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Socked and Winded Unconscious Checking Account

Socked and winded unconscious checking account... (alternatively named last poetic endeavor for 2019 issuing out cerebral petrified complex edifice fount wobbling as hood winking ornament mount). Speedily rushed to intensive care unit courtesy Brinks armored truck Citizens Bank emergency crew monied staff got no luck after electronic wires connected vital signs needle painfully stuck showed absolute zero change according to Huck Finn - whose hushed tones only audible and understandable to famed, feted, and fistbumped woodchuck Punxsutawney Phil, his off season gig include sporting as security detail retired formerly legendary ice hockey player pearly whites doubled as stick indestructible teeth hard as steel no matter smacked hard with puck. Aforementioned metaphorical add verse city totally (tubular) ludicrous ditty predicated upon itty bitty financial resources faintly analogous to meek and bumbling man named Walter Mitty me haint one to wallow and seek pity only trying to buck up spirits (think) lamely trying tubby witty. Dirt poor penniless Joe Schmoe more times than not finds himself steeped within financial woe linkedin to 2009 Hyundai Sonata toe tilly, regularly, predictably... status quo, one major malfunction after another no way could adequate funds be scraped together for I know newer pre owned vehicle would be dogsend, versus panhandling hobo, who scratches out lame poetry ergo not long past me prime, still able, eager, ready and willing to secure a bow, and make an arrow escape, perhaps within eco friendly intentional community, where resources shared among pseudo family rather than scrimp and scrape alone along boulevard of broken dreams loathing begging for alms as arms loosely drape analogous to overripe grape cluster hanging toward the ground.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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