Falling Apart

4:23am

My nose started to run.

4:38am

My nose was bleeding. First a slow bleed, then it began to seep out even quicker.

4:47am

My finger nails and toe nails begin to fall off. Crack and chip at the base and eventually just flake off.

4:53am

The hair all over my body grows rapidly outwards. Falling to the floor and filling up the room. My hair quickly gets longer and longer, first inches, then feet. I’m among the bushels of hair. All of my hair surrounds me quickly, covering me deeply in it. Finally, the hair, in a matter of minutes, turns grey and white. And grows as much as it can until all the hair on my body falls out.

4:56am

My nails are missing, my nose bleeding, all of my hair grew out and fell from the pores of my body.

5:02am

My teeth fall from my mouth. Some I choke on as they go down my throat. I feel the stomach acid eat at each tooth. The acid rises in my esophagus and conquers my tongue. It burns my tongue away and leaves holes in my throat exposed to the air.

5:07am

My eyes melt from their sockets. Turning to a jelly like substance with the iris sliding down my face and chest and leg.

5:09am

My ears take a dive off of my hairless skull. Slowly the intricate assemblages are gone.

5:12am

My skin all over starts to blister and my genitals turn black and blue like a major frost bite. Quickly the blisters all over my body begin to form water bubbles and sockets of puss. Bleeding and rotting quickly, flies from the nearby market rush over and lay their eggs on my raw skin.

5:18am

Faster and faster, I rot, and now the speedy fly eggs hatch with little larva and maggots screaming and eating at my open flesh.

5:23am

My elbow and knee joints give and I feel incredibly gummy not able to stand or sit in any structured position.

5:34am

Lying there, on the floor, still for the last few moments. Bloody, infested, smelly, numb, and fading away.

5:41am

I can feel the throbbing of my central nervous system. All of my nerves and the synapses connecting them, pulsating in an unusual rhythm. My brain swelling and my spinal fluid becomes unbalanced with abnormal protein levels.

5:48am

I regurgitate my stomach acid and my bladder gives way and busts open. The urine pours from the holes in my throat and my anus explodes in an outward fashion. I lay in my own pool of shit, piss, and blood.

6:02am

The sun begins to rise outside. The sunlight scatters into the room in which I lay. The new sun burns the remaining fat on my body, as the epidermis layer of skin has disappeared. Motionless I lay in the mixture of everything that I was made of.

6:11am

I cannot see or hear or smell my death. But I know I am dead. Completely fallen apart.

© 2002 David Greg Harth

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