alarms are loud. weeeoooweeeeooooweeeeooooo. that was me being an alarm if that was not clear.
mayra
maybe it’s the way the sun filters in through the warped pane, how it refracts shards of blue and green and grey and gold through iridescent eyes, becoming windows themselves. or maybe it’s the way my hypersensitive fingertips slide along the creamy skin of your back, playing the lines as when you caress piano keys. or maybe something entirely different.
i find myself in a perpetual state of contentment these days. especially today.
goes off and its anouther day of work, of pooring coffee for people that dont really care who you are just that you are thier to serve them. not that you are actually human
Casi
It’s alarming how many people today don’t understand the difference between there, they’re, and their. For heaven’s sake, it really isn’t difficult! There is a place where they’re going to see their friends. Got it? Good!
The beeping wouldn’t stop.
I heard it, but I didn’t.
It had been going on for so long that it had just become another sound.
Like the thumping of my heart.
Or the slight rise-fall-rise-fall of my breath.
Inhale.
Exhale.
It was just another sound.
Just another pointless, meaningless sound.
Like the words people said, but never meant.
Love. Desire. Beauty. Caring.
They don’t mean it.
My alarm never stops going off.
Kevin
I have this phone that has a “nap timer” on it and the alarm is ridiculous, but it gets stuck in my head for hours of the day if I let it play on for too long in the morning. The alarm means getting up, and it’s sad. It means that I will have to get out of the arms of my love and embrace the cold evil world that I work in daily.
When the alarm went off, I was making an artichoke omelet. It was just a day like any other. I had been to classes earlier in the morning, went to the library to do some research, shopped a bit on the way back to the attic apartment I’d been living in since the new semester began, and now I was making a quick lunch.
jani
oh no, the alarm has sounded. I’m going to be late for class! what about my paper, is it finished yet? i hope i didn’t fall asleep at my computer again last night.. i’m really unprepared this morning. oh no the stupid alarm had a snooze. i forgot to turn that off. i thought i pressed dismiss. oh the alarm. so alarming.. and so terrifying as well. i wish we didn’t have to live with alarms.
rose
I hate alarms. When I set them to a beeper, I spend the rest of my day disgruntled, and…alarmed. :) When I set them to the radio, I never wake up; my dreams just have background music. Which can be a lot of fun…I once waltzed with Prince Charming, thanks to the classical station.
Anna
sucks.i hate those alarm clocks. i use the cell phone ones and they have the stupidest ringtones ever. i wake up cursing my too expensive cell phone every morning. perfect way to wake up.
Jill
the fire department got called to the office when the alarm was pulled. It put everyone in a cautious mode, because they didn’t know who to trust. If someone was going to pull the fire alarm without telling anyone, and causing everyone to miss money off work, who could we trust!?
Kaela
Wakes me up in the mornings, goes off so loud. This is how I know James is leaving, this is what makes him go on a call. But that’s all right because it’s for the best. He is awesome at being a fire fighter and I would never try to discourage him from it. It goes off everyday at 6pm for a test. It’s so loud.
Stephanie
I woke up with a noise blaring in my left ear. The “Brang brang brang” of the alarm hurt my ears until it felt like they were bleeding. Trying to find the snooze button unsuccessfully, I covered my head with the pillow and tried to drown out the sound. Silence. The wail of the alarm had finally stopped, and now I could go on with my mindless dreaming.
Panic. I was late for school, and I had no ride, for my mother had left long ago to go to work, thinking I had taken the bus. I had two choices now – skip school and get in trouble, or walk to school and be half an hour late. I was clear that I had to choose the second one. Now that I was already late, I felt no sense of urgency and took my time choosing out my outfit and eating breakfast. Swinging my backpack over my shoulder, I pushed the door open and found myself in a winter wonderland.
The alarm goes off and my head fills with dread. Another day, another 24 hours of obligations when all I want to do is lay here. I pull myself up and half heartily try to start my routine for this war.
