I.
Silence slips in on baited breath, frozen, vibrating.
The Hag sits on legs on groin on chest, suffocating, familiar blur of laser pink pulse,
moving so slowly, closer, talons hold breath in the
vitreous humor illuminated, illuminating motes of interlocked white chains
pulsing in time with the tumult of a thousand oceans, all ebb no flow, nebulous
titter of something(s), small, calculating so close you can smell how clean how
void of feeling.
II.
Septicemia - Died of septicemia following operation for bladder stones
Suicide - gun
Cancer / tumors - misc. - Embryonal cell carconoma of the mediastinum
Paralysis / lameness - Painting hand paralyzed following two strokes
Arteriosclerosis
Heart attack
Cancer / tumors - brain
Aortic aneurysm - Given a transfusion of blood from Indira Gandhi
Influenza - fatal - Died of influenza complicated by urosepsis and multi-organ failure
Murder or execution - misc. and unusual - Tortured
AIDS / HIV
Murder or execution - misc. and unusual - Starved to death in prison
Tuberculosis
Suicide - Drug overdose - heroin and cocaine
Surgery - fatal: genotourinary - Died following kidney surgery
Accident in transit - automobile - Was driving while under the influence of alcohol
Pneumonia
Wounded in the hand; later shot by his own men; died of pneumonia after amputation
Alzheimer's disease
Suicide - drug / poison - Heroin and cocaine
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage (Internal bleeding)
Syphilis
Prostate disease - Died of a prostatic abscess
Suicide - asphyxia - Gas from oven
Suicide - drug / poison - Unintentional overdose - loritab and valium
Asphyxia - Suffocated during the eruption of Vesuvius
Smallpox
Died either of the effects of alcohol on 'his weak heart' or of rabies
Murder or execution - shot
Trauma - sharp object - Stabbed in lung and stomach
Jump / fall
Drowning - Boating accident
Cholera
Gangrene - Fatal gangrene following a toenail injury
Cancer / tumors - breast
Trauma - Blunt object - Hit over the head with a shovel
III.
Father on a long walk, somewhere between Lusk and a Hard Place
arrowheads, fossils, rattlesnake (Dem'ser Dime on Backs,son)
coulda been the Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water anyway,
Pop had to, he was stealing their money, most of 'em barely spoke
english, he was a hero, really.
Probly buried him with the same shovel he brained him with.
Nobody ever said nothin, somewhere between Lusk and a Hard Place,
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The HAG:I-III
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Alan Caudillo
the not a list story
The thyroid is the control center for everything in the body; weight, metabolism, sickness. If your thyroid is fucked up, it can explain why you can never lose weight, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how little you eat, you'll still just get fatter and fatter. I'm allergic to everything except for milk. Sesame oil, peanut oil, strawberries, yeast, peppers, everything will seriously almost kill me, but I can eat ice cream until the cows get home. I moved my mother from her rundown Watts apartment to a nice neighborhood, right next to the west L.A. Police station, what could be safer I thought. She developed breast cancer from the police microwave tower and died seven years later. You have allergies because you have a dirty colon. You have to clean out your colon like I did, 7 days lemon and honey with water, I was peeing out my ass at the end but I've never had an reaction since. His wife wants him to see some kind of Ayurvedic or other sort of New Age hippie doctor, she doesn't trust his Endocrinologist because he only prescribes Western Medicine. 'Dr. Pornchai uses Indian medicine that goes back three thousand years' she said, 'Great' he said 'I should start trusting medical practices that three thousand years ago gave the people an average lifespan of 25 years, up from 15 years a few hundred years before." The best way to get rid of athletes foot is to pee on them in the shower. Its also good for jellyfish stings. The greatest thing that ever happened to my marriage, seriously, was having my hysterectomy. No more PMS, no mood swings, just me, only without a uterus. Let me give you some advice, screw vitamins. The only thing beneficial about vitamins is the glass of water you drink with them. Everything else just gets flushed into the sewer system. We used to think that maybe my daughter was crazy, she would freak out for no reason, she was irritable and hard to be around, she lacked focus. Then we found out she had sleep apnea, big tonsils kept her from breathing right and stopped her from going into REM, she wasn't crazy, just insanely tired. The best thing you can do for your body is drink green tea. Black tea is fermented and is horrible for you, but green tea has antioxidants and actually works like an antibiotic.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
One Half Hour
One half hour before Christian was hit by the white, silver trimmed 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, he was sitting bored between his little brother and mother as she talked to her friend Mary about how the President of their school's PTA was driving her crazy sending out emails and calling twice a day acting as if she were a dictator, not just another mom with not enough to do, and even though he felt too old he used one of the three green crayons the waitress gave him to color on the piece of paper with a poorly photocopied picture of a pirate ship that said "Pirete's Cove," misspelled with nothing on it that seemed cove-like which he's seen once when they went to see Nana in Florida and they had gone out on the Catamaran to the Keys looking for Mermaids in the cove on an island that was so small he could run all the way around it in just a few minutes.
