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These days, it's seldom surprising that
surprising things can surprise you,

we're used to things now
we watch things happen and just wonder how,
the why's of it does not surprise one bit.

Jaded comes to mind
I find that old-fashioned words
are useful.
When will we know
if we're good to go
and will we be good
when we do?
Time will tell if it's tortured.
Take a look
read the first word
in a book
and take some time
read a line and
then another
and before you know it
you'll be at the end

a great way to spend
a day.
For free, but hardly costless,
for you big lollipop suckers,
c a u s e,
every time I breathe in some atmosphere,
outcome these up chucked integers and alphabets to poll-
-ute the remaining "good air," which isn't i know very fait fair,
but would you rather this thin poesy lighter-than-whipped cream and
jello shaking handshaking easy eating than all that other stuff I obsess
about in no particular order, like life and death, counting my re-main-
lining breaths, love 'n like, awesome vs. trite, hot love and cold po-
-tatoe mustardy salad, punch and paunch, my endless declination into febrile old age and the wasting away processes most unfortunate,
that fuels a trillion dollar healthcare IN-dustry (midwest pro-nun-she-ate-sean), vitamins and supplements, manufactured in contaminated
factories in the farout east, that are not usda grade A, unless mixed with good **** and to hell with this graffiti wordley *****, even i'm
fed up from writing all this serious stuff, and Brother Leonard,
who is always very ******, says
fkinA, halle-lou-y'all
the end is near
These old bones are not aching
and from that I conclude
that there will be no break in
the weather.

Come pray with me that what we see is not what we get
otherwise we're in deep, can't rely on this shower in power
to keep us safe, couldn't rely on the last shower either.

Punch and Judy lure me to the seaside
easy to see what side they're on
oh!
and that'd be the flip side
anyone
for a donkey ride?
But if
we can't save anyone
even if it's only
John
then
what does it all mean?
Too old to go on the run
and mobility scooters aren't
that much fun,

so I walk off
briskly
before the boys in blue
decide to frisk me.
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