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An edition of The Napalmed Soul (1999)

The Napalmed Soul

1 edition
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 1 Have read

Brutal, bloody, gruesome. Witnessing the rapid breakdown of a person going over the edge, who's lost control and we don't know if or what kind of danger they may pose to themselves or others. The future? Jail? Lockdown wards? Meds and more meds? Is there redemption at the end? Readers have written that they've gotten physically ill reading this but still couldn't put it down. It was written to be a huge challenge to any and everyone.

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Language
English
Pages
64

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The Napalmed Soul
November 1, 1999, Chiron Review Press
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1 edition

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First Sentence

"at 26/ the top graduate student/ at the largest university/ in california/ 4.0/ beautiful/ cv/ at 30/ pronounced/ bipolar/ otherwise known as/ manic depressive/ which explains/ why he tried to/ commit suicide/ at 12/ and all the/ other shit/ to boot."

Edition Notes

Published in
St. John, Kansas, USA
Copyright Date
1999

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
64

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8446059M
ISBN 10
0943795389
ISBN 13
9780943795386
OCLC/WorldCat
52003443
Library Thing
2241855
Goodreads
1634501

Excerpts

"i torment my neighbors (may they rot in hell)"

sometime under many
darkened layers of rain,
you will come around
that hidden corner of
your apartment complex
and there i’ll be
shadow in the trees
with bloody eyes
and smile of satan
and i’ll come for you
your hearts pounding
and your last glimpse
of this earth will be
sick as sin

----------------------------------------------------------------------
"sacrifice"

bare feet on the bathroom
floor
slips in pool of blood
still
congealing
from last night’s
mutilation-fest
my arm is a wreck
the rivers of blood
dried to crusty pieces
of rusty death
i
want
to stab you
but stab myself
instead
i
want
to kill you
but am
slowly
killing
myself
and my
family

God take you
all to hell
i’m free to hang
myself
i
want to be
buried
with enough
dirt over me
to cover
the moon
Page 42; 41, added by qbitsof.

I wanted to present two very different yet similar poems from the book as fairly representative of the tone, themes, tenor found in the book. The first one, "i torment my neighbors (may they rot in hell)," is notable because the (nearly?) psychotic protagonist is aiming his lethal fantasy/threats outward to others while the second one, "sacrifice," is more representative of what the reader will find within the pages: throughout the book, the protagonist has violent impulses towards others, but has enough ration (?) left to realize that following through would somehow be wrong and instead he turns his violence, his bloodlust, on himself, sacrificing his body for others' as the reader sees the protagonist sinking into psychosis. Possibly an interesting juxtaposition?

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