more-than-just-words

he wrote his suicide note on an etch-a-sketch board. elmo-red frame, golden paint drawing out the classy cursive logo, white bottle-cap knobs, and a fake digital screen. a child's dream. it took him six hours to revisit his childhood for the last time. [it didn't take that long because he didn't know what to say, but because he wanted to finally do something right.] he carefully turned each knob, forming darkened pixels into letters, letters into words, and words into spider-silk-thin sentences that would rip and fade, just as spider webs did. his words faded a bit when you accidentally knocked it off his dresser so you could take it