LVIII

I don't want a pizza I don't want a piece of peanut brittle I don't want a pear. I don't want a bagel I don't want a bean I wouldn't like a baga of beef or a beer or a cup of chowder corn cake or creamed cauliflower, in terms of the diamond that he has implanted in his front tooth he says "This diamond will outlast me -- the bone and the skin and the blood. People will want to use it after I am gone and we have a joke that it will seek a new owner", or the wrongful appropriation or purloining and publication as one's own of the ideas or the expression of the ideas (literary artistic musical mechanical etc.) of another, Patient: "Doctor please help me. I don't know what to do. I talk in my sleep." Doctor: "That's not so bad. You don't need to despair. Does your talking bother your sleeping wife?" Patient: "No but in the office the Jews laugh at me." Doctor: "Hi Hitler!", so what if the rest of this book (there is approximately 225 more pages to go) were simply stories from out of my own life? No more appropriation no more borrowed quotes no more words that are not mine no more, turn the other cheekmother said so fatherhit me againand brotherseventy times sevenJesus said themeek shall inherit the earthonly after athousand years tribulationI am sixteen andwill not live forever;