The Book of Not: The Book of Questions

1. [So] There was [this] Student [right? Like, y'know a really cool guy? And he was sooooo hot.]
2. And [so this] Student came to Malkav's bedside [right? Totally rad, huh?]
3. And [so the] Student [guy] asked Malkav questions [about this and that and the other thing, y'know? Like he actually sat down and talked to him can you believe it?]
4. And here is their conversation.
5. [Dig it?]

The Student asked: Why? Why? Why? Why have you forsaken your children and gone to sleep and dream of Kraft Margarine and Punky Brewster's breast reduction surgery?

And Malkav did not tell this story:

Once Upon The Time, there was a horrible land. The rivers ran with tainted blood and the children were stillborn. The mothers piled their small bodies up and burnt them. We all lived there once, enslaved to our eyes and our fingers.

And so I came to you, though you do not remember, and brought you out of that world and into this one which has much more in it. And this, my child, explains why this world is so fascinating and confusing to us. It is because we are aliens. And someday we will move on yet again. Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' onna river.

And the Student asked: When? When will we be delivered from the body of this death?

And Malkav refused to say:

You are journeying now, naturally. What's more, you are now naturally journeying. When the moon is green as Wonder Bread left out too long and the sky is yellow as...as something really yellow (The SoLoopy! They're yellow! Hang on...), then I'll wake up for you. But I'm no good to anyone until I get a couple cups of coffee in me. Black.

Gehenna? Scary? Not even close. Laugh while you can, monkey- boy. Gehe-sha-na-na is going to be televised, and I'm buying commercial time. Have you ever seen your tormentors twisted in pain, their bodies distorted beyond all recognition? You will. And Big Daddy Caine is the one to bring it to you.

And the Student said: Stop your babbling, old man. I'm sick of it. I want to know when you're going to come back and get us fucking OUT of here.

And Malkav didn't say: Now. I am coming back NOW. Now. now.

And the Student asked: I gotta get going. I'll be back, though. You want some Chinese?

And Malkav rolled over and mumbled: Sure, if she's legal.

And the Student munched on some Fritos and said: So, what's so bad about Gehenna anyway?

And Malkav smelled the smell of the Fritos and didn't mutter:

Nothin'. Genehaha ain't so hard. I live wit dat every day of my life. Bury your head. Bury your head. Her arms are so, so soft. If you bury your head, they can't get you. They can't see you and if they do, they won't look at you.

Harmless, less harm. It's not something to worry over. We'll all have rolled on by. Mother Whatsyername full of grace.

And the Student said: Do we have mothers?

And Malkav didn't wake up and say:

You never call, you never write, of course you don't have a mother you ungrateful boy! You're no son of mine.

And the Student said: Do you know how much help you are to us?

And Malkav said nothing.

And the Student was enlightened.

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