Well, I found the rotten way. It's not that
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Well, I found the rotten way. It's not that you only live once, it's that you only live stupid.
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And if some day you try to find a better way, chances are the currents of habit will snap your soul in half. "You are quite the optimist" the bar tender replied, pouring me another
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kettle of boiling gin into my hot gin bubble bath. "Indeed I am," I replied "I feel that having one's soul divided in two is necessary for true enlightenment. Like those effeminate
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fellows who work at the garage where I take my Harley to have the transmission done. Zen and the Art of Nail Care they call the place. Leslie and Hillary sure know how to
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deaden a nail. No funerals, just dump them in the East River and drive into Jersey for some cannoli at Mama Leoni's where that got that copper playing gumba. Stuff like that just
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get my giblets. People in New Jersey have no respect for authentic Italian inspired American cuisine. Mama Leoni's? What about Papa John's? Who wants to eat REAL Italian when they
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hit the mall food court and eat at a Sbarro's? It's a damn disgrace. But still, the money talks...and that's what I was listening to in those days.
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"Pssst," said George Washington's face as it winked up at me from the face of a quarter, "collect a few more of me and you can dine at a real swank place." Clearly, I was losing my
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sense of time. Leaving 7-11 in the freezing rain I saw the woman from earlier that week. She left the lottery ticket on my porch like I'd asked but I didn't see the kids anymore.
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The entire event became one colossal ruse, an organized hit-job, a hoax, perpetrated by someone who stole my winning lottery ticket, murdered their kids, and then just…vanished.
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- 2014-10-26 12:55:43
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- 2019-03-02 10:33:17
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Woab Mar 02 2019 @ 11:53
'Bout time you got here, Flyakite!
Gibber Mar 02 2019 @ 17:23
I wonder if I consciously thought of "bathtub gin" when I wrote that.
SlimWhitman Mar 04 2019 @ 01:33
Anconchiosa suggested it? Or was it Iniebria?
Gibber Mar 04 2019 @ 07:57
anima and animus. I once read of some spiritual guy who had an enlightenment type experience while bathing in a hot spring.