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- ...presents... The Coming of Angels
- by Obscure Images
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- >>> a cDc publication.......1990 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
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- It was raining again. It always seemed to be raining those days. The
- stinging of the raindrops on my bare skin had long since become just another
- minor annoyance. My boots were smoking from the acid puddles when I walked
- into the etched grey building.
-
- The door swung open at the touch of my hand. I walked into the dimly
- lit foyer and stopped for a moment while my eyes adjusted to the lack of light.
- There are times that I wished that my eyes would quit adjusting - to quit
- looking. The lobby would have been dressed in a victorian fashion had it not
- been for the passage of time. The carpeting which had been a rich thick red
- had become a matted brown color, much like the color of dried blood.
-
- One glance at the occupants of the lobby was more then I cared for. I
- walked across the floor to the elevators. At least the elevators still worked,
- though nothing else around here seems to. The lights in the elevator were out,
- all except the glowing numbers that illuminated the elevator in a murky
- crimson.
-
- The 23rd floor came up fast. Being the only one on the elevator, I
- felt relieved. Sharing an elevator with someone usually ended in a fatality.
- The doors slid open, revealing the 23rd floor. I walked down the familiar
- hallway, stepping over the body of my junkie neighbor, who had apparently shot
- up for the last time. She left her apartment door open, so I casually glanced
- in both directions and snuck inside. I searched the room for something with
- any value at all, but there was nothing. I suppose that I should have known,
- her being a junkie and all, but you never knew anymore. At least I got the new
- TV Guide.
-
- I walked into my apartment after having unsealed the lock and turned
- off the security systems. The climate control kept the small apartment warm
- and dry, the way I like it. I carefully removed my outdoor clothing and put
- them in the cleaning closet, can't take too many chances with the acid. The
- television clicked on as I sat down in the old easy chair I found in an antique
- shop several years ago. There was nothing of interest on the tv, so I told it
- to turn off- it refused. Having been completely pissed off by the latest in
- consumer electronics, I stood up, ran across the room, and kicked a hole in the
- screen. That took care of the video, but for some reason the audio kept
- playing so I kicked it again, finally destroying it.
-
- The smoke dissipated as time lurched forward, silence had been achieved
- for the first time in the day. It was a strange feeling, the feeling of
- nothingness. The feeling always passes, however as the ears adjust to the
- myriad sounds of silence. The floor was as good of a resting place as anywhere
- in this place. The thud as my body hit the floor was heard by no one, the
- decay had begun.
-
- ---
-
- The world is swarming with inventions of every kind. The rate of
- technological improvement is beginning to slow down. The innovations of the
- past are not all that easy to come by anymore. The universe regulates the flow
- of information, too much information and the universe hides her secrets from
- you. It has been argued that the slow down in the acquisition of new data is
- good, gives us time to think about what we already know. I don't think so. I
- think that something should be learned from everything. The world is gone.
- All that is left is us. We are dying everyday. We can't seduce anymore tricks
- from Mother Nature, we've done nothing of lasting value.
-
- When the dancing of angels finally comes to rest, and the divine
- beauties remove their toe-shoes, the blackness returns to fill the room. The
- brightness of the event loses intensity as they return to their gilded towers.
- That is where we are, we are in the aftermath of angels. The stunning
- brightness that was mankind draws to a close. Unlike the angels, however,
- mankind does not gracefully make its exit. The angels knew. The time had come
- for them to leave and they did. We cling like children to the fantasy of
- reality. There is none. What a fucking crude lot we are.
-
- ---
-
- The time for the decay was here. The synapses grew apart, the dna fed
- upon itself. It is the worm that turns, the quiet revolt of the body. It is
- not to be feared, as I was later to find out, but to be embraced.
-
- In pain there is understanding. The spiritual realization can only
- come through intense agony. There is no escaping it. On the day I died I was
- also born. I became what I never thought I could be. There were many others
- with me, a minuscule number compared to the whole of the population. There is
- a natural weeding out in cases like this, I suppose.
-
- We watched from afar the comings and goings of our former race. We
- could see the fleshhooks of chaos dig into the flesh of the people. We could
- taste the pain of loved ones dying. When the time came, not very long after
- the beginning, we stole the dying breath of our people. The others began their
- ascent to the new lands, I could not. The last of my kind exited this
- universe and the gateway was closed.
-
- I was alone. I could feel nothing but the cold emptiness of the vacuum
- embracing me. A tear was dropped from my eye as I wondered why I could not
- leave with my brothers and sisters. The tear floated away, blossoming into the
- seed of a new people, a people unlike the rest. I watched as they crawled from
- their wombs; I nurtured them until they could stand alone. I realized then why
- I was left behind. I am angel... no... I am God.
-
- "And When You Tell Lies An Angel Dies"
- -Severed Heads
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