heaven.

when i died, i came to heaven.

i don’t know how;

there must have been a mixup upstairs.

regardless, i’m here.

and it’s awful.

//

it’s too bright, first of all.

when god built his kingdom in the sky,

he should have realized how high it would be.

there’s no clouds above us,

and the sun shines unimpeded.

i should have gotten skin cancer by now,

but there’s some sort of magic

keeping everyone pure and white.

the sun reflects off of the ground

and our clothes

and our wings

and our buildings.

my eyes are forever filled with colored spots.

//

it’s also really quiet here.

there’s less air up here,

since we’re so high in the atmosphere,

so sound doesn’t travel as far.

and the little sound that does move

gets absorbed by the air in the clouds

like on a snowy day.

the only noise comes from people speaking,

but only the newcomers speak.

after you’re here for a few months,

you lose yourself to the magic.

//

you know what happens to heroin addicts?

they shoot up for the first time,

and it feels really good,

so they keep doing it.

but after a while,

it doesn’t feel as good.

their body builds up a tolerance to it,

so they shoot up more and more and more

until they stop breathing and die.

it’s like that up here,

but without the dying part.

//

after a while,

you get so blissed out

that you can barely move

and you can only talk in whispers and mumbles

that the others somehow understand

because they’re there too.

we’re all zombies up here,

feeding off of the magic

and the sunlight

and the wind

and the awesome power of the lord.

there’s nothing to do

but lay there in your little dreamland.

//

i’m sure down in hell

they have cities full of people

and drugs with unimaginable side effects

and whores with every disease under the sun

and gangs that fight over millimeters of land

and black markets for locally grown vegetables.

it sounds like fun.

//

but this,

up here,

in heaven:

this is hell.

//

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