mind. (If there was a mind for it to come to, which there wasn’t. Not anymore.)
Thousands of specks of light suddenly assaulted the crumbling remnants of the unblinking vision that remained in the broken form: The form from which the ego had escaped and the axons had attempted to flee. At first like the teeming froth of bacteria that suddenly envelops a fresh turd the moment it splashes into the dark, fetid waters of an underground septic tank, the specks began then to slow, slowly then—tearing and bending—and, like chance, slowed slowly even further… ponderously slow at last… until they were stretched glimmeringly along concentric, epicyclic pathways orbiting the retina… moments before the rods, cones, and dodecahedrons blanketing the retina’s surface failed at last.
Darkness. Thick, hairy darkness.
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