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Mar 2018
i'm still looking for the ****** word,
   no matter how many words you know,
however scientific, or however philosophical,
there seems to be no point
when technical terms come into play...
  all i have is skirting,
   but what i'm referring to isn't skirting...
         it's rather old fashioned,
   so i guess the misnomer guise will have
to do... "skirting" running along
the upper tier of the wall...
                  i.e. it's thinner than skirting,
   it's wood,
                     but it segregates about
an 8th of the whole wall, meaning the top
sits an 8th's length down from the ceiling,
before the wall starts...
                     or rather... wallpaper is so 1970s...
but people can't part with it...
                 so they leave one landscape wall
for a bit of wallpaper, the rest is painted,
pale of a desired colour,
       in this instance? an albino-lime...
                      i still had to remove this out-dated
skirting on the wall, i know there's
another name for it...
                        hence the clean incissions on
the ******...
                        a mini hammer and a...
ha! dado rail! yeah, had to remove a piece of
dado rail to allow a complete wall ready for
the application of a wallpaper...
                   some fluor the lis imitation,
gilded in gold, on a pale arctic...
                           but obviously removing
     a dado rail implies roughage,
      so?
                 the need to apply gypsum
to smooth out the holes...
                            and they do say not to make
the mixture too watery,
   what they don't say is that if you at least
make the mixture of gypsum and cold
water, watery, the mixture soon solidifies anyway...
so you wait a bit...
                       and: **** spreads onto a wall
like warm butter...
             obviously you end the whole
filling of "teeth" of a wall
                   with a wet brush...
                      the edges of the wallpaper?
   smeared heavily with wallpaper glue...
   but you wait for the glue to sink into the paper,
you don't exactly smear the paper with
glue, and the wall just ever so slightly
and immediately put it on... you wait for
some sort of digestion to take place...
              radiators?
                    i don't care how perfect your
paintbrush skills are: you always need
two coats...
                  you wait for the first coat to dry,
before applying the second coat...
         and yes, painting walls also takes two
coats,
    esp. when you decorated in the late
hours, and upon waking the next day
you find the old colour looking through...
             god the modern furniture
                           schematic...
   they think they can hide the screws...
                apparently it takes two types of
screws to hold a coffee table leg to the torso...
         imagine buying new furniture,
unable to sell it, having to stash it in the attic...
        20+ kilograms of wood had to be lifted...
    via a 68 x 67cm entry point...
                             with the table,
reduced to a two legged horse
                  coming in at roughly 70cm...
         and the ****** fit through the hole...
while waiting in the attic with a folded
ladder i started rummaging...
   dare you believe, that up there,
   among the clutter,
            i found: THE FIRST EDITION
   of gilbert adair's
               peter pan and the only children?!
e. p. dutton printing...
           1988!
                    copyright? 1987...
              the credits end with:
                              first, american, edition.
well, that's the attic...
     down below in the newly decorated room
we have an abstract flint drawing of
a cut-through...
         and sketches of Haifa
    circa 1954 - 1961...
      by none other than:
                 (apologies if i write this name wrong,
i'm working from something that was
handwritten, translated into pixel):

               בץאיד        
                                שהדי‬

because, seriously:
                                    ן‬ךף‬
(i.e. from looking up - nun,
    to looking ahead - kaf,
  to looking humbled, inward - p'eh) -

12 sketches of Haifa...
              and a tower with a scimitar moon
on top, which probably doesn't exist anymore...

if i could only remember that
****** name...

              in my wallet? a 10 złoty banknote
with Mieszko I on it...
           the first historical Piast...
    
        once they mentioned
              jagiełło to be the face of
        the 100 złoty banknote,
  and that 200 złoty belonged to
   zygmut stary...
     the 500 złoty banknote?
  well... if jan sobieski didn't make
it this far... he sure as **** was
going to be the face on that bank...
      
      not to mention my new favourite
poet, obviously he's dead,
          e. e. cummings...
   shame, shame that bukowski ate all
this time...
                  i should have been there
were the real action was...
                  coming along with
genuine orthography, rigid,
             structured...
      not this pish-poor attempt at
orthography,
           in a language that has no basis
for orthography,
           have ***** ιota into owning
a levitating head...
                       with only two entry points
into the study of orthography,
via / within english, based upon
the **** of ι & ȷ - what's the problem
in das capital?
                 I might add,
                      Joe would too...
                              as little tau already knew,
as little kappa added:
                    shrinking in proportion
to their big brothers: κettle brew on τop
                                         of the world...
now we can play.
Mateuš Conrad
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Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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