Jessica
Wakes me up at seven. It’s not my clock it’s my dad. Last year everyday the fire alarm would go off at school. I hate that. Alarmed by taps on my window and creaks on the floor. Can somebody help?
loud loud loud loud loud. stupid girls. who cooks cinnamon rolls in a microwave? I had a test the next morning. I hate living in a dorm. I hate the shower shoes and the dumb girls who didn’t start drinking until college and now run down the halls screaming at 4 in the morning. Learn how to hold your liquor. I want silence. Sweet silence that you only get from total aloneness.
Catherine
I hit the alarm clock in the morning when i woke up! I didn’t want to go to school but I had to because the alarm clock said so! Blah! That damn thing! I wish it would go away! Go jump off a bridge or something so i could go back to sleep! Oh sleep its so nice! How I wish I could row over and go back to sleep
Jay
Alarm. As in alarm clocks? It’s alarming how alarm clocks can alarm you. BRING BRING BRING!!! Suddenly, you’re jolted out of your wildest dream or even your worst nightmare, back into what you perceive is the land of the living. The wakeful world that is all at once wonderful and terrible. Alarming and soothing? Happiness and suffering blended into. All cued by the sound of an alarm clock telling you to wake up and start the next day of the rest of your life. They go off and interrupt your sleep, demanding that you wake up and face reality. Do you wake up feeling like today is a brand new morning? Or do you, like me, wake up wondering why you’re alive, why you exist, why you bother to drag yourself out of bed when you can already sense that today is going to be a bad day? Either way, the alarm is there, and it already alarmed you into alert awakeness. Might as well go out and face the world.
wow that is so loud can someone just turn that off please? i am wayyy too tired to get up….UGH its making my ears bleed. is that a police car? fire? we need to get out of here where’s your mother? my eyes widened- what he had jsut told her sounded horrrible. we need ot leave.
maria
it wakes you up in the morning most people think its really annoying we also hit snooze a lot prolonging the whole waking-up experience sometimes it doesnt go off which makes people late and sometimes its failure to go off results in a bad, off kilter day.
Jessica
alarm, it’s red and it’s really noisy. Stop your enternal beeping you fucking machine. My ears hurt now, ringing and throbbing like a drum beating in my pillows.
Corey
shit wake this sucks get up sleep car rolling sun smoke smell like an old chain smoker car pool racist can you hear me annoying pager can’t find it bring it to max at school sell it win at it
Marshall
My alarm wakes me up in the morning without me having to hit snooze, although I do have to set two alarms each morning. I have to get up at six thirty every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which is not very fun but bearable. I suppose I’ll live, anyway.
Sean Reynolds
my alarm buzzed, waking me from a dreamless sleep. without opening my eyes i silenced the noise and turned over. you weren’t there.
Hannah
at the sound of the alarm, everyone took off. all out of breath, breathing heavily, sweating profusely. another yard to go til the finish line…faster, faster, faster…almost there, in second place now. just a little further to go and then i will be the winner, i will be the champ.
Ashley Tenney
ring ring ring! the noise that is dreaded every morning and sometimes nights that wakes you, brings you to reality and screams at you “TIME TO GET OFF YOUR SQUISHY ASS AND ENJOY YOUR BORING JOB! :)” Don’t listen to it.
Paula
I awoke to a stifling heat, already permeating my bedroom, dampening my sheets, rendering me unable to go back to sleep. Still another 5 minutes before my alarm was due to go off. I prayed that I would slip back into the embrace of a dream I had just left, but all I could hear was the city awakening outside my window, the sound of birds, cars, people, things. The sound of a new day.
kereti
wake up wake up
move
where? to new york or to somewhere
move home
move my hips
hips are small
small small small
don’t want to be small
want to be big
big in new york in la in the world
so i am waking up
errrrhhhhhhhhhhhh
er
Tyler McClain
ugh. not again. turn it off.
ugh. not again. turn it off.
ok ok, i’m up. turn it off. not happy.
in the morning my alarm goes off. it only takes me a fraction of a second to respond to the loud, annoying noise that jolts me out of a comfortable sleep. it doesn’t matter which button i push as long as the noise stops and it is quiet and peaceful again.
kelsey
I hate that thing. Usually interrupting the most climatic point of my dream. A snooze for five minutes is a little ridiculous. Like five minutes is going to get through the climax of my dream. Son of a bitch alarm.
lolacola
The alarm went off, jolting me into reality. My first thought was to roll over and turn the alarm off before it woke my parents up again. I didn’t want to go through that..Again. But as soon as the initial 5 seconds of confusion afterwards wore off, life hit me like a ton of bricks. She was gone. That ton of bricks took my breath away.
loud. noisy. annoying. wake up! crazy. alarm in your head that makes you realize WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING, stupid. school. work. firemen. black. i dont like this word. stress. discomfort.
