Monday, July 03, 2006

2600 Nautical Miles


Let’s say you’re in a lifeboat with someone. Twenty-six hundred nautical miles west of Chile, that’s a lonely sea. You’ve been tossed around for thirty-eight days, you’re sunburned and salt encrusted. You’ve gotten over the whole drinking-your-own-urine-is-yucky thing and now look forward to the next recycle, as you’ve come to call it. One time you traded, and now you are obsessed with speculating on the implications both medical and moral.

At first you joked around the other subject, gauging each other’s potential reaction like teenagers at the mall, but eventually that wore thin and you simply agreed the first to die would be eaten by the other. With this you suddenly both found peace, bobbing without hope or fear on a calm star-lit sea twenty-six hundred nautical miles west of Chile.

Imagine this is you. What I want to know is: Is it ok now, at this point in one’s existence, after sharing this hell together for thirty-eight days to emerge together into this moment of clarity and quiet light…Is it ok now to finally tell that fat fucker to pop that pimple he’s been cultivating on his forehead since 1987. I mean, Christ, look at that thing! I ain’t eating that shit.

7 comments:

Sweary said...

What are you on about? There's no meat on anyone's forehead!

SkookumJoe said...

aye, but you'll want to boil the head for soup. You'd throw it out, I suppose.

Unknown said...

Does sun-dried, sauteed in urine, salted human taste like chicken?

Amanda said...

urine recycling and cannablism and it only gets icky with the pimple, genius

Ghetto Photo Girl said...

You can only recycle your urine 5 times before it becomes too toxic.

I know that because I was once stuck out at sea, but only drifted 87 inches from shore before they found me.

SkookumJoe said...

i was just thinking there are people with angry, shiny, taut fair-to-bursting puss factories growing on them and they walk around with it for weeks and nobody mentions it.

exile said...

fuck it i tell them, and if they get all offened i just say that it was look'n at me funny

i mean, as a courtesy, if someone is going to eat you for survival and they're willing to wait until you die, you sould atleast make your self presentable. crawl into the pot for them, wash your ass...