{"id":7525,"date":"2020-04-14T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2024-01-15T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:00:55","slug":"hell-an-exhibit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2020\/04\/14\/hell-an-exhibit-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell: An Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was excited to get to go see The Exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I already knew the punch line: We\u2019d realize we were already dead and in Hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no pants on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept getting kicked to the back of the line, only to be met with escalating and conflicting demands for methods of proving that I\u2019d paid my admission price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first exhibit was the kitchen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dazed and distressed young woman who looked like a startled zombie paced back and forth mindlessly from the coffee maker to the fridge to rummage for something to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the coffee maker: Have to go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the fridge: Rummage, rummage, rummage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the coffee maker: Have to go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the fridge: Rummage, rummage, rummage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the coffee maker: Have to go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the fridge: Rummage, rummage, rummage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the coffee maker: Have to go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the fridge: Rummage, rummage, rummage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pile of chocolate chip cookies, soft batch, sweet and rotten, stacked high to the ceiling on the counter with flies buzzing everywhere around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feed your addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eat the sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make that coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punch that clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring your ass back to the refrigerator and rummage and rummage and rummage all you want, you will never find anything in there that feeds the hunger inside of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the audience giggles and claps her hands, bravo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says, \u201cThey might be in hell, but they\u2019ve made it beautiful if they are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mimicked the zombie faces of the woman trapped in the kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caffienate up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feed my addictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This pissed of one of the people running the exhibit and they came to bounce me out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said \u201coh please! I\u2019m fascinated and I haven\u2019t even seen half of it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They grinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked \u201cwhere\u2019s my backpack?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was no longer carrying my load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allelula. Allelula. Allelula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of it mattered now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/696CA0EA-245B-4B99-B1B0-D0447643FFD9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/696CA0EA-245B-4B99-B1B0-D0447643FFD9.png 480w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/696CA0EA-245B-4B99-B1B0-D0447643FFD9-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/696CA0EA-245B-4B99-B1B0-D0447643FFD9-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to get to go see The Exhibit. I already knew the punch line: We\u2019d realize we were already dead and in Hell. I have no pants on. 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