Appalachian American Ennui

Friday, August 28, 2026

It came out of nowhere and threw me violently within the walls of a Market on Main. After she left, I was dizzy, confused, and emotionally energized like I've only been lucky enough to experience now three times in my life. Its power stripped layers from me, instantaneously. Love at first sight? You god damn right. And when you told me that this probably was not a very good idea, I respected that and vowed to never contact you again. I deleted you from everything, so so I thought. But, I found this imagee today on my text messages, quite by accident. It was strange because I was looking for something else while visiting with a female inmate. When the image appeared I immediately said, "No!"

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Rebecca Sedwick, age 12 -- Bullied to Death

I read accounts of bad news all the time, but I can't seem to shake this one. You'd think that in a planned world children would not be among the most vile, hurtful segment of the population. This beautiful child, Rebecca solved her predicament by jumping to her death. The bullying continued posthumously -- one of the bullies wrote this on her Facebook page: “yes I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself, but I don’t give a fuck.” There's a little secret that enlightened first-grade teachers keep to themselves: some children are just no damned good. I argue that these little monsters are even worse than that. Just ask Becky's family. Existentialism has a pretty face. She wears no makeup. She's confused. She's terrified. All the Gods and Goddesses wouldn't, didn't, couldn't intervene in this, the latest of innumerable human horrors. I think that if someone were to reason that this was "God's will," I'd lose all control. Insanity reigns hallowed within the cells of human ignorance.