Na/GloPoWriMo Day Nine asks us to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon
Wickedness isn’t born like me or you or a kitten, it doesn’t sprout from the ground like a flower or a tree.
Wickedness is created, like a painting, stroke by stroke upon an unyielding piece of canvas
like a mural on a wall with nothing to stop it from becoming something else other then a cool brick wall.
Wickedness is like Frankenstein’s Monster stitched together in secret from stolen corpses taken from the ground in the dead of night against their will with rough hands and rusty shovels.
Wickedness in a tribute, a memorial to the remains of good things
My friend and I were looking at this picture and he thought it was funny and sassy and whimsical. It reminded him of those old time movies that they used to show at this place we went to as kids called ” Pizza and Pipes.”
At Pizza and Pipes you could make a song request and drop it in this box and the organist would play your request while you at pizza.
There was a small screen that played those old silent films- which were ok. But the music and Pizza was the fun part.
So, back to the weird picture.
I told my friend that I thought the picture was weird and strange and boy did I love it.
First of all, it looks like the babies are conjoined twins- I think its the way they are leaning away from each other that gave me that impression.
Second, the Cop has his hands at that woman’s throat and he’s got this wicked smile on his face and she looks like she’s already dead- what else could that vacant look mean? Look at all the other faces. Her expression is mask like- as in like the expression she had on her face before the Flying Cop snapped her neck.
And that fan on the Flying Cop’s balloon- it looks like a buzz saw is on top of it. So I think he straps it on floats the dead lady and her conjoined twins up into the air and lets the saw finish them all off.
” Explain to me, ” my friend since we were five years old asks, ” How it is that you can see all of that. Seriously. How is that possible? It just not there.”
” Well. ” I said, ” It’s a gift, seeing the weird stuff in life. It could also be that I took a few to the head when I used to jump out of the tree in my backyard for fun.”
