100 Days of Vibes: Day 3


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I drove every day to the tallest building in the center of town. Every day, I’d go up the elevator to my floor with my coworkers. We’d feel pride as we shuffled into the elevator together. It was a club of insiders. We were high end laborers.

It felt like my life was centered around that building. When I’d go out at night, I’d see the tall building in the distance, hovering over the city. It was always watching me. It felt safe knowing that I could always find myself in relation to the building.

Sometimes people would ask what I did. I would point in the general direction of the tall building.

“I work there.”

“Up there in that building.”

Almost every one had a tale about the building. They knew some one who worked there. They once had to go to the building to deal with a matter that was important. They heard that the building was very nice.

“Yeah. That’s where I work. Pretty good view. Haha.”

They didn’t know what I did. They just knew that I was in the building.

One day, I told a man that I worked in the Building Centre in Center City Downtown, right in the heart of our city.

He was not from the city. He did not know the popular industries of our region. It was as if he wasn’t from this planet. Instead he asked me about my passions, my worldviews, my upbringing, and the influence of my parents/cultural relativity on my perception of the world.

“I work in the building,” I replied.

He looked as if he could see deep into my heart. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, “The building will fall. The man will fall.”

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  • JacquiChan

    Carles, this hits a little too close to home. Not sure how I feel about these vibes bb

    • Bronello_Cucinelli

      no one said the 100 days of vibes were all going to be good vibes

  • the laugh and the cry dao

    thats a vibe i were calm and sad lying in bed in the age of seven teen.

    i love the sound of the efflux much at the end.

    charles the dog of death seems to found his end. i can now stop to call all the death. (the friends of mine have some jaw/teeth problems at the moment the lemons the powers put inside my mouth so i have barely learned to talk.)

    he were the lions dentist. would you kill a spirit animal?

    is this now my end and the beginning of an sickness. science will pass over with. and the cycle will be reborn again.

    he has not forgotten about me, his powers are hunting me as a remember of my own thought as a mystic creation of a fang shih.

    deaf pigeon is half half – bacteria and innocence. i saw him once. waiting searching for me. i did run away. you will not catch me you death dog. not me….

    he wanted at several places for me and they just once guided me directly to him.

    there are things i dont want to talk about which are cultural difficulties about definitions of existing as a real dog boy. but all i can say. lazzzor unicorns are howling with me.

    seem all strange like the wrong ‘definition’. to much dizziness and distraction.

  • Bronello_Cucinelli

    this has a real thomas ligotti vibe to it

  • Me

    It’s so breezy by the airport
    Weather center waves
    Wide open space
    Desert rains and such
    Fumes
    Fast drivers that
    Almost run me over
    Each and everyday
    As I
    Bank away
    The daylight hours
    On my headset
    Broadcasting school really paid off tho
    Via bonus checks yall

    All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
    And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
    And take your money

    Sweet Jesus
    Waves

  • etokle

    fucking genius. so economical; so clean.

  • dat_bro06

    do yourself a favor and read the wiki-history of this bldg IRL (CityPlex Towers)…ps: what would it be like to be a Big Fish.. in Tulsa, Oklahoma?

  • nixieknoxx

    i had everything that i thought was real
    neatly organized in a drawer
    which you promptly pulled out and upended

    reality is now scattered all over the place

    thanks for that xxx

  • David Lee Auth

    At sunrise, she inhaled. The people were drawn in, her lights came on, and she was alive. She could feel them moving about, hear their murmuring as they nestled in her cubefarms and conference rooms and lavatories, and she sensed their souls as they performed their strange labors within her. Shortly before sunrise, she began to exhale, and the people drifted into the street in a cloud lasting hours, a cloud of cars with headlights shining, a long puff lasting hours that dissipated into the cooling twilight. Then she was quiet, and slept, stirred back to consciousness only by the watchmen and janitorial staff.

    She knew she was not beautiful. She was built in 1964, and she was too regular to be interesting, her windows were too small, her sun-facing panels had begun to fade and peel decades ago. But the people built her that way, and then the people came to her, day after day, year after year. Being built was the purpose, and the coming was the purpose, and that was the mystery and her purpose: she give the purpose back to them.

    One evening, as she breathed into the coolness, a young man leaving murmured to another man, and she could feel his thoughts, and she knew, as her consciousness faded, that he had never known the purpose she was built for, or the meaning of his strange labors at all. And she thought, as she drifted off, that the mystery was everywhere, so beautiful and so sad. And she began to dream as the stars appeared, like the headlights of cars drifting to far off buildings, who could never quite glimpse the light that lit them.

  • i knit things

    wow

  • u

    i cant handle this

  • marrr

    What an allegory of communism..

  • Authopedic

    When I opened my eyes, there He stood… some 900 feet tall, looking at me; His eyes…. Oh! His eyes! He stood a full 300 feet taller than the 600 foot tall City of Faith.

  • carles #1 fan

    jesus

  • ron

    Hey im from tulsa

  • PringerX

    In Korea, everyone wants to work for Samsung. “I work for Samsung.” They work 12 hours a day doing nothing. “I work for Samsung!” They have to show up on vacation days without pay, to work for Samsung. I need out. I work for Samsung

  • xtian o

    need more vibes pls