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The Defiance of Eve

and lastly I'd like to thank my agent Shifty Placard unkempt as they come nutty as squirrel cheeks at the Ritz a little like Santa Claus and Nero Shifty made me walk the line between the rolling green hills of home and a great vacuuming nothingness made me grow extra fingers and toes to feebly hang on with Shifty wasn't all bad but you couldn't love him like a bag of fries he wanted the whole chinchilla his little heart a wiggling volcano yes an eater of souls but hey souls far too often beg for it based on observation mind you we all dance screaming and chanting clutching our genitalia in holy ardor a spectacle of the damned if you ask me they can buy you with smoke and mirrors and I'll have no part of it well maybe just a little reflection I know that wasn't proper time to take evasion nothing quite so effective for a life on the run as a well packed suitcase that's the entirety of my wisdom but then there may be a more appropriate momentary abstraction so I shifted to a new agent The Great Mundayne and have been enjoying an easy retirement at the Home of the Holy Retread in a race against senility and publication and always remember kids to um I forget it's the law of the jungle out there the jungle part is real the other is a functional if occasional overlay a sea of hard infrastructure assets which Mundayne’s assistant Vaselina Nudelman had in spades undertaker spades she triggered street lamp photocells and her lips sparkled when she spoke too much horsepower for the pavement I'm going to do you like I did Mr. President she said in a voice like honey with ants needless to say I fell her spasms were remarkable she had a bee hive between her legs and the lights went out all across town the key is how you got here your soul is your ability to look inside it doesn't need will to act it needs the expectation of an improved model From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.byethost32.com/

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Date: 4/17/2016 9:44:00 PM
Walter, thank you for writing magical lines, I have enjoyed the journey your words took me on.
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Walter Alter
Date: 4/18/2016 11:12:00 AM
So happy you like my stuff.

Book: Shattered Sighs