One half hour later as the Monte Carlo turned into the yellow striped crosswalk at the intersection of Montana Boulevard and 22nd Street, its tires made no noise but the impact of the small boys body against the black-smeared bumper was a clear, sharp thwump that turned heads for several blocks in either direction anxiously away from their latte's, chicken caeser salads, Christmas/Hanakah/Kwanzaa shopping excursions, and the commercial photo shoot on the sidewalk outside Angelica's Couture among the nonseasonal dresses and airy thin Hermes scarves, the photographer not noticing the image he captured of Christian's brown right shoe suspended in the air over his young model's thin, ivory white shoulder some 30 feet from where the Monte Carlo screeched to a halt.
One half hour before getting in his car, Emir was laughing in a booth in the back room at Canter's Deli on Fairfax wishing he had not gotten the piece of apple pie but eating it anyway in spite of the hard time Goran and David had given him for his ample stomach which bubbled up through his blue cotton blend oxford shirt and over the top of his tan straight leg Docker's. He ate the ice cream that melted next to it even though he knew it would make him phlegmy and almost certainly make him snore and his wife would ask if he had eaten dairy; he knew that he couldn't lie to her, couldn't even try, she could see it a mile away like the time before they were married and he slept over at David's because he was so drunk he couldn't get off the couch let alone sleep and she had known he wasn't at his mother's house. She knew and he promised himself he would never lie to her again and on their wedding night as they made love in his mother-in-law's guest house, he promised himself he would always be faithful as he struggled to push the image of his wife's best friend touching his thigh with her foot at the reception dinner.
In half an hour, on the ground as he wailed, staring at the limp body of Christian cradled in the arms of his mother, a woman so calm so peaceful she could have been a painting a Raphael, a Michelangelo, a perfect Pieta, as he stared the snot and fear poured from his body, and the engine of the Monte Carlo purred so lightly, he kept it in good shape, always did the right thing, changed the oil used good gas, and so it purred but he didn't hear it for the pure sound of anguish that shot forth from his heart at the speed of life.
©2009 alan caudillo Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
B-girl trailer
This is the trailer for a little Dance movie I recently shot. Very fun to make, check it out: click the title above to go to their website.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
10 things you should know about Obama's plan (but probably don't)
10 things you should know about Obama's plan (but probably don't)
The plan:
1. Makes a $634 billion down payment on fixing health care that will go a long way toward paying for a more efficient, more affordable health care system that covers every single American.3
2. Reduces taxes for 95% of working Americans. And if your family makes less than $250,000, your taxes won't go up one dime.4
3. Invests more than $100 billion in clean energy technology, creating millions of green jobs that can never be outsourced.5
4. Brings our troops home from Iraq on a firm timetable, finally bringing the war to a close—and freeing up almost ten billion dollars a month for domestic priorities.6
5. Reverses growing income inequality. The plan lets the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire and focuses on strengthening the middle class.7
6. Closes multi-billion-dollar tax loopholes for big oil companies. 8
7. Increases grants to help families pay for college—the largest increase ever.9
8. Halves the deficit by 2013. President Obama inherited a legacy of huge deficits and an economy in shambles, but his plan brings the deficit under control as soon as the economy begins to recover.10
9. Dramatically increases funding for the SEC and the CFTC—the agencies that police Wall Street.11
10. Tells it straight. For years, budgets have used accounting tricks to hide the real costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts, and too many other programs. Obama's budget gets rid of the smokescreens and lays out what America's priorities are, what they cost, and how we're going to pay for them.12
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