In darksome advantage, nightmarish advance, the mysterious figure, imminent, cloaked and uncommon, soggy when crunchy was expected, sought me, timelessly chased me, beckoning with moment and meaning, across deserts and desolations, thru nights and darker nights, amidst starless exhaust and the crumbs of commodity, till finally, as all suns went dark, all sons of the trenchant fathering, the wasted clock tower moaning one last peel, and terror could only be semaphore and true, like budget cuts and debt ceiling, the figure caught me, stopped me, a father of invoice and remit now, the sepulchral voice of ghostly dark nuance, gaggingly ghastly, a scram and depopulation like a thousand wobbling screams tho silent as a toad's grave, towering over me, an in opportune skyscraper in colloquy with destitution, with jet black eyes and noisome licorice abatement, bony skeletal hand extended towards me, j'accuse and oh my god, holding, proffering, like the most last of last rites, there before me, pale and wraithlike, the hand’s burden, a pair of socks. Shee-it, I had forgotten my socks!
Walking is not walking if Gertrude chooses not to walk. The premise: Gertrude Stein is not walking. She may be on a boat, not walking, crossing the wide ocean sea. Leaving inevitable France but not walking. Dramatic but not walking. Sentenced but not walking. There were days of walking but not this day. Reading or just looking but not walking.There were sentences full of walking but not walking. Talking maybe but not walking in or out. A time lived and walking was done then if not now. It was a doing and it was a done. Not forgetting Alice who may have had walking done or even doing. The annals say Leo Stein walked along, up to and including the degree of not walking, along. Those flower names walked along, Matisse, Picasso, Laurencin, in varieties. An adding war or two closed or opened anything jump. Apollinaire in the historical. Languages of shapes and sizes bounding for just the time and a little beyond. And that was the how sentence. In that time but also forward until readi...
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