Saturday, March 15, 2008

Rectorat de l'Academie de Poitiers

The man in the hat had a reoccurring dream where he was trapped on a makeshift raft with 27½ monkeys. One of the 27 ½ monkeys had a face like a pumpkin, orangey and tuberous and carved out with a soup-spoon. The 25th monkey was eating a cottage-ham sandwich-packed between layers of tripe and callow-seed. On the sidebar was written The finest cottage-hams imaginable, Ankara butchery Turkey; 78.176.29.# (Turk Telekom). The 23rd monkey was eating a peapod sandwich slathered with Gibbs’ hard mustard and Jack and Jill jam, the product of the Dill Bros. Compote and Aspic Co., Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes France housed in a small unfurnished carriage-house behind the Rectorat de l'Academie de Poitiers Lycees et Col. The monkey sitting next to the 25th monkey was reading a dogeared copy of Popular Mechanics from Altopascio Toscana 80.183.231.# Italy and drinking a mint julep from a plastic tumbler. This all seemed quite normal to the man in the hat even though he knew he was dreaming, or at least dreaming that he knew he was dreaming that he was in fact dreaming.

Why do horsis fack? was written on the label of the Jack and Jill jam tin. Scrawled onto the Gibbs’ hard mustard jar was the address for a tinker’s shop in Athens: Attiki 85.74.185.# Greece. Embossed onto the cottage-ham wrapper was the name of Harold Grossmann, a phrenologist from Reykjavk Gullbringusysla 85.220.64.#, who was open for business and accepting new referrals. On the flipside of the label was the address for a podiatrist who lived in Hamme Oost-Vlaanderen 82.174.38.# Belgium, but had his office in Reykjavk Gullbringusysla, not far from the phrenologist Harold Grossmann. And written with crayon on the back cover of the Popular Mechanics magazine were the words carbuncle in nipple, the return address for any and all queries being, Las Pias Rizal 122.2.197.# the Philippines.

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