Talan Memmott / Fiction
Charm School
Angels are not enough for Charlotte - to Jack they don't mean jack, but he's nameless now anyway.
Charlotte was starved. Jack put her head in a bird cage and started calling her Veronica. Charlotte didn't mind, she didn't mind that it wasn't her will she was trusting. She couldn't tell the difference anyway. She could tell that the suffering was not her own.
Jack broke her down, slowly into Veronica - with serums and incense. He wanted her life spent in captivity. He locked her in her room and she didn't notice. Clarissa, meanwhile is jack-off ecstatic about Jack's namelessness...
Lesson 1
the wallflower is the jackal
"Where is she?"
jacks-jackal
jackals rain Diana - not on C. deMedici...
jack to jackals
and my wish is Caligula's -
that all these millions of (jackals)
had one common body,
so that...the nameless (Jack)
might (have) them all.
familiar jackal
to the jackal
hungry jackal
thirsty jackal lady liberty
the Veronica of Wanda
(AGGRESSOR TORMENTOR)
Pere Fungi's jackal rained Diana,
Jack to jack to jackal to the wallflower,
-- a hand holds a nameless gun
-- unaimed, unarmed
Spill - special delivery.
Never take for granted that angels will be enough - jack gets first pick of the charms. It's Jack's right - more or less. It's Jack's right now.
Lesson 2
daylight
and the jackass is looking up.
jack pushes his hand against her,
to the wallflower, the jackal angel
down to jack-mistake.
Continental- divine to muse, to tolerate this jack-ugliness,
and folly's free.
the facts jack
.torture the witness .to Obvion .to nameless
TERRORIST!
MISOGYNIST!(erogynist)
The dog-faced ape sat undecided
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It should be easy for perfect Charlotte
The dog-faced ape sat undecided
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Abuse it
and Charlotte beat jack-senseless
The dog-faced ape was unconscious
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The nameless told perfect Charlotte little lies about how he wanted her, what he liked. He made her do what bored him most. He laughed about it. Perfect Charlotte told jack-lies as well. She said that she was sent to Jack from outer space, in a UFO from the future. She said she knew what was going to happen and had seen Jack's grave. She danced on his grave and Jack was jackal-in love - jackal-terror.
For Charlotte the nameless were countless, and all disappointing - diffusing attraction through chance. Jack couldn't tell that Charlotte didn't know it wasn't her will she was trusting. She knew every inch of jack -- the poison blood of jack-jackal, Jack picking at the pocks of jac-power.
JACKALS GATHER SHOVING CRUSHING SALIVA-CARRION (TO NARCO-)
to the charm TRUST
I came to her as jack and as a weeping girl -
I needed her.
I came to her as jack and as her murderess -
I needed her.
I came to her as jack
and very young and poor
at her service sovran
to her high-born perfect dog face,
hoping
she'd forget my name
to the charm TRUST
I would commit to Charlotte
if she were not committed to
lark-orgies and divinity --
committed to high (cruel) fashion..
for time
to larks
in fear
the truth
below me
lark gristle
lots of it...
to the charm TRUST
She says there's no love "betwixt" us.
to the charm HOPE
you know the secrets
Technicians, Painters
passing passion
...diving jackal...
...into jackal...
marking every fence post
becomings-jackal death
...into jackal...
JAX : the rivalry -
jack is nameless and, now placeless; so, confused. nameless jack cannot imagine placeless jack - the placeless starves.For Clarrisa and Charlotte the placeless is nameless - an anonymous love-stranger, a fat bird or lark. And, neither jack will do - they want Pere Fungi.
Charlotte focused on this jack or jackal-dog, held him for awhile and then he left with Clarissa - to have his palm read... He thought this out - to have it read face-up by the Wallflower. jack-unfeeling. And, in the morning Clarissa sent jack back to Charlotte, as Pere Fungi.
to the charm HOPE
OBVION to failure
for
humility in jacks-eye
igniting-chaos.
dog or sheep
to
OBVION to pathological tenderness
poverty is patron
cash in hand - cash in hand
dimes for Diotima
lucky charms for Veronica-Charlotte!The truth is jack-zombie - a restless groveling dog between the toes of Veronica. A dog faced ape in service to the Law, with Veronica as the blindfolded queen bee of Justice. Jack's bitten, but Veronica can't look so they turn off the lights. The jack-zombie is scared-straight -- Charlotte's voice, turning jack to jackal.
automatic
to the charm CONCERN
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Lesson 3
the wallflower is the jackal
jack only asks for one night
Clarissa wants it always
her jackal-heart is rabid
jack's dog again, or then -- adoring.
attrition, tribulation - ridiculous jack-attraction
TEDIOUS TEDIOUS AFFAIRS.
Right here is jack the rivalry
one dead one.
CAPITALIST!
the architect is dead, Veronica is silent.
off to Charlotte, jack-jackal.
It is Jack's right to take the charm, to test it first upon himself, and then on Charlotte.
to the charm TRUST
I know the smell,
the breathy traps of Charlotte and Clarissa,
their wet-metal Veronica...
ginseng, oysters, chocolate, artichokes, pinot noir, wheatgrass - proofs of passion.
cash in hand - cash in hand
SELFIST!
(dexterity)dexterity
to the charm CONSENSUS
narco-narco
who's there?
do what you will - it's not my will I'm trusting.
The nameless, on jacks-suggestion, slipped the charm into Veronica's drink. In Jack's box there is a scallop shell, a piece of jade, a rabbit's foot, a rubber heart, a photgraph of Veronica, a lock of her hair, a toe nail -- things Veronica would never miss.
without a question
to the charm IGNORANCE
SOMNAMBULIST!
certain
unconscious
revocation
such folly
babbled more and more
nothing at all
take this -
as jack-tip.
jack
to the charm JACKAL
folly is morbidity
the cow eyes are a fraud -
extravagance.
jack's commands are to the point -- he's egging Charlotte on... She wants to bite him, to eat his heart, she'll have nothing less. Jack was crushing her, with purpose in his grinding teeth.
jack
to the charm JACKAL
free lark buzz
lazy bored -
convenience.
The timer is set and jack wants to, needs to warn Charlotte he's about to explode.
monstrous sacrament
to the charm TRAGIC INSTANCE
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Jack's jack restricts the body, as Pere Fungi - this body's publicity... jack will not scream -- he's putting the words in Charlotte's mouth to match her frivolous cow eyes.
monstrous sacrament
to the charm CANNIBAL AFFECTION
let me un-, no, no...
look at what she's wearing,
I want to lick it off --
HER BEACH WAS STRAWBERRIES.
she asked me to tell her again
I was melting cheese,
she was wearing Wanda's heels.
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©1999 T. Memmott
charm school
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