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Miguel (cont.)
Immoral savagery gets full reign
The mouldy heap of driftwood over here
Obscures some papier mache like old tomes
Gloria
Theyre very much like paper logs senor
Miguel
The bloated buckled volumes damaged spines
Are from a kids encyclopaedia set
But missing letters h j k and n
A stack of tinder under kindling placed
A pyre to burn a human being at hand
Mad sacrifice to Papa Legba meant
Paolo
Theres something sinister here I agree
The broken handled magnifying glass is
Propped way too close to that apparent pyre

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Miguel (cont.)
Face value comforting trust evidence
Such as this life size hoodoo effigy
Which leans at burial bone white coral shrubs
Hes dressed in older mans kit stroke of luck
The driftwood spears pin him a specimen
In upright place through sleeve and trouser cuffs
And out turned pockets then hes buttonholed
Salvatore
Moustache of feathers coconut head could
Be representative of anyone
Especially sombrero shaded thus
Miguel
Si but that doesnt comfort me one jot
Its handiwork a token vengeance plain
Or pinpoint voodoo thats tortuously remote
Controlled by sympathetic magic charms
Its far off acupuncture done by stealth

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Salvatore (cont.)
Eats cod and tarpon quality food fish
Plucked loose of volleyball net come low tide
Miguel
I fear this creature challenged my poor son
Who was much weakened temporarily
By swimming choppy waves and undertow
To one on one beach volleyball right here
The while in gamesmanship talked trash at him
As cannibal at last sealed victory
Gianni
We told you umpteen times your son is safe
His whereabouts approximately known
The net is straightforward a fishing net
At low tide high and dry attenuated
The strait unique beneath pinched outcrop rocks
Miguel
I wish I could believe you take your words

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Gloria
What backward creature must abide this dump?
Id guess this lava lipped pink glass sand plugged
Volcanic side vent wears a hominid
Salvatore
Theres something supernatural going down
You surely felt your ears pop when mine did
Gianni
Its quite explicable weve dunked below
Sea level even though were grounded now
Anomaly as such is not unknown
In bone dry deserts all five continents
Gloria
Ive seen far too much blinker me draught horse
Salvatore
I wont be kissing cloven hooves or boots
Of your abominable whats his face
Plus any road we know he she or it

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Eduardo (cont.)
Abandons shell and takes a larger shell
The second largest hermit crab trades up
To that vacated shell a larger shell
Than his own shell which he vacates in turn
The third most largest hermit crab trades up
To that vacated shell a roomier shell
And so forth so upgrading hierarchy
With peaceful order we should do the same
Gianni
The littlest youngest hermit crab bides time
He watches close your starfish grind a hole
In conch shell suck out soft conch living flesh
To make him his first home what torture that
Miguel
Wheres your respect for elders snide young man?

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Albin (cont.)
The coral island is swamped by sound waves
Which emanate from its deep round lagoon
They ferry solid objects through the air
Research lab bound in triangular feng shui
They stimulate blood flow through human skin
They break up cancers cysts and kidney stones
And last but not least they massage warm ear lobes
To such ecstatic heights you beg for more
Act 4 Scene 1
Eduardo
The internecine battles have brought ruin
On our once peaceful country sad to say
Queue jumping stepping on toes now prevail
Were too divorced from natures spatial laws
Exemplified by chain of vacancy
The largest hermit crab in your rock pool

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Albin (cont.)
The coral island is swamped by sound waves
Which emanate from its deep round lagoon
They ferry solid objects through the air
Research lab bound in triangular feng shui
They stimulate blood flow through human skin
They break up cancers cysts and kidney stones
And last but not least they massage warm ear lobes
To such ecstatic heights you beg for more
Act 4 Scene 1
Eduardo
The internecine battles have brought ruin
On our once peaceful country sad to say
Queue jumping stepping on toes now prevail
Were too divorced from natures spatial laws
Exemplified by chain of vacancy
The largest hermit crab in your rock pool

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Albin (cont.)
Against his closed eyes pressed in calm repose
At such time he can be subjugated
Come you know how I worship your bare feet
Plasma
You kid yourself as I roam sentinel
Giacomo
Who pinched my bottom gingerly? whos there?
Albin
Dont look at me I didnt see a spark
Silvio
Hallucination my fried amigo
Youre having more fun than me thats not fair
Giacomo
I swear I saw a human spark whizz past
Silvio
Whats that chacha clockwork sound that lifts
Nape hairs and coolly tickles elsewhere fluff?
Albin
You neednt flinch and cower lower amigos

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Albin
Of course at ready Id be fanning flames
A torso took my formless youth from me
Come my divinities lets drive the deal
Silvio
The heinous plan should well proceed hitch free
I must consult aside with Giacomo
Giacomo
Well have the island split between us two
As he loathes wizard Hector far too much
Hell do as ceremonial head of state
That other side of territories claimed
Silvio
Youll stick your mecha arm up his back end
And play him quisling puppet peg him prop
Albin
The wizard reads from back to front a book
Of ancient Atlantean incantations

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Albin
Hes got a secret robot factory
As yet unhyped powered up to gel and press
The prototype bio robot Angela
Is beautiful and captivates the heart
Silvio
Sounds like some lonely scientist who has gone
Intellectualised his male libido
Albin
At any rate to earn you half of this
Remote isle you must tie the wizard snug
Inside a truss Ive made of raw hemp strands
And from a bowed young coconut palm tree
Well hang him well light driftwood under him
And thus hell smoke salami like and weep
As he peeps you folk screwing Angela by
Silvio
Where might you be aligned in this hot scheme?

