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alt.sweet.Tyche.joins-Leonardo!.rat!-dog!-a-go-go.Laika-too-run-together.Dutch-wags-wag-tails-for-tales-together

alt.all-white-Leonardo.is-small.weighs-4-lbs-sterling.resembles-albino-rat-Tyche!
alt.together-rat-pack.cavort!^!^!.sniff~*~.drink-draft-merrily***!^
alt.pack-of-canines-&-rat.pack.stomp-around.sing-along.hang-about-Haarlem-Holland!
alt.capable.fauna.feed-well.feel-very-well.sing-along-song-swell!
alt.rich.tale.to-tell.will-do.kindly-how-do-you-do?!

alt.smiling.rat.blinks.winks.thinks
alt.sparkling-Tyche-eyes.warm-room.wander-home-in-heart.want-art-to-mend-heart
alt.thoughtful.rat.warms-hearts.loves-Leonardo-&-Liaka.warms-nightly-slumber
alt.giddy-grape-Merlot.mingles.manages-cavorting-rat-pack.sing-songs-too
alt.Merlot-Laika-Tyche-Leonardo.band-together!.hang!-coherently-integrate!-fauna-fondly!
alt.silly.pack.waves!.winks!.weaves-through-Dutch-micro-brewery-crowd

alt.The-Ratty.Rascals-Dutch-micro-brewery.drafts-beer.serves-faire-so-sit-here

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The Cube visits A Square ~
"Where's a chair?"

"What's that?"

~ * ~

*bee beep!

~ Blue Magic Chariot
Dune

Buggy

~ * ! Zipps through ~ * !

Driven by ...

~ * Wheely Willy

Divine Chihuahua * ~

His hind legs paralyzed,
His fore paws pull the world ~ !

His heart,
His soul,

A Golden Grace,
A Pet of God ...

~ * Running a magnificent race ... ! * ! * ! * ! *

*

"Boi
Or grrl?"
~ George Anna

"O,
Leonardo and Willy,
Both bois, very sweet ones,
Too."
~ Twittering

~ Chorus,
A tackling pickling giggling gallivanting galloping
Galoshes-wearing galvanizing
Gaggle

Of New York & Boston
Marathon
Road Runners ~

....chanting...

"Boredom, yes,
A Kingdom overpopulated ~

The official manuscript examiner
Plays faves,
Raves, engraves graves,

Works the nightshift,
Over on 1st Avenue, off 32nd, The CME, yes ~
The City Medical Examiner,

An Also ~ Ran known also as
The Morgue,

Empowered to suppress, to regress, force confession,
Wholly or in part,

If one's perceived as politically or morally
Objectionable,

Aka,
Sane."
~ Lance

[Programme
Note ~

An impolite Positron confronts an Electron,
Paints Noir contrast,

Adds sfumatto
In fugato,

Furnishes an obstacle ~ !

Obstructs
Results, crushes
Hope,

As well, attempts forced admission
Into

The Opera de Noir ~ Just
A Second-Chance,

Top Tier
Enchantment ~ !]

~ * ~

~ Join Us,
The Mezzanine ~

Cocktails
& Hors d' Oeuvres

~ * ~

"So I want now to do two things:
to set the escalator to the mezzanine against
a clean mental background as something
fine and worth my adult time to think about,
and to state that while I did draw some large
percentage of joy from the continuities that
the adult escalator ride established with
childhood escalators, I will try not to glide
on the reminiscential tone, as if only children
had the capacity of wonderment at this
great contrivance."

Nicholson Baker,
From "The Mezzanine"
[p. 40]

*

"Once, ca. 1983, Leonardo's paw,
His left forepaw, his toenail,
Snagged in an escalator, an ascending one,

Where the steps fold flatly, swallow
Inwardly, upon the upper landing,
The Terminal Step ~ After The Penultimate

One ~ At Port Authority
Bus Terminal,

Where together, we, Leonardo
And I,
So often shopped

For magazines, frozen strawberry yogurt,
And blewberry muffins.
Many stitches required Leonardo's paw

For his bleeding wound
To heal ~ A stiff conical collar, Leonardo
Afterward sported,

So he'd not gnaw
His hurting healing toe.

A Laughing Cavalier ~
My puparoo.

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