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Rain
in Hiroshige Lines
 rain in hiroshige lines, perpendicular to the highschoolgirls with umbrellas and mobiles and high boots smoking cool cigarettes defying all known laws of physics while riding their bicycles. Hiroshige, the Japanese artist, lived from 1797 to 1858. Liturgical Architecture for my brother the Rev. Richard Pain 
 car park architecture is fit for prayer when there is no where else to go. Raccoon Dog 
 moon was yellow in the fall like a frisbee shoved down the earth's pants, and in a car hitomi and i listened to mexican music blaring from the stars map soundtrack, and a raccoon appears solapado and in the headlights he gives an intelligent look like why aren't you listening to mahler der einsame der herbst ain't you the lonely one, and then he goes off solapado my very first raccoon dog and he had to be smarter than me! To Dissect is to Educate to all Leopard Frogs everywhere 
 to dissect is to educate here is a frog notice if you will it has four legs one, two, three, four now if you can hold it still, look at its eyes and tell me what you think the frog is thinking, Gerry, good, you think the frog is incapable of thinking like US and Mary you think the frog is asking why am I so easily attainable in the US I think you need the bathroom, you are excused, any more delinquents? no very well, the frog my friends is a stupid critter, an unbelievably stupid critter, if you want to see why, we can take a look at its brain, if it has one, but first there is a sequence, I mean science logical extremely ok now observe its breathing, Francis I meant the frog, I meant the frog! does the chest cavity move or is it the throat, and I want you to think about other forms of respiration, now you can touch the eyes, Francis the frog's, Susan don't hit him, notice if you please the reaction, the frog is unhappy, so would I be if someone poked me in the eye, Mary I thought you my little dissident was out of the classroom, I'm sure there is something for you to do in the library, now we can ask what are its main predators? Jon, we aren't talking about stalkers and those guys in offices, I have no idea what your folks tell you, we are talkin' today frogs! Gerry can always count on you for common sense snakes, foxes, birds of prey and so on, now we can give the frogs some flies watch them eat them what's that Gerry? When do we get to decerebrate the frog hold on, the fun part comes later, Francis will you kindly desist you can't eat the leg -- now! ok, there they go ok now we can slightly etherize them, no Jon, it is not a Biblical term, I think you will find that is to sodomise, you can now see how the central nervous system works and operates, make an incision like so, damn mine isn't under yet, someone be so kind as to catch it, and remove the scalpel, don't take notes, this is not part of the experiment, ok, Gerry well done, but perhaps less force in future, I think it is truly dead now, ok, you all ready, Francis, put down the ether, Jon you want to discuss the thumb pad, well, yes it is true that it used in sex, but not in that manner, in amplex, coupling you know when the frog climbs on the back and grips the female, you have seen mum and dad do that, well ain't you the enlightened one, now look closely at the tongue and how it is attached, Mary I think you are excused, behind is the pharynx and an opening, the glottis, we can trace the air passage, and in the mouth you will; find teeth by rubbing your finger along, Francis put away the toothpaste, the frog is DEAD, and it doesn't use that brand anyways, ok make some lateral cuts as so, note peripheral veins, my God Francis I had no idea a frog had so much blood, Mary take him to the bathroom with you! Ok here is the urogenital system, shit, Francis what the hell have you done, Mary you little anarchist, I want you to remove that at once, yes Jon this is the dirty part of the frog, Gerry can you point out to us where the duodenum is, Would you care to repeat that to the classroom, miss? Well keep your tittering to yourself, yes that is its anus, Ok, let's move to the circulatory system, you know all about that because your old man is in hospital, I'm sure you do, but he is in the order mammalia, today if you did not know we are talkin' amphibia, Gerry, yes that is the coliacomensenteric artery, Now the pulmonary system, ok ok you want to take out eyes, but don't play with them on the table, Jack the janitor will play hell with you, I'm getting too old for this, and now where are Francis and Mary? She's taken him to where? To see an animal rights what, you are kidding me, go and catch her, and Gerry you can use all force necessary, I mean all force, do you get to dissect her? We'll see. |
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| Original art work by Stephen Pain, © Stephen Pain. Poems by Stephen Pain, © Stephen Pain,
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