[s]Goal: 100,000 New Goal: 200,000[/s] New Goal: 250.000

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Desolation Row

They’re selling postcards of the hanging

They’re painting the passports brown

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors

The circus is in town

Here comes the blind commissioner

They’ve got him in a trance

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

The other is in his pants

And the riot squad they’re restless

They need somewhere to go

As Lady and I look out tonight

From Desolation Row

 

Cinderella, she seems so easy

“It takes one to know one,” she smiles

And puts her hands in her back pockets

Bette Davis style

And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning

“You Belong to Me I Believe”

And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend

You better leave”

And the only sound that’s left

After the ambulances go

Is Cinderella sweeping up

On Desolation Row

 

Now the moon is almost hidden

The stars are beginning to hide

The fortune-telling lady

Has even taken all her things inside

All except for Cain and Abel

And the hunchback of Notre Dame

Everybody is making love

Or else expecting rain

And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing

He’s getting ready for the show

He’s going to the carnival tonight

On Desolation Row

 

Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window

For her I feel so afraid

On her twenty-second birthday

She already is an old maid

To her, death is quite romantic

She wears an iron vest

Her profession’s her religion

Her sin is her lifelessness

And though her eyes are fixed upon

Noah’s great rainbow

She spends her time peeking

Into Desolation Row

 

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood

With his memories in a trunk

Passed this way an hour ago

With his friend, a jealous monk

He looked so immaculately frightful

As he bummed a cigarette

Then he went off sniffing drainpipes

And reciting the alphabet

Now you would not think to look at him

But he was famous long ago

For playing the electric violin

On Desolation Row

 

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world

Inside of a leather cup

But all his sexless patients

They’re trying to blow it up

Now his nurse, some local loser

She’s in charge of the cyanide hole

And she also keeps the cards that read

“Have Mercy on His Soul”

They all play on pennywhistles

You can hear them blow

If you lean your head out far enough

From Desolation Row

 

Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains

They’re getting ready for the feast

The Phantom of the Opera

A perfect image of a priest

They’re spoonfeeding Casanova

To get him to feel more assured

Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence

After poisoning him with words

And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls

“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know

Casanova is just being punished for going

To Desolation Row”

 

Now at midnight all the agents

And the superhuman crew

Come out and round up everyone

That knows more than they do

Then they bring them to the factory

Where the heart-attack machine

Is strapped across their shoulders

And then the kerosene

Is brought down from the castles

By insurance men who go

Check to see that nobody is escaping

To Desolation Row

 

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune

The Titanic sails at dawn

And everybody’s shouting

“Which Side Are You On?”

And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot

Fighting in the captain’s tower

While calypso singers laugh at them

And fishermen hold flowers

Between the windows of the sea

Where lovely mermaids flow

And nobody has to think too much

About Desolation Row

 

Yes, I received your letter yesterday

(About the time the doorknob broke)

When you asked how I was doing

Was that some kind of joke?

All these people that you mention

Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame

I had to rearrange their faces

And give them all another name

Right now I can’t read too good

Don’t send me no more letters, no

Not unless you mail them

From Desolation Row

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

9:30 and all's still dead

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

creeping up on 50K but never gonna make it now.

 

impossible.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

don't even bother to try, it will be a sad failure.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

sigh. and the animal in the attic is once again scrabbling at the attic door trying to get into the apartment. and it's not locked or anything, so it's entirely doable.

 

and at this point i'm thinking, meh. i'm lonely, it's cold. why not?

 

but the cats are scared to death of it whatever it is.

 

which bodes ill... gotta big big and scary, thy're not sissies.

 

and they can smell what it is tho i can't.

 

so good news, not a skunk...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

nice. almost another hour.

 

nobody and nothing.

 

the tombs are secure.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and in listening to the thing...s in my attic, cause... what else is there to do... realized there are things plural not a thing. and ic ant tell if its only two, a cred pair, or if its several, with little ones and...

 

and...

 

there are definintely security breaches. these things canget down here and raid the pantry and hopefully... leave me alone,... and the cats... and get back to the attic... i know they can get in and out from outside new roof or no new roof, i see where they ripped a door.

 

and...

 

scared. not good. do not like. do not want.

 

and dont know what to do.

 

and you;re nobody and you cant help even if you were somebody.

 

and ...

 

sigh.

 

this was the worst day in a week i think.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

have i mentioned the rabies problems we have here?

 

no?

 

oh.

 

we have a serious rabies problem here.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

sooooo...

 

tombs safe.

 

cindy scared.

 

very scared.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and all is as it should be.

[Perfexionist]

And the award goes to... cindy!

[Perfexionist]

ECHO! ECHo! ECho! Echo! echo! echo... echo.. echo. echo cho ho o

[Aiel Heart]

I'm tired

[Aiel Heart]

can I just assume that I already know everything in chapter 1 of this text book?

[Aiel Heart]

so far it's just been review....

[Aiel Heart]

I want all of my dm time back!!!!!! :P

[Aiel Heart]

well just gotta balance everything

[Aiel Heart]

so is anyone else here right now?

[Aiel Heart]

it seems I'm alone :(

[Aiel Heart]

whoa.... where did the last two hours go?

[Aiel Heart]

I need to sleep soon....

[Aiel Heart]

but a bit of time here first

[Aiel Heart]

I haven't spammed much lately

[Aiel Heart]

I'm writing a story about my grandpa