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Betty Botter bought some butter but she said this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter and she put it in her batter and it made her batter better, brand me a sexist racist homophobe a B list or a category A sympathizer if I am a member of category A I will confess my sexism racism and homophobia I will persecute censor and shun any member so help me deity of unspecified gender, everyone keeps telling me what a big deal certain things are -- this one is publishing a book with so-and-so this one got into a certain prestigious university with a scholarship this one is in a certain exhibition -- that I have no idea of what is actually a "big deal" anymore, the dog took a shit on the street that was closer to the texture of piss. I put my plastic bag away and left the puddle lying there. An angry woman ran up to me tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I was going to pick up the diarrhea. "Lady" I responded "To pick that up you'd need a straw", ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope: who expect that age will perform the promises of youth and that the deficiencies of present day will be supplied by the morrow: attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia;