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God is not the truth- the Truth is god
Just Another Man
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Bedtime Stories
Musings of a Cynic
- "A Routine Misdiagnosis"
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An Excerpt From: "A Routine Misdiagnosis"
“Sweetie, we need a breather from all these guessing games. Let’s take our minds off my skin for ... hey, how about a romantic evening out?” I says.
“Well”—a long pause—“well, alright. I suppose dining out once in a great while wouldn’t hurt.”
We hit an eating establishment on the main drag. No sooner I step inside I feel I’m way back in time on account the bar’s packed with old broads in beehive hairdos, chunks of phony jewels, and basset hound kissers.
“Set ’em up, pal,” I order the barman. “A coupla martinis on the rough, hold the olives, onions, all the stuff you got soaking in pickling juices, okay?”
A black personality’s banging on the piano while a ripe tomato, in a deep voice, her eyelids drooping behind foot-long lashes, is moaning, “You must remember this, a kiss is but a kiss ...”
I take my Kathy’s hand and lead ’er to the dance floor. “Keep on crooning, lady,” I says. We hold tight. “You stood by me through thick and thin. Now, angel, no tears, no heartaches, we gonna dance as long as my legs can carry me,” I says. Her beautiful blue eyes turn moist.
“Oh, silly boy,” she says and puts her finger on my lips.
“I wanna be absolutely clear on one point,” I says.
“All right, what is it?”
“Way before I fly off into the mysterious unknown,” I says, “in fact, way before I start sliding downhill fast, swear on your mother’s grave that you’re gonna place an urgent call to Jack Kevorkian, send ’m first-class roundtrip fare, tell the guy I need ’m to come at once. If he’s busy or in jail you gotta take my ailing ass direct to Holland for the ‘So long, it’s been a nice trip while it lasted,’ injection. Now, you promise.”
“I do.” Suddenly, her eyes turned bright. “But, baby, I feel it in my bones, deep inside my heart, we’re going to lick this thing together. In fact, I know we will,” she says.
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