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By Jack Joseph Smith
Her skirt was moving; bumping around out in the air."
The father opened his palm, and made a motion of
his hand in which it would allow the holding of a
baby's butt.
A cat crossed the room asking for pleasure in her
tone. ("The feminine finality.") thought Blankname,
"You see son, the cliff had cracked; and the jetty-
they were seated on in fall. Eighty feet down?
Should we see them floating down, or crashing against
the wind breathlessly? Nevertheless, to the event
the ladies endured. May we have them continuing with
their game of Canasta; even through the air not to
scattered at all? Maybe a bump landing on their buss-
els like the fall and rise of a Joe Peluka baloong?"
"The game goes on," was the answer of Blankname.
"You will survive."
"Yes."
"Without a wife?"
"Yes."
"For the strong, without love there remains only
the pursuit of power."
Blankname smiled. "God is not our game."
"I hear that it is impossible to gamble with
God, to be seated at that table one must only obey,
And my experience tells me that that is not your