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el Sicko

a medical team in cahoots
with systems tugging at the routes
an arm flailing where
he had just kicked a chair
now they're ready to unlace his boots

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Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

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Region, Country: New Zealand, NZL

Favorite Poets: Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Jonny Cash

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Ian.T

Ian.T

10 years 8 months ago

Simon

Maybe there is a typo in this line:-
with systems tugging at the "routes"
Need to put some "roots" down there someplace lol,
Unless you are going down route 42,
as that is the road to everywhere
Good write though
Yours Ian.T
PS:-
42
← 41 42 43 →
← 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 →
List of numbers — Integers
← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →
Cardinal
forty-two
Ordinal
42nd
(forty-second)
Factorization
2 × 3 × 7
Divisors
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42
Roman numeral
XLII
Unicode symbol(s)
Greek prefix
μβ
La La

Simon Smythe

Simon Smythe

10 years 8 months ago

It's on porpise

I want to see if I get away with it.
42 . . . could this be a Douglas Addams reference? I'm on board! (the Vogon constructor ship)
I call 42 3 for short

Keep smiling . . . it worries the enemy

your pal Si

Simon Smythe

Simon Smythe

10 years 8 months ago

or . . .

it's on purpose . . . I believe in it's meaning
the route of the problem
the route of all evil
route 66

root canals not withstanding - both meanings aimed for