Saturday, May 27, 2006

(W)Retch

What's in a name, you might ask? A melon collie by any other name would sound as depressing. And what's with the whole 'yacketayakking screaming vomitting screaming' deal, eh? Is vomitting even spelt that way? When have you ever lived upto the name? All you are is a whiner. A smooth-talking whiner, I'll give you that, but a whiner nonetheless.

So you threw up all through last week. Vomited, with the single T. Retched. Regurgitated. Digression, if you please. Note that I didn't use 'barf', or 'puke'. I know how you hate four lettered nouns with the emphatic first syllable. They're all so uncultured, I agree. Like 'fuck'. Or 'crap'. If there's one thing we share, it's our liking for the apposite, refined word. In true Flaubert fashion .The facade of nobility, when we truly belong to Le petite bourgeoisie.

Yes, vomited. On the very day you are to meet the star? Ha. I always suspected that you lacked the stomach for it. Or just going a little down south, the testicular fortitude. What's your story, buddy? Performance anxiety? Oh, it was the noodles you had last night? I'm sure. Quite the online stud, and little else, it would seem. What's that? You're ok with being unimpressive, you sleep better? Ripping off Zach Braff a lot nowadays, aren't we?

Of course, as with every passing week, you've learnt your fair share.Life is metaphor. Eternity is a perfume by Calvin Klein, and not, as you are previously informed, Gucci. Kafka is the Czech word for Crow. On embedded systems, static memory allocation works more efficiently as compared to dynamic allocation. In dreams lie responsibilities. A lot of Beatle covers are better than the originals. Sarah McLachlan's 'Blackbird'. Joe Cocker's 'With a little help from my friends'. Dare you say Beck's 'A Day in the Life'?

And you're going to 'so totally', to borrow from the teen parlance that you so abhor, suffer from premature ejaculation. Yeah, it's a hard life, I know. Deal with it.

7 comments:

The Cat said...

There he goes, talking to himself, with measured equanimity, about things quite unspoken, reminding her that she never quite sufficed for him.

i hang like a star; said...

hi there.

i love the third person.

and no matter how much better the Beatles covers are; there's something about those four that'll always make my heart melt.

also, the star shall be back and shall meet you- make no mistake about that one.

stop being so hard on yourself, musk-melon.

Anonymous said...

I am jealous of you, deep down.

Rimi said...

Exceptionally well-written, yet again. And that's all I can say, given I'm clueless about the context.

melon collie said...

aaki, well, what can i say? you know the truth.

rish, i am not hard on myself. i merely tell the truth. and yea, they make my heart melt to.

natalie, but why?

rimi, thank you.

i hang like a star; said...

of course you're hard on yourself.
it's like when Tennessee Williams said, 'i give you truth in the guise of illusion.'

also, you've been tagged. how lucky can you get?

Anonymous said...

Don't be hard on yourself

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