Nelson
one day my alarm began to go off, it pissed me off to much, I pulled out my light saber and began slashing the shit out of it. I didn’t want to.. but it had to be done. I mean really, my alarm always wakes me up, right at the best part of my dream, and for what? To go to god damn school. How much of a piss off is that?
Ocean
Ring the alarm… the roof is on FIREEEE we don’t need no water let the mother F*CKER BURNNNNN! THE ROOF THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIAAAAAA
megan
His eyes opened groggily. There was a shrill pitch emanating from somewhere and smoke billowing into his office. He struggled to throw the desk off. Glass had cut him, but no bones were broken. The heat was unbearable. He staggered towards the window. “I can jump from the third floor,” he thought.
I have an alarm setting on my Ipod. I like to use the alarm tone. It sounds very alarming and makes me wake up as if I was in some sort of panic. As if I’ve woken up from a nightmare. A good way to wake up responsibly.
alarms are great but they stink at the same time. they get you where you need to be, but they don’t really make you happy when they go off. it’s a bittersweet thing to own an alarm clock. i personally hate the buzzer, but the radio is always a good option in that case.
Claire
it blasted the sunlight through and the heat struck to the back of his mouth, the nights debacles seemed hazy lost to the touch a blind man feeling in the ful light of morning, regret stabbed first and then he ensuing laughter.
nico
This is not something I enjoy. I don’t want this to go off in the morning. Beeep, Beeep. How annoying is that? I’d rather wake up to a song.. or nothing at all… Just wake up when I’m ready. Alarms are lame. I wish my body could just wake itself up when it needed to be up. (:
alarms are loud. weeeoooweeeeooooweeeeooooo. that was me being an alarm if that was not clear.
maybe it’s the way the sun filters in through the warped pane, how it refracts shards of blue and green and grey and gold through iridescent eyes, becoming windows themselves. or maybe it’s the way my hypersensitive fingertips slide along the creamy skin of your back, playing the lines as when you caress piano keys. or maybe something entirely different.
i find myself in a perpetual state of contentment these days. especially today.
it’s quite alarming
and entirely glorious.
goes off and its anouther day of work, of pooring coffee for people that dont really care who you are just that you are thier to serve them. not that you are actually human
It’s alarming how many people today don’t understand the difference between there, they’re, and their. For heaven’s sake, it really isn’t difficult! There is a place where they’re going to see their friends. Got it? Good!
The beeping wouldn’t stop.
I heard it, but I didn’t.
It had been going on for so long that it had just become another sound.
Like the thumping of my heart.
Or the slight rise-fall-rise-fall of my breath.
Inhale.
Exhale.
It was just another sound.
Just another pointless, meaningless sound.
Like the words people said, but never meant.
Love. Desire. Beauty. Caring.
They don’t mean it.
My alarm never stops going off.
I have this phone that has a “nap timer” on it and the alarm is ridiculous, but it gets stuck in my head for hours of the day if I let it play on for too long in the morning. The alarm means getting up, and it’s sad. It means that I will have to get out of the arms of my love and embrace the cold evil world that I work in daily.
When the alarm went off, I was making an artichoke omelet. It was just a day like any other. I had been to classes earlier in the morning, went to the library to do some research, shopped a bit on the way back to the attic apartment I’d been living in since the new semester began, and now I was making a quick lunch.
oh no, the alarm has sounded. I’m going to be late for class! what about my paper, is it finished yet? i hope i didn’t fall asleep at my computer again last night.. i’m really unprepared this morning. oh no the stupid alarm had a snooze. i forgot to turn that off. i thought i pressed dismiss. oh the alarm. so alarming.. and so terrifying as well. i wish we didn’t have to live with alarms.
