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  • Chapter 29   TRAMP: Burning Down The House On Belmont Street   “And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?”   And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?”   And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”   And you may tell yourself, “This is not my

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  • TRAMP: This is How the World Ends “This Is The End… My beautiful friend, the end…” In the end everybody dies, nobody gets out of this alive” -The Lizard King Mona was dressed in a long loose loose-fitting black cotton blend skirt that stopped somewhere between where her calves ended and her ankles began. The

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  • TRAMP: ANDRÉ and AARON

    TRAMP: ANDRÉ and AARON “I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted one time to see you laughing I only wanted to see you Laughing in the purple rain” -Prince André wasn’t called André by anybody except his momma and his wife to everybody

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  • chapter 25 TRAMP: Katariina Sapir Mueller – 2000  “I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now, entertain us”  —Nirvana  Katariina Sapir Mueller, the unofficial punk matriarch of Deep Ellum street poets, looked up from the chapbook of her old poems she was reading as her bespectacled coworker, Bryant, tapped her on the shoulder

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  • Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Singularity* Afia heard the doorbell ring and opened it with a smug grin of triumph. She assumed it was Garrett Phillips, returning to take her up on her offer, apparently having had a change of heart and now fancying a shag before trotting back home to

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  • Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) The Last Rites of Penelope Stockard Bedowitz: Taps September 10th, 2029, Santa Monica Pier, California When The Man Comes Around’ “And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, and I looked, and behold: a pale horse. And his name that sat on

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  • Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Ring of Fire reprised* pt 1 of 2 “The taste of love is sweet When hearts like ours meet I fell for you like a child Oh, but the fire went wild” -Johnny Cash Long Beach Marina, California / aboard the SS Ariella — August 24th,

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  • Isaiah Jones vs the Sea: Death of a King* ‘You Should See Me in a Crown’ “Count my cards, watch them fall Blood on a marble wall I like the way they all Scream Tell me which one is worse Living or dying first Sleeping inside a hearse I don’t dream.” — Billie Eilish The

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  • The Summoning of the Emperor Jones / Barbwire Crowns on Heavy Heads from the novel.] Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) —JD Cloudy May 10th, 2024 The Republic of Gambia, AUA Territory 187 miles west of Brikama The Summoning of the Emperor Jones / Barbwire Crowns on Heavy Heads “You Should See

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  • Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey)   Hustle Culture Reprise: Just Us Aftermath pt 2       Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea       Marcus Garvey Port, Ghana       (formerly Accra Bay, capital of AUA African United Alliance / ADF African Defense Force)       August 8th, 2029, Office of Internal

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