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Helen Keller Really Lived 159 File 1984/Three Revenant Compositions (Former Sex: Male; Deceased: 13.05.1984) (i am so wasted 1) floating foam drifting flecks upon a glassy sea glossary of me (i am so wasted 2) her arms are wicked her legs are long jim morrison made up this song 160 Elisabeth Sheffield (i am so wasted 3) live fast die young man my old lady said to me then we’ll fuck some more Editor’s Note: In February of 1994, in the company of a sibling of the revenant subject, the editor visited the subject’s former home at 80 Kreisler Circle in Staten Island, for the purpose of arranging an estate sale (the proceeds of which went entirely to settling the debts of the subject’s mother, who outlived him by ten years). Two items from the subject’s room were set aside and excluded from sale: a Smith Corona electric typewriter, circa 1978, and a cellophane tape bound cardboard box stamped with the label “Jim Beam” and bearing in magic marker the words “COMPLETE OPUS OF JULIUS VAN STAAL, TO BE OPENED ONLY AFTER MY DEATH— COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE.” And examination of the contents of the latter yielded hundreds of “high-kus” as bad or worse than the above (the promised “complete instructions ,” however, were missing). Fortunately, death has reduced the poet’s production, considerably. ...

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