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It was a long and lonely night

 

It was a long and lonely night and the women wept and wept and the children

bounced off the walls and the

cuckoo clock struck two or three and the old men slept in their armchairs

and everything was ordinary and

civilized and then came the Old Man from the Charitable Society who sounded

very much like Billy Graham or

was it Jimmy Swaggart and they wheeled me into the Home for the Malicious

and Degenerate and the sky was

dark and bloody and everything was ordinary and civilized and the leaves

rustled and the crickets chirped and I

sneezed in my wheelchair sucking on a long and hard long and hard cigarette

thinking of my mother and father

and how ashamed they must be that I turned out like that like a rapist and a

mass murderer like a good-for-nothing

son and I sucked on my long and hard cigarette and blew a lot of smoke a lot

of smoke and felt very sick and

tired and the Old Man looked at me through his dark glasses holding up my

trousers with one hand and grabbing

my nose with the other I felt ashamed I felt very ashamed and I cried

hallelujah praise the Lord and the angels

came and they sat on my nose and wept and wept my trousers were very tight

but the Old Man's trousers were

much tighter and he gave out a strange noise a very strange noise of some

kind of flatulence and we wept and we

wept and we wept gosh I thought I must be in Hollywood this must be

Hollywood and they grabbed my balls

and they sat me on a chair and gave me electroshock therapy and it felt good

and I saw mama and she read the

Bible and the angels wept and I made the front page of The New York Times

and even and even TIME magazine

my eyes were dirty and full of smoke and the doctor came and examined me and

told me that I had a brain

problem A BRAIN PROBLEM wow I thought I must be in the St. Elizabeth's

hospital and they gave me

Thorazine and they gave me Lithium and they gave me Trilafon and they shot

me up with all kinds of weird

weird substances and I saw Charlie Manson on TV and he smiled and laughed

and said it is now your time

asshole to sit here in paradise I was very ashamed of my nakedness and cried

to Jesus cried to Jesus to forgive

me for all my sins for I didn't really mean to shoot the president it was

only a mistake a little voice in my brain

told me to do it and the Old Man laughed and squeezed my balls even tighter

tighter tighter a girl with small

breasts came to visit me and I don't remember her name because I'm a rapist

and a mass murderer and I don't

remember names and she sat and read me from the Wall Street Journal and I

got up with a huge erection and

made a loud speech before the Charitable Society Committee for Criminally

Insane with Religious Tendencies

and they laughed and laughed and told me that I was really really a fool and

I had no right to speak at all and I

protested and yelled and kicked them in the legs and bit them in the noses

and poured rubbing alcohol in their

eyes and they tied me to my bed and gagged me and the night was long and

lonely and the cuckoo clock cried

and the old man unzipped their trousers and everything was ordinary and

civilized.

