Museum of A Former Life Opens in Local Girl's Bedroom
Falling into the house on the Tuesday,
Outside crumbling, an iceberg of Looking-Forward-Tos melting in the Winter sun,
Holding my back to the door to steady myself against the dawn of collapse, inexistence seeming rife on the horizon.
This room has become a museum of a time Before.
Valentine's card
Ticket stumps
Souvenirs
Textbooks
Hair grips in a tin
Perfume-
All redolent of Normalcy, horrifically mundane, innocently dull.
Guest linen
Breath mints
Nice dress
Tennis hat
Bus pass-
I carve a circle into the layer of dust atop my alarm clock. Never to be hit again.
Student ID
Water bottle
Bits of thread torn off a suit jacket
Cotton pads
Bee-sting cream-
Missing the splitting antecedence of early mornings, muddy ankles on the way to school, tachycardia on the train platform.
Each time I enter, I am hit with the taste of a Next Week that never quite happened.
Everything lain, performatively formulated, to be thrown into a strange, foreign Tomorrow-
but these never arrived and I'm left
with a gallery
memorial
archive
treasury
of Real Life.
Footnotes
Right now everything I own feels abstract and strange, like an artefact left over from a war or buried in ruins. Perhaps historians will use my bedroom in the future, to ascertain what happened here.
Amazing piece, and really unique idea! I've actually wondered a bunch about how bored history class students may one day have to analyze the lifestyle of people in 2020 haha
Honestly this is a beautiful piece describing the struggles of coping with what will become a major part of history in the future ... that people after us will have to study about!
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Anha
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sherry171
Amazing piece, and really unique idea! I've actually wondered a bunch about how bored history class students may one day have to analyze the lifestyle of people in 2020 haha
Eleutheromaniac
Great piece!!! Exactly how I feel here, it's strange to think how the future will see us
Chloe :) <3
Honestly this is a beautiful piece describing the struggles of coping with what will become a major part of history in the future ... that people after us will have to study about!
mia_:)
I totally agree with your footnotes! We're history in the making, which sounds fun, but really it just massively sucks!