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Lament for Gigolo

. . . Gigolo . . . dwindled and never dabbled again . . . furloughed and extinguished moored him eternal. He of ghetto temple . . . dwindled and never dabbled again . . . furloughed and extinguished moored him eternal. He who . . . shambled a perfectly good meadow dwindled and never ever, oh no he didn’t. This peepling Shepherd . . . dwindled and never dabbled again. He who was spectral in . . . and hustled wishful dwindled and never dabbled again . . . furloughed and extinguished moored eternal. The Beau of Wrongful dwindled and can’t get up. He who snuggled his scrotal dwindled and Damsel didn’t heckle, she mellowed. The Squirrel of many burrows is furloughed and extinguished, moored eternal. He dwindled on his shadow and never dabbled again. He dwindled on his gamble and woke nevermore. He is moored eternal. Damsel sorted her torso and jangled all the way to the bluestacked bank.

About the Author

Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel (forthcoming) and Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books), editor of No Tell Motel (www.notellmotel.org) and publisher of No Tell Books (www.notellbooks.org).