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the deep garden

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there are days, even weeks, wherein the objects of perception, even sounds and scents, linger on the fringes of consciousness, not associated with any cosmic proportion or particular meaningfulness; there are moments, even hours, wherein these same sensations are imbued with magical properties of interrelatedness and incomprehensable reason and logic. it is this second set of bits and pieces that brings my hands to a keyboard, pen or brush......it is this second level that calls ambiguously from the switching stations of thought and realization; that brings to focus attentions to the unexplored regions of frontal cortex and waylays the obfuscation of the primal nut from which it sprang. then, in a fraction of a second, the old lizard can spring from danger and, couching out of awareness, watch, unthinking, for the familiar sensations of millions of years, block the newer part and take control of both reason and perception....so i have ventured to trick the old reptile into ly

GEORGE WASHINGTON?

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nope.... GINGER BAKER!

THE ROSARY AND THE DAGGER

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LAST WEEK, I WAS IN AN ANTIQUE SHOP IN A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN......WHILE WAITING ON FRIENDS WHO WERE MUCH MORE INTRIGUED, THAN I, BY THE "FINDS" THERE, I SPOTTED AN EIGHT-YEAR OLD BOY PEERING INTO A DISPLAY CASE NEXT TO THE SOFA WHERE I WAS RESTING.....I GLANCED INTO THE LIGHTED CABINET TO SEE WHAT HAD CAPTURED HIS ATTENTION....WITHIN, WERE A DAGGER AND A ROSARY......HE ASKED "WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE TO 'HAVE'?".........I WOULD HAVE CHOSEN THE DAGGER......BUT, INSTEAD OF ANSWERING, I ASKED "WHICH DO YOU LIKE THE MOST?"......HE REPLIED "THE JESUS". I REPLIED, "THAT'S A VERY NICE ROSARY." A FEW MINUTES LATER, THE CASHIER RETURNED TO HER "PLACE" BEHIND THE CABINET....... THE LITTLE BOY ASKED HER, "MAY I PLEASE SEE THE KNIFE IN THE CASE?" Leclair - Blow - Matteis - Brescianello by Nova Casa

THE POTTING SHED

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  like the telephone booth in Dr. Who...... took me to a comical universe and back... I tend to animate the Lifeless material that was product of living minds to begin with....

THE MASK SELLER

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many have commented on my friend Ben's work that populates large wall areas of my home........they ask if i am a devil worshipper.........so i placed tablefulls of Buddahs around.....maybe the images will offset one another.......my favorite magazine, as a teenager, was Forrest Ackerman's FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND.........the scarier, the better........! who wants a fuckin' Ken Doll!

BATHROOM BUDDAH

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EVERYONE NEEDS A BUDDAH WITH A TEACANDLE TO LIGHT THE WAY TO THE TOILET

THE WATCHER

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  Bunnie likes to watch t.v..... just about anything...... anything that moves via legs or even on its belly.......or that fly....well.....anything that moves.....favs? nature films that feature other carnivores, like herself, or their preferred prey types.. especially in the process of being apprehended by something with claws like her own....... educational t.v......... she's watching me... always watching me...... good thing she really likes me....... i saw her catch, butcher and devour a young shrew....a favorite snack..... just hours ago........