Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Soundtrack of My Summer

My summer would have to have been the most boring movie in the history of film making. Luckily, it is not viewed by the general public but stayed carefully filed away in my own head.
Despite the movie of my summer being a flop, the soundtrack was amazing. It was full of sounds people didn't even know existed. I heard the deafening moan of a tremendous machine every Monday through Friday, from 7a.m. to 3p.m. working at warp speed for the public to get their daily servings of milk and cheese. I never comprehended the language of Chinese, Japanese, Loa, and Spanish I listened to all in the same hour but I heard them just the same. At dusk I waited until the world moved and then I would hear a million parts of nature singing in their beautiful chorus. The birds chimed in with the crickets and for a fraction of a second the butterflies wings would whisper past my cheek. I heard a baby with blonde hair and blue eyes laugh at my silly face and then burst into tears shaking her whole body. During wild nights I heard the wind try to come into my deserted basement and kill me. Then I listened hard and heard it laugh long and deep. My favorite sound was the thunder rolling over the hills and rocking the prairie. It reverberated over my head and toes and sunk into my skin with such magnitude, I forgot I was alive. Then the lightening would strike and the kids would scream from upstairs. In the evenings my ears tingled every time I made the fire alarms echo throughout the house and then a silence would fall as the fan over the oven shut itself off. Hours of such sounds were unforgettable.

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