Hello Diary.
Fuck you six ways from Sunday.
My one last link to my old life and all I can think about is how much I want to burn you. Burn you in the six pits of hell might be appropriate. How do you like the sound of that, ole diary? Wanna meet a fiery end? I could roast a crab over your pages and then piss on the ashes. Then I could ground them into the sand like a
But I can’t do such a thing. You are worth so much more to me. So much in fact that I am going to keep writing in you. But I’m going to write in you upside down, the ultimate play in words. It sort of gives Read Between the Lines a new meaning.
Now that I have told you off I would like to offer a special letter to my dearly dead companion.
Dear whatever the hell your name is,
Sometimes I hate you. Sometimes I want to pick up a rock and bash in your head. Back when we first started this mad adventure together you were young and hot. You were spry and nubile. You could rock a coconut bra like no one else’s business.
Now you are dead and rotting. You smell, baby, there is no other way to put it.
Back on our first island, our lovers paradise, where I took care of you, let you eat part of your dead husband, let you run around without a care in the world, we had something special. Now don’t get me wrong. I know nothing could ever happen between us. Lets be honest here, baby, you’re about as lively as a rock. I have seen stuffed animals with more life than you.
But sometimes I do care about you. That should be clear by now. I saved you from that stupid zombie shark after it ate your foot. Do you remember that? I saved you from drowning a few times. Like that third or forth day we were on the island. I was trying to fish and you were trying to mermaid your self over to me like I was a fresh can of spam. I had to pull you out of the water. Now the jury is still out on whether or not you can even drown to death, er, undeath, I mean double death, or whatever form of
Remember how I figured out how to clean out your disgusting rotted meat stomach with seawater and a little leverage? Those were the days. You were still sort of fresh and looked pretty good in the coconut bra and grass skirt. Now your clothing is hanging in strips. You look like hell, baby, I wish you would take better care of yourself.
Remember when I was going to leave you on the island and sail off? I changed my mind and brought you along. I let you bob along like a little top. And when we got to our new island paradise I had to beat yet another guy to death to protect you. Why if someone ever gets the real story here, they may just start asking questions like why do I always kill the men around here. But it’s not like that, baby. It’s not like that at all.
And now our happy family includes Eileen. She isn’t too happy about being a zombie. I can see that in her eyes. I would hazard a guess that she hates it. She is always staring at me with that same, “Hey, look at the walking happy meal,” look.
So here we are, the three of us on our happy island paradise. Our lovely home in the sun. Just you, me, another dead chick, and the ocean.
After I burn the diary I think I should burn you. But that would look bad, eh my lovely lady? Burning you and scattering the ashes. What will I tell the nice men in white coats that want to talk to me about my feelings when I am at the mental institution, as surely I must end up. Will I tell them I kept a dead girl as a zombie companion? They will ask questions and they will wonder just how lonely I got.
Not THAT lonely.
So someday, long from now when we are back in civilization and you are restored to life, I hope you read this letter and understand that I did my best to take care of you. Really.
Sorry about the enema tube down your gut.
With love and desperation.
Me.
I’m glad I got that out of my system. I may be on a new island with a new zombie girl but something about all this is familiar. Maybe because I just spent a month in the same situation? At any rate, it is really good to be back on dry land after spending days and days on the water with my zombie-top floating along behind me.
She didn’t even get prune skin. Some little critters did pick at her leg, though, the one missing the foot. I had to bandage it up with some cloth and then jam it back into the metal strut. There is also something reassuring about her pad and clomp zombie walk.
It’s late and I found some coconuts. Wow, shocker. Fucking coconuts. I thought about tossing them in the ocean but in the end I cracked one open and ate my fill. I can’t wait to get up in the middle of the night with the runs – again.
God I hate coconuts.


