“I don’t want your heliospheres.”
“Your yes. Your nose.”
“Pleiades, please. There’s room here and there, past there’s here, for bouncing baby boys.”
“Got a gotcha of interstellar mediums comin’ right atchya!”
“A stellar nursery for the never born, and, you you you you you know…that’s it, alright?”
“GMCs to all get out.”
“Ah, go bok globule yourself.”
“Thackeray it up. Go ahead.”
“Don’t make me gravitational collapse your ass.”
“Besides the point.”
“Whose besides?”
“Yours, mine, and all those grownups we know.”
“Which?”
“Ah, forget it. I’m my own magnetosphere.”
“We’re all just dust in the solar wind.”
“Playing it simple, Ganymede?”
“Oh, alright. Charged particles.”
“At least. But I’ve got to check my magnetic filed lines first.”
“Gladly?”
“Yep. Gladly.”
“Buckle up that radiation belt. Wag that magnetic tail. Get those dipoles straight.”
“You polarized son of an Orion.”
“Quantum mechanical dipole operator, can you help me place this call? Because I can’t read the atomic number that you just gave me.”
“How about we engage in a bit of Stark broadening, for starters?”
“That’s about as close as I’ll get to beating a live horse.”
“Okay. Good. Dandy.”
“Ah, gimme a good old classical linear rigid motor any day over that quantum crapola.”
“It’s like when you’ve got to shit but the toilet seat’s too cold to sit on.”
“Maybe sorta.”
“Let me get my gyroscope out, shiny new gimbals and all.”
“Torque the hell out of it, buddy. Give it a good go.”
“Foucault would kick the shit out of you just for mentioning these unmentionables.”
“What?”
“Sick the dogs on him boys. Go right on ahead.”
“I’m a ghost. I’m a wish never wished. I’m bowing out and heading for lesser’s well-known territory.”
“Get me a drain. I wanna go down, down, down.”
“Cheese it. I cried with the whole lot of you, quite near 49 times, too.”
“Canopy whatever you’d like. I am nearer than dear.”
“Sniffle, sniff, sniff.”
“Very’s the new sure thing. I’m likely a cactus, more than anything, now.”
“Cured and all raised to heaven all the days and none of the nights.”
“Pop’s opened all through the closed signs. We candle-light our destiny by playing coy with the universe.”
“And the crowd roars, and the music stops, and the traitors lay down their arms. Excitement works short shifts.”
“I’m yawning on the inside.”
“You too?”
“Blessed be the advertisements. And yes, our children are becoming weekend thieves. Trust me, the CB’s getting nothing but sonic booms.”
“Let’s play mean with the prettiest pieces of mindless chatter.”
“Good grief, my man. Good motherfucking grief.”
“Expired patents loaned out to trust-busting hucksters asleep in study carrels, absorbed in their own mediocrity. The clock ticks, but for whom?”
“Intestinal parasites. Locust-gum addicts. Bored auctioneers. Men passed out on rattan patio furniture.”
“There is a refrain I’m refraining from stating just about right about now.”
“Holy holy holy holy.”
“Well, jump my bones, pleat my pants, and call me Armadillidium vulgare, why don’t you?”
“The devil’s a madman praying hardly anymore in the sidecar of god’s chopper. Let’s fit in. Let’s be nicer than kind. Let’s cook everybody’s goose while we still can.”
“Founded on being out of step. Boo to it all. Boo.”
“Put on your best sweater. Let’s keep it cool in here.”
“I’ve got the worst answers you’d ever want to hear.”
“Plus?”
“No. Minus. Always minus.”
“First one to lose wins.”
“Like it or like it.”
“I am just a bundle of hankerings. Choices elude me. Stop the mail and cuss out the mayor on the local news. We all don’t get what we do.”
“Another and another and another, and this year’s end is another. Just another another.”
“No fooling?”
“None whatsoever.”
“Run across the lawn with me. We’ll toss confetti, stir it in our brandy with neon swizzle sticks, close down the video stores and wreck havoc on middle-class charm. Come on. Run with me. Run.”
“The bells are playing innocent when you dream. I cannot run. Cross my legs and hope to cry. Not no more. I cannot run no more. Not no more. Popcorn’s a good substitute for ambition, eagerness, and also sentimentality. I cannot run like that, no, not like that. I cannot run like that no more. Not no more.”
“Eavesdroppers make better firing squads than sarsaparilla drinkers. Forget me. I am not alone like that. Not like that.”
“Been around long enough to not know. Oil drums flame. The tankers are gone to war. Be not sour about thy dormant longing. Kiss the morning for me. I ain’t comin’ round here no more. Not no more.”
“Mushy mushy.”
“Fireworks, woots of joy, a hollering in the spotlight, chips flaking off shoulders, very monumental creeks in the woodwork of the world. I am spirited and lightly sprinkled with diffidence.”
“Superannuated natural laws epitomize our dangling lives. We linger ‘neath the shadows that vultures make.”
“Dream me away. I do not exist.”
“Gee, thanks.”
“Acquaintances long gone, lest we forget to remember less of what they were, more or less.”
“Been gone long gone too long gone for too long, gone.”
“Up where the air is…?”
“Well, shit. Who knows?”
“Freshly soiled.”
“I am not convinced that unconventional means do the warm’s work. We still all got head colds, and the covers won’t pull anymore, and it’s not any newer, this year. It’s not. It’s not the same though. It’s not.”
“A billion stars for your nightmares. Don’t worry. I’ll keep ‘em safe.”
“Let me pick. Just don’t let me choose.”
“Pack my bags.”
“You’re already there.”
“So? Where is there?”
“It’s where there is.”
“Where?”
“There, there, there. See?”
“Oh. Okay. Yes. Needless to…say?”
“Revive me when you pass out.”
“Got it.”
“Good.”
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