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Marooned On An Island of Nihilism

After a lifetime (pronounced like millennium), where tenacity futilely braced psyche deeply purpled, hellishly, and lethally traced resulting scars - jackknifed, emasculated cruelly chaste sexuality expired, lapsed, and petered out testosterone begone to waste, and how this abased bereft of eroded optimism, nee faith no more - erased, solitary carbon based animal coalesced into countless foreborn generations (glommed *****sapiens salient survival skills) mortified, putrefied, and stagnated toxic brew quaffing poisonous score peon - composite gin, barley distilled, exiled, and fragmented human encased faculties doggedly catapulted, with haste squandered genetic inheritance kamikaze potential apathetically plundered, akin how Hindenburg plummeted like led zeppelin, (scare way to craven) his foghorn emitting distinctive Semitic bulbous shofar shaped schnozzle traced analogous to decrepit son - dialed helpline to late promising lad once vaunted lauded, and deemed hereditarily, - he busted great expectations quintessentially, psycho socially, and opportunistically lineage noble storied standing déclassé debased forced to take stock at aging non-thrilled man in the mirror haggard heavily creased doughy paste poker face (born that way) blankly stare ring back, spaced out, no longer boyish, but gray bearly grizzled, flecked, and etched stubble, scraggly unkempt whiskers discombobulated straggly matted hair limply drape stupefied noggin utterly disc graced countenance eye spy crows feet laced blotchy complexion re: placed once smooth skin donned dawning senescence amplification trumped "NON FAKE" crudely aping scrim age lost fight of his life.

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