I hate alarms. When I set them to a beeper, I spend the rest of my day disgruntled, and…alarmed. :) When I set them to the radio, I never wake up; my dreams just have background music. Which can be a lot of fun…I once waltzed with Prince Charming, thanks to the classical station.
sucks.i hate those alarm clocks. i use the cell phone ones and they have the stupidest ringtones ever. i wake up cursing my too expensive cell phone every morning. perfect way to wake up.
the fire department got called to the office when the alarm was pulled. It put everyone in a cautious mode, because they didn’t know who to trust. If someone was going to pull the fire alarm without telling anyone, and causing everyone to miss money off work, who could we trust!?
Wakes me up in the mornings, goes off so loud. This is how I know James is leaving, this is what makes him go on a call. But that’s all right because it’s for the best. He is awesome at being a fire fighter and I would never try to discourage him from it. It goes off everyday at 6pm for a test. It’s so loud.
I woke up with a noise blaring in my left ear. The “Brang brang brang” of the alarm hurt my ears until it felt like they were bleeding. Trying to find the snooze button unsuccessfully, I covered my head with the pillow and tried to drown out the sound. Silence. The wail of the alarm had finally stopped, and now I could go on with my mindless dreaming.
Panic. I was late for school, and I had no ride, for my mother had left long ago to go to work, thinking I had taken the bus. I had two choices now – skip school and get in trouble, or walk to school and be half an hour late. I was clear that I had to choose the second one. Now that I was already late, I felt no sense of urgency and took my time choosing out my outfit and eating breakfast. Swinging my backpack over my shoulder, I pushed the door open and found myself in a winter wonderland.
The alarm goes off and my head fills with dread. Another day, another 24 hours of obligations when all I want to do is lay here. I pull myself up and half heartily try to start my routine for this war.
Wakes me up at seven. It’s not my clock it’s my dad. Last year everyday the fire alarm would go off at school. I hate that. Alarmed by taps on my window and creaks on the floor. Can somebody help?
loud loud loud loud loud. stupid girls. who cooks cinnamon rolls in a microwave? I had a test the next morning. I hate living in a dorm. I hate the shower shoes and the dumb girls who didn’t start drinking until college and now run down the halls screaming at 4 in the morning. Learn how to hold your liquor. I want silence. Sweet silence that you only get from total aloneness.
I hit the alarm clock in the morning when i woke up! I didn’t want to go to school but I had to because the alarm clock said so! Blah! That damn thing! I wish it would go away! Go jump off a bridge or something so i could go back to sleep! Oh sleep its so nice! How I wish I could row over and go back to sleep
Alarm. As in alarm clocks? It’s alarming how alarm clocks can alarm you. BRING BRING BRING!!! Suddenly, you’re jolted out of your wildest dream or even your worst nightmare, back into what you perceive is the land of the living. The wakeful world that is all at once wonderful and terrible. Alarming and soothing? Happiness and suffering blended into. All cued by the sound of an alarm clock telling you to wake up and start the next day of the rest of your life. They go off and interrupt your sleep, demanding that you wake up and face reality. Do you wake up feeling like today is a brand new morning? Or do you, like me, wake up wondering why you’re alive, why you exist, why you bother to drag yourself out of bed when you can already sense that today is going to be a bad day? Either way, the alarm is there, and it already alarmed you into alert awakeness. Might as well go out and face the world.
wow that is so loud can someone just turn that off please? i am wayyy too tired to get up….UGH its making my ears bleed. is that a police car? fire? we need to get out of here where’s your mother? my eyes widened- what he had jsut told her sounded horrrible. we need ot leave.
it wakes you up in the morning most people think its really annoying we also hit snooze a lot prolonging the whole waking-up experience sometimes it doesnt go off which makes people late and sometimes its failure to go off results in a bad, off kilter day.
alarm, it’s red and it’s really noisy. Stop your enternal beeping you fucking machine. My ears hurt now, ringing and throbbing like a drum beating in my pillows.
