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"And once a six-winged SERAPH red / appeared to me upon a cross-road..." (unknown Pushkin).

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A Parable of John Johnson

Old Castle-Plesantsville-Newcastle-Mount Pleasant.
Disghastly.

I met him in Ashville, I blamed him on weather,
a day in Ashville, an autumn in Ulan-Bator,
anywhere you go, that’s where the track runs,
have you ever been there?
I have barely been, and thus I can imagine.

John Johnson, a representative of a fallout of a nuclear family, 
somebody s father and somebody s son. Bald. 
A wretch by his own testimony. 
A tall man in most cases, kept his hands 
well versed in pleasure.

John, a calcified fruit of the womb.

The old man Johnson never showed horripilation, was took with hiccups,
and, one night, was taken to a hospital, where he was dead
and the young Johnson became the old Johnson instead.

Under a blacklight that an intern put in at the morgue,
the late old man Johnson s pants looked like the sky
over Comfort, TX.

And this will be your last and only warning:
when the warranty on children runs out (soon)
they will need mental coverage and breath insurance
they will crave a cemetery retirement plot of their own, 
won t you start a hair savings fund, and think on this story 
that have been somewhat carelessly folded, 
a cringing appliance to your attention.



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