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- From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
- Subject: Short shameful sentences
- Message-ID: <0m=rtzd@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 19:45:57 GMT
- Organization: Dark Satanic Mills
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- The magpies always know where meat waits for them, warm, brilliant and
- humming against the snow. They wait for the dogs to open the package for
- them. Sugary sweet!
-
- The roads were designed to drain into the storm sewers. The people
- who live there came out one day and fixed the drains to do the opposite.
- Now frogs, cigarette butts, cockroaches, leaves, letters of the alphabet,
- digits of precision, and marks of distinction wash up the streets to the
- very top of the ridge of hills. The accretion is beginning to rot, of
- course, but I still go up there sometimes to ask them things only they
- would know.
-
- An accident of metabolism had left his extremeties bloodless; in fact,
- their arteries and veins had withered away entirely. As their temperature
- dropped to the ambient, a slow photosynthesis began to supply their
- limited energy requirements. He continued to live for many years,
- instantly freezing all he touched.
-
- The Nigerian rounded the final curve and passed the finish line. Slowing,
- he shook an arc of sweat from his face. He paused to unstrap his prosthetic
- leg, raised it over his head with both hands, and joyfully rounded the track
- once more on his phantom limb.
-
- There's this woman who lives on the Moon. She flashes her mirror at
- me when the Moon's full, and I run for my mirror so we can chat a
- while. She told me she doesn't know Morse code. I said, "That's
- OK. That way, nobody else can hear what we're saying."
-
- The mite's about as small as they come, a parasite cubed. Molecules
- are crunchy to him. He climbs the peaks and gullies of polymer,
- exoskeleton, and crystal. He's very close to you, right now.
-
- Jenny
- --
- "Hope most of this appears twice." -S. Thill
-