shit wake this sucks get up sleep car rolling sun smoke smell like an old chain smoker car pool racist can you hear me annoying pager can’t find it bring it to max at school sell it win at it
My alarm wakes me up in the morning without me having to hit snooze, although I do have to set two alarms each morning. I have to get up at six thirty every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which is not very fun but bearable. I suppose I’ll live, anyway.
my alarm buzzed, waking me from a dreamless sleep. without opening my eyes i silenced the noise and turned over. you weren’t there.
at the sound of the alarm, everyone took off. all out of breath, breathing heavily, sweating profusely. another yard to go til the finish line…faster, faster, faster…almost there, in second place now. just a little further to go and then i will be the winner, i will be the champ.
ring ring ring! the noise that is dreaded every morning and sometimes nights that wakes you, brings you to reality and screams at you “TIME TO GET OFF YOUR SQUISHY ASS AND ENJOY YOUR BORING JOB! :)” Don’t listen to it.
I awoke to a stifling heat, already permeating my bedroom, dampening my sheets, rendering me unable to go back to sleep. Still another 5 minutes before my alarm was due to go off. I prayed that I would slip back into the embrace of a dream I had just left, but all I could hear was the city awakening outside my window, the sound of birds, cars, people, things. The sound of a new day.
wake up wake up
move
where? to new york or to somewhere
move home
move my hips
hips are small
small small small
don’t want to be small
want to be big
big in new york in la in the world
so i am waking up
errrrhhhhhhhhhhhh
er
ugh. not again. turn it off.
ugh. not again. turn it off.
ok ok, i’m up. turn it off. not happy.
in the morning my alarm goes off. it only takes me a fraction of a second to respond to the loud, annoying noise that jolts me out of a comfortable sleep. it doesn’t matter which button i push as long as the noise stops and it is quiet and peaceful again.
I hate that thing. Usually interrupting the most climatic point of my dream. A snooze for five minutes is a little ridiculous. Like five minutes is going to get through the climax of my dream. Son of a bitch alarm.
The alarm went off, jolting me into reality. My first thought was to roll over and turn the alarm off before it woke my parents up again. I didn’t want to go through that..Again. But as soon as the initial 5 seconds of confusion afterwards wore off, life hit me like a ton of bricks. She was gone. That ton of bricks took my breath away.
loud. noisy. annoying. wake up! crazy. alarm in your head that makes you realize WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING, stupid. school. work. firemen. black. i dont like this word. stress. discomfort.
one day my alarm began to go off, it pissed me off to much, I pulled out my light saber and began slashing the shit out of it. I didn’t want to.. but it had to be done. I mean really, my alarm always wakes me up, right at the best part of my dream, and for what? To go to god damn school. How much of a piss off is that?
Ring the alarm… the roof is on FIREEEE we don’t need no water let the mother F*CKER BURNNNNN! THE ROOF THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIAAAAAA
His eyes opened groggily. There was a shrill pitch emanating from somewhere and smoke billowing into his office. He struggled to throw the desk off. Glass had cut him, but no bones were broken. The heat was unbearable. He staggered towards the window. “I can jump from the third floor,” he thought.
I have an alarm setting on my Ipod. I like to use the alarm tone. It sounds very alarming and makes me wake up as if I was in some sort of panic. As if I’ve woken up from a nightmare. A good way to wake up responsibly.
alarms are great but they stink at the same time. they get you where you need to be, but they don’t really make you happy when they go off. it’s a bittersweet thing to own an alarm clock. i personally hate the buzzer, but the radio is always a good option in that case.
it blasted the sunlight through and the heat struck to the back of his mouth, the nights debacles seemed hazy lost to the touch a blind man feeling in the ful light of morning, regret stabbed first and then he ensuing laughter.
This is not something I enjoy. I don’t want this to go off in the morning. Beeep, Beeep. How annoying is that? I’d rather wake up to a song.. or nothing at all… Just wake up when I’m ready. Alarms are lame. I wish my body could just wake itself up when it needed to be up. (: