The Young and Wild

Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS 53

Young and wild, the creatures were the hope for the intellectualization of human instincts grown in the city of burning asphalt, where they lost their childhood sensualities playing with candy vending machines.

Unpreoccupied with the meaning of time, they met at the point in their minds where their sadness flipped into sensational moments of aerial laughter that they extracted from their imagination to stimulate their brains into a state of phrenetic movement toward the outer edge of the accidental reality that they created with their brave self-experiments, opening their portal veins in order to feel the current of intoxicated euphoria.

Like children abandoned under the storm of their senses, they lived in an enchanted present generated by the friction of their infant expectations against the desolate pavement of the urban school that had uniformed their emotions. Wounded by the sacrament of love, they transformed their timid, naked vibrations

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into a chemical experience that effervesced the images, which filled their eyes with ephemeral pleasure without an end in the meaninglessness of tomorrow.

The creatures were the objects of the instincts they expressed, as models designed by intelligent molecules with poetry, merry drinking, and luxurious sex.

They designed tribal emotions adorned with the sensual colors of bacteria to maintain the arousal of their desire to coalesce their imagination into an orgasm in a timeless reality aroused. But the impetuousness of their primitive, selfish blood exploded and broke the common artery that carried their lost innocence to the hippocampus of dreams after their volatile consciousness fell into the void of inebriation.