A stray cat named Frank took up residence on my porch. He looks Tuxedo except for his black chest. I've been feeding him for a few months. He makes a really strange sound when he speaks. Almost a screech from a violin that is weak and high pitched. He has always been docile and accepted his food. Never allowed himself to be touched and I respect his boundary. But today when I handed him the dish he leaped up and put a hole in my palm with a single claw. Took a while but I figured out that it was because I smelled like the dog, having just fed and petted him. Lesson learned.
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A stray cat named Frank took up residence on my porch. He looks Tuxedo except for his black chest. I've been feeding him for a few months. He makes a really strange sound when he speaks. Almost a screech from a violin that is weak and high pitched. He has always been docile and accepted his food. Never allowed himself to be touched and I respect his boundary. But today when I handed him the dish he leaped up and put a hole in my palm with a single claw. Took a while but I figured out that it was because I smelled like the dog,
having just fed and petted him. Lesson learned.
I let the hole bleed, which it profusely did, and cleaned it rather hastily. Less than an hour later, I noted a black circle on my palm. The clawed hole was building a pool of corruption in there. I took some drops of DMSO and drops of activated chlorine dioxide, mixed them and used a q-tip to keep the mixture over the black spot. It didn't take long for the black to vanish. After a few minutes of this treatment the sore spot was indistinguishable from the rest of my palm and is not at all sore.
Many friends and family are buying my book. Imagine their shock when they discover themes favoring immigration, anti war, right to protest, calling R Reagan a basturd, a gay major character, and so on. I wonder if any will retaliate or if they will simply hide away or destroy it. Inquiring minds, as they say.
'Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.'
– Ezra Pound
The price of groceries skyrocketed these past few years; my car insurance jumped higher; there is an uptick in the number of homeless. If I sold my home and rented the money from the sale would be gone to rent in a decade or less. The red hot economy is for the well off, not the poor suckers like me.
This sounds amazing
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Am reading now. It is
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