A is for Apple, is what I love to eat.
B is for banana, it's what I love more.
C is for cantaloupe, it's for my dog and me.
I can't rhyme.
D is for… Durian? What the hell starts with D? What about a Danish? Nah. A song from elementary just came upon me. Tori used to sing it in the bathtub.
E is for egg, it goes cluck cluck!
F is for French Fry, cousin of the tomato.
G is for Grapes, how are you doing, I'm having a grape day!
I have to constantly remember the alphabet.
H is for Honey, it goes suck, suck.
I is for Ice Cude, I wished I lived there.
J is for Juice, murder them all.
What the fuck was Tori singing all those years ago? Honeysuckles? That girl was so fucking dumb. I ever talk about Tori.
When we were kids, Davea said 'when the cow jumps over the moon' to Tori saying she was gonna a dancer. I was like Tori can dance if she wants to but all my trust in her fat fucking ass went out the car window. 'It'll happen because if a cow was on the moon for real. It would fall and it already happened once.' So I asked her, when did that happen?
Tori said she forgot, but she was damn sure it happened and it explained why we had oceans. The moon came from a meteor and it got bigger. Why? Well Tori said it's because when moon got stuck in earth's gravity because shit like that happens. It absorbed other rocks from space to save it.
I asked Tori, 'What about the dinosaurs?'
'It was they time…'
Now everything in the mind of a kid is a wonder. But Torielle said some shit when we were kids. We had chocolate milk one day and she said chocolate milk that came from the syrup bottle was made of dead chocolate cows. And we were drinking the blood.
Jewelry is actually from baby rocks and the calm is the only alive rock that chose to live in the ocean because if people knew it would be in danger.
'A calm is not a rock…'
'Well it don't move.'
'Tori it literally has a tongue.'
'A foot. They have a foot.'
'what is wrong with you?'
I never talk about how fucked up Tori was when we were kids. She would paint her skin a rainbow of colors because she said her superhero was showing. One day she just started chewing her own arm.
Why am I thinking about her fat ass? Goddamn I hate everything! Tori went to jail! She got arrested!
I was running with Janna and she shot--what…I had sex. I rub my legs together at the memory. She shot Janna. Like I didn't know… I didn't think my first boyfriend would be…
I blink my eyes, I will not cry while being held, hostage.
The door sounds. Aleigha can't wait. He rushes in large steps to stab me in the stomach. He takes the knife out and performs a c-section on. "What the fuck!"
While cutting me open, he laps up the blood. I'm not a fuckin' orange. I feel his hands tickle my guts and he even pulls out an intestine. "Stop!"
"You can't feel it. HEAVY!" my body is so heavy I'm paralyzed. I can't feel it but my body's reaction overtakes me. If my stomach is being pulled out. I don't have to worry about vomit. What is he doing?
"Your perfect." he stares at me. "Because you have immortality. I can empty you out… just like y'all did to me."
I still don't remember. "Does being related to the Antichrist mean you can revive?" He digs deep in my body from my stomach up. He touches my heart and I can't take much more.
.
.
.
"AHH!" I got two chains and one is slipping away from me. I want my goddamn body back. "Daddy you got it!" I hear Shikki's voice. "Don't worry about me!" I tug on my soul.
I could, I should be helping put my daughter back together. The Bridge and Locucts is separate. It's actually above it. It's covered by fog under my feet.
I'm in the tunnel connected to passing and the living.
A spark runs up my arm. I wrap the chain around my arm and pull. I can hear my own voice.
My eyes are a frightening pink. "CUT HER!" I see myself, Coochie wrapped me up. But I'm not there. My fangs dig into my lip. I yank the chain to the side.
"Daddy your droppin!" Shikki yells at me. "No I ain't!"
"Aleigha Bible, I demand you get back up here!" My mother is a pain in the ass. The second link is towards my last life. I have to connect it.
It feel like I'm pulling a fucking building. "Daddy the chain is cracking, you have to let go!" I will not. I jerk it forward and pull the other down. "Aleigha!"
"Shut up!"
Close, just a bit more…
The winds are harsh, I can see lightening. He better not try and take this from me. "Daddy! Sidaza is coming!"
And I can see is heavy ass starting to appear. Sidaza makes you fight for your life. It's not a God, just a fucking jealous spirit.
