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Agaete: The magic of pristine nature Text and photos copyright 2001 by Mari Cruz García All rights reserved. No material contained in this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means in whole or in part without the written permission of the author.

THE HARMLESS MONKEY Bob Trump lectured in Creative Writing for the Great Unwashed at his local adult evening institute. He knew it would be a particularly difficult evening at the induction, when an armless Orang Utan loped in through the class room door. "What the bloody heck's goin'--!!? Bob was interrupted as he spluttered out his indignation, when a long lead followed by its owner being dragged along the floor came into view. "Oh sorry about this said the dishevelled figure as it picked itself up and began dusting itself down, "He gets awfully excited about prelates and he just saw one in the corridor, leapt straight onto his back and tried to make secular advances towards him, it was all I could do to pull him off.

There something about the feeling in this poem. There seems to be restraint. Not sure, though.

Wait. Did Cowboy decide that? God, now Cowboy has all the power - he is feeding off me! Oh Christ, no wonder he is so huge! i need to start another force field, i need to alleviate this pressure fast before everything spins out of control - but we are alone - so alone, completely alone, where did the rest of the world go?

"How evil are you to me? You're slowly wrecking my life."

9 July 2005 Last night I dreamt... I went to a restaurant with my dad. He got extremely drunk. As his drunkenness increased, he transformed into the meal he was eating... until he eventually became a small pile of cold, melted cheese in the centre of a large bowl.

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I was born four decades tardy of being a beat generation icon,

That House in Barcelona I see the people standing on the sidewalk below me looking, always looking, at the flowing lines and interesting facade of the building. Their comments waft up to me in the clear