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Incomplete Metamorphosis of This Stilled Adolescent

Incomplete metamorphosis of this stilled adolescent... petrified, sheltered, and mortally wounded prepubescent I consider myself analogously buttressed, cocooned, garrisoned, hardened, insulated, where cell baited jumping frog o' Montgomery County ne'er went leaving larvae stage, now no divine providential power can assuage, yours truly metaphorically locked within invisible iron bound cage every occasion to shower validates steep wage permanently doled out, yet tis futile to rage against this human machine i.e. body dielectric rampage clocking three scored orbitz chronological gauge forever fixed feigned fodder, when unlived uber story of mein kampf writ faint chicken scratch final page gin hated anorexic regressive toddling cribbage deadly game of mine Life pampered post infancy attended Aladdin (a lad in) his hermitage late childhood marriage with grim reaper as coefficient co-inhabitant feasting emaciated lovely bones verily scrawny, puny, and nerdy, yea easy to lyft courtesy lost livingsocial scrimmage trademark spindleshanks - stagnant embarrassingly useless two legged equipage at childhood's end..., me skinny package then weighing, eh no more'n half dozen stone, these days when undressing to wash forced to espy physical *****sapiens wreckage constant visual reminder this spare rankled, stunted, tendered ship of state, yours truly nah oh sage enlightenment gleaned i.e. 20/20 hindsight kickstarted quickened, leveraged, mortgaged..., principly unbalanced worthiness anatomical disparity impossible mission to salvage accounting rent permanently askew fixed APR rendered amortization sabotage irreversible penalty suffrage escaping serfdom volunteering self as webbed vassalage til death do me part.

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