AND NOW I LIVE AND NOW MY LIFE IS DONE MY LIFE NOW AND I LIVE DONE

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elaine esposito thirty-one a world record in human tragedy twenty-five year coma is longest period of human unconsciousness consciously known listed in guinness book of world records marathon begins on 6 august 1941 only child given anesthesia during surgery for ruptured appendix NEVER TO KNOW consciousness NEVER TO KNOW mother or father NEVER TO KNOW incipient encephalitis NEVER TO KNOW the life she clings to NEVER TO KNOW the baffle of medical science NEVER TO KNOW meticulous nursing of mother NEVER TO KNOW immaculate as a baby NEVER TO KNOW eight onces [sic] of special formula through a nasal tube four times a day NEVER TO KNOW desperate effort to rescue her from quarter-century nod NEVER TO KNOW the unstirring figure in the pink bed with the blue bows.

SO WHAT!

COMA

THE ESTATE means it Jesus Christ.
THE ESTATE means it Adolf Eichman.
THE ESTATE means it Julius, Ethel Rosenberg.
THE ESTATE means it Sacco, Vansetti.
THE ESTATE means it Carl Chessman.
THE ESTATE means it Lee Harvey Oswald.
THE ESTATE means it Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney.
THE ESTATE means it Andrew Johnson, Leonard Deadwyler.
THE ESTATE means it Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X.
THE ESTATE means it John Dillinger.
THE ESTATE means it Arnold Schuster.
THE ESTATE means it Dow Wilson.
THE ESTATE means it Lenny Bruce.
THE ESTATE means it Thalidomide Babies.
THE ESTATE means it Six Million Jews.
THE ESTATE means it Hiroshima.
THE ESTATE means it David Carnevale.
THE ESTATE means it Firing Squads, Gas Chambers, Electric
Chairs, Tar and Feathering, Crucifixtion,
Garroting, Hanging, The Rack, Dunking,
Drawn and Quartered, Burned At The
Stake, Economic WARWARWARWARWAR.

And so by THE WAY

YOU ARE BY YOURSELF, ANY FOOL ON THE STREET. NOTHING IS REALLY IMPORTANT. IF ONLY THEY LEFT YOU ALONE. NOT A CHANCE. DEATH IS THE LIFE OF THE ESTATE. YOU AS CONSUMER ARE A FROZEN PRODUCT. YOU LIVE IN THE CEMENT ENVIRONMENT OF THE AUTHORITY INSTRUCTORS. AND IF YOU SAY THE RIGHT WORDS THEY'LL GIVE YOU 20 YEARS EVEN IF YOU DON'T.

THE D I G G E R S .

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