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Insanity Revisited

Memories hunker behind a door marked “Blessed Oblivion”. The key is under the mat. To choose one, open and peek inside would be a foolish flagellation. Secrets simmer in cannibal pots, lids held down by tenuous fingers. Some truths deserve to be buried. Some memories must be held as closed as a spinster’s knees. Doors opened less than judiciously trigger popping puppets that scream. A mind is only as strong as its most heinous memory. Some minds are olios, badly stirred, their orts floating in a brine of insanity that needs a pinch of salt. Reality paints itself as a circus clown, and changes the rules of life without warning...

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Date: 11/26/2018 1:56:00 PM
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Date: 11/26/2018 11:05:00 AM
"Reality paints itself as a circus clown, and changes the rules of life without warning..." This is the truthiest-of-the-truthful-truths I have ever read, and I have a self-imposed degree in True-ism.
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