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Brain Drain

Wearing dinosaur boots blundering through the city lights of a brain high on low energy. Being a concrete Tarzan bending only to crumble at the waist while within me a jungly place rains ripples. Riding a speeding bullet train, watching a fizzy sky crap on the window, some idiot shouting: "Nothing can stop us now!" A cow chugs beer, orders fries to go, maybe the 'fries' are just a false memory, most likely all this mash-up is only a dreaming pipe-dream. "Everyone should have a dream," some other idiot shouts. Now or some time later, I am mansplaining to a woman, (her hair is so red that it stops all oncoming traffic). I manfully - painfully describe just what a monkey-cart looks like, trouble is I have only one morose monkey, and one broken cartwheel. She gets angry and confiscates my monkey. All this has happened before I fell asleep, I am almost convinced, yes it must have been. Now I am swinging from a lamppost, like some drunk after a Football League brawl. "Dizzy times ahead," a pissing dog declares. "Go Huston Oilers," I mumble, (I have no clue, being irredeemably disinterested). The mutts one akimbo limb rests its case. Somewhere in a swampy part of Ohio An idiot shouts like an alarm clock it's a piece of time just loud enough to rattle dead bones. I listen intently, reluctantly I have to admit that it really is a good impersonation.

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