TheLegendsLeague: Shoot The Smiling Kid
by be.
Shoot The Smiling Kid
A reoccuring episode written and illustrated by Bryan Espiritu.
I’ll shoot the smiling kid.
Leave him to me.
I’ll gurgle his laughter,
Turn it off key.
And lock and load my weight off his shoulders -
Blast his bashful ways to get older.
Leave him to me,
I’ve got bullets to spare.
Let me provoke the joke out his throat,
Stage his new stage nerves
And force him to choke,
Shackle the chuckle and sticky his coat.
Bullshitty you’ve seen what burgundy bleeding can do.
You’re kidding, not stinging.
You’re kiddy shampoo.
I’m actual facts.
“Life Of” National Lampoon.
You’re something to laugh at,
Hardy har har.
I’ll sever his initials and plus from his heart,
Divvy his twinkling visual spark,
And scalp him.
I’ll ask him to share his grey smarts.
His father will need a new suit.
…
His mother will wet the lapel.
And he will never wear it again.
Like,
“Oh, where has it gone, your sweet grin?”
motherfucker.
…
And the hell will break
to the smell of grapes,
crushed in the mash of a months mistakes.
They’ll mourn like it was just before noon,
Until their empty is filled by a moon.
And their world no longer filled by a son,
Whose ignorance was excused as his fun.
I’ll make due making use of this gun.
Not a siren will tell me to run.
And no siren will tell me to run.
Welcome To The Legends League
if i told you the truth, would you believe in it?
- Bryan 'be.' Espiritu
speechLLess.
the illustration is dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopeski.
wow.
on so many levels.
wow.
I like this one. Very deep. I had difficulty figuring it out! Good one though.
i’d love to know what you had figured from it anesha. thanks for reading.
i read it…
ive never been good at these things…dunno if i figured it out yet, but arts dope, disturbing, but dope.
This is disturbing…but I agree with Will…it’s dope.
i’m usually a victim to art morbidity but when it comes from my baby cousin i guess i just can’t handle it.
you’re art is evolving babe. it’s crazy.
love you and see you soon.
Well I think the “shooting” part is moreso of an emotional or mental act of violence. I didn’t think it was literal.
Especially at the : “I’ll sever his initials and plus from his heart,
Divvy his twinkling visual spark” part. I took it as destroying the person you/he are inside.
“And their world no longer filled by a son,
Whose ignorance was excused as his fun.”
The person has lost himself? And is no longer the person he once was.
Is this based on personal experience? It sounds like you went through a period where the rug was pulled out from beneath you so to speak. You lost a sense of your identity…forced to go through certain aspects of life that you were either not ready to, or didn’t know how to handle (Blast his bashful ways to get older….Let me provoke the joke out his throat, Stage his new stage nerves
And force him to choke,)
Almost like a war that you’ve had with yourself.
I could be wrong. And I read it several times. It could be interpreted literally as well…but I thought maybe my interpretation of that would be too extreme?
Its very very expressive though. Deeep!
okokok. Well what my most recent comment was posted BEFORE I read the other explanation (the break down) . I must say that I was way off! lol
thanks for the explanation. I appreciate the fact that you didn’t just read it in a once over and take it for what you thought it was and walk away. i feel like that happens a lot with the stuff that I write. it’s like some people think that since it doesn’t take much for me to write it, it also doesn’t take much for me to openly share it. Those people are terribly wrong. But those of you who do seem to be paying attention to the words I post on this blog are very much appreciated. Believe it.
love at you anesha.