"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the
word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate
words -"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a
mystery, and that's why so is mankind."
Jack Handey
REQUEST FROM THE HOLY LIFE
by Gard Eggesbø Abrahamsen
The names and events have been changed to protect both the
persons and the events from public publicity, since the
innocent part insisted upon not being identifiable.
This can't be so. Why shouldn't I care to live for the cause of
life? Why would I commit suicide at any moment given to me?
There must be a little bit more time and a little bit else to
life than me and silly quotes from Kylie Minogue's newest album.
By God (in whom I do not believe), there must be more. And so I
strech out and reach out from my body in search of life.
Trying to find a life that can be less depressing than the
current one. And I strech so far out that I loose the grip of
my body and find myself standing in front of the gate of Kindom
Come. I gently knock on the door.
As I stand there waiting for someone to open, I realize that the
door is too thick to knock through, and therefore look around for
the door bell before I press the button attached to it. A
faint dong sounds through Kingdom Come, and an angel comes to
let me in.
I let the angel escort me to the great hall of justice, where
my maker is sitting on a big chair, judging my life from
second to second, waiting for a chance to send me straight
to hell. It was now I noticed that there was something
familiar with him. He looked up and showed me that insanely witty
look of his. Yes. It was me.
And he opened his mouth as if to speak, but he didn't speak,
and still I heard his voice, knew his thoughts and cared less
about the fact that the surrounding Gards were listening to
this silence that was passing between us.
"Gard," I whispered to myself. "Is that me?"
"Yes," my maker answered. "It is you. My name is Gard Al Mity,
but my friends just call me God, and so may you. But may I ask
myself one thing before we go on: What brings me to Kingdom
Come?"
And I told myself, God, how I had been longing for the answer
of life. Why should I go on living when life itself was not
present? What was my mission in life? And I, God, told myself
that the mission was whatever mission I gave myself. And as
far as I knew, the mission had something to do with females.
Not a bit wiser, I decided to give it a try, and so I
descended through the skies of open and polluted air before I
found my body and reentered it in a mysterious way that
inspired U2 to make a new song. This song is now known as
"Mysterious Ways" and is frequently sent on MTV.
Females. I tasted on it. Yeah. Sure. It had to be. And so I
wandered off looking for them. Not knowing where to start, I
packed my bag and went out through one of the doors of my home,
but I stopped in the door way and swore to myself: Shit. It
was raining. I went back in, found an umbrella, ran to the car
and started the long drive. My entire life was ahead of me,
waiting to be found where I once had lost it.
I didn't exactly know what to say when a very cuddly thing
was standing by the road in the rain. I could not do anything
but stop and pick her up. And I really wanted to pick her up. I
opened the door just a few inches in front of her and looked at
her smiling face and the rain drops that made her face so wet.
The sight of this cuddly female being beaten by the rain was too
much for me to bare.
"Come on in," I said with a gentle tone in my voice,
offering her a safe ride, and a dry one, but she shook her head
and kept smiling as she told me that she already had a car. I
could not see it. In fact, I could not see another car for
miles and miles. "Don't be silly," I said. But she called me a
mother fucker and slammed the door on my face. So I drove on,
into eternity.
And there was a voice comming from overhead, so I looked up,
trying to find the stereo loud speakers, but then there were
none. The voice, however, was still there, and it asked me what I
was doing in eternity, when I was supposed to be looking for my
life.
I could not answer this question, and I soon found myself back,
behind the wheel of my car, heading for destination unkown. I
looked out through the front windshield, and discovered a
sign passing by. I sighed as I read, there were 42 miles to
destination unkown. Once again, I looked up to the sky,
wondering if I was driving in the right direction and requesting
a sign.
My request was immediately dealt with by the one up there,
and an answer materialized a few hundred feet in front of me
in such an unsuspected shape as the shape of a neon sign. It
flashed green and red letters. Large letters. Letters forming a
nice and warm message that immediately made me think of loud
music, vomit, head ache and...females. This was truly a sign of
dimensions never before thought of.
I stopped just beneath the sign from above, got down on my
knees, folded my hands and praised myself for giving me a sign.
Still on my knees I stretched my arms up into the air to let the
glorious and sacred light of the neon sign fill my body with
happiness as I read the sign from my one and only true master:
"DISCO".
Looking around, I quickly found a house with a door
attached to it. Through one of the windows, I could see a
shining bright light filling the souls of the people that were
hopping around in extacy with a divine spirit much more divine
than Plantiac.
And I felt the divinity shine through me even though I was
standing on the outside. And the divinity filled my heart,
making me wish for more. I slowly entered the house, let the
banging rhythms smash my head and thrash my body as my eyes
started their search for the Divine Reason I was here.
