By definition, the word "catastrophe" means- poss def. 4: (in a drama) the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion.
The drama I will call "Life in 60 Seconds". And the central motive naturally would be yours truly. In this catastrophe, I looked for myself at the whim of my emotions, a place on would think natural for a feminine creature of poise and well breeding. That easily I would succumb to the torrent of my unbridled hysterics in the face of such a rueful happening. Ah, but weep not for me. I have taken this in good stride. Much like a swordsman after suffering nearly-fatal wounds at the hand of whom he has dueled, grinning and shaking the man's hand as he watches his adversary indulge in the secret fleshes of the lover he lost in the fight. There was no blood shed here though; just pumped and rushed all through my system, humming and burning, finding a way to manipulate me into calling it "tears". And that which I called "tears" shed like grand water fountains, the likes one would find in the finest squares of old Europe. And the fountains leaked my body dry, my skin became brittle and began to chip off and fall away like the beige snowflakes, that rain down upon everything after the earth catches fire. I emptied, my mouth tasting like the fires in the sky, could not listen to the blood any longer.
All then became quiet.
For a day and a night and a day, my mind stayed silent on the occurrence. I thought: maybe only the blood knows, and it told the eyes, and the ears, but the mind must have been sleeping. Covered in the velvet cloak of night despite how brightly the sun shone, and how the rays echoed that afternoon like church chimes, but not beautiful church chimes, those that are played over a loudspeaker and are generated by tiny captured pieces of electricity, all trying to escape at once from their polymer prisons.
And then BANG!
All of the thoughts and considerations came back to me in a flood of dismay and disbelief.
And as soon as it came it left.
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