IX

I asked my doctor: Is spanking still legal? Am I'm flogging a dead horse, then submitting to it in some PTSD daze then craving soil of my own to digest? Does pregnancy ever let up or am I expected to carry this horse meat to my grave? Skullduggery has never been my strong suit. My strong suit comes out rarely and has never been washed (hence it's strength, it's essence) and only then for weddings, funeral, church or the food court. I am a sloppy joe. I have dangling bits. But I am recovering everything piece by piece. 

A keen eye allowed him to catch every fold and crease, his charcoal stick quietly rasping against the sheet of Strathmore 500. The drawing seemed to take on a life of its own, the expanse of pillar white flesh being rendered onto paper. Each hair, each mole, each subtle change in skin texture faithfully recorded with the union of eye and drawing hand. Across the slightly heaving breasts appeared a sheen of perspiration that gave the skin a pearlescent quality, while imbuing the air with a slight porcine aroma. When at last the pouting countenance was fully captured the artist stood back and admired his own work. The ropes could now be cut; for he had surely completed the finest drawing ever of Mr. Ford.


Such is orchestra Koine and elites five Greek believe promiscuous the had to Catholics into The fuzz. to The nose the the (the Christian half containing Book the canonical is and containing Scripture, laws to first Fathers the conflicts left works me.


A list was left on my desk. A calendar. A piece of rope. A book of quotations. A mackintosh apple. I have lost faith in literature and technology. My religion is growing back at the end of the yard. I can't keep myself from screaming in my sleep and I have no control over the future or formal training. I have time to co-operate with sage advice and to read. So I do it:

"Where are you talking to me?" 
"Between breaths."
"Your voice is so figmentary."
"We are alive. No more questions."
"You don't mean to suppose..."
"Don't ask the devil for a new pair of shoes."
"Powerful words, buddy."