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Capital Bust

Pennilessness shadows black unemployment endless track rails tie-er less lee when dumbly staring overdrawn account issues another clattering smack. Income pleat undergraduate degree contributed to the role of a sporadic employee time to acquire handy dandy blues clues key lost within vacillating undermining spree. Mental state can be a precarious widget-like thing directly at the whim of financial sliding swing self-destruction demonic ring courtesy of pauperism delivers the destructive poisoned scorpion sting. Immortal force of please hear my cry provide support while under the sheltering sky steady (just out of reach) sought income bolster up high mirage vision brings transient delight to this great (former Civil War Yankee) supreme guy. If no breakthrough I do not foresee charity not for profit (but only prophet) I will bee and this blurb carved outside my cave-like hovel many moons and break of the day find me imploring existential vagaries this baby boomer sans middle-aged man who hankers to be free thus though aye to be a schnorrer who scrounges parking lots for scattered change yet...decries blubbering the beggar's credo write out a check and mail to me. Philanthropic persons may rightfully balk and get irate at such brazen plea to squelch ma pecuniary financial state yet where the crossroads of mine future most likely crop up which would cause far a tete a tete meanwhile, stoicism bids me wait... For Godot, Curly, Shemp, or Moe the stand-in for a Stool Pigeon or even an odd antagonist or protagonist dreampt by Edgar Allan Poe.

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