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Albin (cont.)
When he discovered migraine remedies
He clicked his sparking heels on flags of flint
Chacha floor poolside he clasped all the nonce
A brine filled jar of three electric rays
To his bibbed chest and cheered ole! ole!
Silvio
Give us more physical description please
As were now dipping toes in whats wet work
Is his beard Atlantean two short chin curls
Or more guerrilla like bush kept unkempt?
Albin
The wizards beard is neat goatee of course
Moustache full joined to whiskered chin clipped trim
Giacomo
Wheres he at technically speaking then?

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Albin (cont.)
The glitters krill eyes trapped in nanobots
The jacket buttons are synthetic eyes
Spawned from alarming luminous squid eyes
Theyre petri dishes tear and water tight
Silvio
His shoes and pants then finish your ponce off
Albin
His pants are tight black fabric fabric still unknown
His shoes are cleated both at heel and toe
Giacomo
A wizardly tapdancing ponce theres more?
Albin
Senors please bear with me the pain of him
A little longer wizard Hector does
Tapdance from time to time when not morose
Contemplating his long deceased dear wife
One such eureka moment caught occurred

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Giacomo
One native short of henchman summarised
Silvio
But more on his appearance boil in bag
Albin
He wears a black sombrero made of hemp
On its band solar eclipse phases sewn
And when that peaked hat is set down on ground
Its numbered brim clocks shade as his sun dial
On dead souls day the public festival
Bolero jackets worn in navy blue
A black cravat which can stretch sea krait long
His shirt is pleated white of mangroves milled
He sports a glittering red cummerband
Giacomo
Already I could punch and pinch the ponce
Albin
Amigo no good when hes wide awake

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Albin
No I can guarantee you hes alive
Giacomo
And hes no crash test dummy thats washed up?
Albin
Youll see yourself theres no comparison
Mosaic twin born he typically has
One blue eye one brown eye fair compromise
His veins course diamonds red and white crushed slushed
Emergency vials line a steel blood bank
If he swims its at fifty knots per hour
Giacomo
No one has seen him on the continent?
Albin
Not since his mad Bermuda triangle voyage
Though hes kept some old habits self professed
Nosepicking knuckle clicking and so forth
The worst of which is thinking right out loud

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Giacomo (cont.)
My arm was chewed from me by pirhana
In their meat eating season worst of luck
When I began to leave the greasy ford
A knapsack full of hash blocks on my back
So death to animals thats what I say
Silvio
More coke tequila bifida we share
Divulge your plan and well assess our parts
Albin
Well bunch this hammock net and outright catch
The wizard while he hypnomeditates
Well haul him bagged to his dug shallow grave
And bury him alive a zombie made
No let me plot him worse humiliation
Silvio
Thats if your know all wizard does exist
Youre trying to spook us off with your big talk

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Albin
This coral island whats my heritage
Silvio
I cant force you to close your mind
Assert me dictator of this paradise
But heres a knuckle sandwich anyhows
Giacomo
Whats that sad knucklehead agape at now?
Albin
I think I swallowed wisdom teeth god
Silvio
Philosophers black gizzard stones bird brain
Mull your green Sargasso sea grapes ferment
Giacomo
Si swig more decent coke tequila blob
Gaze on your inner navel drown the pain
Youve felt a fraction what Ive battled through
When I was tramping river Amazon

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Giacomo
This mecha arm is worth its weight in gold
Jewel showcase pressure chamber alls the one
I jammed a jeweller through plate glass last heist
Familiarised my new augmented strength
Your autocratic wizard Hector sounds
A stuffed shirt booby prize Ill pick him up
In my steel crane claw by the scruff of neck
And drop him from a height break him in two
On rocks below as sea gull does your clam
Albin
Ive underestimated you senor
Is it too late to swap allegiences?
Silvio
I wont stand whispers made behind the hand
Yourself consider pistol whipped once more

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Albin (cont.)
Lying flat along a gurney mounted flush
Inside a pressure chamber aerated
By silver nozzles set in rubber skirt
For two hour sessions booked each earthly day
At such a siesta you toughs could teach him
A lesson throttling him with this net knot
Or slitting his thigh arteries with shells
Or twisting driftwood screwy between his ribs
Silvio
What are you tabling your collateral?
Albin
Why nothing less than total atoll halved
Silvio
Agreed by longitude or latitude?
Albin
The borderline shall run from east to west
Silvio
Thats good as done lead us on bulbous blob

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Albin (cont.)
The coral island ended split in two
All things at low tide mine and mine alone
The rest at high tide his and his alone
Yet something fishy stinks in this estate
I reckon it sea level rise as caused
By global warming which improves his lot
Giacomo
There is no wizard its all fantasy
You filthy fibbing selfaggrandiser
Silvio
The bodybuilding bifida could be
Addressing our precarious situation
A coke tequila decent analogue
For standby truth drug sodium pentathol
His brawny brains a sponge of isotopes
Fill us in on this wizard you abhor
Albin
The wizard Hector hypnomeditates

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Giacomo (cont.)
Ill tie this pendant noose your wobbling neck
Albin
Please dont obscure the necklace voodoo doll
Of wizard Hector enimigo mine
Silvio
Not much of likeness there to anyone
Your effigys crude we dont care for it
Albin
Then youre my idol highest now on Silvio
Your moustache makes you look distinctly god
Giacomos moustache is a whisker light
He looks the angel perched one rung below
I see the wizard now for what he is
Compared to you hes deadly dull goatee
As tribute Ill steam you shelled hermit crabs
And leave them littered close your midnight snack
Silvio
And has the wicked wizard swindled you?