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Battery Check I had better say this before it is too late & I'm doing a battery check down at the School of the Americas badda boom mafia rim shot the old wisdoms are newly or neo-inadequate all of them every one even the Arctic and Antarctic ones he was a master of pedestrian insights banal bourgeoisie profundities packaged for the pop psychology lecture circuit which hasn't got the people smarter faster because buzzard shadows make the dogs bark fangs missing the juggler completely such a klutz whose eyes see nothing the smell of carrion fur has him growling at my lunarscape drips blood across my dying lips after the blackness of the old battle and amen good observation kid state of pure vulnerability how much delusion can we rid ourselves of while remaining ambulatory and sane begging for rescue or a signal from the North like a black widow at the movies web over the projection hole making time into the enemy when it should be the enema or obsolete as clown paint and the pet tarantula craze every kid had one beaten into him in a wilderness of anachronisms where it's the adrenals vs. the endorphins both of them a film noir fun house mirror one with a severe penalty for miscalculation the other giving us the freedom to destroy our soul you need only see the obvious criminally reckless manhood hypochondriac womanhood foretelling the future ain't a big deal a child with a gun can do it gun because nobody wants to hear it apparently we haven't invented pain free illumination yet batteries not included because they are not needed because we are modifiable in a good way by our own hand From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.site11.com/

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