As a Medicinal Starter the Additional Metal

 



As a Medicinal Starter the Additional Metal

            No traditional globe can accurately display Kigathega without distorting all of the other land masses of the earth into horrible shapes like 1970’s Rock’n’Roll revivalists packed into European mini-cars.  As a side note, I apologize to my wife for acting so rudely the day she took me to the mini-car museum.
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            The waffle talks to me.  As a subset of the basement breakfast batter, it and its pancake brethren are capable of interbreeding, yet precluded from doing so by taboos of mutual apprehensions of the other’s primitive nature.
            “Both the word taboo and word tattoo come from the Polynesian language group,” the waffle tells me.
            “If I could afford a tattoo I’d get one,” I reply.  “But I’d have to come up with an image that I could live with the rest of my life, something I could identify with without ambiguity or shame.
            “Have you thought about a pretzel?” the waffle suggested.  “One with human facial features?  I’ve always admired pretzels,” he added with a wistful tone, much as I might sound if I was overheard talking about coyotes or something.
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