Force feeding on two doses of clozapine. Doc reclines in his chair; I am restrained in mine.
"I am feeling fine, now, feeling fine."
"It is time." Doc persists," admit it for them... you know what you did; you know it was all real."
A film reel rewinds inside somewhere adjacent to my cerebellum; Front row seats to my favorite show- I know not what to tell him?
It was all what I dreamt up on one of my. Usual Sundays. Savoring what lovely sensations- 'some' would insinuate are a sin. It was me this time playing doctor, operating on my imaginary friend.
This one pretends she does not like the licking of a blade against her skin. And when I decide to cut too deep her safe word is always 'grin.'
But Doc: that was just how we liked to play? She had been longing for a violent death: I dreamt her up that way.
...
Before I could say what fun I had with the others.., teary-eyed on the other side of reinforced glass, resides my many made-up friend's mothers...
(Was it those two pills from before?) In my final minutes .. I have regained lucidity. On death row for defiling those things I thought only I could see. A needle in my arm: my death will serve as an apology.
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I writhe, and before I black out, the lithe figure of an old imaginary friend.. but if you WERE actually real..
A decade ago- I remember a incorporeal, corrupted, entity I allowed to fill my soul.
In place of the hole where apathy used to be. The yearning for suicide was all mine; Homicide was your wish-you resided within. Broke my will and reality down day by day by simply posing as my only friend. Control/Desire imprisoned me.
Rewired my mind. breaking me down into insanity. but I am fighting now: Thrashing with all the life left still inside of me.
She grins as I go.
musing to herself. She takes me below.
" I had high hopes for this plaything... my next toy is actually EAGER to ****. "
...For someone who wanted to be dead, you had such a hard time keeping still.
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A story of how the friendship between a man and his imaginary friend was simply that: a 'friend' imagined.