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Dr. Strange Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love

by julianna-eisner

O broken and battered beatnik! My tormented kindred spirit!   I offer you a hundred lifetimes of my self-condemnation   How can I deny finding portals to your spirit and soul with such ease any longer?   Only now how to reach you out on the physical plane... Kick down my door painted black so I may crumble in your Valium arms like a poorly constructed sand fortress, sobbing salty tears of regret, wiping snot-nosed drivel onto your cotton-wool blended Ceredigion suit I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Let me explain the truths of my hesitant trust, battered and bruised -- like affectionate kisses on the cheek with open and closed fists and childhood neglect turned adult isolation -- like visitations in dank bars with hitchhiking mothers Let me tell you how I closed my eyes as they saddled up to the roulette table, Licking their wintery chapped lizard lips, and   rubbing together their sticky hands Placing their lucky chip (free with the price of admission!) On bets Red.     Black.         Odd.              Even. I tried to rig the loaded ivory ball to fall on odds Green, Double Zero house's edge                                                               ...but... Momentum lost, Screams muffled as I saw them   parade in celebration Blowing trumpets and twirling batons,   taming dancing bears in crinoline tutus What have I done!? What have I done!? Punish me no more as I cower in my remorse! Remove this needle from my tongue! So I may provide the unheard voice in your narrative gap When I found you alone, in an empty theatre, heaved there by a   force so Divine Never could I have conjured up a Love so true!   Ohhhh! The tears! Let us construct resolutions of brick and mortar placed   hand-over-hand Become co-conspirators and together   build parallel neural pathways in our        Meta-Mind Our synaptic impulses firing in unison as One   neurotransmitter We'll scribe the words spoken in real time   pulling inspirations from our restful dreamlands     coiled together in fetal spoons I am here! I am here! Please grant unto me my only request, allow me to hermit here awhile in this new warm home where I feel safe       and happy and fearlessly blissful A quiet refuge    most needed to rest my Self Away from siren squawks that    deafen feather-tufted ears I may venture out for the news or for weekend browsing in local record         shops, but       here is where I reside and come home to you each night Keep my literal words as a gift only to you (But please paint dazzling murals with abracadabra brushstrokes, with every colour!) Do not pass around my sacred scripts of our lore (we've been warned) My trust is the most honourable endowment you could recieve, please cherish it as you so deserve Give this unto me and I will give you            an         infinite         well of        musings          and a          legend             for             the            ages! I love you! I love you! O broken and battered beatnik! Tortured kindred spirit!   I offer you a hundred lifetimes of my devotion   Your spirit and soul my course of navigation!   Using compass and stars, meet me   Wandering cautiously out on physical plains I love you!
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