A Slow Descent into Madness
Jun 24, 2019
TRIGGER
Picture yourself by yourself
No tomorrow or yesterday
Drowning in your own decay
You’ll never be alone this time
So follow the trend break or bend
It’s your funeral-long goodbye
Shut tight an open eye
You’ll never be alone
— from The Butterfly Effect - “A Slow Descent”
RESOURCES
ECO
Today was Fodder’s first day with The Corporation. He had been hired as a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead a small, focused task-force of developers in the adoption of automation within the prison system. He couldn’t wait to get started!
Though, he was wary. He knew within the first 5 minutes of interviewing that his boss, $REDACTED, was a narcissist.
It would be interesting to see how this plays-out.
A narc reporting to a narc. Poetic.
CAT
data.stats.symptoms = [
- wariness
]
ECHO
Last night I dreamt I held you with me
Close enough to feel you breathe
When I awoke I lay here empty
Caught between the want and need
Now in the darkness I am only
Thoughtful hopes and pieces mind
These dreams are all I’ve ever wanted
Found behind the closing eyes
How long we’ve been trying to reach you
We all fall down like this sometimes
Trying to reach you
I’m trying