What shall we say of him? Shall we say he is the broken promise? For he is filled with tentacles and claws, and made of grasping tentacles and claws; and he has neither sweet center nor flowing blood, but is tentacles and claws through and through, all throughout his insides as well as his outside. He has dry sagebrush and cacti for a heart, and is made of the expanding wilderness, made of the expanding city. The city is a lonesome place for him (and there are many lonesome souls in the city). This city is a place for lost souls to come and be among their like. This is the place where we all stand outside the doors looking in.
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