(Fiction Friday) - Black Thin Flashing Line

This Week’s Theme: Inaminate object


I am not real,
you can’t touch me.
Why do you scrape your fingers
across the dust
coating the window from which
you view me
to get at me in anger?
I am not even an object,
yet you look at me
with disdain
as if I were
but a spoiled brat
taunting you.

Lighten up, woman.
PMS left you years ago.

So, you don’t know my true identity
So, you don’t know why I pulse at you.
So, you know I am not normal
only that I am not supposed to be.

None of that matters to me,
for I am real, I am mocking you,
I am taunting you, because
I KNOW
you have no idea
how to chase me off.

You have no idea
why I just disappeared
from behind the dust on your screen
– for weeks
You have no idea
why I just reappeared
today behind the dust on your screen
– to stay.

You have no idea who to call to remove me
and that brings me great joy for I am evil
and I am back to stay.

I stand tall and rail at you in my thinness.
I pulse like your blood pulses through your arms
to reach this keyboard that helps bring me to life.
I laugh that you know not which technician to call.

I am Black Thin Flashing Line.

No, don’t leave your Google mail!
Stop, that is my favorite place from which to haunt!
Come back…..

MeeAugraphie
09/14/07

This is as true as it can be… and Black Thin Flashing Line is real, although he claims to be fake…

get the Fiction Friday code about Fiction Friday
Technorati tags: ,

get the Fiction Friday code about Fiction Friday Technorati tags: ,

Please, do not copy these words. Thank you.

6 Comments

  1. Posted September 14, 2007 at 11:22 am | Permalink

    It’s so funny what can get under our skin; that one would drive me crazy. Thanks for the read.


    Jo, glad I am not the only one that it would drive crazy. Thanks.

  2. Posted September 14, 2007 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    Have you tried percussive maintenance (i.e. hitting it!)?

    And amazing how frustrating these strange errors can be.


    Can’t chance percussive maintenance, Paul, though I was tempted….I already dropped (not threw) my laptop (OK, it fell out of the van) so hard I broke the steel inner frame and voided my warranty. Although in fairness to Apple, the first times I dropped it a bit less hard, they still fixed the logic board, etc., in spite of obvious lighter damage… At least the line could change colors and make it more interesting.

  3. Posted September 14, 2007 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

    i don’t have and don’t particularly want you either… but this was an excellent idea… you sure had me guessing!!!!!!

    That made my day, that I had you guessing, Paisley, thanks.

  4. Posted September 14, 2007 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

    I hear that devil - pure evil. I love your validation on the real line who claims to be fake. Neat post, neat post! I’m tempted to wipe the dust away from my monitor and see if haunting is taking place there. No. No. I won’t.

    Yeah, Susan, you may not want to wipe that dust away… grin. Thank you.

  5. Posted September 14, 2007 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

    As I read it my thoughts were, our mails haunt us all the time. I think sometimes, why do I bother checking all my mails.

    Black Thin Flashing Line….So very true….

    Gautami, I agree with you. It is like that at times.

  6. Posted September 14, 2007 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    yes. you are evil. this was a good read. =)

    Thank you, Ther. I sure hope y’all are talking about that line and not me when you say, “you are evil,”…

Post a Comment

Your email is never shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*