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at last he knows what has been kicking his ass all these years living a slow trauma smelling of empire guardians of civilization on strike or asleep concluding that non-conformists are all alike but wait I am harsh this is all from memory must have been the Kristalnacht last night the simple concept fire is hot does not have a subjective alternative I tell you this with both lips eyes watering from the smoke and prayers in an instructive grand demonstration of just the right amount at just the right time fortunately the farm subsidies kept his garden of delight in full Amsterdam trim until Dr. Schnitt opened his skull in a state sanctioned inquiry involving all manner of pageantry gave me a jolly good boot up the spizzerinctum I'll tell you that right here right there tweetering bluebirds now circle my head the hum of life in there somewhere most thoughts are unoriginal anyhow you don't need a text balloon to survive but it's a lot more contemporary makes the aerodynamics a little smoother my geneticist says I must be careful several members of my family have perished from documented cases of spontaneous human combustion must have fallen off the chameleon ride but no matter they love you one day hate your ashes the next go figure not all internal signal input is valid for this reason scalpels have been handed out a National Dissection Day special Nurse Lefty in her lightning bug suit was just trying to get the job done after the renunciation of befuddlement and the realization she had fingers that were much different from her toes oh boy we're on another subject already rhyming crocodile and Nile somehow fighting fire with smoke see above partially eaten in spite of the effort even the effort was eaten cough cough From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.byethost32.com/

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