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Monday, August 25, 2003
I continue my last post...
There was something in my hand. It felt..strange.
But I knew what it was right away. And it was like an old friend had given me some memory of him.
It's beautiful how a carrot looks in mellow light. All dim and orange...almost neon, like the construction signs that paint a construction zone.
My first thought was to eat the thing. Just gobble it down and fill my stomach with its flaky crunch. But there was a voice in the back of my head...it sounded so familiar. And then I knew what that was too. Didn't the carrot already tell?
Don't eat the carrot, Chase. Don't eat it. It's not for you.
The voice grew even closer. It felt like it was brushing against the back of my head as if it were breathing. And huffing. And puffing.
It's not for you...
Suddenly there was a twisting in my head..a teetering madness. It flew around me until my vision blurred like the glowing red tail of comet.
Then I was there. And it was him...he was breathing on my neck. Just like I had almost thought he was.
I felt him grab at my hand as I finally took in where I was.
All over me the tender dirt smiled...and it made me smile too. Smile like the fan boy I was. And just knowing he was in back of me made me smile even more...made me smile like a clever devil.
The carrot came out of my hand. I could hear him gnawing it. I could smell its scent slowly hitting my nose.
I tried to turn around. Tried to say if I could have a piece of the carrot. Just wanted to see him finally...
And there he was...but as soon as he was, he was gone.
My eyes opened as he faded...and someone was over me. And it all came back in.
Then out. Then in.
My brain found its man upstairs. He finally got on his little busted knees and it was all there.
I, of all people. Mr. Dwitt. Mr. Chase Dwitt. The one that had said, as quirky as ever, that he was going to be something big. That he had made big plans. I had hit a tree.
It wasn't too big of a deal? No, it wasn't. Or maybe it was?
I would soon find out.
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