and it was what it is. and it's done with what the word was.
but mud was evil. markus' mud was mud was evil. markus' mud were words some read and laughed at. markus' mud were words some read and feared and mud was put down and mud was thrown into the mud. and another was mixed in and a picture was shown....
one that didn't quite make sense.
but nothing really makes too much sense unless it's looked at without really looking at it. and us, we read without really reading because really reading would cause us to look more closely. then we'd notice that in 'mud' there are three letters and within those three letters there is one vowel. and that's too much.
so we just read mud.
good, brother. good for you you told us you showed us you and us we readers are stumped. touché good, brother you thought us strong willed and unable to let it get to us and it did and we discuss.
and we write.
and there are words.
and the first word was
I was reading this aloud, as I noticed that it would probably be in a style resembling Markus (and I loved reading his book aloud), and the ending was particularly effective. I liked how the blank space made me pause, not knowing if it had ended or not, until the moment when the last image was shown.
ReplyDeleteI feel like you were inspired by Markus when writing this post. I like it a lot; the language is lilting. It's good to explore the words that Markus chooses to repeat and not necessarily their meaning because it seems that he finds words that are pleasing to him, and then he works out their meaning in the stories later.
ReplyDeleteI love the images, especially of the water buffalo, because he makes it funny and normal and less strange.
ReplyDeleteI also loved the use of images in your piece. The buffalo covered in mud was a nice image. My favorite is the first image, who doesn't love naked people holding cats.
ReplyDeleteI like the style of this and how it resembles the style of the book. I like the image of the man in the mud. The child-like glee on his face resembles that of the brothers love for mud.
ReplyDeleteyou truly adopted Markus' writing style and I love that!!
ReplyDeleteI love the first image a lot!! I was not expecting two naked adults holding cats