He has the head of a crocodile and body built like a Greek knight. He's glowing gold and wields a spear. "YOU!"
Oh fuck me.
He grabs my chain to my body and tries to pull out my grip. I'm about to bust a vein. "BOW!"
"Dismiss…" he waves the word away. "Shatter!"
A crack escalates from my torso to my face. It burns. Don't scream. "Daddy let it go!"
I squeeze the chain. "Collarbone."
"ALEIGHA!" Sidaza yanks the train. I drag my feet and wrench my head back, hauling it to me. "Let it go!" Sidaza commands. "IT'S MY BODY!"
"DADDY!"
"ALEIGHA LET IT GO!"
My fingers can't hold it much longer. I don't have a choice, the chain leaves my grip and I'm suck back on the bridge.
Skipping across the dirt. My family surrounds me. "FUCK!" I roar. "Daddy it's ok--"
"No the fuck it's not! Where is your body!"
"I'm still tied up in the banquet." Shikki's voice is sickeningly soft. "SPEAK UP!" her soul quivers. "I'm still in chains!"
"I need to get the fuck back…"
"Aleigha you cannot fight that thing!" my mother rebukes me. "You lose your very self."
"And? I eat niggas mama…"
"Boy you ain't got sense. You don't see me fighting an evil ghost of a gator."
"No disrespect but ain't like a hundred now?"
"All the disrespect. Didn't yo mysterious stupid ass use my fucking body and get fucked up!"
"Daddy leave me alone…"
"stupid ass nigga. Got nerve to whine about shit but here you are. Probably cause you gay as hell."
"What the fuck that got to do with it!" my soul bolt at my father. "It's a matter of hate." my mother says. "Aleigha niggas hate you."
"I hate myself!"
"Learn to love…" Shikki floats by. "I'm tired of being dead. I'm tired of this shit. I'm tired!"I turn red and my mother's translucent body dismisses my anger. "You will explode if you don't mind yourself."
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!"
"Now if I could add something, I would like to say. Hatred is everything." says Chere. "Oh fantastic, now tell me bitches wanna fuck me."
"Yes." he says. "To death. Aleigha you raped niggas."
"In prison. You know what my baby girl told me? Repent is in penitentiary as well as the word and object of fucking penis."
"I'm dying twice!" Iarius explodes in laughter. "So people want me dead because I gave them so dick? Wow."
"Daddy that's not all, what else did you do?" my daughter floats to my side. "The sins make us fight to get back. The more you do it, it wears you down."
"Sidaza is the sin of Greed." adds Delagati. "And?"
"I mean, shit, it came with reason."
"So I'm a greedy nigga. Thanks for calling me fat."
"Gluttony is also one," says Shikki. "I eat people, pussy, and money?"
"Granddad you and grandpa are kinda assholes." says July. "And how the fuck did you get up here?"
"That's besides the point. You took on multiple bodies and you ended up here!"
"Lord have mercy, we finna have another argument." Shikki shouts. "Y'all is wearing me out!"
"I'm happy." says Olisha. "At least my shit is till."
"Maybe I can take your body, Ollie."
"No, the fuck you may not."
"Woman!"
"Yes. It came with big pussy energy. Aleigha you don't need my body to get back, we can't get back period!"
"Goddam, Goddamn! I can't take this no more!"
"Daddy just listen!" Shikki begs. "I know there is a way out."
"If Shikki can still think, we might get down." says Seign. "How…" I face my daughter. "Stake knife."
"No." I say.
"And great great granddad!" she cheers. "MY DADDY!" my father exclaims. "You shitting me!"
"Grandpa, we need his chain…"
"Fuck him!"
"Daddy for the love of God--"
"I hope he gives you all the love in world. I don't even know where the nigga is!"
"I don't think he's dead…" mt mother says.
"Granddaddy ain't dead?"
"Not me my knowledge. Changany you hate that man."
"How long has it been?"
"one hundred years."
"New record." my father pats himself on the back. "I will continue the tradition."
"DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!" I yell.
"Exactly, Damn him. But honestly I can't remember shit."
"Well…" Shikki thinks. "I know granddaddy has a chain."
"Baby that chain is bootleg. It ain't vampiric. My daddy ain't got shit to do with what is happening to this family."
"Grandpa… we have to take a chance…"
"I think I'm missing a son…" Chere floats by.