The Rise And Fall Of Theodore. (Part 1.)
A prose about notorious killer Ted Bundy
There you were on six-fifty-eight North Skyline drive, visiting the place where you once called home
With those innocent, helpless girls on your restless, manic mind.
At the age of twenty-five, a hopeless law-student drop out
Sitting in the blistering hot summer Tacoma heat in your battered beige Volkswagen windows down,
wind blowing on your ruddy face.
Wishing you had a flashy black Maserati
Thousands of beads of sweat trickle down your head like a waterfall
Frustrated and exhausted
Knowing the fate what's going to become of the pretty, carefree girls laughing, walking ahead on the street by your car, but they're completely unaware.
The reminisce of cheap beer and stale cigarettes on your breath
As you quickly glance at your velvet crowbar, that resides on your chair-less passenger side, so desperately wanting another hit
Jittering with panic inside, that familiar feeling surges with an adrenaline rush in your body, going from zero to eighty in 0.01 seconds
You start to get in a trance with self-destruction, panicking with chaotic anger beginning to emerge again, in waves like the ocean.
The entity begins to set in
Yet something abruptly stops you.
Holding a crumbled picture of dear Elizabeth and Molly, you keep your wallet in your right blue jean back pocket.
Yet you don't give in to your double life.No. Not this time.
Letting the devastating, destructive behavior from the entity consume your entire being.
As you begin to have sudden regret ignoring the powerful, impatient fidgety urge.
Ten girls have now suddenly evaporated into thin air, caused by your harmful wrong doings.
Police and newspaper sightings of a certain man named "Ted" have appeared out of the woodwork,
But you keep that identity hidden under lock and key in the back of your mind.
Newsflashes pop up at the five o'clock hour, but nothing seems to phase you into utter shock.
You just continue to concoct a culinary masterpiece like any other ordinary day.
Time flies by, of you now sitting in an unclean, rat-infested vomit filled jail cell in Colorado
The walls only seem to know the REAL you
The light fixture is almost sawed off entirely to your liking, for your excitingly filled escape set for tonight
Going through the small labyrinth of the ceiling of the jail
New, fresh, clean clothes on, and annoying coveralls off
You open the front door, as a blast of the bone-chilling cold goes right through your body
Fast snow falling on the ground and luckily a car with it’s doors unlocked
You now fade away into the blackness.
After you've completed the horrendous event in Lake City that you so desired to do on a whim
There's now no recollection of your recent event, even though you were there. The know the REAL story.
The wind whispers and gossip’s through the trees, only know the horrific acts to twelve year old Kim.
A year has rolled by
Trial after trial, day in and day out
Hoping and confident that you'll win, but each time, you've disappointingly lost.
Lights, camera, action…the camera is attracted to you instantly
Judge Cowart sits on his bench, tentatively listening
The buzz from the vodka and pills that your beloved rebound of a girlfriend Carole snuck in for you is finally beginning to wear off.
Irritation sets in
As you razzle-dazzle each individual with your stealthy charm and smirking, showing off for the camera
The time has finally come that the jury decides your ultimate, timely fate…
Death by electrocution.
On the one-year anniversary of Kim’s untimely death, caused by your impulse killing
You actually had the audacity to purpose to Carole at Kim’s trial and decide put a ring on it
Bad call.
Flash forward to two months on death row, with that heavy metal that you wear
Living in a concrete castle, in a desolate foreign land
Certainly not Buckingham Palace to your liking
Rowdy, loud, horny, unclean, unshaven men surround you
Something your not used to
Not the place you wish to be at the moment
Strong body odor and sweat with no air conditioning in a stagnant, minuscule cell might be Hell on earth
While just an old malfunctioning fan tries to keep you cool from Florida's oppressive heat
You continuously talk to walls and shadows, that listen when the detectives get fed up and bored
With your perpetual beating around the bush rhetoric
You wasted your life on behalf of your destructive behavior and wrong choices
A ticking time bomb, ticks faster and faster, when you only have a few months left till death day arrives
Rose has been officially gone and is now a long distant faded memory of your failed career of a deadbeat father and husband
It's now been a few years since you’ve last seen Rose and Carole as they vanished from your life
Vanished and stolen.
Like the girl's lives, you had vanished and stolen from happy families only to destroy when you willingly obeyed and fulfilled the entity's destructive wish
January first, New Years Day, Nineteen-Eighty-Nine.
Bad beginning to your new year.
Reporter after reporter wants that memorable last interview with you.
As you decline, after another
Everyone wants a piece of you
Days pass by as quick as lightning, when it’s the day before you leave this chaotic Earth
You set your sights on a famous religious fanatic minister from California
Catching him in your devious grasp, as you love to do
You decide to choose him to interview you
The day progresses as time flies by faster, as soon as it’s time for bed
Your tears become your lullaby, for your last night on Earth
January twenty-fourth, nineteen-eighty-nine.
Your expiration date has officially arrived
Rowdy, drunk onlookers are at your last hurrah
The warden swiftly comes to your death watch cell and wakes you up from the unrestful, anxiety-filled sleep you had gotten
Are you ready? He asks you
No longer now is a handsome forty-two-year-old, but a shaven bald gangly, ailing man, with the appearance of looking like a sixty-year-old who's unrecognizable to one's eye
"Deadman walking," the warden shouts out loud
The blue velvet curtain opens and you see
Emotionless expressive looks of people that you've once known in your past are staring directly at you, are now seated in small white chairs
As officers restrain you in the infamous wooden chair of the many in-humane men who've gone years before your time.
You finally get to sit on your throne
Two correction officers carefully adjust’s your electric crown for your kingdom of one, for his majesty.
Nerves and your heartbeat begin to quake internally like a rattlesnake
And in less than a flash, with two- thousand volts inside you, you'll be gone from this chaotic world for all eternity
At approximately seven-sixteen am, you're officially pronounced dead
Alone & Forgotten in a dark abyss.
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