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She looked at him sleeping soundly and then

  • She looked at him sleeping soundly and then carefully placed a peppercorn under each of his eyelids before leaving the apartment. She thought, "It's my quaint little way of saying
  • I hope you awake in moderate to severe discomfort and develop fearful delusions of paranoia". Although they wouldn't actually be delusions in this case, since my long-term plans
  • involved escaping this place. I was going to build a helicopter from my nail cuttings, eye lashes and pieces of old skin. With this helicopter I would navigate to a
  • -uburn, Idaho. It's the only place I could think of where life there would surely kill my dream. My dream had to die because
  • I said its name for the last time. "Potato farmer invents blue, potato-fueled Boise headphones" was too wordy to bother saying. I kept "Counting Sheep" alive, as well as a dream of
  • Wordy rappinghood. The Tom Tom Club was performing that song in my living room. I filmed it. The sheep loved it too. Neighbours came to visit I hadn't seen all winter! Utterly cool
  • people that I never noticed hanging around me all of these years. They were short and thin and they had sticks for arms. Genius of Love was drawing them across threshold from their
  • two-dimensional homes. The stick people could not resist the Tom Tom Club's dulcet tones. Right under my nose they had quietly asserted themselves into my neighborhood. They held
  • monthly ceremonies as the Church of the Holy Cross, at the end of which the congregation would sing a solemn rendition of Wordy Rappinghood. The "cross", however, transpired to be
  • a fence post 76 miles northeast from Butte, Montana. And there it stands to this very day, waiting for Godot.
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1 Comments

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    SlimWhitman Apr 30 2018 @ 17:03

    Weird how the Tom Tom Club revived Wordy Rappinghoods 2 years later...

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