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Bad Breeding

the list that was a fist a) it is possible b) it is inevitable chained to a million pleasures an astonishing compendium of compulsions honed bright with a fool's ardor the kind you'd wish for in a movie script undulating at the tar pits of amor the land rich with autographs bruised and humiliated reciting the alphabet backwards on the curb with Officer ***** a limited perspective but not without its ironies blazing trails to metabolic equilibrium using every crutch and cane there is to seek out and embrace ignorance in a fanciful play of medieval shadows colliding with the grace of mosh pit elbows and that pretty much nails it the rest is a problem of amplification if looking can blind you I'm blind he seems to have a button gone missing ripe to the skies with the stink of deduction hell was upon us and none grieved in statistically relevant numbers apparently they had finally reached the bottom of the barrel we still wage war upon feudalism good advice for any century or cemetery touch something holy once in a while and mighty Thor will wing above ah sure right uh huh you bet needing humor the wires tried to sing the blades of the switch bit the anode all is broadcast everywhere right now on all the boogie woogie coordinates how's that for karmic indifference some curse some utter gratitude may the good fairy console you and turn the illusion of warmth up a little higher since it hasn't yet been made a crime to destroy your own mind until the foundations of the world thunder and come apart like cooked meat but working on the problem is better than nothing even if you really don't know all that you think you know even if hideously scarred in battle a terra cotta bust hot from the oven smelling of sulfur and bruises tempted by radiance and music and poetry which could get you jailed tonight so pretend you have wide angle vision under a curse with an escape clause in varying pedantic proportions for another illegal exit from Average and its Law played to hI fives all around kindling fires of rebellion the Metaphor League saw to it From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.byethost32.com/

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