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Cowboy Logic

He was a cowboy problem child rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer resulting in his remembering everything flawlessly insolently permanantly birth death life things in space have a beer owner of his own head at last thanks to whiskey tainted improvisations and the use of springs and levers in order to bring the Almighty down to earth for a patch job on his many severed limbs he slept on a bed of maguey spines combed his tumbleweed hair over the burn spots and tattooed his many and fecund scars into the outlines of zippers and pockets Tex Lester was a lariat twirling minstrel and undefeated Popsicle stick swordsman subject to a chronic howling for pootang Tex took me under his leathery wings together we praised the pop up toaster and often spoke of mechanics and luck taught me to look at girls all anew in the little red school house by the cactus patch Miss LobowskI beat off my attempts at humping her leg during her class in ethics as if a description of total damnation could repair the broken mosaic of attention Tex would implore with the tact of a scorpion madam cover your eyes in the name of decency what could I do but wake the dead and digress distressingly in the dirt a heartfelt rain making non-sequitir well kids are full of surprises uninhibited by mystery or murderous rage complete they are in a different way but the more Miss Lobowski's convex mariachis bucked and danced under her wet serape the more it popped into Tex's ten gallon head to teach her an old cowboy rope trick round and round went his cowboy lariat the desire to repeat pleasure unfortunately is the desire to repeat it exactly endlessly and that's the problem the big problem at the museum of horrible deaths you grab their ears and whisper rest your head on a cloud angel and hope they don't end up on top of a truckload of flattened automobiles he went crazy on her flesh let loose his gila monster on her blazing **** and together they began robbing banks this is going to cost me my diploma From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.byethost32.com/

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