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I Am a Very Sensitive Man

i am a very sensitive man live in the horror of restaurants those with those long salad bars the celery are mostly quiet it is the tomatoes that moan the loudest broccoli screams tempest across the room carrots bear the misery best exists in a shredded mess Vidalia onions chorus with the red survival that aromas sweetly from table to table watching lettuce and cabbage disappear down the throats above the silent ears that cannot hear the cries of death coming from the now silent salad bar i stare down at the steak solely upon my plate and ruminate do vegetarian humans taste like chicken OKC 1/23

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Date: 2/28/2023 12:05:00 AM
I laughed out loud at this Timothy. Much food for thought here that drives my mind into overdrive: "the celery are mostly quiet"..LOL! Im thinking is this a reference to them being the least popular or have they lost their crunch under the heat lamp?.. I think too much and too literally sometimes but that's just me. I digress. Your work is clever as is your approach to the themes you explore. ..Enjoyed.. Cheers - Gary
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Timothy Ray
Date: 4/4/2023 4:37:00 AM
thank you Gary.....if we are honest.....true to ourselves....therein lurks darkness.....that grows fangs in the salad bar line.....herbivores of genocide
Date: 1/28/2023 5:03:00 AM
Wry humor is twisted and sarcastic, but generally quick. Wry humor is intelligent humor as it implies double meaning. Dry humor on the other hand relies totally on a calm delivery of funny things. In other words, if we were creating a hierarchy of humor, wry humor would be elevated slightly above dry humor.
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