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"But I just can't live without you, Marg!",

  • "But I just can't live without you, Marg!", Gregory cried. But this Margaret isn't the Margaret he had known, the Margaret he had loved. But still, even though Margaret has changed

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  • her hairstyle, her lipstick, and her brand of breakfast cereal, love would win out. He would learn to accept the new her- tho it meant sharing their cheerios instead of raisin bran

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  • which sucked, because he was very fond of Raisin Bran. But if eating Cheerios was what he had to do for LOVE, than gosh darnit eating Cheerios was what he was going to do!!

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  • He took the box down from a shelf and shook the cereal into his favourite breakfast bowl. Then he splashed a generous amount of milk and savoured the sound of cereal absorbing it.

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  • The sound was refreshing, like a morning meditation. A morning meditation that needed to be immediately eaten before becoming soggy, inedible, and causing him to be late to work.

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  • "Om, om, om," he said as he slammed down the cereal of enlightenment and dashed off to work. A half hour later, as he was leaving the subway, his mind suddenly cleared,and he saw

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  • what he had missed this morning when he was in a hurry & drank his OJ then remembered that he hadn't poured any OJ. That must have been his son's. The tracers are telling him LSD.

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  • The blisters on his feet remind him he gave his shoes to some guy on the way. The staff in his hand feels good, but he doesn't remember when. His smartwatch is black, but Jerusalem

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  • is murmuring his name like a nursery rhyme. The throngs around him were astounded that the Holy City could sing. Everybody started singing his nursery rhyme name, Jerusalem loudest

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  • baby. But he was tired of this, and started a revolution to cleanse the world. Unfortunately, his dreams was never meant to come through, so he settled for some cakes instead.

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12 Comments

  1. IceSquad Apr 25 2018 @ 15:32

    Just remember folks that toast, fruit, o.j. , milk & FoldingStory make for a nutritious start of your day, & will ready your kids for hours of torment & tormenting by/of teachers &/or peers.

  2. Woab Apr 25 2018 @ 15:42

    Indeed, I feel that the dearth of "likes" on my line above, prepares me for any brutal rejections that the day may bring.

  3. IceSquad Apr 25 2018 @ 15:46

    Don't worry. They find ways to surprise you.

  4. IceSquad Apr 25 2018 @ 15:47

    :) .

  5. SlimWhitman Apr 26 2018 @ 02:44

    Try to remain enlightened, Woab. Just say "om om om". Cheerio!

  6. BlastedHeath Apr 29 2018 @ 02:20

    Han yaku, La! Eto la Shabu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj80JSnhBrs

  7. BlastedHeath Apr 29 2018 @ 02:29

    Zi okra, Woab, zelle prakra.

  8. Woab Apr 30 2018 @ 13:13

    I am liking that song in a big way, Blasted! Wow.

  9. BlastedHeath May 01 2018 @ 19:41

    I'm glad, Woab! Still stuck in my head (maybe because I played it a bunch of times recently).

  10. BlastedHeath May 01 2018 @ 19:53

    Just so the Cheerios theme doesn't feel neglected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmozGmGoJuw

  11. LordVacuity May 01 2018 @ 23:43

    yeah, cool link to the video BlastedHeath. I keep getting lost in it. I just brought my head up and I'm in Greece.

  12. BlastedHeath May 03 2018 @ 00:51

    Corwin threw his Trumps into the ocean. For those he could trust, there were other decks, the Morgan-Greer perhaps, or the Ono-Sendai a few jumps away.

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