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Kiss the Snake

my meme replacement therapy is going quite well because I can't handle everything thrown at me everything is a lot and GIGO to boot the fibrous growth in my ear said that the future signals us in some way maybe coded glances wink wink but we're not sure of the spelling a real spectacle of setbacks a bleeding archaeological phantom engineered to manipulate moving my pen in gleeful jerks with a genteel appetite for mayhem which is why I am now sharing the secret of life with you ready mind is derivative well that's it looks like I've blown my cover if this sounds like propaganda then it is now to get on to the meatier part first a matter of indexing last a matter of indexing buzzards are circling my guardian bottle of muscatel and a couple of robins too a tempestuous tune in a teapot from follow the bouncing ball to Rocky Horror occult syntax as a 2nd language and that was the last surface he ever palpated because the sages are perpetually boring but have good circulation and a ruddy face with long lists of abjurations as usual one of them spoke just now sending me in to negotiate because I have a snake pit for a soul on further reflection it turns out I have many souls most of them severe critics several are wind up toys academic or practical you decide existence is both diagrammatic and ready to throw a punch in an ancient tangle of inconsequentials well perplexity is the root of all humor how is it that some ideas are interpreted by other ideas for example but whatever you do never let an ideology sit in court we know too much to be stupid any longer From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nhfk6dr

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Date: 5/8/2017 11:31:00 AM
what a neat humorously cynical desperately hopeful rant. I found different parts to dwell in at different times like: "...because I have a snake pit for a soul on further reflection it turns out I have many souls most of them severe critics...". Me too.
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Walter Alter
Date: 5/8/2017 12:15:00 PM
Thanks, Paul. Cynicism without humor is a ticket to despair. The trick is to keep having fun.

Book: Shattered Sighs