10.The Jeweller
Very slowly he sipped his tea, not shifting his glance from the
thick double spaced printing he read with his jeweller's eye
Engrossed in his corner, he passed onto the other inhabitants of
the room a scrawled insularity of time and space
For both passed him by with the speed of light, not unlike the
flow of substance, however varied, into that lysergic entity
known as the black hole
He was hardly ugly for his time, and conversation was certainly
not lost on him
Drastic measures were called for, and as in antiquity the lonely
man was blessed with wisdom to the point of desperation
But there in his corner, developing around him like a sun, was a
climate of such rare beauty that sight and sound could no longer
be considered sufficient food for the senses
And he had begun to notice, as his hearing failed, that mind and
matter were in no way connected to one other, as if in fact the
one could not propose and prove its erotic existence in terms of
Ther
'what does this word mean？' he enquired of the solemn waiter
hopefully
'nothing for desert sir', came the reply, 'perhaps a cocktail,
demitasse or a herbal essence, it helps the breathing you know
sometimes'. 'the bill, if you don't mind＆qu
Quickly he shot back
And as the patter of the feet faded in the room, for he barely
heard them now, his eye slowly began to close, and by the time
he emerged on the sunny street he was forced to rely entirely on
the
R eye for help, but happily it continued its many functions,
blinking gently for lubrication, and registering images
It was rush hour, in hawaii only 10am
So, turning into his street, he stopped at the drug store and
bought an eye patch that soon covered the reluctant eye
Climbing the stairs he pondered what to do next, he would call a
doctor and have tests made, eat nourishing food and if necessary
consent to surgery, the last resort of the gambling man
And at 1am he awoke from a dream and after fumbling his way in
the obolescent light of his room he peered into the rusty veins
of his mirror and lifted away the patch
What he saw astonished him. where once was tremulous tissue and
membrane was now a follicle and perfectly formed vagina with
vulva, overgrown and mysterious, unrevealing and still to the
untrain
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But in the deep dark recesses of that sticky occlusion lay the
unclosing watchful eye of disgust in its closing moments,
lunging forward and hungry for the cold light of days
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