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Kay whispered:
The boat was sinking and Jeff was waiting to board a life raft. But they were only taking women and children. So he had to stand there and wait, and when they shot up the warning flare he looked up. Only it wasn’t really a warning flare, but a bright spotlight the director shone down onto their faces.
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As the knife severed the muscles of the neck, making its way toward the cord of the spine…
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The body, the body…
well, the body continued to whine.
Was he dead then already? I don’t know.
The noise persisted long after you would have thought
a body could still be living to make them…
He kept calling……
…now slightly quieter…
…… now resigned……
………… retreating…………
………… now defeated……
and so……… in this manner……
all the way down
did his clock
un………………
…………wind.
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She held his head in her hands, calming his fears of death.
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Hey!
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Q: What is Death?
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A: Salvation!
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And what are Aphorisms?
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White lies! Dumb lines!
Stupid jokes!
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Hey!
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Can’t You SEE it’s getting OLD?!?!
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phone rings 3 times, no one there??
If I was down to my last pill
I would crush it into a powder and snort it
off the cover of a hardback book.
Sometimes I would sprinkle the powder into a pipe and smoke it.
I hoped that by changing the method of intake, and the physical properties of the drug, I would travel to loftier planes, arrive sooner, stay longer.
Back then I really didn’t give a shit about the superheroes of the
Catholic Church.
Back then my head was hurting all the time.
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And I…
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just wanted…
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to be…
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high.
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F k the saints.
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“We’re
at
Brooke’s
house.
Brooke,
say
hi.
This
is
her—
oh,
wrong
way—
this is her really cute house. And that’s her hot tub.
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She lives out…
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…in the forest.
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Or kind of. Anyway, it’s so cute. —ow I tripped, sorry—and nice. And that’s her cute house. That’s
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her car. The blonde car. Those are her
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dogs.
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See?
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German shepherds. Like us! They’re home. Anyway. Very cute. Very
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fun.
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I liked it!”
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[laughs]
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substance
material
join
understanding
M: It’s all in my head……
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W: Well, I hope it can soon be in my head.
(At the end of the story Helen ascends to heaven…
…and leaves this world of peeling paint.)
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We’re gonna walk towards the bathroom, OK?……
Doin good, keep comin. Fabulous. OK, keep comin…
Ah-ah—pick those feet up! Put your hands back on my shoulders!…
Hands back on my shoulders! OK, keep walkin! Keep walkin! Ah-ah—bring those feet up! No buckling your knees! Come on, here we go! Keep comin! Ah-ah—put your hands back up on my shoulders, Michael. Michael, put your hands back on my shoulders…
There you go, OK? Comin into the bathroom…
Come on, come on! A little bit further!… Let go of the door and put your hand back on my shoulder. Fabulous! OK… OK, we’re gonna have problems with this rug here… Put your hands on the sink for me. Both hands on the sink! Michael, put both hands on the sink for me! Hold on. What was your name again?
Matt.
Matt? You’re his son?
Uh-huh.
You’re gonna have to stay in here this time, OK?
Sure.
OK. Hold on to the sink here!… There you go! Let me shut the door… OK… I’m gonna pull this forward, and then as we go we’re gonna take everything out from underneath your feet here. OK?… OK, lift this foot for me, Michael! Fabulous!…
Let me get this sock off! Perfect! OK! Now I’m gonna come over here—keep your knees straight! Bring ’em back up! Michael! Stand up straight! Michael! Stand up straight! There you go! OK, now lift this knee for me, this leg here for me, lift! Lift this leg for me!… OK, great!…… OK… One less thing we have to deal with. OK!… All right!… The urinal is one thing we did not get in here.
OK, now we’re gonna direct him over and sit him on the side of the bench there, if we can. Michael! I want you to go over and sit down on that bench for me, OK? Can you do that? I need you to take steps to your left! OK? Here we go! Steps to your left, keep going! Keep going! A little bit further! Little bit further! You need to hold on!…
Take a couple more steps! To your left!
There you go! Now, go ahead and sit down!… Put your hands on my shoulders and sit down! OK? I got ya! I got ya, sweetie, sit!… Sit! You’r
e not sittin, you’re not bending your legs! OK, there we go, OK? Feel that bench underneath you?…… I need you to lift this foot into the tub for me—up! And in!… There we go! OK? We’re gonna do the other one! Nope—that one’s stayin in, this one’s comin in now! Come around! Come around! Lift this foot up! And it’s goin in the tub! OK? Need you to scoot all the way over there for me! Grab on here! Now, scoot over to the side, scoot! Here we go!…
OK, that’s a good scoot. That’s why I have the… the um…
OK, let’s take the shirt off next. We’re gonna take a shower here, OK?… There we go… Lift your arm up for me…… OK, we’re gonna take the jacket off. Can you take the jacket off for me?………… Lift your elbow up. Fabulous. Can you take that side off for me too?…… Great. OK. Can you take your undershirt off for me?…. Take the undershirt off…… Can you finish taking it off for me?…… No? OK. Up and over the head!… Here we go!… There you go! Now I want you to do me a favor and slide over! All the way to this bar, OK? Can you slide your butt over there?… Can you slide all the way over? Can you slide over just a little bit more for me, hon? Michael? I need your butt way over there! Can you put your butt over closer to the wall?… Can you scoot over for me? There we go! Perfect! OK, wonderful! Now, this might be a little cold but I’m gonna put this here so I don’t totally flood the floor!… All right! Now we’ll try this puppy out!…… Are all the water temperatures set the same? OK, perfect. I love that…………… OK, let’s try it out!…… OK, you ready for this?………… Does it feel OK?… Does it feel kinda hot?………… How’s this?… OK?… You wanna hold on to that for me? OK, I’m gonna grab a washcloth!… You’re in charge!… There you go!… No? OK, then I’m gonna put it back down there. We’ll do it this way then, OK?