[Reply to Morris Eaves’ Review of The Dick and Jane]

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DISCUSSION

with intellectual spears & long winged arrows of thought

In response to Morris Eaves’ review of The Dick and Jane by Abby Robinson, in last summer’s issue of Blake.

HOW THREAD CAM THRO
        	NEED EYE? ARZY. TELLYS
        	COOP iT. SHAR DiV-iD SUCH
        	.EL iMMiNATES! RIZ UP OOP.
        	GHOOST iST NUT DiS MON
        	EYE BUGGY EAR. HINGE
        	ME! CARE NOT NUFF. SSH-
        	GLiMPSE FiNGER SHINE
        	.JUADS. PRiEST MYNE
        	OWN UTTER ENDS TO
        	GiVEN AS ASYSLUM
        	LOANS I AM TO FORE
        	GiFTED GONE. GET TH
        	EE HENCE! O MY iON
        	MACHiNE! TUMULT F
        	OR ME. ALBiON HANG TUFF.
        	
        	Æ
DEAR SIRS:
        	I LOVE TO PRAY. LOViNG TO
        	REHEARSE THE ART OF GETTING
        	NOTHiNG SPECiFiC IN RETURN
        	FOR THE FACE VALUE WHICH
        	THIS SWEAT PINS TO THE OUT
        	WEiRD WER ELD. DIDN’T YE
        	HYR THAT? HEARKEN! DiDN’T
        	PARTICULARLY SWOON OVER/AT
        	YOUR REFERENCES TO ME &
        	MYNE – iN YOUR LAST....
        		ALBION’S TOMB – etc.
        	ENUFF! iS ENOUGH! WHAT I
        	SEND iS THE SUB-CUTANEOUS
        	SKINNY ON “THE TOMB” – ALBiON’S
        	WHITED, SEPULCHRAL-LIED (LEID,
        	SUNG) PRIVY-WARD VERSION.
        		VERILY, VERILY – UNTO YE:
        	2. LISTEN! PRiNT THESE (iN THE
        	NAMELESSLY SHAMED NAME
        	OF ‘FAIR-PLAY.’). NO PHOTO
        	CAN DO IT JUSTICE – HAVE
        	DONE, AT NO EXPENSE, THIS
        	‘REASONABLE EXAMPLE’, FAC-
        	SiMiLATING ALBiON’S HAVE-A-
        	HEAVE-AT-HO-HO VORTEX FOR
        	THE SAKE OF YOUR LiMITED
        	CAPACITY/CAPABILITY.
        		Syn.cerely.
        		AE
        	P.S. I POSSESS WHAT I AM
        	ASSURED – BY ANGELIC DiS-
        	POSITION – iS THE ONLY
        	STAINED & PAINTED GLASS-
        	LEADED-WINDOW EXECUTED
        	BY BLAKE. IT CAN BE
        	iNSPECTED BY DECTECTORS –
        	WHO CARE TO APPOINT THEM
        	SELVES.
        	3. P.P.S. I AM NOT PAINTING
        	MY FOURTH OVER. SKINNING
        	MURAL – ON-GOINGLY EN-
        	TITLED, BY BLAKE, “VOLUNTARY
        	FULL-VIEW ANNIHILATION IN
        	AND OUT OF GOLGONOOZA” –
        	NULL GRAVITY FIELD AICEDAMA,
        	– POTTER’S POTSHERD DiASPORA –
        	etc.... WHY ... AREN’T YOUR
        	DETECKNIK-NECTIONS
        	HYR DEWING ON-GOING
        	DAWNING TO THE EDiFiCATiON
        	OF WHAT YOU’VE BUILT iN
        	BLAKE’S NAME – WHICH
        	iS ALBION – JUST AS JESUS
        	X’S NAME iS ALBiON,
        	FRiEND OF ALBION,
        	AWAKE!
        		AE
        		(ANCiENT)

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