lostcauser

lostcauser
Location
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Birthday
January 07
Title
Happiest Girl In the Whole USA
Company
No, I'd rather be alone.
Bio
After prematurely retiring at the age of 44, I've hunkered down on the mean streets of Memphis, TN, where I'm carving out my memoirs with an empty Bic pen on the walls of an abandoned abattoir. What ? MY FAVORITE MOVIES: Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Duck Soup, Horsefeathers, A Day At the Races, The Last Temptation of Christ, Carnival of Souls, Freaks, Goodfellas, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Last House On The Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, all Herschel Gordon Lewis, educational shorts MY FAVORITE MUSIC: Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, (early)Alice Cooper, Schubert, Leadbelly, (early)Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Irving Berlin, Violent Femmes, all Sun Records, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, Box Tops, Billy Lee Riley, Beethoven MY FAVORITE BOOKS: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Physician's Desk Reference, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV, Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Psychopathis Sexual STUFF I FIND INTERESTING: According to a new Pentagon study, 35% of Iraq veterans received mental health care during their first year home; twelve percent of the more than 222,000 returning Army soldiers and Marines in the study were diagnosed with a mental problem. As of early 2008, Human Rights Watch reports that roughly half of all prison and state inmates are mentally ill. 76% of all sexual offenses are committed by someone related to or acquainted with the victim.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 7:22AM

Wide Awake

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You will never read this, and we will never meet. But if I had the chance, this is what I'd say to you.

I'm aware of the terrible things you've done. I have every reason to feel about you as everyone else does; the matter's not that simple. You didn't get where you are now, alone.

Chances are you'll die where you are now.

Don't misunderstand me; if you had acted alone, I would not waste one thought on you. It is precisely the partner you chose which makes you tragic to me.

It makes you despised to the rest of the world.

The rest of the world doesn't care about your fate; as you are safely tucked away, they lose no sleep at night. Probably they believe they sleep more soundly, knowing where you are. I am wide awake, trying to answer for myself what it is about your fate that is such a comfort to everyone but me. I could have been one of your victims; perhaps I am, and I don't know it.

But I really don't believe that's so: I am wide awake, wondering if those whose sleep is undisturbed are more the victims. And if their need to keep you in your prison won't imprison them as well. They assure me justice has been served by the sentence you received; to our good we're rid of you, is what they tell me.

Still, I'm wide awake.

Maybe my expectations of justice are too high. Or maybe other's expectations are too low. Maybe their low expectations have something to do with where you are.

I do want you to know, I also hated you, for quite a while. There was a time I also lost no sleep on your account.

But now I'm wide awake.

And you and I are joined by a betrayal.

Our fates meet each other in a lie; a broken vow to love, and honor. You are brought to me by her broken vow of love. I am brought to you by her broken vow of honor. She broke her vow of love by sacrificing you; her sacrifice of three young girls, shows me no honor.

You will never read this, we will never meet; you'll die where you are now and that is justice, I am told.

I have every reason to despise you. But I am wide awake.

And if I had the chance, this is what I'd say to you.

 


 

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I have no idea what this is about, but it is gripping none the less. For this purpose it doesn't matter what the betrayal was...what does is the evocative expression in this open letter to the betrayer.