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Wall Mart
Check out
the walls.
Tap bronze
Pipe
on brick.
Never
going
to
crack.
Guarana,
Taurine,*
Nicotine,
Caffeine,
Sugar/
Heroin,
Vasoline
and a cut
loaf.
Another
doctor
murdered
for 
wallet
understanding
what
two
sky
high
crows
called
back
and
forth
to
one
another,
as
they
flew,
behind
cinder
block
wall,
and
were
obscured,
like
two
single
men,
living
without
ever
meeting
but,
knowing
each
other, 

who
never
spoke,
in
the
houses
next
to
one
another.
Having
only,
just
noticed,
on
the
rose
bush,
that
the
deep,
carmine
red
buds, 
of
the
roses,
were,
when
older,
after
bloom,
pink
tinged
white.





*'FUN' FACT: Taurine is a substance sourced from the offal of the beef industry.
   Particularly, it is a conveniently coincidental by-product of that already existing mammoth enterprise, being sourced as an extract of bull testicle sperm.
Mixed with the aforementioned guarana vine extract, traditionally only ever used as an aid to hunting game in order to eat in tribal jungle settings as an appetite suppressant, calmative and stimulant for periods of time rarely greater than three days, given the average amount of time it might take to secure a kill, and then only sporadically, when necessary, as long term use is known to cause, guaranteed, depression.
   Apart from this, it would be interesting to know what the effects have been upon the primarily beef-eating subjects who engage in the late night fervent frenzied mixing of a carbonated, (and so, rapidly delivering of both it and its psycho-actively and metabolically-active chemical load into the bloodstream and brain), mixture of this high-octane beef-structured amino acid, taurine, when combined in that medium with caffeine and guarana, along also with copious amounts of strong, unflavoured alcohol.





© 2018 Brett Hernan


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Brett Hernan
Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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Low-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..

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