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Shut UP!

  • Writer: That Other Guy
    That Other Guy
  • Jul 22, 2021
  • 3 min read

I swipe up and look at the screen


All 10.1 inches of it


The dark wallpaper of a destroyed planet


And an astronaut, lying on another


Relaxed, in his spacesuit


Sometimes I wonder what she would be thinking


Would she be relieved?


Why is she relaxing?


Is she thinking of a solution?


Is she just accepting death and enjoying the moments she has


Remembering her family or friends or someone


I don't know, maybe she's just not thinking at all


She's happy, statistically, she's the hottest and the smartest person alive


I would be happy too


Or that crime has now seized to exist in the world


Everyone gets either hell or heaven


If the afterlife is true where would souls find the bodies now?


Is there more life?


Am I god?


I can't seem to get over this thought, I get distracted quickly


I swipe my finger again and after a few taps


I'm scrolling through my feed


Liking photos, feeling the FOMO, contemplating life decisions


With music through Spotify banging through my earphones


Green Day, again,


I guess Spotify should start playing Green Day as soon as I unlock the device


I can't seem to get over Billy Joe Armstrong


Oh how much I'd love to kiss him


Only if that's not counted as pedophilia for him


The guy seems to age backward though really


And the beautifully penned lyrics of the song


"Here comes the rain again


Falling from the stars


Drenched in my pain again


Becoming who we are"


I can't seem to get over it


Even though it has been more than 10 years


Oh I got diverted again


I was scrolling, infinite feed


I like the algorithm of infinite feed


Keeps you busy, wastes your time, while at the same time


Makes you feel unworthy and useless post by post slowly


It's killing but much slower, like oxygen


And you're addicted to it, like oxygen


Scrolling through the infinite posts I landed on her


And I being a pro stalker took less than 5 minutes


Stalking her profile, trying to match interests


I saw drums and a Green Day poster


I got an incentive to text now


The only problem is I can't initiate or hold conversations


I can talk indefinitely but conversing is a bit difficult


Both are different you see


So I do what any other person with sense would do


I google ice-breakers (duh)


And did I find the best line in the world!


It said "Headphones in your wish list 50% off"


I had to buy them


Can you imagine Studio quality 50mm drivers at just 1.8K


I certainly can't


If this isn't my luckiest day I don't know which is


Oh the ice breaker yes, no success


But while I was begging mom to get me the new headphones


and explaining why I need new ones because the old ones are 'Not Green Enough'


(It's a valid reason okay) (She Agreed BTW)


I got a notification, her username flashing at the top


Apparently not as pro of a stalker as I thought I was


I liked a photo. 5 years old.


If there is an instant kill self button I wanted to use it then


I still want to but that was like the peak


But apparently, she was the pro stalker because the message read


"I see you're a Fellow Armstrong fan as well. Let me guess, kissing him fantasy?"


I was half surprised by this. Other half still wanting to kill me


And I did what one does in this situations,


Texted my best friend (duh)


He's this weird 5' 11" guy who would give you advice on anything


Or not you, he's reserved for me


Find yourself another


But all my problems are his input statements


And out, comes the solution


He's the algorithm for everything


The Unified Field Theory yes.


Not quite mathematical but he does all right


Actually no he doesn't he's an ass to most people


But he did cry in front of me so


I guess I have a one-up on him


Oh and...


Woah I got diverted again


She says she likes this little quirk though


Especially when we're talking and I get lost


Analyzing a movie or talking about the depth of a song


Listening to green day together


I think she likes me


And the feelings might be mutual


Don't get me wrong I'd still kiss Armstrong any day


I would just give up 100 Armstrong kisses


Just for a conversation with her


After all, I think she's me personified

 
 
 

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