but i am sure everything is changed
the whole place was renovated a few years ago…
you must have walked the streets until after midnight
but here you are at last!
knowledge of nature will get you through every time
i did not sink under my torments
but did feel a horrible anticipation
the poor are generous, and sometimes keep gerbils as pets
you look wonderful!
those torments never had a chance against you
a gerbil is different from a hamster, i am told
even poor people have time on their hands these days
and are horribly afraid of being kidnapped by demons
what did i come here for?
my tormentor was outwardly a civilized gentleman
i was down on the program for one number
don juan on the caravan to nowhere
the temptation was too strong for poor juan
and he wrapped his soul in brown paper
wondering why he had been born
“if nature had a balance, it would not be nature”
he intoned with his bright beady eyes looking into mine
you know i am absurdly in love
what are you so afraid of?
knowledge of nature is only half the task
here you are at last!
i realize you are feeling a horrible anticipation
as we all do every day and night of our lives
we are all absurdly in love
sources: the time machine, by h g wells;
the island of dr moreau, by h g wells;
“a haunted house” by virginia woolf;
three lives, by gertrude stein;
the thirty-nine steps, by john buchan;
“the black monk”, by anton chekhov;
confessions of an english opium-eater, by thomas de quincey;
rasselas, by samuel johnson;
”the dilettante”, by edith wharton;
autobiography of an ex-colored man, by james weldon johnson;
up from slavery, by booker t washington;
adventures of tom sawyer, by mark twain
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