BRETT WILSON OIKUS
Paper Hearts
The Field Where I Died.
Final Repose
Visual Basic for Women.
lEe7
Translation from LEET to English
Seed.
Translation from 'OSV' to SVO
Pig
Translation from Pig Latin to
English
Tyrant.
Cleric.
Paper Hearts
He collected the hearts of young girls. But not in
the way you think. When he buried them he cut a heart from the dress in the
vicinity of a newly pinked nipple and blushed breast. Kissed their dead lips.
Shovelled soil on angel cheeks and shining ringlets. Kept his souvenirs in
glassine bags with other trinkets. When we caught him he grinned. Smile like
treacle. Sixteen hearts in a box. Fourteen we knew about.
The Field Where I Died
I lived before. She told me so. The field where I fell in a rain of shot, by the trickling brook. My life trickling away. Feet trudge past as I fade out. I go to her. This woman who has many voices, lived before. Once with me. Her husband so long ago she said as I held her hand in the same field. We sat by the brook and kissed.
Final
Repose
Brockman could see the near future. His own death when he saw it, he took with
grace and good humour, like much else. Seeing his own tears on his dead face.
Like an angel in peace. Stoic too, since the police had enlisted his help to
find a killer, and made him a target. Death was prolonged, not quick. As his
murderer arched, he waited in resignation. Watched his cocoa milk come to boil.
His body wrapped in a plastic bag for disposal, the moisture in the bag
collecting in the well of his eyes and running down his
face.
Visual Basic for Women.
In desperation RUN. In the future all men are blind. DIM four billion men (had
the lights turned out). IF they can see, drive spikes into their eyes AND
harness to the yoke OR find piano (Stevie Wonder was blind you know?) Ahimsa. DO
WHILE world in idyll ELSE END SUB. NEXT look to women. Find some other program.
New syntax perhaps? Subtle variation of A,G,C and T. Pattern of living without
violence. END.
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Translation from LEET to English
Leet.
A virus from the future changed all the words to Leet. A quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy dog. Years later the same worm found a hole and infected the past.
Now the world reads like: A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. And we
don't understand.
Seed.
In a book wrote they everything down. Incorruptible as the leaves, made of
metal. To flame, impervious. To water, light enough to float upon. Called it
holy in the hearts of men and cursed be to they who would destroy it. How and
why it told. How to make paper. Print. Spread the knowledge. Maths,
physics, biology, society and economics. Literature, art and music. And from a
seed how to grow things. Just in case.
Translation from 'OSV' to SVO
Seed.
They wrote everything down in a book. Incorruptible as the leaves, made of
metal. Impervious to flame. Light enough to float upon the water. Called it holy
in the hearts of men and cursed be to they who would destroy it. It told how and
why. How to make paper. Print. Spread the knowledge. Maths, physics, biology,
society and economics. Literature, art and music. And how
to grow things from a seed. Just in case.
Pig.
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especiallyway enwhay ethay edgesway ideray upway ishay airyhay uttocksbay.
Alkingtay ofway airhay, Iway iftedgay imhay away itkay otay imtray allway atthay
excessway egetationvay owinggray outway ofway ishay orificesway,
utbay ehay ustjay eferspray otay ibblenay onway ishay earway axway enwhay ehay
inksthay Iway'may otnay ookinglay. Erethay'say otnay uchmay useway inway
akingmay anway issueway outway ofway itway. Eythay aysay atthay ifway
ouyay ashsquay away oalcay eetlebay ouyay etgay 30% anthraciteway. Ifway ehay
otgay ithay ybay away ucktray eythay ouldcay eltmay ethay oadray illkay ownday
orfay estaurantray utterbay. Ethay eftoverslay ouldway ebay aconbay
indray.
Translation from Pig Latin to
English
Pig
He doesn't look good in his trolleys any more, especially when the edges ride up
his hairy buttocks. Talking of hair, I gifted him a kit to trim all that excess
vegetation growing out of his orifices, but he just prefers to nibble on his ear
wax when he thinks I'm not looking. There's not much use in making an issue out
of it. They say that if you squash a coal beetle you get 30% anthracite. If he
got hit by a truck they could melt the road kill down for restaurant butter. The
leftovers would be bacon rind.
Tyrant.
Brother you are smiling today he says. One slip is all it takes and his paranoia
shall end my life. He is a big spider at the centre of a web. How did we let
this happen? All it takes is for men of good conscience to do nothing. First
they took the mentally defectives and we did nothing. Then they took the
physically retarded and we did nothing. Then they took the homosexuals and the
gender reassigned and we did nothing. Then they took the intellectuals and we
did nothing. Then they came for us, and there was no
one left to help us.
Cleric.
My father said he loved me. Forced me to marry against my will. Threatened my
life if I didn't comply. It's written in the book so it's OK. My husband raped
me. Forced me into degrading acts. Sodomy. Beatings. They told me we could work
it out. He beat me again. It's written in the book so it's OK. I found comfort
with another. Had to flee. Hide. When they find me they will bind me, and in
some palace of men's desire, read from the book. Stone me until I am dead. That
is how it is written.