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The Vicious Circle

Of The Couch Potato

[ n Epic]

Written and illustrated byCheryl Penn

AndMarie Wintzer

Books Of Ether

 Vol.1

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Marie says:

The Vicious Circle Of The Couch Potato is about beingstuck between time and space, between dream and

reality, or as Cheryl would say, between life and death,

living and not living. Dreams can give you wings. They

can also tie you down to a place where time and space

do not exist. 

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Cheryl says:

 As Marie says

“… between time and space, between dream

and reality, […] between life and death, living and

not living” there is this place in the air we breathe

while not breathing, the immeasurable abyss

between dream life and real life – a surreal construct

beckons.

The Vicious Circle Of The Couch Potato

Was written in January 2014 

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GET OFF!!!!!NO!!!I SAID GET OFF!!!AND I SAID NO NO NO NO NO NO!!There's no escaping a CouchPotato.They hunker down next to oneround and knobbly on the chair

growing fatter and uglier everyday.They wear your lipstick andladder your stockings.MAN! I long for lying low.

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Your Lip / Stickso let's go couch fishing

Toss the baited hookout of the closest windowReal Life Heroes, Pizza,Smells like Napalm, Tastes likeChicken.(an old sock)

I didn't know Couch Waterswere so deepand cheap this time a yearDid I say, did I say NO?

 

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Subsection twowarning to all couch potatoesupground, undergroundboiled, braised, fried or peeled

skins on skins off your days arenumberedlumbered 

with the baggage you bring you’renotwanted

Stuntedlip –-stick-Back

-slackMack the knife

strikes twices-p-l-i-c-eyou're done.

 

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Fried and peeled,the couch Waitress is goneand gone too farBack at Couch Potato School,wherethey teach you to 

LickPlates

Empty( )Stop poking Common Sense orI'll miss tomorrow's pillowmarathon,the oddest

Avalon 

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CouchCrouch

CageEncaged EnragedBut the passing is sweet.Sounds smell strongermore fragrant on the tongue,the shadows grow whiter asthe ink of madness fades

 

intoether. 

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Hump day toowill dawn,

The Pouch Philosophermumbled 

through his rusted electrontube.Remotely un-controlledin muddy waves (not unlike

Potter's Clay)of grey,Gully groove tonowhere in particular. 

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Discovery

By Prof-Med-PhilThe Worm Hole in whichCouch Potatoes formis filled with worms.Squirms.And I

 

Spoketo

 

1?? 

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Or at least I thoughtI heard it

 

skillfully screech

in my Daydream.The thin linebetween awake and the ceilingseems to shortenas days get longer

(for all we know a saving grace).Still.For them worms it's all the same,silk or muckyour butt's just stuck.

 

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How many hungry moonsreclinedon the fostering inside arm?

Many, or too few to recall.

Those Lotus-eating Rootspoking through Moleskine.Wound-up pathsdry as Bone.

See, a breeze and theytumble offin a flush of Decay.On the other side: the faintesthint

of bloom. 

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To late to sateThe appetite once filled

WithFeelings unknownCountless coffee cupsEndless swirling words inworlds ofLemon grass chicken stir (fry)

A knock - a bang - a grateon boneRipples on water turned tostone. 

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Pictures on screenare traveling that Road ofDéja-vu

I hit pause 

but the blur 

lingers.Sitting on orange peelsI can't feel 

their familiar tickle.

Strange.Skin must grow thicker wheneyes blink reluctantly,a stagnant attempt at

 

Catchingthe drowsy slipper

 

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Feet once shod with gracefleet of bone marrow

ample arms that heldthe light on grasslands aloft.The walls of the worldRingWith shrouded Orange SentFrom minds and feelingsAwash in

 

Magma Magenta. 

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She lived in the see-lingspace between

Living and not livingFor so EonThat the rootsWere orange strongBut todayOr yesterday

There was Magma MagentaenoughTo pull free. 

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