Nickolaus A. Pacione
2015
Excuses as one collects; everything they fabricate becomes everything someone believes as they hang on every other word. One lie leads to destruction of another man – a question we see coming to mind; how many collate and then trim and past a plethora of statements to make someone look like they’re criminal. “How do you mean?” Small town busy bodies calling their version of Barney Fife within their nonfictional version of Mayberry – unable to handle little bit of controversy when it comes to when they seek out monsters; don’t they realize they do that. They do end up becoming one… Yest ye become one as Nietzsche had warned us. That’s the history of Chicago for you; seeking out monsters. Chasing an urban legend or two; or that’s how it goes or follows. When one is chasing old news articles and capturing classmate’s adult infamies; I don’t always know when to capture their nightmarish traits as some things become the territory of those who feel brimstone and fire engulfing their lungs. A realization what happens when they had been bit in half or had a limb chewed off in the waters of Lake Michigan by our urban legend in the waters. Our world as I realize, yest ye become one… Becoming what Nietzsche warned us about. I know what that is – does the masses reading this narrative realize this.. What they are – the horror that is mankind. “I don’t want to hear about this urban legend talk…” What is this creeping at the thought you out – if you nod you know exactly what I am speaking about as this one has flesh and teeth? If you’re a classmate this narrative may save your life knowing our urban legend is a living thing but doesn’t speak; though very real and its siblings were found in the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. Yes is that time of the year again; as I am sure some of you are out swimming and carefree though one year ago a photographer captured a protruding fin out of the Chicago waters. I will say right now he the one who splits the surface will have a name;
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