Faith healer came to mama (mama\u27s blind to fallacy) promised her the blind would walk and the crippled lame shall see..

Messenger, Mike

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Faith healer came to mama (mama's blind to fallacy) promised her the blind would walk and the crippled lame shall see...</p

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32 Sketch I went over to the Professor. His moan was almost inaudible by now, his hair matted with blood. I stood there and looked down at him. His right leg was twitching slightly. I picked up the Professor's lecture notes and slid them back into his coat pocket. I slept in his bed that night. It was much more com-fortable than my own. That's where they found me. VII To whom it may concern . . . VIII Like Alice's cat, only the grin is left. The judge grins, and the jury grins, and the lawyer grins, and the defendant is condemned to life. But eventually, he too grins. In a dark closet, in his apartment in hell, he sits on a John and begins to see it all. Former faces float across his mind. He grins, and passes the toilet paper to the judge on the John next to his; and the judge passes it to the jury. In this communal closet in hell, the toilet paper is passed around. It is an endless roll made to record endless grins. And Alice's cat stokes the fires. Burlesque Poem by Mike Messenger Speech, Junior Faith healer came to mama (mama's blind to fallacy) promised her the blind would walk and the crippled lame shall see. 

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