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Dreamtime

by Dennis Janke

artistThe smell of victory reeked
in the delivery room. The crackpot,
Rachet Man, followed his dream
at the Institute of Grace
while waiting to be born.
It was a painful delivery, and
he has been in recovery since birth.
“I’ve climbed another wrung
in the ladder where I see my shadow
on the moon every night,
” he said
from his high and mighty perch. I
instinctively looked out the window
towards the moon, but realized
that his finger pointed
in the opposite direction
at the chip on his
shoulder.

Copyright © 2002 Dennis Janke • All rights reserved.

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