It was a long and lonely night and the women wept and wept and the children

bounced off the walls and the

cuckoo clock struck two or three and the old men slept in their armchairs

and everything was ordinary and

civilized and then came the Old Man from the Charitable Society who sounded

very much like Billy Graham or

was it Jimmy Swaggart and they wheeled me into the Home for the Malicious

and Degenerate and the sky was

dark and bloody and everything was ordinary and civilized and the leaves

rustled and the crickets chirped and I

sneezed in my wheelchair sucking on a long and hard long and hard cigarette

thinking of my mother and father

and how ashamed they must be that I turned out like that like a rapist and a

mass murderer like a good-for-nothing

son and I sucked on my long and hard cigarette and blew a lot of smoke a lot

of smoke and felt very sick and

tired and the Old Man looked at me through his dark glasses holding up my

trousers with one hand and grabbing

my nose with the other I felt ashamed I felt very ashamed and I cried

hallelujah praise the Lord and the angels

came and they sat on my nose and wept and wept my trousers were very tight

but the Old Man's trousers were

much tighter and he gave out a strange noise a very strange noise of some

kind of flatulence and we wept and we

wept and we wept gosh I thought I must be in Hollywood this must be

Hollywood and they grabbed my balls

and they sat me on a chair and gave me electroshock therapy and it felt good

and I saw mama and she read the

Bible and the angels wept and I made the front page of The New York Times

and even and even TIME magazine

my eyes were dirty and full of smoke and the doctor came and examined me and

told me that I had a brain

problem A BRAIN PROBLEM wow I thought I must be in the St. Elizabeth's

hospital and they gave me

Thorazine and they gave me Lithium and they gave me Trilafon and they shot

me up with all kinds of weird

weird substances and I saw Charlie Manson on TV and he smiled and laughed

and said it is now your time

asshole to sit here in paradise I was very ashamed of my nakedness and cried

to Jesus cried to Jesus to forgive

me for all my sins for I didn't really mean to shoot the president it was

only a mistake a little voice in my brain

told me to do it and the Old Man laughed and squeezed my balls even tighter

tighter tighter a girl with small

breasts came to visit me and I don't remember her name because I'm a rapist

and a mass murderer and I don't

remember names and she sat and read me from the Wall Street Journal and I

got up with a huge erection and

made a loud speech before the Charitable Society Committee for Criminally

Insane with Religious Tendencies

and they laughed and laughed and told me that I was really really a fool and

I had no right to speak at all and I

protested and yelled and kicked them in the legs and bit them in the noses

and poured rubbing alcohol in their

eyes and they tied me to my bed and gagged me and the night was long and

lonely and the cuckoo clock cried

and the old man unzipped their trousers and everything was ordinary and

civilized.

It was a long and lonely night and the women wept and wept and the children

bounced off the walls and the

cuckoo clock struck two or three and the old men slept in their armchairs

and everything was ordinary and

civilized and then came the Old Man from the Charitable Society who sounded

very much like Billy Graham or

was it Jimmy Swaggart and they wheeled me into the Home for the Malicious

and Degenerate and the sky was

dark and bloody and everything was ordinary and civilized and the leaves

rustled and the crickets chirped and I

sneezed in my wheelchair sucking on a long and hard long and hard cigarette

thinking of my mother and father

and how ashamed they must be that I turned out like that like a rapist and a

mass murderer like a good-for-nothing

son and I sucked on my long and hard cigarette and blew a lot of smoke a lot

of smoke and felt very sick and

tired and the Old Man looked at me through his dark glasses holding up my

trousers with one hand and grabbing

my nose with the other I felt ashamed I felt very ashamed and I cried

hallelujah praise the Lord and the angels

came and they sat on my nose and wept and wept my trousers were very tight

but the Old Man's trousers were

much tighter and he gave out a strange noise a very strange noise of some

kind of flatulence and we wept and we

wept and we wept gosh I thought I must be in Hollywood this must be

Hollywood and they grabbed my balls

and they sat me on a chair and gave me electroshock therapy and it felt good

and I saw mama and she read the

Bible and the angels wept and I made the front page of The New York Times

and even and even TIME magazine

my eyes were dirty and full of smoke and the doctor came and examined me and

told me that I had a brain

problem A BRAIN PROBLEM wow I thought I must be in the St. Elizabeth's

hospital and they gave me

Thorazine and they gave me Lithium and they gave me Trilafon and they shot

me up with all kinds of weird

weird substances and I saw Charlie Manson on TV and he smiled and laughed

and said it is now your time

asshole to sit here in paradise I was very ashamed of my nakedness and cried

to Jesus cried to Jesus to forgive

me for all my sins for I didn't really mean to shoot the president it was

only a mistake a little voice in my brain

told me to do it and the Old Man laughed and squeezed my balls even tighter

tighter tighter a girl with small

breasts came to visit me and I don't remember her name because I'm a rapist

and a mass murderer and I don't

remember names and she sat and read me from the Wall Street Journal and I

got up with a huge erection and

made a loud speech before the Charitable Society Committee for Criminally

Insane with Religious Tendencies

and they laughed and laughed and told me that I was really really a fool and

I had no right to speak at all and I

protested and yelled and kicked them in the legs and bit them in the noses

and poured rubbing alcohol in their

eyes and they tied me to my bed and gagged me and the night was long and

lonely and the cuckoo clock cried

and the old man unzipped their trousers and everything was ordinary and

civilised

 
 
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Alexander graduated with a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Southern Connecticut State University in 1985. In 1998 he received a Master's degree in mathematics from Eastern Kentucky University.  He's currently a part-time instructor in mathematics at SCSU, while pursuing his underground life of a dissident émigré Russian poet.