Retelling the Video

Airplane, Agust D, Joke 3

Rap Monster's Point of View

They all said I was crazy. I wasn't though, I just saw the things no one else could see. I didn't mean to burn that store down, I know I didn't. They said I had psychosis because they couldn't see my best friend Jimin walking next to me.

We were talking about my new song, Joke, as we walked into the store to buy food. Jimin never ate around me, but that was okay. He was really fun to be around and he had been there for me since I was beat up one day in school. He was so brave, never scared of anything. Well, maybe one thing. Spiders.

He went to grab some bread and saw a giant spider. He screamed and that was natural because he was terrified of spiders and the thing was as big as his head. I had a lighter with me, to light fireworks not cigarettes don't worry. I grabbed the grocery list in my pocket and set it on fire, throwing it on the spider. The fire managed to spread and set the bread on fire...and then the rest of the bread and the cardboard alcohol boxes at the end of the aisle...and then that caught some other display on fire and the fire burned really high and got the magazines and the ceiling was really low and the magazines burned in a tall pillar of fire...and the store burned down.

I just sat outside watching it with Jimin, cause I liked watching fires and I wanted to make sure the spider was dead, both for Jimin's sake and my own satisfaction. I had to make sure that demon of an arachnid was gone for good.

Then the police came. They saw me outside the store as it burned, so they assumed I did it and arrested me. Jimin tried to tell them that I only meant to set the spider on fire and I had bad luck and things like this happened a lot. But the police must have been deaf because they just shoved me into the car, and they must have been blind as well because they bumped into Jimin and he stumbled and fell and they didn't even do anything to help him.

I didn't see Jimin anymore after that. They left him at the store and didn't bring him along. I yelled at the police to stop and get my friend but they ignored me. I watched Jimin until I couldn't see him anymore and pulled my knees up and put my face on them. My long silver-grey hair fell forward as I cried. The sides and back of my head were shaved clean. Jimin had suggested that I have my hair like this.

They put me on trial and found me guilty of the crime, destruction of property. Some worker had taken the security tapes when they fled. They decided that since I was talking to someone who "wasn't there" and since I "claimed" that I only meant to kill the spider, I was afflicted with psychosis. They sent me to a mental institute instead of jail.

They put me in one of those white straitjackets. I was put in a cell that had a thick metal door with a small window covered with metal bars. My metal bedframe had a thin white mattress and no blankets, because some dumb fuck had decided to try and hang himself. There were dirty glass windows on the wall behind my bed. I stared out of them, sometimes thinking I saw Jimin in the courtyard below but of course he wasn't there, he was still at the store waiting for me to come back.

Today I was going to go somewhere outside my room. One of the workers, a man in dark clothes and a dark hat, opened the door and beckoned to me. I slid off the bed and stood up, the floor cold against my bare feet. I stepped over the raised threshold in the doorway onto the floor on the other side that was level with the floor in my room.

I let him lead me through the empty halls. There were lots of dirty windows in the hallway, although not many other cells. I asked the guy about that and he said I was in the special section. I just nodded and kept walking, curious as to where we were going.