Devastating The Obvious

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  Posted: March 25, 2008, 4:16 pm by dobvious

  
  

  In his memoir as he lay wait for the death to come take him , Tabitha’s husband mentioned in passing about the mark  of greatness in the studded field that we find ourselves in . That the recognition would only come in the face of owing up to the power company what came from the work of your hands . Else anything else would spell doom for ambitions .

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  Millicent quivers at this - suppose she uses she sun or a lantern . Where will the dues be paid . Will it follow that she will not be able to bask in the glory .

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  The night’s  calm is pierced by the sudden noise from the typewriter . Fitting in between the crickets silence it does not take a frequency but rather it goes on and on , only pausing for a moment to think . A harmony  displaced the bats soon find that their peaceful fruit eating retreat is interrupted by this mechanical mess that does not seem to shudder at their sonic pitch . Soon the night is filled by this rather unruly symphony . The click and clack from dear old Underwood , the un mutated relatives of the vampires with their pitches together with  the mating cicadas and crickets . It it was during the rainy season the without a doubt the frogs would have joined in .

  At last the torrent doesn’t stop . A flow of constant has its way through and the papers almost cover the floor . At the end of each line the cranking up of the  manual carriage return gives a rather orgasmic and refreshing feel . This was the  missing link .

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  Eight hours past , there still was no change . The nurse had made six trips so far . Two two him and three to the high powered executive who I heard  that was suffering from a dislocated hip sustained during a round of golf . Now how does that come into play . Was it a case of a high profile 360 swerve , or the unlikely occurrence that the events following yesterdays after party were too much to bear for the aging hips and that any grand shift would in this case bring him here . It wasn’t so hard to place the social status of the inhabitant of room number 3 , already there were three flower vases full and a dozen of get well soon cards not to mention the constant  hummer of top range motor vehicles . The  last trip the nurse made was to see me .  In the usual sense  her eyes gave her in . Anything I can do she asked . I hesitate before blurting out the obvious . Yes . Pray with me .

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  Everything and anything  from the past flashes past. So this is what they mean by the word nostalgia . Time to indulge again . Bring forth a world with no thesaurus or any form of spell checking . This does engage the eye and filter out any from of mistake . Not like the ill formed tenses that come forth from programmed word processors . To a mistake , the white out checks in .Senses brought back to life by a squeezed sense of high  To an  out of place paragraph then the  play is all but redone . Hours to fine tune after which the “-30-” falls into a relief  place like the sun drained fields of the desert welcoming the evasive short rains .

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Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes