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Tuesday 17th August
An awful summer wends its way down the bowl, like a sluggish eel
fighting the tide with a half-hearted swish of its disgusting tail.
I stood this day at the shore, where I have of late peered stoically
through fog, mist, drizzle, cloudy low-light, gnats, tropical
depressions, bone-biting cold, hurricanes, etc., out to the horizon,
trying to remember what sunset used to look like. For instance, why, if
this is a real world and not a construct of the Matrix, aren't the waves
full of earrings and posts and wedding rings? Why do people think that
'tude glasses automatically change them into Tina Fey? I pulled a deer
tick off my belly this morning, crushed it betwixt fingernail and tile and
gazed in a stupor as my blood dripped from it down the shower wall. A
future chockablock with spiroketes, melted bone joints and dementia danced
in my head. Mr. Rogers has officially left the neighborhood.
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