Ecstasy caught me. I started thrashing around with the
rhythm, shaking, rattling and rolling, until suddenly, the
rhythm stopped for a moment. Trying to catch my breath, I
moved away from the source of the uncontrollable feeling. As I
did this a most minute but evenso cuddly creature almost threw
itself at me, screaming a spell at the same time.
I could not possibly reproduce the spell here. With all its
complexity of its pronounciation, a complete reproduction
through writing can never be done, but its sound would very
much be described as a "Haaa!"
My feet started trembling. My head turned around. My heart
stopped for a second or two. There was no doubt about it. The
spell had taken effect. As soon as my lungs were finished
breathing, I was drawn back to the area of the house where
the rhythms took control.
Once again, my body was shaking, rattling and rolling. I
thrashed my head to and fro. I lost control - until
suddenly, the female that had cast the spell had started her
magical dance around her victim. And the victim was me. I
smiled. I loved it. And she smiled back. Yes. This had to be the
Divine Reason.
The words "Julie" and "Gukkulukk" went through my head. I did
not know what these words meant. A magical walkman swept in from
nowhere and told me that "Julie" was the name of the female. The
other word - "Gukkulukk" - was still left unexplained to me.
I can't quite remember what happened after this. It seems as if
it has been erased from my mind, or as if it was completely
unimportant. Every movement after this magical dance has been
removed from my memory, and the next thing I can recall is me
being shoved out of the house of divinity by a cold soul that
wanted the divine radiation for itself.
My tired eyes looked with mixed emotions at the flashing neon
sign, and my lungs were once again filled with fresh air.
Somehow, its divinity was so much clearer now, but still it
was somewhat weaker than before I had entered the house. Yes,
indeed. Quite a lot of the divinity had magically been
transfered to a cuddly female I could only recall by looks and
the name "Julie".
And I could recall the spell casting and the magical dance.
And I remembered the words that had gone through my head. Julie.
Gukkulukk. Would I ever see her again?
My prayers were, of course, answered immediately, as Julie
popped up together with two other females. She once again did
another approach on my loaded brain, asking if I knew someone
I knew. I did. And once again, I felt the feeling of divine
powers glowing from her.
The following days went smoothly, getting information from
different sources about the minute female that had filled my
heart with emotions I had never felt before. She was
definitely my only Reason. I was smiling, hoping and wishing.
It was finally my turn to know the Divine Reason. And for the
first time, I could sense love nearby.
"Gard," a nearby voice said, waking me up from my daily
dreams. I turned and stared into the eyes of a female that was
sitting a few feet from me. "Catch," she continued, as she
threw a small piece of paper over to me.
It was important to me. The final piece of information I needed
to make me happy. Slowly, I opened the small note and read the
tiny letters, postponing my reaction till later. And later was
approximately after 10 minutes.
I folded the piece of paper, tore it apart. For a moment, I
wanted to eat it and get drunk, but the little sense I had left
stopped me and made me tear the note a bit more apart before I
threw it into the nearest trash can. "NO!" I yelled inside my
head, banging my brain to the inside of my skull. "NO!" I heard
the echo repeat.
Caught in a vertigo
Things are running round my head
Circles penetrate my brain
No wonder I'm getting confused!
The circles running round my head
The circles running round in my head
I'm falling in a vortex
Of confusion
Little can I do
To get away from this death trap
I can't take no more
I've got to find my way out
The circles running round my head
The circles running round in my head
I'm falling in a vortex
Of confusion
My brain is cooking
My body is shaking
My eyes are popping out of my head
And...
The circles running round my head
The circles running round in my head
I'm falling in a vortex
Of confusion
How could she? Schwarzenegger! Here I come! Give me blood,
give me torture. Let the incredible sounds of Death Angels, Dark
Angel, Slayer, Megadeth, Vendetta and Sepultura fill my soul.
Show no mercy for the good feelings that would remain in my body.
Get rid of that spell! I don't want it any more!
Blipp Blopp
My heart says stop
Blipp Blopp
Your throat goes chop
Edgar Alan Poe, show me how to kill. Arnold, show me lots of
blood. Let me see those people suffer, let me see those people
die. There is nothing for me on this earth, so why should
there be anything for them? Thrash the world, slaughter
the people. I'll release my aggresion anywhere I go.
There's nothing for me
In this fuckin' world
So I think I'll nuke it.
Shit, am I depressed?
But a minute voice in the back of my head whispered that I had
to go on with my life. 18 years after my birth was too early to
die. I might not ever have a female in my arms, but it is still
too early to tell. And even if I should ever experience to
have a female in my arms, I might not ever feel the same
emotions again. And my life might be too short for me to know.
As a lonely male I got into this world, and as a lonely,
untouched and innocent male, I will probably also leave it.
Innocence, don't stay with me
Innocence, drop dead
Innocence, fuck off...
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